The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-24

he did not vote in favor of il because !
ne did not have the time TO convince |
himself that il would prove OF advan-
tage to Vermont.
On this point recent political his
tory ought TO have settled all doubts
in the mind of the congressman. He
must well remember the mouTnful
wall of the tariff barOns when a short
time ago it was proposed to remove
the duties on sugar and tobacco from
Porto Rico and to reduce the duties
on the same staples from the Philip
pines. The tobacco growers and sug-
ar growers have not found their mar
kets impaired after actual experience
with the reductions. On the contrary
the nation as a whole has been bene-
flied Our exports to Cuba have more
than doubled in six years. Our eX-
ports to Porto Rico have increased
from one million FIVE hundred and
five thousand dollars to twenty-seven
million and ninety-seven thousand
dollars in ten years, and trade both
ways has increased from three mil
| lion nine hundred and twenty thous-
and dollars to iifty-nine million one
ninety-three thousand dollars in ten
years. Trade with the Philippines in
creased from twenty million six hun
dred and twenty-three thousand dol
/ lars to thirty-four million one hun
! bred and fifty thousand dollars in
one year after the reduction. The
beet sugar industry of the country
was never in a more fourishing con
! IftfAn thu, OF b.a firfan OF
we were told how it would be ruined
if we allowed sugar to come in duty
free. OF course we now understand
that the arguments against the re-
duction were manufactured by the
sugar trust which has grown rich by
thievery, directly from the govern.
ment by under-weighing and under
valuations, and indirectly from the
people by means of tariff schedules.
We further know that the opposition
to the free tobacco came largely from
the tobacco trust, which has been
made rich and powerful through UNI
just tariff protection.
If reciprocity with Cuba. Porto Ri
co and the Philippines works success
fully, who can doubt but that the
same result will attend Canadian Re
ciprocity?
We note that Congressman Plum
ley included in his defense a tele-
gram from Wilder Wilder is the
home of mills of the paper trust. Is
it not true that that trust is opposed
to Canadian Reciprocity? There is a
kind of reciprocity to which the pa
per trust is not opposed. In the
manufacture Of paper it uses a large
amount of pulp wood. 1t purchases
this from the Champlain Realty Co.
which is said TO be composed OF
heavy stockholders Of the Internal
) ional Paper Company. In many cases
the material bought by the Cham
plain Realty company is delivered by
the seller directly to the Information
al Paper company, and all that the
subsidiary company has to do is t
keep a set OF books charging the In
ternational Paper company for The
material delivered to II by the seller
In some instances we know that this
, charge is as much as three dollars
per cord more to the lnternationa
Paper company, than is paid. B!
that process the stockholders are 81
much out and the insiders are 81
much to the good. II the paper trus
would cut out that kind of reciproC
ity between itself and its favore,
stockholders, it would have no reasol
to fear the effect OF reciprocit
which invites all of the people L
partake of inside benefits.
We cannot refrain from here sul
costing that our representatives Il
Congress do not come up to the r,
Quirements of their constituents. Tn
people OF Vermont are progressive
They should be represented by me
of progressive ideas. The peopl
r have not yet forgotten the "now-yol
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" operation
in dealing with "Cannonism." l
fact, is il not true that the people ar
afraid that their delegation at Wasl
ington listen quite too intently
the requests of interests like th
paper trust which boasts that IL like
to do business in Vermont becaus
the state is a generation behind
legislation, and the people under n
town representative system are slo
to yield to popular clamor? But II
interests will soon find that Il
situation has been misiudged. TT
people have suffered TO the limI
They are coming to their own. The
have fully determined to be fully 7
presented in the national capitol
we'll as at the state capitol.
Congressman Plumley ought
come out without any question al
without any doubts and turn his IA
i TO the morn of the new day OF pI
gress and his back to the partil
night OF government for and by 4
privileged few at the expense OF 4
many. The people will then be qui
to forgive and forget.-Wilmingt'
Times.
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