Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-07-08

or higher than the Dingley tariff
law on most articles of general use
in their finished cndition. Most OF
| the reductions were so trivial as TO
be rediclous. In fact, a careful
scrutiny of the particular items
that were changed, and the exact
trifing change in each case, shows
how cunningly the revision was ar
ranged in order to deceive the
public and look like real revision
downward"
81 have here a sample of muslin,
and l want to show just what has
been done to it. Under the Dingley
law the duty was 35 per cent plus
2 percent, which equals per square
yard $40 cents. The Aldrich tariff
duty is 5 cents per yard, plus 2
cents, plus l cent, equals per square
yard s cents, or an equivalent of
81 per cent. Here is another little
black striped muslin on which the
duty has been increased SO per cent
over the old law. The truth is the
cotton schedule, which came here
with a plea to congress not to touch
it, left our deliberations with in
creases ranging all the way from 80
to nearly 100 per cent"
Who are the people who hold up
congress in both houses and arrange
to beat any legislation at all, who
threaten to vote against it unless a
skin game contrived AZ years ago
is perpetuated world without end?
Are they insurgents? Is a man
who holds congress up by a threat
and wins on a bluff a patriot be-
cause he represent his own interest,
and is a man to be derided and
despised because he interposes in
behalf of the public when he has
no interest in it all, and says, This
ought not to be done and by my
vote it shall not be done?' By what
grotesque standard of morality is
the group of men that made that
disreputable threat, which the
president says caused both houses
of congress to abdicate their func-
tions; by what alchemy of diseased
morality do they become the nucleus
around which the solidarity of a
great political party is to be organic
ed for the future, while tn eman who
stood for public rights and fought
for them, and voted as they fought,
are to be kicked out as insurgents
unworthy of its fellowship"
What a farce to send men
around talking about the rule of
majorities, when before the eyes of
all men. and with no dispute of the
truth of it possible, the most i'm
portant business of the American
people has come down to the bargain
counter; and men authorized to say,
This is the citadel of protection; if
any of you have constituents that
want anything. come here; we are
dispensing power: support what
we want, and take any
thing you think you need;' and the
man does not like it is requested
to depart"
Il do not like this idea of having
c~ustomhouse officials write our tariff
laws. Behind nearly every one Of
the veteran experts from the custom
house is the veteran manager of the
enterprise that is to be fixed. No
expert in the New York custom
house ever conceived the job in this
cotton schedule without the know
ledge and consent of the interests
standing behind the scene. How
long does the senate of the United
States propose that these great in
terests, affecting every man, woman
and child in the nation, shall be
managed with brutal tyranny, with
out debate and without knowledge
and without explanation, by the
people that r engaged in monopo-
lizing the great industries of the
world, that propose to impose iE-
tolerable burdens upon the market
place of our country? am through
with it. I intend to fight as a re.
publican for a free market place
on this continent"
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