Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-15
Washington Correspondence.
BY c. H. TAvENNER.

paign fund contributed wholly by
the people, and unsustained by a
single dollar of contribution from
Illegal trusts and monopolies!
This ia the watchword of Hon.
James T. Lloyd, chairman of the
National Democratic Congression-
al Committee in starting in to
raise campai gn fund to carry on
necessary organization and edu-
cational work looking toward the
election of Democrats to Congress
this fall.
The work of this committee in
the 1910 campaign was something
enormous. Every Democratic
candidate for Congress in the
United States was given valuable
assistance, and millions upon
millions of speeches, campaign
books, etc., were distributed, in
creasing the number of Democratic
workers everywhere and creating
vast amount of Democratic senti-
ment. The result was the election
of a House of Representatives
Democratic by majority of 65.
This committee is confronted
with an even more important cam
paign, and is today wholly with
out funds as a result of it's refusal
to accept "easy" money from
special interests which would be
in position to expect legislative
favors should their contributions
be accepted for campaign pur-
poses.
Every reader of this article can
help the cause of Democracy and
good government by making a con-
tribution now while the committee
is badlyiu need Of funds. Wheth-
er your contribution is large or
small, it will be useful. Checks
or currency should be sent direct
to either James T. Lloyd, chair
man, or H. D. Flood, treasurer, of
the National Democratic Congress
sional Committee, Washington,
D. G. Contributions made earliest
will do the most good.
PRoTECTIONIsTs PLEASE ANSWER.
The Republican platform reluc-
family admits that there has been
an increase in the cost of living in
the United States, but seeks to
exonerate our system of exces.
.sive protection, with the state
ment that prices have increased
all over the world. This is true,
but it is also true that the increase
in prices has been more than
twice as great in this country. un-
der Payne -Aldrichism, than in
freetrade Great Britain.
Here is a query that every pro-
tectionist in the land is invited to
answer: The United States off,
cial reports show that the average
wholesale price Of sugar in Lon
don averaged two cents per pound
less during the last two years than
in New York. The Payne-Al-
drich tax on sugar is approx
mately two cents pound. In
England, sugar goes untaxed. If
the difference in price in the two
countries is not due to the tariff on
sugar, to what cause is it due?
WHY BROWN SUGAR DISAPPEARED.
Perhaps you have noticed that
the old fashioned brown sugar,
like our mothers used to cook with,
has practically disappeared from
the market.
There is reason. This re ason
consists Of a "joker" in the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, under what is
known as "Dutch Standard No.
| f6n test.
When this test was fixed Il
meant the barring out Of the old
fashioned brown sugar, cheap and
good, and that is why this brand
of sugar has disappeared from the
the market. Whenever a tariff
bill is in the making the agents Of
the sugar trust are on the ground
to see that the Clutch Standard is
maintained. They had no diff
Guilty in getting the makers Of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff to accede to
their wishes.
TRUSTS THRIVE UNDER TARIFF.
John Moody, editor of Moody's
Magasiae, and perhaps the greatest
financial authority in the country,
has prepared the following table
which shows how the trusts have
Increased In number and capital