Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-09-02

ulscuSseu anu Is die used IN other
parts of the country, somee sort of a
presentation OF this character will be
absolutely necessary, because the time
Is past when We must descend into
particulars and details TO demon
strate To the people the iniquity of
the system that is expressing them.
1t Will be extremely difficult to COM
press this analysis into the space of n
brief article. The debate took months
IN tue Senate, but L will do the best
| can.
There are Ia schedules i'm the
Payne-Aldrich bill, representing
more than 1900 articles. [ will con-
slider some OF the most important
among them.
First-The first is what is known
as the chemical SCHEDULE. This COW
ers materials comprising TO large
extent the oils and paints that are
usd in every American home. The
Dingley rates were so excessive that
from the entire country there arose
demand for reduction of articles
largely controlled in their crude and
manufactured state by wealthy
trusts and combinations, and it was
so promised 10y the Republican par
ty. How was the promise fulfilled?
1t was fulfilled by adding to the
DinGley rates an increase of about
one half OF one per cent In place of
m n Ii lor H.,
same.
Second-Schedule & comprises
the steel schedule. The language of
the structural steel schedule-the
steel that is used enormously for
building purposes-is SO ingeniously
and clandestinely covered and so art
fully worded that the duty has been
increased moIe than 80 per cent.
The other articles in this schedule,
upon which n. small reduction has
been made, are not worth consider
ing, because the reduction was sim
ply made in order 10 divert the pub
lie mind from the increased duties,
and because we can make these arti-
cles cheaper than any other country
in the world.
Third--In the lumber and wood
schedules the ad valorem duty was
decreased about per cent, but there
was an increase of 66 per cent on the
duty OH shingles aud 80 1-3 per cent
on heavy timbeIs.
Foruth-In Schedule T. the sugar
duties practically remain the same
glaring and indefensible fraud that
they were under the Dingley bill.
This schedule was exposed, hammer
eel and torn TO pieces upon the floor
OF the Senate, and no one rose TO re-
ply. The Dutch standard test, prac-
tically repudiated by the commercial
nations OF the world, was so ner-
cilessly shaken that not n relic OF IL
was left and still this congregation
OF monopOlists and violators of the
law, who call themselves the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, came
out triumphant ut the hands of n
| Republican Congress.
Fifth-The cotton schedule, known
as SCHEDULE L, shows an increase
from "A. 81 perc ent TO 90. go per cent
al va,orem, but by subtle wording
OF the schedule the increase really
amounts TO 20 per cent This is one
OF the greatest outrages perpetrated
in the bill and places an additional
burden upon every man, woman and
| child in the limited STATES
SitXh-The wool and wooden
shedules, knwon as Schedule X ,
have hardly been reduced fraction
1t is safe TO say that every inhabi-
tant of the United States, except the
wool growers and the wooden manu-
facturers, expected reduction In
this schedule. What answer did the
Republican party give 10 the demand
of the American consumer, and how
do these duties stand2 Blankets tax
eel from 104 TO 165 per cent, knit ia.
brics from 80 TO al per cent, wool
en- clothes from "a TO l34 per cent,
, flannels from So TO l43 per cent, anC
women's and children dress goods
; from 20 TO 1IS per cent.
1t was stated without contradic
ton upon the floor OF the Senate
that a recapitulation shows that til,
! duties, In round numbers, upon 6.
per cent of our importatious remain
= unchanged. Increases are made oil
D about 81 per cent and decreases tina
D practically amount to little or moth
e ing on about ii per cent. The de
: creases it was over and over agaiI
: stated upon our side and shown, weT
4 subterfuges and devices to deceiv
S the people, and not a single one o
: them would in the slightest degre
= Tighten the burden of the consumer
S About. ., GOO articles on the Dingle
. bill have not been touched. The re
Y vision has taken place in about SO
e articles. One half of these S37 al
e ticles has been revised upward, an