The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

lion dollar tariff trusts and raonopo- lies which thrive now as never before In this country. These greedy trusts levy a tribute of $94 a year upon the average home, while the Government collects an average of about S15 year in tariff taxes; the collection last year amounted to $3.4 per capita, or $16.52 per family of AT persons Do the heads of these 17,000, 900 families, the voters. knowingly and willingly do- nate $94 year to the hundreds of trusts? Do they love these trusts more than they love their wives and children? If not, why should they vote to give this $94 to trusts that do not need 1t rather than to keep the S94 for their own families. who do need 1t? An extra $94 a year would mean much to the average family in the way of better food, clothing and education.
 The price of nearly every article used in the home is higher because of the exorbitant protective tariff that the Republicans are standing pat" on. Every suit Of clothes, every hat. every piece of underwear, every pair of socks, every pair of shoes, every collar and cuff, every tie is dearer be- cause of the tariff every dress, every piece of linen, silk or cotton for the household; every article of furniture in the house; every piece of cutlery, glassware or potterywareeIn the din- ing-room or kitchen; every piece of carpet or otcloth in the house; every pound of rice, soda, starch. soap be- rax; nearly every article of food on the table-all of these are made deaFer by the tariff and nearly all are made by tariff trusts that put prices as nigh as possible. Few people realize that they are paying tariff taxes when they are trading at a store. They know, or at least the women, who are the pursers or commissaires Of most families, know that prices have greatly increased dur ing the last i've or six years, and that never before was 1t so hard to supply the household needs with the money at their disposal They know that a dollar does not go as far as it used to go, though they do not suspect the cause. If they did there would be but little peace in the ordinary family un- til the voters stopped voting this an- nual contribution of $94 a year to the protected trusts.
 According to estimates, which under rather, than over estimate the amount of the tariff tax, the average family spent in 1903. including the values of goods consumed at home, about $94O. Of this $940, $S30 went for goods &16.5 went as legitimate taxes to the Government, and s94 went to swell the profits of the trusts and monopolies. That is, S1 out of every S1O expended by an American family goes to pro- tected monopolies. The tariff tax therefore unnecessarily increases the cost of living 10 per cent. and amounts to sl.5S9, 100000 for the IT, 100000 families in this country. It is this tax which is mainly responsible for the unparalleled growth of trusts since the passage of the Dingley Act in 1897 for the dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of a compara- lively few, and for the rapid increase In the number of multimillionaires Every man who votes to stand pat" on Dingley protection" votes to tax his family 10 per cent. year on all its expenditures and to turn the pro- ceeds over to the mononQlists who al- ready own or control a majority of all the wealth of the country.
 On every Sl00 worth of dutiable l goods brought into the United States tarif tax of $4S.s1 Is levied. thus | making merchandise worth only S1O0 cost the American consumer $14s.Sl. | The total amount of dusiable goods inn 1 ported for the year ending June 30. 1904. was $5S6.940,590. upon which was levied tariff tax of 4s s1 per cent. or | $262, ,013.079.