The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-09-27
WEEKLY news LETTER +
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER ia
FROM WASHINGTON
(By Special Corespopdent)

thls column, under date of July 81,
the statement was made that when
Congress would adjourn, sometime
along in the Fall, there would be no
bonus legislation, and that Republi-
can Members who were voting For it
were doing so with their fingers cross
ed, knowing the President would veto
the bill. This writer went further
and gave the entire plan which would
pc followed-that the bill would pass
both Houses, would be vetoed -by the
President, and that the effort to pass
it over his veto would succeed in tho
House and fail in the Senate. This
was not prophesy-it was written
from knowledge of the Republican
plan to hold the soldier vote in line
for the Republican Members and those
republican Senators who have to go
before the people i'll November. When
they voted for it and made fearful
appeals Tor other votes they knew
their votes would not make tac meas
ure into law, for they knew it would
letter above mentioned, which appear
ed in hundreds of newspapers
throughout the country.
1t is estimated that the bonus bill
would have cost the taxpayers about
four billions, scattered over genera
ton or more. The President and Sec
retary Mellon can not sec how the
people could pay the price, but they
have no hesitancy in approving the
new tariff bill, which will take from
the peoples pockets, in increases in
the cost of manufactured articles, al
most four billions each single year
until the awakened and outraged pub
lie drives the law and its makers out
into the cold. Mellon himself will be
the greatest beneficiary, in all likcli-
hood, of all the men who will fatten
their present wealth off of the needs
of the people. This modern Shylock
controls, as merely part of his great
wealth, all fthe aluminium manufac-
turing in the land. His influence has
raised the tariff rates on imported
| aluminium wares to such high point
that there will be no importations;
his companies will have no competi-
| ton and the prices can be lifted to
double the present figures and the
public will simply have to pay. There
is no escape. Under the new law,
with the help Of little joker, the
import duty on aluminium wares is II
per cent, while under the Underwood
law it was 20 per cent. The latter
rate protected the American alumni
UNI worker and put much revenue in
the Treasury; the new rate keeps out
the foreign wares, hence the Treasury
will get no revenue ther"from, while
it gives Melons companies a com
plete monopoly. They have suffered
so little from foreign competition in
the past that they have exported
heavily, selling their goods in Europe
in competition with cheap labor. Mel
lon is director in the Aluminium
Cooking Utensif' Co., of the Alumni
UNI Ore Co., of the American Metcl
Co., of the Northern Aluminium Co.,
of the Pressed Metal Radiator Co.,
and of the United States Aluminium
Co. Under this prohibitive tariff rate
peculiar result obtains: The Treas
ury will receive no revenue, while the
Public will be muletcd shamefully,
yet will have to pay other taxes to
pay other taxes to the Treasury to
make up for those lost because the
tariff is so high as to prevent impor-
tations.
The new wool tariff is SO outrag-
eous that it will take almost billion
dollars each year in additional prices,
over what. they should be, from the
pockets of the consumers. This
amount alone, in four years, would
pay the entire bill for the soldiers
bonus. The people, who would like to
see the boys get the bonus, will have
to pay this bill, and yet the soldiers
Will 60 without their recompensc. One
Of the most ironical frauds in the
wool tariff is the fact that It taxes as
pure wool every fake and fraud that
Py any stretch of the truth can be
classed as wool A worknan's blue
winter shirt, which he fondly thinks
Is wool, has placed on it a duty of 1O8
per cent, though there is no real wool
in it. To call it wool is an insult
which even a sheep should resent. The
8Qods used to make, these shirts us
ually contains from 80 TO 81, per cent
of shoddy and the remainder IS cot
ton. Many folks think the word
shoddy merely means, poor grade of
wool. That is correct as far as it
goes, but the fact is that shoddy is
made from the. ragpicl,er's rags, pull
ed to pieces by machinery, ard again
spun and dyed. The long fiber. and
the life e"of the, original wool are gone
and the, garment in which it is used
is OF short, life, poor duality and Of
The duty on wool is put on under
pretense of protecting the farmer,
y really removes all the protection he
has against the cheat and the fraud.
All of. the farmers need to wear wool.
! en- garments and buy them for their
families, yet only per cent of the
farmers raise sheep, while only 8 Of 4
per cent have large flocks. The tariff
on the raw wool will enrich the wool
Rr yWerS about 46 millions will n,,t