Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-19

terpreting the Winona speech to mean
that all the influence of the admins
tration and of the Aldrich-Cannon fac
tion of the party will be used against
them in the elections of next year.
The absence from Winona OF every
member of the Minnesota delegation
In Congress except Representative
exchanged between the President and
the Minnesota Senators at st. Paul
and the politely formal breakfast
given the President by Senator Cum
minis at Des Moines show plainly
enough that Mr. Taft was received in
those states only as President of the
United States and not as the leader
of his Party.
The threat that notice may be served
by the regulars" in Kansas on Sena-
tor Bristow, Representative Murdoch
and Governor Stubs to betake them
selves to the Democratic party, and
the fight preparing against Senator La
Toilette in Wisconsin indicate that the
line of compromise has been hopeless
ly left behind. The insurgents burned
their bridges behind them when they
voted against the Payne bill and must
now fight for their lives.
BY act and word the President de-
crees that there Is not room in the
Republican party for any man who
does not agree with him that the
Payne tariff is the best ever made
The Winona speech was public procla-
nation that the Democratic party Of
fers the only hope for escape from the
greed of monopoly tariff taxation
st. Louis Republic.
Tax on the Breakfast Table.
When a Republican Congress, short
ly after the Civil War, put coffee and
tea on the free list as a pretext for
retaining or increasing protective
tariff taxes on articles produced in
this country. great hurrah was made
about the Free Breakfast Table" fo
the workingman.
A reader of the st. Louis Republic.
who seemingly has been studying the
rising cost of living and wants to
know what the tariff makers have
done to his breakfast tabA goes far
enough into ancient history to ask
what was the tax on refined sugar in
the Mckinley tariff of 1890.
It. was half cent pound and raw
sugar was on the free list. The Amer
loo, raGnar Voc r,rofac4ad 80 H. -.
tent of just half cent pound. 1t
will be remembered that in the Con-
gressional elections held less than a
month after the Mckinley tariff was
signed by President Harrison the Re-
publicans were overwhelmed by a
landslide of votes.
The Dingley tariff of 1897 increased
the tariff on refined sugars nearly
fourfold over the Mckinley rate. max
ing ii l cent and ninety-five hun
drelths of a cent-in round numbers.
2 cents a pound. At the same time a
tariff tax of ninety-ive hundredths of
cent a pound was placed on raw
sugars. This gave the American re-
a
exactly / cent pound, just twice the
protection they received in the Nc
Kinley act
The Payne tariff retains practically
the Dingley rate on raw sugars and
makes the rate on refined sugars /
cent and ninety-one hundredths OF a
cent. which is an infnifesimal redue-
ton from the Dingley rate But the
maximum of 25 per cent is to be
added on importations Of refined
sugars from countries which do not
treat us as a most favored nation"
commercially with its beet
sugar. probably included.
The Republics inquiring reader viii
easily cipher II out for himself that
the PAYNE tariff taxes the sugar On
his breakfast table almost exactly four
times as much as the Mckinley tariff
did.
How bank Guaranty Works.