The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 16, 1892, Page 3

—_—_ ——~—S——— “arm Machinery, Heavy and Self Hardware, Cutlery and Guns Corn Planters and Check Rower CASADAY SULKY PLOWS, Brown, Farmers Scrapers, Road Plows, Friend, U. Stalk Cutters, &c. S. and Haworth » Rock Island and Olliver Stirring Plews, Twenty different kinds of Cultivators, allnew. See our unequaled line of Tubular and Channel Steel Lever Harrows, Disk Harrows, Land Rolleas, Steel S Bain & Fish Bros. Farm Wagons, Top Buggies, Phaetons, Spring Wagons, Carts, Buckeye Force Pumps. Freeman’s Dinmond Steel Barb Wire. TARIFF BATTLE CORRECT BEGUN. Mesouri Pacific Time Hable never Mr. MeMillin of Tennessee Leads in the Discussion. Arrival and departure ot pa trains at Butler Station Nort Bouxp Binenekir) He Thoroughly Disseets the bog tous Pass See McKinley Low EI ae 2 © REPRESENTATIVE MMILLINS sPkicd. Phe last cougress itujosed the highest tariff evied 1 this country. ‘ t extravagant appropriations ever made here in time of piece Plus BATES COUNTY congress was sent here to correct both e.ils. two years for which the last « The expenditures is ihe besides the defiern National Bank. BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK appropriated, cies, aggregated $1,009,000,00i per family annually, or $500,000,000 each year, about one Ss more third of all the money in existence iu the United States. When we ake fre ur currency the $109, 1 LARGESr 4No THE take from our currency the $ 000,000) gold held for purposes in the treasury, the reserve redemption ONLY NATIONAL BANK | banks IN BATES COUNTY. _fequired in the national and the different reserves held for cireu CAPITAL, - $125,000 00 lation in other ways we find that SURPLUS, - - £25,000 00 ' these expeaditures reached an: ually jneuly one-half of the money in actu P. J. TYGARD af oe tien) al circulation. Can there be per HON. J. Be NEWBERRY Vice-Pres. | #teut prosperity while one half of j. C. CLARK A a Cashier | OY even one-third of all the moncy - has to go through the hands of a DR. F. M. FULKERSON, federal tax gatherer every yeu? Be- DENTIST, sides the taxes for state, county and BUTLER my MISSOURI. | | municipal purposes. There is a rem jedy: Lmpose less taxes und spend Dr. That is what this con- Office, Southwest Corner Square, : less mouey. Tucker’s old stand. | wress intends to do. Lawyern. Mr. Chairman, the tariff law has , now been in operation for one year waite See “ves and tive months. Where are the 40 ar id th « largest and best Wood Work, Nails, Pumps and Gas Pipe, G selectex nd stock © four years when high had bes the fact that the population in those tar rced—this is fuce of jas vastly increased. If the increase of sheep bad kept pace with the in- crease of the population there wi have been prob by 75.000, Nov have t resu ts been eneourag- been restricted wool that they « i in the grease by rea Tuey have been restr substantially to their Tuey have dy as a substitute for woolen The already had from the backs of beggars been forced rags that other a sub- in eountries have been used stitute for woel as So great was this from Ph Herwig and that a petition came up adelphia signed by Mr. ‘others claiming to represent 40,000 lreport it is seen de- the manufac- turers of the United States. laborers in textile industries, manding free wool for ENCOURAGES SHODDY. Mr. wool Chairman, this high tax has forced the of vast quantities of substitutes for woo!— shoddy, mungo and other the nufacture According to that these substi- tutes have taken the place of the fleeces of 29,000,000 sheep or about ou use adultera of the tions used in In woolen goods two thirds as inany as there are in 'the whole United States. Mr. Chairman, the first quarter of a century of the history of the government there was ne duty im- | posed on wool. Tue first duties that were imposed were insignificant as SILVERS & SILVER 8, beneficial effects that were to fole | compared with those now in existence low from it? Where is the magnifi | Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the courts of Baes | Cent price the and adjoin countiet, the Court ot | grower was to realize from it? Where Appeals, Supreme Court at Jefferson | City and in the Federal Courts. farmer and wool) are the increased wages the laboring i Th | The pretense thata high duty would lucrease the number of shee “pin the older states has not been verified. » value of wool of similar quanti- | ty has varied very little in the mar- | | | BH.OMice over Farmers Bank; third \iman was to get? 1 es shaleway Hl door trom head of tain way MADE WOOL CHEAPER. | 1see before me many men who} D" ARMOND a ut re ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice | voted for that monstrous measure. |If the facts were with them they} ; would proclaim them to the world. a Fry hie mid ssiotaing | I defy contradiction when I say the bee Ollice avec Rieu COnNati Bank: jfarmer has realized from ~}ecents less per DARKINSON & GRAV , ATTORN&YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over down’s Drug Store. