Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-03-14

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stution for an income tax is not
necessary. believe that an in
come tax, when the protective
system of customs and the inter-
acknowledgements tax shall not fur
nish income enough for govern
ment needs, can and should be
devised which under the decisions
of the Supreme Court will con-
form to the constitution"
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN.
Nothing in the history of Amer
lean tariff making has SO tho
roughly demonstrated the fallacy
of the high protection principles
as the testimony of the Lawrence,
Mass, mill strikers.
In the same room where Car
negie and Schwab told how they
juggled millions, the Rules Com
mittee of the House heard fathers,
mothers and children tell how
whole families were forced to live
on S. and S6 a week paid by the
highly protected Wool Trust. The
witnesses told how they were
forced to work ten hours a day;
how they had to use ''a sort of
molasses'' as a substitute for but
ter; how children had to 60 into
the mills at an early age in order
to keep from actual starvation,
and how the constant demand of
the mill owners was for more and
more speed and less and less pay.
In the committee room sat some
of the mill children, fresh from
the mills, and a mere glance at
them told more than spoken or
written volumes could tell. All
had pinched faces. All were
poorly dressed, some of them
having only cheap sweater in
lieu of coat and overcoat. Most
of them had dull, expressionless
faces, in which there was no trace
of color or animation. ALI of
them, moreover, were more or less
deaf, because of their work amid
the fearful clatter of the mill ma
chinery, so that at times the COM
mittee members almost had to
shout to make themselves heard.
| All the children look worn and
fold, as though they had been
speeded up beyond the limit of
endurance.
These children revealed, as
nothing else could reveal, that
both they and the American peo-
pie are being cheated by Schedule
tx" They stood as living proof
that the manufacturers, after once
getting the privilege of levying a
heavy tax on wooden goods are
not willing to divide their enor-
nous profits with the workers in
the woolen industry. Uuder
Schedule "K" the people are be-
ing tariff ff-taxed for the sole benefit
| of few millionaire wooden trust
magnates, and not for the benefit
of the workers in the woolen in
dustry.
Now, that you know the truth,
Mr.. and Mrs. Reader, what are
you going to do about it? If you
do not know just what action to
take to make your feeling in the
matter effective, here is sugges-
tion: You can vote and work
against the party that framed
Schedule "K,"and for the party
that stands pledged to reduce the
tariff on woolens almost one half.
ROOSEVELT WOULD DODGE TARIFF.
There is every indication that
former President Roosevelt in
tends to dodge the tariff issue. In
recent statement from his head
quarters it was declared that he
would crest his cause on the is
sues he raised at Columbus" In
that speech he ignored the tariff
completely. Just how Mr.. Roose-
velt proposes to relieve the people
from paying tribute to the tariff
trusts on practically everything
they buy is mystery for which
he SO far has offered no explana-
tion. Heretofore Col Roosevelt
has been a staunch Aldrich, PEN
rose, Smoot man on the tariff, and
: since their viewpoint is not pop
ular Just now, Mr.. Roosevelt evil
: IDENTIFY has decided it would be
polite to keep his usual silence on
the tariff issue.