Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-05-06
OLD TAX RETAINED
ALDRIcH BILL OFFERS NO RELIEF
TO THE PEOPLE.
Republican Leaders Have Entered De.
liberateIy Upon Their Old Scheme
Of Humbue-outlook for Tar
III 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 1t "a said at the time that
the demand made by the manufacture
ers 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, and 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
ce%ssion," a concession which carries
with it not the slightest reduction Of
duties, Mr.. Aldrich, as u correspond
ent said the other day, has r~estoredthe
heaviest Of. unseen taxes in the tex
tile schedules" 'tThe 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
beer raised to that standard. From
all of which 1t seems fair to conclude
that D~ingleyism is still the model.
Yet 1t was the generally recognized
exorbitance of the old duties which
reused in the people the determine
ton to have the tariff revised-and
downward.
On the whole, therefore, taking the
situation as 1t stands to-day, it can
not be said that the outlook for a
helpful revision Of the tariff is en-
c%ouraging. 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
light was On the Dingley tariff that it
was that tariff which created the dis
satisfaction which eliminated in the
movement against 1t in the Republic
an party. The eastern men may not
realize 1t, but the people out this
way 90 realize 1t. 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-
ism.-Indianapolis News.