Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-04
REPUBLICAN, OPINIONS
On the Tariff Trusts Compiled by the
New England Free Trade League.

Gov. Mount, of Indiana, December
1893, speaking to the Indiana Hotel
keepers:
Il emphatically favor removing all
tariff protection from every industry
that belongs to a combination formed
in restraint of trade
Chicago Times-Herald, March, 1899:
Most certainly it should be the duty
of Congress, in both branches of which
the Republicans have 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 United States
Senate, October Is, 1899:
Whenever this free competition is
evaded or avoided by combination of
individuals or corporations, the duty
should be reduced and foreign compe-
tition promptly invited"
st. Paul Pioneer-Press, April, 1900:
THE whole list of protected monop-
olies ought to be brought within the
purview of a tariff reform which
would enable foreign competition to
put limit on their ability to raise
prices"
Ex-senator Washburn, of Minnesota.
said in an interview in the New York
Tribune of September II, 1899:
THE Republican party, whether
justly or unjustly, is associated with
trusts in the minds of the masses. AS
party we have reached a crises where
we have got to call halt. The Re-
publican party has got to disconnect
itself from 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 depending
for its exhorbitant profits largely on
protective duties it will be the duty OF
the Republican Congressman and Sem
ators to remove the duties at once. We
cannot stop short of that. The duties
must be repealed when it is shown that
the trusts are benefited by them. This
should be done with the duty on steel
rails and on tin plate.
Minneapolis journal, October 2, 1899:
''The Senator is so eminently correct
In his position that tariff duties which
enable trusts or any other kind OF mo-
nopoles to raise prices above the point
at which they could otherwise be main
tanned should be lowered in the public
interest, that we must range ourselves
beside him on that proposition"
New York Commercial Advertiser, in
the fall of $780,
''The time will soon come when pub
lie opinion will no more tolerate pro-
tective duties on trust products. for
protection should logically promote
home competition, while trust organi-
cation destroys it.
Portland Oregonian, March, 1900:
Because the paper trust has put up
the price of printing paper to uncon-
scionable figure, Representative De-
Vries, of California, has introduced
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 manu-
facturers covered by the terms of this
bill which are controlled by trusts
l 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 rusts are Gre
ated."
Philadelphia Ledger, February, 1899:
What is imperatively required is
revision of the tariff such as will modl-
fly the rates, or better still, place upon
the free list all foreign goods, whether
raw material or finished product, that
are subject of domestic monopoly"
The Republican Club of Harvard Uni
versity on Wednesday, May 1t, 1900,
adopted platform approving various
measures, among them the following
Publicity of the affairs of trusts and
removal of all duty on commodities
controlled by trusts.
Rockford Republic, Qll), January
20, 1900:
AT a netting a few days ago at
Denver the Colorado Editorial Associa-
ton adopted resolutions demanding
the repeal of the tariff on wood pulp
There are many other trusts
entrenched securely behind tariff duties
which shut out foreign competition
and enable American monopolists to
rob consumers There should
be a sweeping repeal of protection
which is made the opportunity for such
merciless exactions as the print paper
trust has laid on the newspapers of
the United States"
Hartford Courant, December, 1899:
This paper declared that the Presi-
dent should have closed his trust dis
cussion in his message, with a
-from-the-shoulder recommen-
dation for the Immediate repeal of any
and every protective customs duty be-
hind which a price-raising monopoly
is squatted.'
Dubuque Times, (Iowa), January 20,
1900:
1.-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
20 rob the publishers an! through them
the public. Congress should lose no
time in wiping it off the statute books
and should not stop until every other
duty which operates TO suppress COM
petition or enhance the value of the
bounties of nature in private hands is
repealed"
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