The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-07
MIR. youMANs TO MIR. rAwNEY.

MIR, YOUMANS TO MIR. TAWNEY.
Recently Representative Tawney, at
home while the house was meeting on
Wednesdays only to adjourn. gave
forth an interview on the bill that I'M
til now bore the name of Dingley, but
which, emerging from the senate
finance committee, reincarnated, must
be hereafter known to history as the
Aldrich bill. The interview fell under
the eye of that very unappreciative in
dividual. Mr. Earle S. Youmans, Of
Winona, who manufactures lumber
from the log, and sash, doors and
blinds from the lumber, and who, by
all the motives appealed to by Repub-
licanisin, should be as thick-and-thin a
supporter Of the new bantling Of pro-
lection, at least as far as lumber
and it's products go, as is our friend Mr..
Weyerhaeuser. Singularly Mr.. YOU
mans believes 1t is quite as wrongful
for the government to make it possible
for lumbermen to compel lumber users
to pay them a couple dollars more
thousand feet as it would be for the
lumbermen to take the money surrep-
titiously from their customers pockets.
Mr.. Youmans comments, in a COM
munication to a local paper, upon Mr..
Tawney's remarks that "the interests
of the Northwest We're never given
such consideration" asiithey are in the
bill he aided in framing, and cites the
increase of duty on olive oil from 80
to so cents gallon. Several years
ago, Mr.. Youmans says, when in Genoa,
he was told by the vice consul OF this
country that large shipments were
made to the United States of empty
bottles labeled pure Genoese Olive
OIL" to be filed here with a
preparation the chief ingredient of
which was cotton seed OIL AS some
olive oil still managed to find it's way
to the tables of those of Mr.. Tawney's
constituents in the Northwest who pre-
fer it to the domestic article on their
salads, the cottonseed oil trust obtain
ed Mr.. Tawney's assistance to discour-
age imports by raising the tax. Re
plying in the same paper to this, Mr..
would engage in such deception, and,
anyway, it is improbable because they
might as we'll get their packages made
and labeled here as to send to Genoa
for them. All of which amounts sim
ply to a general denial on information
and belief.
Turning to that portion of Mr..
Tawney's interview where he dilates
on the benefcence of the tax of 81
thousand on lumber, a portion where
Mr.. Youmans' long experience makes
Mr.. Tawney, the former says that since
the Wilson bill put lumber on the free
list "the consumers of lumber in the
Northwest have bought that product
for less price than they ever bought
it before" He then proceeds to make
an object lesson of the effect of this
81 tax in Mr.. Tawney's district There
are four concerns making lumber in it,
whose annual output is 120,O0G00O feet.
increase the price 81 a thousand by
the tariff, and assuming their market
is restricted to this district and it is
all consumed there, it costs his con-
stituents, who absorb the product, $780,
600 year above what it costs them
now; and, of course, the $4,000 goes
into the pockets of the gentlemen who
are licensed to impose the tax" The
comment naturally, if sarcastically, fol-
lows upon this illustration of Mr.. Taw-
neys consideration for his constitu-
ents.
Mr.. Tawney's reply to this'is curious.
The effect will not be to increase the
price of lumber to the extent of the
duty" but if that should be the re-
suit, Mr.. YOumanS' share of the $780,
600 would be 100000, and he does not
believe, cannot conceive, that Mr.. You
mans would oppose the proposed tax;
che would have to live to be very much
ever be able to convince the people of
this district that he was dissatisfied
with it." Evidently Mr.. Tawney's moral
sense has become so perverted by as
ISOLATION with the gentlemen who have
filled his committee room during the
hearings and the schedules with their
demands, that he cannot realize that
there exist manufacturers who are will
ing to meet competition, take the pro-
fits Iegitimately made and look upon
fairfield profits as clear stealing. For
tunately for the country there is al
men in it to form the Saving rem
nant" and prevent the slump of hui
mainly into thievery.
WHAT IS '"THE PROPER Timer"
The Minneapolis Journal glorifies the
Republican party for framing the worst
tariff bill ever known to this country,
and for maintaining the gold stand
ard" whatever it may have done since
the 4th Of March to warrant that de-
scription. It adds something else with
reference to it's party,isaWEsh9ich is Of more
interest to us. and in connection with
which we respectfully request bill of
particulars. 1t says: cat the proper