The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-11-04

thought you saw a reduction it really
wasn't there, fixed the wood SEIZED
ule. The Dingley bill placed a duty
of cent per cubic foot on timber
hewn, sided or squared. The Payne
bill reduced the duty to IL cent per
cubic foot, but changed the language
so as to read timber hewn, sided or
squared otherwise than by saving"
Do you catch the point, gentle read
err? The saw has taken the place OF
the hewer's AK in the lumber industry
and all the timbers practically are
sawed, so that there is really no re-
duction. Worse yet, under the skill
full jugglery of the trainers of this law
the squared timbers are now clasSed
as boards and the duty is really in
creased so per cent over the rate in
the Dingley law. Yet it is heralded
over the country that the rate on lum-
Der has been greatly reduced,
Taft struggled with the committee
in the senate to get free hides. He
got'what he asked for and the report
was sent out that he had made the
senate committee come to time. The
fact is that the eastern manufacturers
were more than willing to have free
hides, which will reduce the price to
some extent of every steer that goes
to market, but it will be noticed that
they did not give up the duty on the
manufactured leather. On some
grades of that the duty was reduced,
but on other grades il was raised. AS
a result the stockman will take less
for his steers and pay more for his
riding gloves than he did before.
Space does not permit going into
all the details of the bill. 1t was con-
ceived in sin and brought forth in ini-
guilty. While protesting to give the
people bread it has given them a
stone. The deceit of the trainers of
this bill; the cunning phraseology by
which they have concealed the real
purpose of the measure, raising
duties where the general public sup
posed that they were being lowered,
would put to shame the Vaccinations
Of the father of liars and deserves the
of every honest citizen
Of the republic.
The law will be failure as a rev.
snue producer because the duties are
md were meant in many cases to be
)rohibitive. 1t will not encourage
with other nations, where
~ yielding our duties we might build
Up trade with the foreign nation.
The manufacturers who dictated this
Dill, and Aldrich and Cannon, who
forced it through, never intended
hat there should be reciprocity.
They want no reciprocity. They do
lot want the people of this countryito
ret any benefit from reciprocity treat
es. What they want is tariff wall
hat will enable them to maintain
nonopolies and squeeze the last dol
ar possible out of the people.
President Taft may talk until the
owing kline come home. He may
lenounce the insurgents from ocean
% ocean. He may attempt to defend
his law, but the people of the wee
know that the bill is a deception
fraud. He may talk and smi At
talk some more, but the people who
have read and studied this bill know
that it was framed up in the interest
Of the manufacturing barons of New
who give monkey dinners
in their gilded palaces at Newport.
The people who have read this bill
will not be deceived by sweet talk.
They know as they sweeten the cof-
fee that the price of the sugar is kept
up at the dictation of the owners of
the sugar trust who have been caught
red handed in robbery and ought to be
wearing striped clothes and breaking
stone in the penitentiary instead of
debating tariff bill to the members
of the United States senate.
If these conspirators had been open
and above board in their methods we
would at least have been compelled
to pay them the tribute of admiration
for the nerve they displayed in their
scheme of robbery, but they are not
open and fair. Their methods are as
sneaking and disreputable as those of