Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10


ct al, Gov. Pingree says,
THE hide men "a great trust) will
coin millions out of the new tariff;
1t will be made up from the rs cents
that they will collect from every man
in America whenever he buys a pair
of shoes. Some people may say I'm
kicking because the new tariff hits my
business. That isn't the reason. I'm
not going to lose anything. The
leather man will raise his price OF
only to raise the price Of shoes. The
man who buys the shoes at an in
creased price is the one who will
kick"
The Baltimore American is Repub-
lican newspaper Of long standing, and
here is the way the Baltimore Ameri
can refers to the new tariff monstros-
ity:
Protection, as understood by the
rank and file of the Republican party,
means the care of legitimate industries
against the inequalities of foreign COM
petition. 1t does not mean the bestow-
al of annual gratuities in an arrogant
monopoly which already has in its
viselike grip all the grocers in the
United States, and through them every
man, woman and child who can afford
to buy pound of sugar."
The San Francisco Argonaut has al
ways been straight high tariff gold
standard organ, and one of the ablest
opponents Of Republicanism in the
country. Therefore the following edi-
torial from late issue decidedly sur
prised all who read it:
1T is not probable that many men
understand the complicated sugar
schedule of the new tariff bill. When
Berry, the Democratic leader, asked
Allison, senatorial Republican con-
fierce, how much less the sugar trust
would get under the conference re-
port than under the senate amend
ment,' Allison replied: The senate had
La
the house gave 1877 S, making the SEN
ate differential one-fifth instead of one
eighth. Under the schedule, as modi
fed, taking the point of 100, the differ
entail was 1914 cents. Taking SO de-
grees sugar, the sugars above No. 16
Dutch standard refined would receive
1.3l cents per 100 pounds more than
they would have received under the
house schedule
ut is not surprising that Berry said:
This statement is too technical. Is 1t
true that the house has gained great
victory, or is it's victory a fraud and
pretense?
ITO this Senator Allison made no
reply.
1.-THE question asked by Berry will
be asked by many men, Republicans
as we'll as Democrats. The sugar
schedule is too complicated for easy
comprehension. 1t is so complicated
that even newspaper editors-and they
know everything it too much for
them. When the Examiner recently
figured out duty of fifteen cents, it
failed to take into consideration that
to make 100 pounds of granulated
sugar, 107 pounds of raw are required.
Therefore the duty should have been
figured on the seven additional pounds.
"But waving this technical schedule,
which few of us can understand, there
are other things that all of us can un-
derstand There are the movements of
sugar trust stock on the New York
market Let us recapitulate them
briefly.
when the Dingley tariff bill went
to the senate, sugar trust certificates
sold at lis.
when the Dingley tariff bill came
out of the Republican senate caucus,
sugar trust certificates sold at 1875.
when the Dingley tariff bill went
into the hands of the conference COM
mittees, sugar trust certificates sold at
129.
"While the Dingley tariff bill was in
the hands of the conference commit
tees, sugar trust stock sold at 1873.
when the Dingley tariff bill was re-
ported on favorably by the conference
committees, sugar trust stock jumped
to 146A, at which price it is quoted as
we write.
Sugar trust certificates have in
creased in value over $90,O0O,00O in a
few months as a direct result of the
legislation of the present congress.
There are many Republicans who, like
ourselves, may be unable to compre-
bend the complicated sugar schedule
of the Dingley tariff bill. But there
are many who, like ourselves, look
with the utmost suspicion upon this
sugar schedule when we see its results
in the enhanced value given to sugar
trust stock"
"The present Republican Congress
has voted against the antitrust law.
The present Republican congress
has voted in favor Of continuing the