The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
OLD TAX RETAINED
ALDRicH BILL OFFERS NO RELIEF
TO THE PEOPLE.
republican Leaders Have Entered De-
liberately Upon Their Old Scheme
Of Humbug-OutIook for Tar
iff Revision Is Poor.

1t begins to look suspiciously as
though congress were getting ready
to line up on the basis of the old
Dingley duties. We see what has hap
pened in regard to the glove and
stocking duties. They were greatly
increased by the house of representa-
tives, and it was said at the time that
the demand made by the manufacture
efS for an increase of duties was in
tended solely to forestall and prevent
a lowering of them. Now the finance
committee of the senate has simply
restored the Dingley taxes. The manu-
%facturers will get what they had be-
fore, get probably all they expected to
get, n the women will be content.
And yet on all the important articles
In these schedules there has been no
revision. The situation has been so
beautifully handled as to make the
people quite satisfied if they are only
asked to pay the Dingley duties.
Having made this remarkable con
cession," a concession which carries
with it not the slightest reduction of
duties, Mr.. Aldrich, as our correspond
ent said the other day, has restored the
heaviest of unseen taxes in the tex
tile schedules" ''The real question:"
as our correspondent said, which the
tariff bill faces, is whether the men
and women who are delighted to get
free cocoa, tea and coffee which they
had before, will be satisfied with that,
or whether before the bill finally
passes they will wake up and discover
that most duties have not been re-
duced at ALL" Will the people be
grateful at being exempted from pay
ing taxes which they are already ex-
empted from paying, grateful at hav-
ing taxes that had been increased by
the house put back to the old level.
a level which was so high as to have
forced tariff revision on the Repub-
lican party? For instance, bacon,
ham, lard, fresh beef, veal, mutton,
pork and game were all cheapened
by the Payne bill. Under the Aldrich
bill they will pay the old Dingley
taxes. In some cases, as will be seen.
duties have been lowered to the Ding
ley standard, and in others they have
been raised to hat standard. From
all of which it seems fair to conclude
that Dingleyism is still the model.
Yet it was the generally recognized
exorbitance of the old duties which
reused in the people the determina-
ton to have the tariff revised-and
downward. AS the house raised taxes
that the senate might lower them it
may be that the senate will raise some
of them that the house may lower
them, and in the end we may settle
back on the old Dingley basis.
On the whole, therefore, taking the
situation as it stands to-day, it can
not be said that the outlook for a
helpful revision of the tariff is en-
couraging. The Republican leaders
do not seem to be impressed by the
popular demand for lower taxes.
There is small chance that the people
will be deceived by any lowering to
the old level of taxes previously
raised in order that they might be
lowered. 1t will be well for our Re-
publican friends to remember that the
fight was on the Dingley tariff thai it
was that tariff which created the dis
satisfaction which eliminated in the
movement against it in the Republic
an party. The eastern men NAV not
realize it, but the people out this
way do realize it. They are in no
mood to be trifled with. When they
said that they wanted revision down
ward, revision in the interest of the
ultimate consumer, they meant what
they said. They meant, first of all,
that they wanted no more of Dingley-
Embellishments News.