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC | rooi that shelters him, for the hat} PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, | that covers his head, and the wool Office, front room over P. O. All calls | ens that cover his back. He has had answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- eases. a single line of manufacturers in | which the labor's wages have been | | increased by that law. Lans- | he works, and his wages have not 'kets of Boston and London since prote ov that bill than by the n the Mills bill. It is true that fifty odd millions of dol- lars was taken off the sugar tax, bat this was no free will effering for tae same meas ided for Ale pay he producers of sugar as bot When we refi 000 paid ete., has to } f tunes three-f turers’ } the tre: tax is indirectly t of their gettix the cl tion « en of $48,000,000 people and instead 50,000,000 ef relief f tuxes they Be $10,000,000 of net by have st time in passed the law 1e avowed pur eutiug imports and de re. In all other laws ever p vn the subject at least those having the measure ip charge had the sense of official propriety to profess that the law was invoked to raise revenue The exigencies of the preceding had vast amount of money to carry campaign required a the tions. It was raised by rousing the apprelensions of some and promis- ing benefits to others. The prom- ises of that campaign were put into statutory form BENEFITS MISAPPLIED. Mr. Chairman, every class except | those who need it worst has been | benefitted by the various laws pass- | ed by our opponents in the subject | of taxation since 1865. There was a tax on incomes, corporations, etc., | that netted the last two years of ex- that duty was imposed, occasionally | alittle higher abroad, \little higher in this country, but the | to 3) pound on his wool ment, | than he did before. And I challenge | | any representative here to point to} laverage in favor of one country or sometimes a | the other has not been one-fifth of | the duty imposed by our govern- which proves conclusively that whilst the cost to the ¢ has beer umer reased by the duty and | the possibilities of the maaufactur- The laborer | | has been forced to pay mere tor the | bandmen have derived no substan- ers have been restricted, both in market and quantity, the sheep hus- tial benefit. A RELIC OF THE WAR Mr. Chairman, ) great civil war and maintain more | than 2,000,000 men in the field, | vides for “reciprocity” when the Morrill! to pay more for the linen he weare, | tariff was imposed to carry on our the hammer and hoe the with which | but it tax railroad corporations,on banking cor porations, on insurance companies, trust companies, telegraph compa- nies and other cerne. istence about $140,000,000, was repealed. There was a immense money con- There was also a tax on bank the “oppressed rich” the burdens of supporting the gov ernment. Ah! how tenderly the re publican party looks after those who toil not neither do they spin. RECIPROCITY CRITICIZE Our opponents have made great boasts of the bill which they passed which pro with other | countri It provides for the imposition of | i | of American statistics some blankets | ‘taxes and the remission of taxes by it | the president of the United States f Builders Hardware, elec- | en | relieved from benefit they have brought on the country by the tariff, Carpenters Tools, garden Seeds, &c., in the county. Fr. FR. DEACON, SON S & Co. Butler, Mo. th mn from complaining against that system. By this means th Ameri ein manufacturer is encouraged and enabled to offer and sell the prod ucts of American mauufacture to foreigners more cheaply than the same wares are sold to the American laborer and American citize But for this many American people who ave s with foreign ¢ w have joine ery a taxation so 1ounts to exelasion in some es and robbery thers sell to a pauper for at he ss price th laborer ? Why fleece your ghbor in a way that yo one in any other country is required to or will endare? Mr. Chairman, the rebate paid to the Standard oi! compeny alone on | the taxes paid by them alone last ; year amounts to, it is said. about! $700,000. DESTRUCTION OF COMMERCE Mr. Chairman, another most seri ous objection to the high rates oi duty heretofore existing and grow ing higher with each uew congres ‘sional act, is that obstructive influ- ence that it has had on our com merce. The time was when Ameri can commerce was carried by Amer- ican ships bearing the American flag and manned by American freemen. tlag floated over every sea and our ships cast j anchor in every harbor. We, in 1860, fearried G44 per cent of our com- merce. Those proud days our Then came in an evil hour our ex | eessive rates of -duty Leveath that and other influences, and, baneful that commerce has withered till we | | pow only carry 124 per cent of our | vast fore per cent of the foreign trade is con- ducted in steamers bearing national flag, while 72.4 is, with all | its profits, conducted in alien steam | We neither allow our citi- ign commerce and only 7 vessels. | them at home. HIGH RATES OF DUTY Sir, in the speech which I made jon the floor protesting against the pissage of this legal outrage. I ys so far as it was possible in advance, 'the extortionate rates which would result if the McKinley bill became a law. I told you