The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17
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The Bkne Hand ~ the Trustn . tAs
Daneney MN.
The man who does not recognise I'll.
fine Italian hand Of the trusts In the sen
tte amendments TO the Dingley bill mus
be the blind man Of the proverb, who
does not want 70 see.
We are told that on q trough esti
mate" the senate schedule will YIELD
from sugar q revenue of S00,0O0.0Oo a
year. The figure is 20 full one looks fol
confirmation Of 30 great expectations
The full text Of the sugar schedule Il
not given. but from the synopsis tele
graphed Il appears that reduced to an
I'd valorem rate the senate proposes q
tax sugar Is per cent. as compared will
Y per cent in the Dingley bill, and a
~to44percent. In the Wilson bill. The Nc
Knley act let sugar in free. It is also
stated that the senate bin Is so drawn
as to place the reguInr duty on Ha-
waiian sugar.
The senate hardly has put an ad va,
loren duty ON sugar. The report Il
merely m estimate Of an ad valorenl
rate. The original DingIey bill taxes
sugar not above 16 D. S. in any shape
cent per pound testing not above
Is degrees b. the p~olariscope. and for
every additional degree three-hun-
dredths Of one centsper pound. On
sugar above 16e s.. and on all refined
sugars, the rates made were to be 1875
cents per pound. The highest rate pos
sible on sugar below 10 d. S. under the
Dingley bill would be 1N cents per
pound. It was estimated that the e '
enue derived would be about $50, 900. 900.
But there was no intention to collect
duty on Hawaiian sugar.
II the senate bill is to produce $780,
100000 q year, there must be con-
templated a stiff advance over the rates
provided for under the home schedule.
The sugar trust is, of course, at the
bottom, and deep down under the foun-
dation Of this policy. It seems to have
taken the senate a willing captive. The
projected abrogation of the Hawaiian
reciprocity treaty seems to be a part Of
the same monopoly-inspired raid on the
rights of the people. Sir Claus was the
original instigator of that treaty, and
he has prospered under it in the twenty
odd years Of its operation to the tune of
many millions. His contracts with the
island sugar planters are about to ex-
pire. Some r already at an end, we
believe. Hence this pronounced inter
est in American industries demanding
that the treaty cease. If behind this
little game the heavy trump up Mr..
Spreckles' sleeve is the limiting of Cali
fornia beet sugar reduction, why, it
would be better for the country to go on
losing the revenue on Hawaiian ugar,
But sugar is not the only sweet morsel
In the senate bill. The hand of the
trust and of the monopoly did not grow
weary when that piece of work was
done. Its skill and cunning are shown
broadcast in all the schedules, any re-
port Of which has reached here. Taking
the reported ad valOrem estimates, It
appears that lead ore was raised to
per cent. from 62H in the house
BILL 1927 in the Wilson act and 1878 in
the Mckinley act. When we get to
WOOL, a product Of the farmer, and where
the interest Of the eastern high tariff
monopolist lies in getting it as cheap
a. possible, this t~rust-ridden senate
committee has lowered the rate from
1888 per cent. in the house bill, the
same as in the Mckinley oct, to 43.37
per cent. But spun yarn, in which the
monopolist has put some of his money,
raised from 40 per cent. in the Wilson
bill to 9O.s7 per cent. in the senate bill.
It was only 50.61 in the Mckinley act.
The Dingley schedule made the duty on
yarns run9rom Is to 10 cents per pound.
On machinery generally the house
schedule of IS per cent. is made As per
cent. in the senate bill. Both the Will
and Mckinley acts made the rate
per cent.
On hops, a direct product of the farm,
The house rate of 1920 per cent. is low
cred to 53.76. Still wines are dropped
1929 to 46.S5 per cent. Hemp
comes down from 7O.52 to 1914 per
This is as far as the republican MEM
oers Of the ways and means committee
the senate, who alone are response
BILE for all changes made in the bill
sent up from the house, consented to
let the people know what they have
lone. The rest of the bill is kept locked
up in the star chamber secrets, under
which the work of revision was carried
IN. They are probably letting us down
easy. And If the rest Of the changes
manifest the same ~subservient regard
monopoly interests as these, and the
same blind indifference to the interests
the farmers and of the
country, they had better let us down
very easy. A little of this sort of thing
makes a heavy burden Of bad news
Los Angeles Herald.
pARAcRApHIC poINTERs.