The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

were closed with a slam and a bans
IN the very face of the people, and
all the powers and influence OF the
| administration were eXerted ana eX-
hausted to prevent an investigation
Strenuous Opposition
In all his career, President Roose-
velt has never exhibited greater
strenuosity, determination and re-
| sourcefulneSS, than in heading OFT eV-
cry proposition of an investigation OF
| these departments by the people. The
Republican party has for the present
succeeded in keeping the books clos
| ed. and they will hold their secrets
until after the election at least, but
| sooner or later the people Will force
them open, and when they are opened
! predict they will disclose condi-
| ton of rottennesS in the public SER
vice, which will at once astonish and
| shock the nation.
Taxing Powers.
The Republican party has used the
taxing powers of the government to
establish and maintain in this coun-
try an organized system OF monopoly
and pillage. The tariff system OF tax-
alton inaugurated and maintained IN
| this country by that party, discrimi-
| mates against one part OF the people
in favor of another part, and the
monopolies which the trust breeding
schedules of that system of laws has
brought into existence, discriminates
against the consumer of this country
| in favor of the consumers in the bal
ance of the world.
If Any One Thinks.
If any one thinks these duties are
needed for protection against foreign
competition, If any one doubts they
are employed for the purpose of ex-
| torting from the home consumer
profits, if any one believes they are
not employed for the benefit of the
| foreign, and against the domestic
consumer, he has only to read the list
of the home and export prices of the
| trusts These lists furnish an answer
| to every Republican pretention, and
| a proof of every Democratic conten-
! ton, involved in these vital inquiries.
| They show that the trust and other
! beneficiaries of our protection are not
| only underseling their foreign conl-
| petitors in their own market but are
! selling their foreign customers at
discount of from 25 to rs per cent on
the domestic price.
| Z. S. Steel Corporation.
The United States Steel Corporation
| is selling steel rails in this country
| for $500 per ton, while it is selling
| the same steels rails in England for
! $4,000 per ton. Our oer-protected
manufacturers of farming implements
are selling certain cu1tiators in this
country for $11.00, while they are
selling the same cultivator abroad for
$S.40. They are selling barbed wire
| for $500 per hundred pounds in this
| country while they are selling the
same barbed wire abroad for $500
per hundred pounds. and they are
| selling axes. hoes, shovels, spades,
plows and a variety of other farm and
| household necessities abroad at like
discounts upon the domestic price.
Texas Railroad.
Recenetly a railroad was built from
La Redo, Texas, to the City of Mex
/ leo, a distance Of $40 miles. The rail
for this road was bought from the
same manufacturer in the United
| States The price paid for that part
of the rails used on the part of the
$500 per ton, while the price paid
| for rails used on the part of the line
running through Mexican territory
was $4,000. Think about it.
81 Per Cent Ad VaIorem.
! Under these Republican tariff laws
we are required to pay an, ad alorem
! tax to the government averaging ST
per cent upon our foreign purchases
! to protect these monopolies against
| foreign competition, and to pay to
these monopolies an ad alorem tax
averaging 81 per cent upon our do
| mestic purchases to aid them in in
Vading the markets of the world ana
underselling their competitors in those
markets.
Not Taxation for But Against.
This is not taxation for the benefit
of the taxpayer, but it is taxation
| for the benefit of the on-tax-payer.
1t is taxation against the domestic
/ in faor of the foreign consumer. 1t
| is not taxation even for protection.
1t is taxation for monopoly and sub
sdy.
/ This System Gives Prosperity.
Republicans tell us that this system
of inequality, this exploitation of one
part of the people for the benefit of
! for the benefit of the foreign consum-
err has diffused and disseminated
prosperity throughout the land. !
deny it. Tt is false.
Dingley Tariff 1897.
! The Dingley tariff went into effect
| in 1897. In that year and in 1898
| and 1899 it was in full blast in this
county, and all it could do to make
prosperity, it did during those years.
| 1t had secured our over-protected
! manufacturers and trusts against for
eign competition, and given them a
free hand in making prices for them
selves. But it had of necessity left
| the farmer, their chief customer, ex-
! posed TO world competition and forced
| to accept world prices at home and
abroad for his products, and the
worlds prices of cotton, corn and
wheat was but little more than the
cost of production, and he had IN
consequence no money with which TO
buy their products. The trusts had
! high prices their customers had lean
pockets and there was no prosperity
When the worlds price of cotton
and corn and wheat, price wholly
independent of tariff schedules, re-
spending to the law of supply and de-
nand, adanced to the point where our
farmers had large surplus of proht
on their sales at home and abroad
the scene changed, the balance OF
trade began to run strongly in our
favor, gold began to pour in upon us
from abroad, and we were prosper
| Gus.
Who Made This Prosperity.
| put faTloW citizens what and