The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-05-07
GENERAL DISSATISFACTION
The Dingiey Tarin mn Creat~s DE.
content.


c0ntenl.
Certain protectionist newspaper. in
discussing the Dingley tariff bill. APP
pear To think that they "A stop all mr.
gument by advancing two propositions.
The first proposition is that opposition
IL useless; and the second. which is
usunlly advanced in the same breath. is
that there isn't any opposition anyhow.
AS 10 the first OF these propositions.
opinions may differ; as to the second.
opinions are unlikely TO differ greatly.
II the Dingley tariff should be suf-
fered to go before the people as a direct
issue In substantially its present form.
Despite these assurances Of repub-
lean newspapers. representative bust
ness men continue to exercise the right
of free speech with almost sufficient
energy and lucidity of argument to en-
title them to Dingleyite decoration as
nlugvumps and free traders. Anything
like a representative list Of the inn
portant business interests protesting
would exhaust the space of an ordi-
nary newspapers. but q few instances
may be added 10 those already cited.
Marshall Field, the head OF the great
mercantile firm Of Chicago, who is fight
ing the bill, p%ronounces il "the worst
tarih bill ever saw. n only as re-
CARDS the rates Of duty imposed. but
in the complicated and ambiguous meth
DDS of imposing them. There is scarce
ly n line in the bill that will not have
to be interpreted blythe supreme court"
Mr.. Field finds the Washington hotels
full Of people on the same errand n,
himself, and says that a republican
member of the senate finance commit
tee told him that such is the universa
dissatisfaction with the bill that /,
will be necessary for that committee
To amend almost every item-that 1.-The
only persons who are entirely satisfied
with it are the eastern manufacturers
and the Ohio wool growers. and they
are fighting to prevent changes"
observation-disclosures William l.
Wilson is compcten: TO speak for those
who. last fall. elected Mckinley upon
the currency issue. believing that the
worst that was TO be feared would be a
slight increase in the Wilson rates so as
to make up for the loss of the
that had been expected under the in
come tax-wherebv the present law
wcnld at once produce sufficient rev.
enuea. Mr.. Wilson is ably pointing out
in a series of articles the unscientifc.
and Observation-Disclosures
lite character of the Dingley bill. How
II will affect the he makes
by showing among other things
that under the present law the duties
on 100000. pounds of wooden goods
would be $4,000. or ~s16.20O-40 per
cent.-whereas under the proposed bill
they viii be s54.500 or S67.1O0: that is TO
1873 or 165 per cent. On ten dollors
Of cloth the present duty is four
dollars; the proposed duty will be from
sl3 to SIG.
As TO the influence of the Dincley be-
of popular rights and of the Just
expectations of the people as an issue
in the spring elections. opinions differ
''The tariff" remarks the
Chicago Tribune, "was not a winning
card last fall: ii does NOT seem to have
been one this spring. Republican sena-
may find food for thought in this
The Dover Index thinks that
the retroactive clause in the DingIey
act has had its answer in the re-
vote from the big cities in the
iiferent states" These are but a few
the interesting exhibits which might
'e indefinitely multiplied. did 81 zee per
nit, to refute the %impudent falsehood
hat the Dingley tariff bill is nothing
worse than the people expected all
.long.-Albany Argus.