Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-08-04
MADE TO DECEIVE
VITAL TRUTH ABOUT THE TAR
IFF SCHEDULES.
Manipulation by Senator Aldrleh
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 80 to
35 per cent. (although Senator Bris-
tow made the mistake, as the New
York Post points out, of saying that
1t was raised from rs to 30). 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 s 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 d.
rectors of the consolidation:
"E. B. Aldrich. Nelson w. Aldrich,
Herman B. Baruch, Henry A. Bing-
ham, Daniel Guggenheim, s. R. Gug-
gehheim, Paul Morton, Allen A. Ryan.
William Sproule."
A month later another company was
absorbed and the first named director
(the whole board remaining), was
made vice-president and executive
head of the consolidation. He Is a
son of the senator. Verify, the tariff
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 5 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 i'm
ports are a negligible quantity, what
was to be gained for revenue by a 5
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:
HNIo oDoN,,of re ctof{ctioa1 Haponn-
stration that the tariff has been re-
vised downward will avail against
particular instances Of deliberate out
rage, such as those contained in 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 the point of view of the
burden it places on the people; but II
looks like every bit as good a speci
men Of the fine art of tariff graft"
This touches again the further state
ment of Governor Marshall's that the
tariff had taught us how to make graft
legal. Could there be sharper Illus
tration of it than this quiet little raise
of S 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 g
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 party
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