Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-05
The NEW TARIFF LAW.
ODiniOns of the Press ON the Aaea

ODfniOns Of the Press ON the Meas
ure.
The work of the extra session, by the
Iefinite and explicit avowal Of the leader
Of the majority. Is an absolute fallure--
a.. 7. Times.
| The one achievement of the republican
/ party, restored completely to power. in
| the enactment OF the most monstrous rob
| Der tariff ever placed upon the statute
j oooks.-Chicago Chronicle.
| It Is little difficult to decide whether the
reports of the difficulty Of the senators in
1evisfng an antitrust amendment to the
tariff bill are to be taken as more amusing
! than exasperating.-Pittsbur Dispatch
| II the new tariff measure shall force
| prices to anything like the Mckinley figure.
the outlook for republican success at
| the next congressional elections VIII not
be Observation-Disclosures Ledger fdad-
Rep)
Now LET everybody get rich by paying
taxes and then bless the tariff. Don't stop
TO think a minute about the necessity OF
having money with which to pay the taxes,
that's a minor consideration. IL is far more
Important that the trusts should have the
privilege of collecting subsidies than that
the money question be settied--CleEeiand
Plain Dealer.
The bill which has just been passed is not
one of which the republican party can be
proud. The senate sugar schedule has
bad smell The sugar schedule In tbs
house bill has met with mueh more appro-
the senate's schedule There are other
matters in the senate Dill that have an
ugly look.-N. 7. Journal
The proponents Of the bill boldly an
nounced that its purpose was protection.
That was candor. They have told the
people of the country protection was nee
essary to American industry in order that
capital might pay American wages to Ia
Dor. They have arranged tariff which
will give trusts enormous profits out OF the
bots Of he Ia md h1EF lad
no means whereby the people working for
the trusts can get wages raised except by
strikes.-Chicago Journal
There is something partaking of the Iu-
dicrous in the condition to which the adj
vocates of a high tariff have been brought
at Washington In point of fact. however,
the result is more Notifying than comIcal
to those engaged in it 1t exposes their
hypocrisy in a manner that may well cover
them with confusion They profeSSed TO
be concerned chiefly for providing revenue
for the government. Their real concern
was to provide protection for favored in
dividuals.-Boston Herald.
The passage of such a tariff bill at this
time is a violation of faith on the part
of the republican party The St Louis
platform declared that the party. while
in favor of protection, was not pledged
to any particular schedules This was
interpreted to mean that the party was
not pledged to restore the rates of the
Mckinley tariff. for no one dreamed at
that time that the Mckinley rates might
be exceeded. Mckinley was elected and
the republican party placed in power last
fall on the currency issue, and that alore
The moderate protectionists and the tariff
reformer5 who voted for Mckinney ana
the republican party last fail, and VINO
made the success OF that party posslb,e'
have a right to feel aggrieVed over me
first legislative enactment of the Mckinley
Observation-Disclosures Record und).
Ii is the very worst tariff bill ever writ
ten. 1t takes more from the people In
proportion to what 1t gives the treasury
than any other tariff bill ever framed. It
gives more to the trusts and monopoltes
than any other. and gives ii with less ex-
cuse than was ever before known. There
has been no pretense in its passage of an
swering the cry of Infant industries
There has not even been the plea of rev.
enue necessary, for the most strenuous adj
vocates of the bill have admitted that for
at least year to come ii cannot produce
an adequate revenue, while Its effects
after that must depend upon trade condi-
tions not to be foreseen. II is tarin
of the trusts. by the trusts and for the
trusts. But the country viii rejoice that
at last it is made law-that at last the dis
turbance its pending created in business
and industry is at an end.-N. 7. World
The measure is not the moderate and
reasonable revenue-producing legislation
which the tariff leader in the senate de-
clared was essential to permanent tartn
when he introduced the BILL In its pro-
tectiye features 1t is undoubtedly the most
extreme measure ever attempted In this
country While 1t furnishes no reasonable
assurance of SURPRISING the present tariff
In the raising of revenue. 1t IS bound TO
increase the cost of living and decree So
the purct Rsing power of wages RatLel
than responding to the popular demand
for the curbing of trusts. the bill grants
monopolies still further bounties and en-
courages the formation of new combina-
tions. The purely revenue features rec
commended b! the finance committee have
been dropped out of Difference to the pow
erfuI liquor interests and a tax on stock
and bond dealings substituted This Is .
confession that the measure Is so rad1-
caIly protective that IL is necessary TO
seek new subjects of taxation - Detroit
Free Press.