The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-05
MADE TO DECEIVE
lFF SCHEDULES.
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80, 0 the' Rute Trui wIshs
In Short TInIs. {

Governor Marshall's statement that
tariff schedules were put forward for
the purpose of deception finds apt H.
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
S5 per cent. (although Senator Bris-
tow made the mistake, as the New
York Post points out, of saying that
1t was raised from Is 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. =" j.
The house had made no change in
the rubber duty. But Senator Aldrich's
committee added the 5 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:
q. d. AluIlCu, INSISOu W.. EAuA I'LL,
Herman B. Baruch, Henry A. Bing-
ham, Daniel G~uggenheim, s. R. Gug-
genheim, 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 q
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 ere for
and how to use them. *
b while5a difference of 5sper cent.
may not seem great 1t Will aggregate
an enormous sum to the rubber trust.
II not, what purpose was there in the
change? Our imports of manufactured
rubber are insigni1cant.whil u Inn
ports Of raw rubber ahoqntfto more
( than a hundred millions of db1lars an
fnually. Since the Manufactured I'M
ports are a negligible quantity, what
was to be gained fol, revenue BY
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 beer re-
! vfsed downward VIII 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 1t places on the people; but 1t
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 Marshalls that the
tariff had taught us how to make graft
legal. Could there be sharper Illus
tration 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 a
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?
INDIANAPOLIS News.