Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-02

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ENEMY'S STRONGHOLD. 4
Sen. J. p. DoIliver (Rep.) Iowa *
~ share the universal disgust x
which has arisen on seeing the s.
greatest executive department, X
those departments which touch *
the business Of the nation most \
intimately, made headquarters i
for the awkward squad of politics, =
bucket shops for dealing in poIit- y
teal futures upon margins cacu- i
lated daily from the record Of the y
yeas and nays"
Sen. Robert NJ. La Toilette +
(Rep.), Wisconsin-"lt is no long, s.
er the presidents bill, or the s.
Wickersham bill, or the Elkns y
bill. Against all the influence Of X
the railroads, combined with all -
the powers Of the administration, \
many bad provisions have been *
stricken out, and many good pro- *
visions have been adopted. In X
other Words-excepting as to the *
court OF commerce-the admins j.
tration bill, framed in the inter- X
est Of the railroads, has been torn y
to pieces and rewritten in the in s.
terest Of the people here .on the =
X floor of the senate" +
Finley Peter Durne (Mr. Doo- *
ley) Democrat 1--WE must not X
forget that the tariff on bird seed 81
has been reduced by the Payne s.
Aldrich bill" X
TX - * x ~ * i.
change of rate in each case, shows
how cunningly the revision was ar.
ranged in order to deceive the public
and look like real revision downward
Very Little Free.
great deal Of stress has been laid
upon the supposed enlargement of the
free list, and yet the only new items
on the free list of the Payne-AIdrich
tariff are hides, few semi-finished
coa'-tar products, radium, works of art
over 20 years old, miners appliances
and Brazilian nuts. The senator
omitted to mention the fact observed
by "Mr. DooIey" that the tariff on bird.
seed had been reduced.
Both OF our senators criticized the
bill and refused to give it their vote.
With such Republican testimony
against it, it is hardly necessary to
occupy your time discussing schedules.
l will only mention a few things in
confederation of Sen. Delivers re-
markable statement.
Must Eat Ton of Sugar.
The reduction of the duty on sugar
was paraded as a great gain to the
consumer. The old rate was So per
100 pounds. The new rate is S1.95.
10 benefit by this reduction to the ex.
tent OF 81, family will have to con-
sumo whole ton of sugar.
The president stated in his Wi
mona speech that there were 261
items in the cotton schedule Of these
2S had been decreased; Al had been
increased and 1855 let alone. The fact
is that all the decreases in the cotton
schedule were upon cotton yarns, ex-
cept one, and solely for the benefit of
the manufacturers. Through the
whole range of cotton cloths the most
startling and inexcusable increases
were made, not increasing the Dingley
rates openly, but by changing the
classification and the method of as.
sessing the duties.
In the metals schedule there were
few reductions on iron ore, pig and
scrap iron, bar and sheet iron and
steel, none of which commodities are
ever purchased by the general public
The old rates were retained on most
finished articles ready for use, such
as cutlery. Upon structural steel
ready for builders use the duty which
had been previously $40 a ton was
nearly doubled by being transferred
to another class.
A Robber Tariff.
The wool schedule, not even the
president attempted to Justify. 1t is
little less than robbery. On cIotf
the duty averages over $40 per cent;
on cloth worth more than 70 cents :
pound it averages 95 per cent. AS :
result of the increased duties or
cheaper cloths, cotton, wool ard silk
the material for women's and chill
dren's wear has nearly doubled ir
price. Almost the same incrsase is
noticeable in readymade clothing 70
men. In mems clothing, however, thu
increase in price is not as noticeable
difficult to find an aIl-Wool carmen
binary man.
1t has been mystery to me TO-
years that the American people coul<
be induced to stand such an imposi
ton, but the matter has been very
who bear the heaviest part of thu
burden of the tax on clothing, for in
stance, are the wage earners and tn,
%, onh Of o1o Lo,
been made to believe that it is tn
special beneficiary of the whole tarif
system. Now, however, laboring me1
have generally come to understand
that the manufacturer does not pa
higher wages because ne is licensed
by law to hold up the public. The.
realize that the level Of wages il
the protected industries is lower thai
in the occupations which are not pre-
tected, as rule, and that it woul
be lower than it is were they no
protected by their organization.
AS to you farmers, l am littl
fearful that some of you are still look
ing through a fringe of standpat WOO
Some of you still believe that. tart
of 20 cents bushel on wheat is tn
cause of our good wheat prices. LIE
us consider that question for nj
ment. OF the leading farm product
on the protected list, grain, corn, co
ton and meats, we export immens
quantities every year. Let me as
you my farmer friends, do you &c
more for the bushel of wheat that
consumed in New York than you d
for the bushel that goes to England
Does the hog that is eaten In Bosto
bring you better price than tn
one shipped to Germany? If no
how does the tariff on these commod
ties holm Vol? IF we did not prOduc