The Grenada sentinel., 1906-09-29
MUST VOTE RIGHT.
ONLY WAY FOR PEOPLE TO Es.
CAPE UNJUST TAXATION.
Enormous and Ubiquitous Profits Made
by the Trusts Will Continue While
Republicans Are In Power.

The appropriations made by the
congress at it's last session reached
the enormous total of 1919, 9,5S9,1S5 5.16.
That equals about $11 for every man,
woman and child in the country. or
for the average family Of five persons
a tax OF $55 is paid. These federal
taxes are not paid according to the
ability, or the amount Of property,
owned by the people, but are imposed
on poor and rich alike. Under many
of the tariff schedules the tariff tax
Is higher on the poorer grade of i'm
ports than on the most costly For
instance, on shOddy, from which much
cheap clothing is made, the tariff tax
is 25O per cent, while on wool of the
best quality the average duty is 1854
per cent. Blankets valued at not
more than 40 cents a pound are taxed
1O4.4S per cent, while the finest
quality valued over SO cents a pound,
are taxed 72.1O per cent, and many
other examples might be quoted.
The internal revenue taxes ON
cigars are even more inequitable, for
the common stogie pays the same
tax as the finest cigar manufactured
in the United States.
Then there is the extra trust profit
that is paid, which mounts the tax
up to much more than the government
collects, for as the tariff tax prevents
imports and therefore competition on
the common quality of goods, the
trusts can raise the prices they charge
to what imported goods would cost,
after paying the tariff tax, freight
and charges
1t is estimated by the most com
petent statisticians that the trust
tax is four times greater than the
tariff tax, because there is compar-
atively little imported of the cheap
er grade of goods, but that does not
save the poor purchaser, for the
trusts take care to add to their profits |
what the tariff tax would be, and |
rs the amount Of domestic products
7astly exceeds those imported, the
,rusts thus collect much more than |
he government does.
If the trust tax collector stood at |
he store door and collected the enOr-
nous tax the trusts extOrt from the
customers, there would be a riot, and
hat trust collector would require a
egiment of soldiers, besides the po-
ice, to protect him from the exas-
'erated citizens. But the cunning of
he tariff protected trusts has avoid
ID such unpleasantness, and by charg-
ng higher prices and so including
heir share Of protection, the custom
RS have to settle with the storekeep-
r, who is no more responsible than
he customer for this plundering.
The Republican system of taxa
ion is what each voter is called upon
ither to condemn or indorse, when
e votes for his representative to
ne congress which makes the laws,
nd when he votes for members Of
ne state legislature who will elect ;
-nited States senators. The Repub- I
can leaders who control congress are ,
Ommitted to protectionism, and any I
Republican member of
Ongress is powerleSs to make his
Ote count, for the Republican lead |
rs, through the caucus, can prevent,
S they did this year, consideration {
any tariff revision bills Your 7
for congress, if you are a 2
epublican, may promise to vote to f
wise the inequalities of the tariff
w, he may promise to vote to abol-
h the protection to the trusts, but
, is powerless to redeem his prom C
e unless he votes with the Demo- F
ats to elect tariff reform speak l.
;, who will appoint committees who t
i'll report favorably tariff reform T
easures. The majority of the Re- t
lblican members who are elected to Ii
control the caucus of the t
rty and the independent member in g
at caucus is like a fifth wheel to e
wagon, virtually useless and help Il
ss. c
Think this over, and you must ar p
70 at the same conclusion. a
Protection and IdIeness, y