The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-05-22
Revising the Tariff.

next Congress will not need the advice
and assistance of Tariff Commission,
for all they need do is to call in the
experts and attorneys of the Trusts.
That is what they did in 1897 when the
present tariff law was fixed up. What
is the use of deceiving the taxpayers,
as Congressman Payne does, by declar-
ing that tariffs have always been
made without anything like adequate
information. Mr.. Payne and the
other members of the Ways and Means
Committee were fully advised, when
they were considering the Dinghy
tariff law, that the nigh rates demand
&c by Mr.. Carnegie and the Steel Trust
people would breed monopoly. When
they allowed the Standard Oil Trust
attorney to write the proviso to the oil
schedule they knew they were protect
ing the trust and adding at least so per
cent to the price of kerosene 20 the
/ American people and the poorest people
at that.
! When they accepted the Beef Trust
schedule on hides they pretended to be
protecting the American farmer, but
they knew they were helping the
Leather and Beef Trusts. When they
accepted the wool schedule of the Wool
! Growers Association they knew they
were adding IS per cent, at least, to
the cost of wooden goods to those
people OF Northern States, who from
necessity have to buy them and instead
OF helping the farmers, it was the
J fockmasters of the great Western
plains that were mostly benefited.
When they wrote the schedule that
protects the Paper Trust they must
have known the newspaper owners
would have to pay the tariff duty in IN
creased profits To the trust. Not
schedule, but was carefully considered
and all with the same intent and pur-
pose of adding to the burdens of the
people for the benefits of the Trusts.
The Trusts were well acquainted with
the facts and in return have been most
liberal contributors TO the campaign
fund of not only the Republican
National Committees, but also to the
committee who manages the election
of Congressman. Millions have been
paid by the trusts and protected monop-
olies to secure the election of President
Of no Sona ffA
and House, VINO were sound on the
tariff"
And now the same old show is to be
played again with a different title and
the excuse that there must be added
maximum schedule rates to protect us
from the pauper labor OF England
whose workingmen are now in better
circumstances than our own wOrkmen
are because their cost of living is so
much less.
The English workingman has lower
wages, but the world to draw upon for
his necessities. for every country, in
Guiding the United States, sells him
his surplus products in competition
with each other, with no tariff duties
to speak of to add to the price. Here
everything imported that is manufac-
tured is taxed and the trusts profit by
adding the tariff rate to their own
natural profit. The Only difference be-
ing that the government collects the
tariff tax on the goods imported and
the trusts collect the tariff tax on their
products produced here while the tariff
protects them from foreign cOmpeti-
ton. 1t is now proposed to promise
the people to revise the tariff latter
election" but whether the tariff is to
be revised lower or higher is left to
the Imagination of the voter. As the
Republican leaders now declare they
must enact a maximum tariff as we'll
as minimum tariff, it is evident that
some of the trusts want still higher
rates and no doubt they will be accom- |
modated by their friends, the Republi- |
can politicians.