Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-11-18
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The Tariff Injustice.

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The Tariff Injustice.
II the federal customs duties col
lected at the ports of entry were the
only tares on the goods the people
ronsume and the government needed
the $254, 444, 7US collected in 1902, the
largest sum ever before received, it
would still be great burden. But
the receipts from all sources in that
year exceeded the expenditures by
e91,2S7,375.57 and will probably be
$50, COO, GOO for the present year. The
FASH balance now, in the treasury is
1925, 49, 05, SO there is no present rea-
son to continue this excessive taxation,
through high tariff, for 1t is criminal
to tax the public more than the needs
Of the government demand, especially
when this surplus is loaned to favored
banks without any return in Interest,
or otherwise. The Wall street bank
ers to whom great portion of this
surplus Is loaned and the other banks
that are similarly favored through
put the country, loan this money to
their customers at the going rate of
interest, SO that the tax payers of the
country are furnishing the capital to
the banks and paying the interest that
the banks demand OH 1t or IL they are
not borrowers but have money of their
own to loan, they furnish the money
free to the banks to compete with their
own capital. This tax collected
through the custom houses is only n
small part of the tax that the Dingleyi
tariff imposes. Indirectly there Is a
much greater impost demanded by the
monopolists, combines and trusts that
were called into council by the Re
publican leaders when the Dingley bill
was being secretly incubnted at the
Arlington Hotel in the City Of Wash
ington, d. c., in 1897. No Democratic
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee was permitted to join in the
creation Of the Dingley bill and Sem
ator Dolliver In a speech in the Sen
ate which is reported In the Congress
sional Record, acknowledged that the
tariff rate was purposely placed much
higher than was necessary to allow a
margin for reduction under the trea-
ties for reciprocity with other coun-
tries, that the bill also provided for
but which have never been ratified.
As Senator Dolliyer was at the time
the Dingley bill was created mem
Der of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, this inside history of the enormity
of that bill is therefore at first hand,
by Republican who was present at
Its preparation.
BY virtue of the extremely high
tariff the protected trusts and COM
bines are more extortionate than the
Dingley bill. Where that law provides
for the collection of over so per cent
on the average value of most of the
necessities of life, the trust tax gath
crer demands In many cases over 100
per cent, of which the government re.
ceives nothing.
The Statisticians of the Bureau of
Labor of Massachusetts have figured
that. in the boot and shoe industry the
average wages are S491.49 for work
ers per year and allowing that two of
each family are employed the amount
that each family earns would be 1888.
The tariff tax on the expenditures of
such a household is $13.75 ard the tax
that the trusts and combines extort Is
sos. %. Think Of 1t, nearly seven times
more to the trusts under the Republic
can protective system than the United
States government receives.
Congressman Lituefield, Republi-
can, gave list of 800 trusts with a
capitalization of nearly $4,000, Ooo,Oe
which was printed In the Congressional
Record Of February 26, 1903, to which
aggregation each family in8the United
States contributed nearly $4,000, so
that the trusts can get rich and the
poor poorer.
II matters not how poor or wretched
a man may be, the protective tariff de
mands md obtains tax from him.
The ways of the protectionists are pc.
;culiar, they pass laws to keep out for.
3eign goods and then pass another law
appropriating $5,0so,0O0 for an Expo
,sition ut s.. Louis and invite foreigners
to exhibit their productions side by
side in competition with our domestic
products. They have established a
system of taxation, so remarkable
that a tramp chewing his quid of to-
bacco pays his taxes with the rest OF
us and the poor man and the laborel
pays in far greater proportion thar
the millionaire. And yet we are being
told by the Republican leaders that nc
steps must be taken by the coming Con
gress to reform or revise this unelunl
tax. That the prosperity Of the coun,
try is bound up with the protective
tariff and we must "let well enough
alone.v
The Troubles of Roosevelt.
In spite of the denial from the White
House, there is no doubt that there Is
friction between President Roosevelt,
and at least two of his Cabinet The
usually well Informed Washington
correspondent of the New York F'ost
says: 1.-THE whole postotfice affair Ii
rapidly developing into controversy
between the President and the Repub
lican organization iii many States
Then he quotes an organization Rcpub
llcan as saying: "The President seem.
to think that NIL that is necessary Ii
for The country to elect him. He for
gets the Republican organization nus
first nominate him."
All this shows n strong underground
sentiment against President Roosevelt
in his own party by the party chiefs
who have always controlled the dele
cation from their States to the RepIb