The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-04-12
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 tarlff law in section 30
provides, that where imported ma.
terlals on which duties have been paid
are used In the manufacture of arti,
Giles manufactured or produced In the
United States, there shall be allowed
on the expectation of such articles a
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
S4,S52, 1876. OF which one per cent.
was retained by tho government.
This drawback or refunding of du.
ties is only allowed on imported arti'
Giles on which duty has been paid and
used in the manufacture Of articles ex.
ported. For instance there was 70S.,
7l7.49 bushels of wheat imported in
1905, on which there was $l77,179.3S
paid as duty, being at the rate Of rs
cents bushel. This wheat was
ground into flour at the mills and eX-
ported as barrels of flour and s175,-
i07.5S was returned by the govern.
ment to the millcrs 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 600 bushels of
wheat were also imported in bond and
the duty on the same, or Sl50,400, was
RENTED under section Is Of the tar.
in law, because this wheat was. after
being made into -four, 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 farmers 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 comrete with our
farmers wheat, which had also been
manufactured into -four 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 arc allowed similar
favors under this Republican tariff |
law. For instance, the Steel trust |
was allowed $2,252, 3S1.S2 on tin plates |
and hundreds of thousands of dollars |
on other articles. The Lead trust was
allowed s24S,f60 on lead the Lin.
seed OIL trust was allowed sos ,4Sl.46, |
the leather trust was allowed s2S,. |
6i9.11; the Sugar trust was allowed |
1869, 02S.33 on sugar; the Lumber |
trust was allowed 69Sl6.6S; the Dis |
tillers' trust was allowed sl2S,701.52: |
the Tobacco trust was allowed $780, |
4l7.27 the Standard Oil trust was al.
lowed s37Sl4.74; the Bagging and Bur
lap trust was allowed s2l7,435.90; the
Beef combine was allowed $500. 514.99, |
and so the list might be continued.
Our home consumers of any Of |
these trustmade 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 consumer pays no tariff tax
and the trusts have to sell there for
small profit because they must com.
pete with the English and Bel,
gian manufactures, or the produc.
ers of any other country that export
their surplus there to sell.
Is It not about time that the Demo.
cratic plan of tariff reduction was in.
augurated so that the American con.
sumner would get drawback" instead
of paying 1t to the trusts and the for.
elgn buyer?