The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1910-08-30
MADE TO DECEIVE
VITAL TRUTH ABOUT THE TAR.
IFF SCHEDULES.
Manipulation by Senator AidrIch
VIII Add Millions to the Profits
Of the Rubber Trust With
In a Short Time.

Governor Marshall's statement that
tariff schedules were put forward for
the purpose of deception finds apt IL
lustration in the case of the change
made In the duty on rubber to which
Senator Bristow. In his recent speech,
called attention. The duty on manu-
featured rubber was raised from 30 to
30 Per cent. (although Senator Bris-
tow made the mistake, as the New
York Post points out, of saying that
1t was raised from 25 to 800. Now.
here is the harmless way in which
this appears in the schedule:
Manufactures of bone, chip, grass
horn. India rubber, palm leaf, straw.
weeds or whalebone. :"
The house had made no change In
the rubber duty. But Senator Aldrich's
committee added the per cent to
manufactured rubber. while the raw
material comes in free Two or three
large rubber companies consolidated.
the arrangement going into effect last
November. Here is the board of a
rectors of the consolidation:
&c. p. Aldrich. Nelson w. Aldrich.
Herman b. Baruch. Henry A. Bling
ham. Daniel Guggenheim, S. r. Gug-
eenheim, Paul Morton, Allen A. Ryan.
William Sproule"
A month later another company was
absorbed and the first named director
Cthe whole board remaining), was
made vice-president and executive
head of the consolidation He is "a
son of the senator Verify, the tariC
schedules are made to deceive, as
Governor Marshall said, but they do
not deceive the men that make them
These know exactly what they are for
and how to use them
While a difference Of per cent.
may not seem great 1t will aggregate
an enormous sum to the rubber trust.
If not, what purpose was there In the
change? Our imports of manufactured
rubber are Insignificant, while our i'm
ports of raw rubber amount to more
than a hundred millions of dollars an
nually. Since the manufactured Inn
ports are a negligible quantity, what
was to be gained for revenue by a s
per cent advance? Nothing worth
speaking of. But the advance would
enable the rubber trust to raise the
prices. Speaking to this point the
New York Evening Post says:
NO amount of statistical demon
stration that the tariff has been re-
vised downward Will avail against
particular instances of deliberate out
rage, such as those contained I'm the
changes of the cotton schedule and IN
the retention of the intolerable wool
en- schedule of the Dingley act This
rubber business IS not so serious as
those. from tho point Of view of the
burden Il places on the people; but It.
looks like every bit as good a speci-
men of the fine art OF tariff graft"
This touches agaAn the further state
ment of Governor Marshall's that tho
tariff had taught us how to make graft
legal. Could there be sharper illus
traton of 1t than this quiet little raise
of 5 per cent. which the senate add
ed TO the houses bill and which was
for the direct benefit OF a combine
whose board OF directors is given
above? Or could there be given
clearer illustration Of the direct con-
nection between protection and mo-
nopoly or the connection Of both with
the powers that thus far have ordered
and controlled the Republican party1
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