The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-04-13
TAX Is UPON ALL
REPUBLICAN, DONATIONS TO THE
INDUSTRIAL TRUSTS.
Nearly Every Combine Gets Repaid a
Large Amount of the Tariff Tax
-"DraWback" Should Come
to American Taxpayer.

The present tariff law in section 80
provides, that where imported ma
terials on which duties have been paid
are used in the manufacture of arti-
cles manufactured or produced in the
United States, there shall be allowed
on the expectation of such articles q
drawback equal in amount to the du-
ties paid on the materials used, less
one per centum of such duties"
That is known as the drawback sys-
TEN, which is entirely under such
regulations as the secretary of the
treasury shall prescribe" The amount
paid by the treasury for drawbacks in
1905, the last official report. was
$4,852, 1876, of which one per cent.
was retained by the government.
This drawback or refunding Of du-
ties is only allowed on imported arti-
cles on which duty has been paid and
used in the manufacture of articles eX-
ported. For instance, there was 708,-
717.49 bushels of wheat imported in
1905, on which there was $177,179.3S
paid as duty, being at the rate of 25
cents a bushel. This wheat vas
| ground into -four at the mills and ex-
ported as barrels of flour and $175,-
407.5S was returned by the govern
ment to the millers as drawback, being
one per cent. less than the duty paid.
But this is not the only advantage the
millers have, for in the same fiscal
year ending June 80, 1905, the official
reports show that COL 900 bushels of
| wheat were also imported in bond and
the duty on the same, or ~$150,400, was
RENTED under section Is of the tar
if law, because this wheat was, after
being made into flour, exported to for
eign countries, and there is nothing
to show that even one per cent. was
retained by the government.
Thus, under the present sa-
cred tariff law, which the
Republican politicians stand pat
on, the wheat c|1~ners of the country
were forced to pay the tariff and trust
tax On all they purchased, but the
Canadian wheat was allowed to come
into this country virtually free and
then be exported to compete with our
farmers wheat, which had also been
manufactured into flour and sold in
the English and other foreign mar
kets.
All the trusts and combines that
produce products in which any article
Is used that has been imported and
duty paid thereon are allowed similar
favors under this Republican tariff
law. For instance, the Steel trust
was allowed s2,252,3S1.S2 on tin plates
and hundreds Of thousands of dollars
on other articles. The Lead trust was
allowed $24S, 760.56 ON lead; the Lin
seed Oil trust was allowed $2S,4S1.46;
the leather trust was allowed $685.
649.11; the Sugar trust was allowed
S969, 02S.33 on sugar; the Lumber
trust was allowed $69 ,S16.6S; the Dis
tillers' trust was allowed S12S, 701.52:
the Tobacco trust was allowed $780,
417,27; the Standard Oil trust was al
lowed S~37,S14.74; the Bagging and Bur
lap trust was allowed S217 ,435.90; the
Beef combine was allowed $565,514.99,
and so the list might be continued.
Our home consumer OF any Of
these trust-made articles have to pay
the government tariff duty and the
trusts tariff tax, which the trusts add
as their profits, but the English or
Belgian pays no tariff tax
and the trusts have to sell there for a
small profit, because they must COM
pete with the English and Bel
gian manufacturer, or the produc-
ers of any other country that export
their surplus there to sell.
Is 1t not about time that the Demo
cratic plan of tariff reduction was in
a%ugurated so that the American con-
sumner would get a drawback" instead
Of paying it to the trusts and the for
eign buyer?