The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-29
THE HOWL FOR TARIFF.

The WOOL growers IN session al
Salt Lake City, Utah, last week re-
solved that the removal of the tariff
threatens their industry. OF course
they did. That was expected. The
sugar magnates who have made their
millions upon millions every year re-
solve every time they meet to take
a few bottles of champagne together
that the removal of the tariff on su-
gar threatens their industry. Both
these industries together have not a
million people dependent upon them
vet they want all of the rest of the
ninety millions of people to continue
to pay tribute to them just to keep
their prices up and make them rich
err.
Thank goodness that time is past
when the American people are going
to be buncoed into piling up tariff
profits just to aid some private indi-
viduals who are engaged in business.
Tariffs may have to be levied to pro-
vide revenues for the government
and will be so levied as long as we
are asked just to make a profit for
people who are in certain lines of
business, making the millions who
consume the products of industry pay
the added per cent, there will always
be a protest from now on that will
make it too uncertain graft for any
industry TO continue under it.
We have an example just now OF
people complaining of high taxes in
the state of Iowa They are going to
fume and rave over it worse when
they come to paying the tax than they
do now. Yet lot OF these same peo-
pie who are complaining have been
for years paying directly into the
pockets of the trust magnates and
highly protected industries ten times
more than the increase they are now
asked to pay for the support OF their
state and county governments.
A high tariff is tax just as much
as an assessment made by the coun-
ty and state is tax. The man who
buys either wool or sugar has to pay
whatever higher price the wool or
sugar barons get for their product
on account OF the tariff. You can
figure it out any other way. When the
time comes that people want to do
this, and do it with their eyes open,
and willingly, then We say 60 ahead
and make all industries the same
present. Lake the printers dona-
ton so they can pay their men higher
wages. Make the storekeepers a
donation from your great wealth SO
that they can make bigger profits
from their business. Make the brick
maker a present OF a tariff tax so
that he can make bigger profits
Make us all government contrlbu-
ton so that we can prosper and grow
fat at the expense of those who have
to buy our product and pay the bills.
The wool growers ought to thank
the people of the United States for
on the tariff list as long
as they have done, and. not now
condem the government for stopping
their graft. The sugar barons can
buy and sell Crawford county a doz-
en- times with the profits they have
made from the high tariff in five
years. They ought to thank the
people of the United States for the
donations already given instead Of
setting up all the complaints they
can to make the government come
back to their aid. The iron and
steel magnates ought to be thank
lul lOr all inc EONCIILuS c1u
they have had, instead of helping to
carry on the howl about ruined in
GustTy and the injury to labor.
The results Of the removal OF the
tariff have not been to hammer the
price of wool down unreasonably. The
tariffs removal has not thrown the
sheep market into panic, but instead
has left the price of sheep as good to-
day as ever, and many times as many
farmers are now feeding and making
money from sheep as ever before.
The price OF cattle and hogs and farm
animals is not suffering from the re-
moval of the tariff. but trusts are
being dissolved, tariff grafters are
being exposed, millionaires are being
brought under the law and the peo-
pie Of the United States generally
will soon understand, if they do not
now, that the tariff is only a tax on
themselves and that industries that
cannot live without it are in an I'M
natural environment.
TIE time will soon come when we
as nation will look back on the high
protective tariff of the Dingley law
with wonder that we were ever such
easy marks.-DeHison Bulletin.