Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-29

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support upon the shoulders of th'
brewers and distillers.
| What Congress Did Do.
But Congress did something.
In the making of a new tariff
schedule many things were to BIZ
considered. Revenue consideration.
had their place; protection for Am
erican industries had its place; pro
lection for the consumer had a place
a!so--or should have had
THE schedules of the original bills
We're curiously and wonderfully made
made, there is reason to believe
with lots of trading stock" thrown
in. The Statesmen" who rallied be-
hind Payne and Aldrich meant to Civ
lots of protection" to the manufac'
lturers of wool and cotton and steel
Twas a clever thing to make their
original bills appear to protect oil
and hides, and the people felt SO
glad when they saw the backdown on
oil and hides that they didn't notice
where cotton and wool and steel
were left.
Whpi Got the Protection?
There were some of the common
people who wanted some protection
and mighty little of 1T did they get.
The citizen who belongs to the great
consuming class looks in vain to dis
cover where he was remembered in
tie tariff schedules.
"Who has forgotten the outburst
of indignation over the proposition to
increase the tariff on hosiery? But
iae tariff on hosiery was increased
and the poor mother, with her family
of children, must darn her stockings
little more. Congress doesn't care
anything about her. The oatmeal for
the breakfast table pays the same tar
| iff it has always paid; buckwheat
flour for the mornings pancakes pays
five per cent more than it used to
pay.
But the liquor interests wanted
protection at the hands of the new
tariff law-and they got it.
The Dingley tariff law provided
a duty of s2.25 per gallon on foreign
spirits. Considering. as it has beel
shown above, that the average cos
of American whisky, revenue-paid, II
about s1.19 per gallon, this woult
seem a very fair protection upon thu
Industry of whisky-making. But ou
gentle Congress, with President Taf
at the helm of the Ship of State
and Uncle Joe" Cannon swearing OF
the fo'cas'l as national bo's'n, coul'
not leave the poor distillers at tn
mercy of European pauper labor; an
SO, while the country was intereste'
over hides and oil and was watching
Uncle Joe chase the women ava,
from the sacred precincts of the CAP
itol when they went to protest abou
gloves and stockings, the duty o.
whisky was quietly boosted fror
s2.25 per gallon to $3.50 per gallon
and the American distiller not onl
escaped any further contribution t
public expense, but found himself Ell
trenched more firmly than ever !
his market. &. (: rs
But the distiller was not alone
Another of Uncle Sans needy chi
dren appeared H. the person OF tn
brewer. Poor fellow, he was prt
tected by the Dingley tariff law onl
to the extent of forty cents pc
gallon when beer came in bottles an
20 cents per gallon when beer cam
in in bulk. Ignorant prejudice migi
have said, that since hi
beer was costing him, maj
ufactured and revenue-paid, onl
a trifle less than seven cents pt
gallon, this might do. But nay; tn
benevolent government wouldn't hay
? it so. OF course, twas not the pa
ing of a debt to the brewer. {
course. Uncle Joe wasn't thinkir
about the votes that the beer inte
ests gave him. OF ceurs
no one in the White Hou:
was remembering those handson
contributions to the campaign fun
Twas out of sheer benevolence tha
while the country was guessil
where hides and oil and steel al
= cotton and wool were coming in, Co
= gress logged up the duty on beer
: forty-five cents per gallon when
= is bottled, and twenty-three cen
!. per agllon when it is inb arrels.
even the wine interests were n
: : forgotten. The tariff on champag
which, under the Dingley law, ran
:. ed from 50 per dozen bottles to
:, was raised so that now it is fro
~ $2.4O per dozen bottles to $3.50. t
:, . tariff on .sstill winesn went from
old rate of forty and fifty cents. p
gallon to rOfty-1iVe ana Sixty cer
per gallon. and in similar proportl
!, when bottled,
- - Damnaslon's Protective Rate.
"We shall understand this lit
!. .. better If we work little example
- percentage.
when the old law was in ope
tion,. let us suppose two gallons
av whisky standing side by side in N
mr. York. One has been made iA Am
he lea, and costs the disuller. let
say, twenty cents; the other !
been brought from abroad and ]
probably cost, in manufacture a
'e- freight, something more than th
lh' but We may assume an equal pri
Sc The American distiller pays the 6
oh eminent ninety-nine cents OF ia!
pl- and Is ready to aell; the impor