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L. A. WISENER, EDITOR
Grangeville, Idaho, Thursday, May
13, 1909.
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HUMORS OF THE TARIFF
Ihere are in the Payne tarifi bill a few illustrations of the ingenious way
in which a duty can be raised, while the artless consumer is made to believe
that it has been lowered.
Take, for instance, linoleum, an article of common use among those who
are not particularly well to do.
Under the present law there is a duty of 8
cents a square yard and 15 per cent ad valorem on all under twelve feet in
width.
On all over J:liat width the duty is 20 cents a yard and 20 per cent
The ways and means committee in its summary of reductions
"Linoleum above nine feet from 20 cents a square yard and 20 per
cent ad valorem to l 2 cents and 15 per cent ad valorem."
This is an increase, not a decrease.
ad valorem.
says:
There were imported a year ago
about 160,000 square yards of linoleum above twelve feet in width and 4,874,
000 square yards under that width. Probably three-fourths of the goods pay
ing the lower duty ranged in width from over nine feet to nearly twelve feet.
So what really is proposed is that the hulk of the importations shall pay 4
cents more a square yard than at present.
Here is a display of ingenuity not of a praiseworthy kind,
may not be able to see any fun in the joke. The Pennsylvania manufac
turers who asked for and got the higher duty do see the fun of it.
In the ease of east polished plate glass an attempt is made to make an
increase in a duty seem harmless by coupling with it a nominal decrease.
The duties on all sizes under 720 square incher are raised,
sizes employed for furniture purposes,
ered. Taking the 1907 importations as a basis, this would mean higher duties
on about 5,700,000 pounds of glass and a decrease on 180,000. The American
manufacturer can stand that trifling cut, for he has a protection of 155 per
cent on the larger sizes.
The farmer and the workingman would be proudly grateful to congress
for legislation giving them cheaper window glass. They rejoiced, doubtless,
when they saw that mentioned among the articles on which duties were to be
reduced. The laugh is on them, not on the manufacturers. The duty is re
duced a little on cylinder, crown, and common window glass above 24x30
inches, but not on the lower sizes, The importations under that size amount
to 30,000,000 pounds and those above it to about 1,600,000.
One glass manufacturer was honest enough to write to the ways and
means committee that the industry could stand a cut of 25 per cent So it
The difference between the cost of production of a square foot of polished plate
glass in Belgium and the United States is a little over 3 cents. The present
tarifi gives as much protection as if the difference were 15 cents.
Sumer of this article of universal use
committee on ways and means should have made genuine instead of sham
ductions. Probably it reckoned that they were being humbugged.—Chicago
Tribune (republican.)
The consum
ers
That covers the
The duties on the larger sizes are low
can.
The con
is paying too much for it now. The
re.
VOICE OF THE MASTER.
(Philadelphia North American, Rep.)
In view of the size and strength and power of this notion, it is strange
that the tiniest rotten borough that has the right to representation
eign state should lay down the law of 90,000,000 of Americans in 45 common
wealths almost every one of which is an empire by comparison with Rhode
Island—the petty little corner of New England that would be a pauper colony
but for its subservience to certain railroad, certain corporations, a group of
New York city's taxdodgers and the tuft hunting "yellow rich," who make of
Newport the heaven of snobocracy.
But when the Rhode Island corner grocer Aldrich made as much of a
statement as he caret! to make about what lie proposes to allow this country
to have in the way of a tarifi', the representatives of a supposedly free people
listened reverently to his insolent ultimatum.
For Aldrich does not speak for Rhode Island. Through him speak Wall
street and Standard Oil and every one of the moneyed powers of prey.
Every intelligent student of our political conditions knew from the first
that the Payne bill was a straw filled dummy—just a scarecrow excuse to en
able Cannon and his crowd to soothe President Taft.
as a sover
It was foreordained to
be tossed aside, while Aldrich made ready the only measure which the country
would he called upon to consider.
But it is the silliest sort of'euphuism to call it a senate bill,
committee is the senate. Aldrich is the finance committee. And Aldrich
now, as always, is merely the megaphone of the organized and unscrupulous
grew! that makes our worst and breaks our best laws.
The sum and substance of his uncandid declaration is that the schedules
he proposes will produce enough revenue to run the government, provided
that the government makes only such expenditures as will meet with the ap
proval of Rockefeller, Harriman and their kind.
The finance
The fact is that the most conservative estimates of experienced treasury
officials forecast an annual deficit of nearly $50,000,000 under the Aldrich
plan.
And his own statement now is an admission that there will be a general
increase of duties, while the total reductions of necessaries under his own de
finition and estimates would amount only to $1,256,616 in a total of $184,
000,000, or seven-tenths of 1 per cent.
It is only because Aldrich felt so
dealt so clumsily with his advocacy of his bill,
wishes to deceive. Rut on this occasion he supplied
only to critics of any one
tective tarifi' system.
He declared that certain increases would bring in enlarged revenues.
Just as if business men are children, not capable of understanding that an in
equitably heightened duty becomes prohibitive and so shuts out all
sure of his power, we think, that he
Usually lie is adroit when he
host of arguments not
measure, but to the opponent of the whole high pro
revenue.
He promises increased income because of increased duties, and in the next
breath declares that retention of the highest duties is necessary to prevent an
increase of revenue which lowered duties would bring forth, such as would
lead to national extravagance.
He says that to lower the tarifi'on the trust controlled necessaries of life
would glut the treasury with customs receipts and
induce spendthrift poli
Yet his chief plea for his own schedules is that they may produce rev
enue enough to avoid bond issues to cover deficits.
so
cies.
He talks of taxing luxuries.
But he makes no mention of the millions
that would come from an increased tax of 50 cents a barrel on beer,
however, presumably is merely senatorial courtesy to the brewers who
(.'annon in his hour of ueed.
That,
nave
The most striking feature of the Aldrich ukase, however, seems to us to
be his contemptuous attitude toward the President of the United States.
Not only does he ignore utterly the "true principle of protection" de
clared in the Republican platform that the duties imposed should be such
"as
will equal the difference between the coat of production at home
together with a reasonable profit to American industries," he one I
ces the recommendations of President Taft that by means of an ' ^ <
inheritance tax wealth should pay its proper proportion of the ex^T**
government
and
In his letter of acceptance and in his inagural, Mr. Taft
set forth
well considered and patriotic pitas for those just and practicable
taxation that would lift burdens from the poor and those of
by exacting from large fortunes a fair contribution toward
penditure.
met
moderat*
the
general,
And the response of Master Aldrich is merely the curt
that he hopes the party to which he belongs will never undertake
such measures.
announce
toengc,
He does not take the pains to argue the wisdom or unwisdom 0
which every other nation of the first rank has found practical °
useful. He does not pay to the President the
common courtesy 0 f di
the suggestion. He simply kicks it aside in arrogant dismissal of ai •
al that the men of money who owu him should be called to '
of their gains.
surrender
It is absurd, however, to discuss the Aldrich bill
u-s now stands
were a final proposition. He is playing the same swindling game
played last year with the currency. Now, as then, the pressure If
commerce is for some, for any sort of agreement, so long as it comes
And when the deliberately withheld "administration" clauses, the
for the maximum and minimum, the methods of valuation, the tricks
drawback—when these are submitted at the lltli hour with the ulti
"take this or nothing," as the cheat of the Vreeland bill was foisted iT
country, then, and not till then, we shall see to what extent Aldrich of]
Island, can make of the President a nullity and of the Republican
pledge breaking liar.
WALLACE SCOTT, Pres.
J. P. VOLLMER. Vice Pres.
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