Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-11
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 30
provides, that where imported ma
terials 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-
regulations as the secretary of the
treasury shall prescribe" The amount
paid by the treasury for drawbacks in
1905, the last official report, al
$4,852, 1876, of which one per cent.
was retained by the government.
This drawback or refunding of du7
ties is only allowed on imported artii
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.SS
paid as duty, being at the rate of 25
cents a bushel. This wheat was
ground into -four at the mills and ex7
ported as barrels of -four and $175,I
407.5S was returned by the govern
ment to the millers as drawback, being
n 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 601, 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 -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 compete 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 are allowed similar
favors under this Republican tariff
law. For instance, the Steel trust
was allowed $2.252, 381.S2 on tin plates
and hundreds Of thousands of dollars
on other articles. The Lead trust wa;
allowed $24S, 760.56 on lead; the Lin
seed Oil trust was allowed $2S,481,46i
the leather trust was allowed $2S,
649.11; the Sugar trust was allowed
1868 ,02S.33 on sugar; the Lumbe
; trust was allowed $69,816.6S; the Dis
! tillers' trust was allowed $128, 701.52
; the Tobacco trust was allowed $26.
, 417,27; the Standard Oil trust was al
lowed $37,814.74; the Begging and Bur
lap trust was allowed $217,435.90; thu
Beef combine was allowed $565,514.99
and so the list might be continued.
Our home consumer of any o
.. these trust-made articles have to pa.
the government tariff duty and tn
trusts tariff tax, which the trusts adj
as their profits, but the English o
Belgian consumer pays no tariff ia,
and the trusts have to sell there for
small profit, because they must com
pete with the English and Be.
gian manufacturer, or the produe
ers of any other country that expor
> 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 cor
sumner would get a drawback" instea'
of paying it to the trusts and the fol
= eign buyer?