The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-06-05
REPUBLICAN i
OPINIONS.
On Tariff Trusts By Prominent
Party Members.
WHAT GOV. MOUNT SAYS.
Would favor Removing all TariT Pro-
tection From Every Industry That
Belongs to Combination Form
ed For Restraint of Trade.

ed For Restraint of Trade.
The following is a compilation by the
New England Free Trade league:
Gov Mount, of Indiana, December,
1899, speaking to the Indiana hotel
keepers: II emphatically favor re-
moving all tariff protection from every
industry that belongs to combination
formed in restraint of trade"
Chicago Times Herald, March, 1S99
Most certainly 1t should be the duty
of congress, in both branches of which
the Republicans have q majority, to
abolish or suspend the protective duty
on the products of any industry which
has been organized into trust and
which has arbitrarily raised the prices
of such products"
Hon. John Sherman in the United
States senate, October 49, 1899: when
ever this free competition Is evaded or
avoided by combination Of individuals
or corporations, the duty should be re-
duced and foreign competition promptly
| invited"
st. Paul Pioneer-Press, April, 1900:
1.-THE whole list Of protected monopolies
ought to be brought within the purview
Of a tariff reform which would enable
| loIeiSu COHlpetlllOTS 10 put u on
| their ability to raise prices"
EX-SENATOR Washburn, of Minnesota,
| said in an interview in the New York
| Tribune of September II, 1899: 1.-THE
| Republican party, whether Justly or un-
| justly, is associated with trusts in the
minds of the masses. AS a party we
have reached crisis where we have
got to call halt. The Republican
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trusts. 1t has got to do something more
than adopt platform planks against
| trusts.
"It seems to me after giving the mat
ter great deal of thought, that the
Republicans in congress will have to
examine the subject thoroughly, and
whenever they find a trust is dependent
for it's exhorbitant profits largely on
protective duties 1T will be the duty
of Republican congressman and sena-
tors to remove the duties at once. We
cannot stop short of that. The duties
must be repealed when 1t is shown that
the Trusts are benefiting by them. This
should be done with the duty on steel
rails and on tinplate."
| Minneapolis Journal, October 2, 1899:
1.-THE senator is so eminently correct in
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enable trusts or any other kind of
monopolies to raise prices above the
point at which they could otherwise
be maintained should be lowered in the
public interest, that we must range our
selves beside him on that proposition"
New York Commercial Advertiser, in
the fall of 1899: 1.-THE time will soon
come when public opinion will no more
tolerate protective duties on trust pro-
ducts, for protection should logically
promote home competition, while trust
organization destroys It,"
| Portland Oregonian, March, 190O:
Because the paper trust has put up
the price of printing paper to uncon-
scionable figures, Representative De-
Vries, of California, has introduced a
bill to repeal the duty on printing
paper and the material of which it is
made. 1t is very well; but there are
about 40 more big trusts that have help
through protective tariff, and should be
dealt with in the same way"
| Senator Plumb, of Kansas, opposing
the Mckinley tariff, August 26, 1891:
There are dozens of lines of manufac-
| lures covered by the terms of this bill
which are controlled by trusts.
do not know of any better way to
start in at least to reduce the exactions
of trusts than to cut down the shelter
behind which trusts are created"
Philadelphia Ledger, February, 1899:
| What Is imperatively required is a
| revision of the tariff, such as will modi-
fly the rates. or, better still, place upon
the free list all foreign goods, whether
raw material or finished product, that
are the subject of domestic monopoly"
The Republican Club Of Harvard uni
versity, on Wednesday, May 16. 1900,
adopted platform approving various
| measures, among them the following:
Publicity of the affairs Of trusts and
| removal Of all duty on commodities con-
trolled by trusts"
Rockford Republic, Ill.), January 20,
| 1900: "At a meeting a few days ago at
Denver the Colorado Editorial associa-
ton adopted resolutions demanding the
| repeal Of the tariff on wood pulp and
all other materials entering into the
manufacture Of print paper.
There are many other trusts entrenched
securely behind tariff duties which shut
out foreign competition and enable
American monopolists to rob consum-
ers. There should be a sweep
ing repeal of protection which is made
the opportunity for such merciless-ex-
actions as the print paper trust has laid
on the newspapers Of the United
States"
Hartford Courant, December, 1899:
This paper declared that the president
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should have closed his trust discussion
in his message, with a straight from
no ch do ha
immediate repeal of any and every pro-
tective customs duty behind which a
price-raising monopoly is squatted."
Dubuque Times, Qowa), January 20,
1900: "The paper trust is making hay
while the sun shines. The
simple remedy lies in the repeal of the
tariff used to suppress competition and
to rob the publishers and through them