The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-09-16
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909.

The special session OF Congress AFTER
five months of quarreling and at cost
of about $500, 600, resulted in victory
for the privileged clsss. The Republican
party in its platform promised reduc.
ton OF the tariff.
The Payne Aldrich law as shown by
the table prepared by the tariff experts,
revise the tariff upward, and exceeds
the Dingley act nearly 2 per cent, and
when the maximum goes into effect
March 81, 1910, the average rate will be
about 81 per cent higher, than the aver
age rate of the Dingley law. The taxes
on clothing are made higher. The
duties on cotton goods are increased
from to AZ per cent The only thing
considered in formulating the cotton
schedule was the greed OF the cotton
manufacturer of New England. The
wool and cotton schedules are indefensi-
BILE These schedules are designed to
permit the trust to plumber the public
and these millions of plundered dollars
will be transferred from the people to
the trust without cent of expense or q
reasonable plea.
The pretended tariff revision Ia likely
to bring as much profit to the trusts and
as little to anybody else AZ the moot
case in the comic Blackstone where
oysters were the subject of the trial,
and the public are given only the shells
while the trusts get the succulent
bivalves.
The history of tariff reform in this
country hss been that Of hopes deferred.
When the compromise tariff bill of 1893
was passed promising the ultimate abo'
lition of protective duties, it was be.
lieved by many that the restrictive sys.
TEN had been given over TO sure disso-
luton. Here after more than seventy
five years, we are still fighting the same
enemy. These years have demonstrated
the persistent power Of men bent on
bCtui iuR ioWs w ihoAO hhObi iiSh ~ VIZ
expense Of their fellows.
The tariff bill which WAS heralded to
settle everything has settled nothing.
1t has only sharpened agitation. To the
fine talk about the prosperity 1t confers
on the laboring man, these long and
patient sufferers will not forget that a
body of predatory manufacturers have
contrived tariff that takes money from
the pockets of the people and puts il
into theirs. They can say to this claim
Of being their friend, in the vein Of Ten.
nysons lines on the Emperor Napoleon
at the time Of the Crimean war 1T is
true, we have faithful ally, but only
the devil knows what he means"
The tariff will not be settled till it il
settled right. The people are up in
arms against the continuance Of high
protective duties which means high
prices and monopolies. There is u sense
Of widespread dissatisfaction Justice
may travel with leaden heel. but
strikes with an iron hand. THE mills
Of the gods grind slow but wondrously
fine" With the masses, with the spirit
the sentiment, the Intelligence and pat
trioism they represent, lies the hope OF
honest tariff revision, the elimination OF
oppression from our tariff system The
contest is between the people and tariff
thieves, who cry ont for fear their
plumber might be taken from them
1t is a struggle between, on the one side
private and special interests, and upor
the other, general and public interests
This contest will 20 on until the hypo
critical policy Of protection has been
repudisted by the voters at the ballo,
box, and the wage earners set free from
the slavery Of trusts. The people have
been duped and the fight for genuine
downward revision of the tariff will
continue with increased vigor The re.
Spouse Of the people to the action Of the
extra session will come up in November
1910, like the sound of many waters
and drive out Of Office the party Of pub
lie plumber
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