The age-herald., 1897-08-01
Campaign Debts Paid by Additional Bur-
 denS on the People.
THE PROFITS OF THE SUGAR. TRUST
Can See Nothing but Ruin in the JuggIery of Political Hopes by the Republican
 Party-Up-to-Date Subjects Vigorously Discussed.
fRy Senator John q. Morganl

S2.5,0O0,000 of idle. surplus money in the tr- aslry, OF the day the Dirgley bill bs- ca ne a law, 1t is difficult for any just or hunane motive to be discovered for the increase of taxation upon the people, to f'aise more money to support the govern ment. This pretense Is a bold falsehood that cannot deceive any honest minded m1a e
 Inc Wilson tariff of 1894 was so rapidly resisting the great extravagance of ex- pendfture that has grown into d habit with both political parties, that these who demanded protective tariff, for the. purpose of forcing the people to gay them bounties, for political services rendens q in the campaign of 1896, created great pr g. sure upon the senate to have their plan of robbery enacted into law. In the house, MT. Reed held autocratic power and could do the work
 It would not have answered the purpose. to wait uIitil a regular session of con- gress, because, by that time, it would have been undeniable that the Wilson tariff would, with its comparatively low rates, supply the treasury with all tho money that is needed. So haste had to be made to save their pretext from beisg lost. A falsshood was nesded to compel. quick work, and it was found.
 To be sure of rapid action MT. Reed was called Into service to pass the bill without debate and then to attempt to terrify the senate iBto speedy action by exhibiting himself as a great example of patriotic zeal, and the senate as an ob- struction to prosperity" To do this ard alarm the world with the SD. .ctacle. of djcriD1ipa of iat a,-ia in, fta house. he bolted the doors of the ''popu- Jar branch" and muzzled debate, when they ware pryed open by the marllate of the constitution, for few minutes twice a week. as Turkish mosques are opened on Fridays for prayers.
 This vulgar and shameless usurpation of power, on the old lines of republican rule, was only useful to show that the. speaker of the house still has the power to force his party back into the old prae- ifice of addition, division and silerce." It also shows that the democracy have no representatives in the house who are willing to sacrifice comfort and dssiraB'e places on committees for the sake of de- cency in government and stern antagosz. ism to despotism. From beginning to end the extra session of congrss was de- . toiCti pO plSSSulc py liG iiOuoc lOI tAiI purpose of providing furd, by taxation. called protection to American industry" with which to pay campaign debts and to provide funds for other political cam- paigns in the future For this the ma jority is responsible, but it had assistance from a minority weakened by division. 3 The entire plan of this proceeding was framed with the distinct and avowei .purpoa5 on the part of the repubi jeans of providing bounties for party services, to be raised by special taxation levied upon special subjects of importation. or by putting on the free list such articles as would increase the bounty to preferred classes and by refusing to tax the incomes .or the great trusts--bandits-who were. licensed ard 'puotected" in the robbery of ths people.
 Are these Fhe 'swords of truth and so- ,briety," or are they unjust accusations. as to the motives and exaggerated stata- ments as to the actual enactmsnts of this "Dingley bill?"
 Ft ought to be enough on this question to say that no answer or denial was a:- tempted in the senate to the frequent, open and defiant accusation that such was the purpose of the bill, and such was the effect of many of it's provisions.
 This Is not a measure of tariff re- form but of total revolution in the prln- ciples and purposes of tariff taxation. :
 It is bill to create boun-ies-called s'pro;ection'--for certain limited classes, and to compel all consumers to pay these bsuntiaS.
 That 1t is distinctly such measure is shown by the fact that, in a great major ity of it's items of taxation, the duty Is 80 high as, generally, to reduce and often to prevent importations.
 As ievenlia can only come from inn ports, 10 check or to prevent lmporta- tion, is, necessarily, to reduce the income of the government.
 But every article thus excluded makes a place for thu sale of that article, or one like it. in our home market, by the do- mestic manufacurer, st an advanced price. The result, of course, is the do- mestic manufacturer can raise his prices up to the cost of production, with the tariff rate added. all of which go.s into his own pocket, and none of it into the yrtreasury of the Unr;ed States. But this is Knowledge that even the least informed possess. In this revolutionary enactment the republicans openly avow that this is their purpose. This new creed is there fore, the open and avowed plunder of the consuming classes. for the enriching of s'the manufacturers as a favored class. This is all plain enough, and it is some satisfaction to know that the purpose Of 1t Is DO longer concealed.
 How does 1t operate? And how does it demonstrate the logic of that strange and false doc.rine, that the true way to make the peopl. ldch is to increase the bur .dens of taxation, at the same lime that tile money to pay the taxes is kept out of circulation and is locked up in the freasury. as is true of the s235.o0OO00 now lying imprisoned in the v.llts.
 <. Experience may prov. that this miracle offinance is possible. lift does. we must