then that blankets. | flannels and hats would in some of | the lower grades be taxed as high as /110 per cent. In the last home con- sumption statement from the bureau imported actually paid 10616 per our | checks. These were all repealed and |Zens40 bay ships abroad nor build” Cutlery, Iron, Steel and Wagon the in markets to an amount about equal to the duty removed. On the other hand, when an addi- tional duty of § cent from sugar price went down all American a pound was Imposed on tin plate tin plate wens up all over the country. buttons So on pearl upon which the duty was vastly increased; so on linen goods Whatever may have been the situa- tion before the American people h come to) know that the tariff isutaxand have dealt with those who increased the tax in the last congress accordingly, by adiuinister to the authors of the high rates we now have to pay the that any party in this, turning a republi can majority greatest ro- i buke was ever administered to into a democratic ma- fourth. PAX jority of almost thre tHE TOURIST Mr. | provision of | should be ing those who are opulent enough Chairman, there is another the amended, present law that the one allow- | and have the leisure to go abroad to duty gyuantities of el igties as wearing apparel. To il {lustrate, a rich man going abroad (can bring back thousands of dollars of wearing appearal free from taxa- | tion, but if one of his humble la- ‘borers were to scek to ge t$100 worth of woolens brought back by him for the use of his family, he would have te “pay, according to the | average rate on woolen goode, more than $90 duty, and in some grades he would be compelled to pay on knit goods more than $300 duty. The law now bring in free of enables those who buy extensively to pay the expenses (of the trip abroad in the mere mat- ter of saving duty. who voted for the and who helped to » the people, who in less hundred days after its | passuge Jauded in Eugland and j bought $1,000 worth of clothing the first thing. He was a protee- i know ove man McKinley bill ddle the meas- | ure upon {than one | tionist. THE PEOPLE'S VERDICT. Mr. Chairman the question of ex- cessive rates in taxation has been passed upon by the people and con- demned in a manner not to be mis- taken. Thorough disscussion pre- ceded its adoption Newspapers ;and periodicals did their work in their people of the changes. Then came the advance in price, speaking in unmistakable toues of the hardship that comes from inereased taxation. Then the election came and never was such a defeat administered to a recreant informing i ARE, Physician and : einer ! : de Gieuen’ Gee oct stae aatare: ee up one cent. What benetit has | was said by the author of the bill Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- | increased protection been to him. and those who favored it that the Ba mevecieir: | Task any of the republicans on|bigh rates were only temporary and the committee of ways and means to} would be reduced at the return of alone. Hemay, according to this |Ccent, flannels for underwear 115.6 Parcyins wee servers upon those who ae =a ee 8 a per cent and hats 109.16. I told you| had passed this measure. From provision, in his discretion and as | 9.15. you}... Pe eins aoa fit, impose 2 eents a | | then, with some m i ab | S givings, | to the gulf people rose as one man. J. T. WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over : a If it revenue | ’sS + Residence on Ha- | : ates ps gee Sr ot Pine! received by the government. if it lpoint to a single laborer law. diminishes the Potter Bros. does not increase the wages of labor j ifit fosters trusts, if it makes poq)- BRICK LIVERY STABLE. ing profitable, in heaven’s name let robber, us not further legalize the but try some better method. DUTY ON WOOL. The duty wool was placed at 11 cents a pound on washed wool. This was by au agree- ment entered into between the na- tional association on woolen manu | facturers and national association of | wool growers and they dictated the An ample supply of Buzggies, Carriage, | Phaetons, Drummer | Wagons, &c. on in un- j terms to congress. It was c! | that this would foster the sheep in- is dustry and increase the value of This is one of the best oniores Sta-| ool to the farmer. What were the les i is section of the state. a z bles in this sectic results? In 1886 the year after First Crass Ries Frrs t of the law re the night on 1, there were At any hour, day or Farmers »asonable terms. siring to put up their horses when in the city will tind this ‘barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. does not increase the value of the raw material to the farmer. if it does, whose! peace. Sir, about one-third of a cen- | Wages have been increased by that | tury has new elapsed, more than two | thirds of the expenses incurred have been paid, every legitimate excuse | for the increase of rates has disap. | | peared, and yet not only has there been no reduction in tariff rates, but they have been vastly sed. The act of 1883 imposed an average rate of 45 per cent. The twoacts of incre: 11890, which supplanted it, have im- 1867 | }on the Y-| facturer i vosed an average of nearly 60 per I s y I t. This is the worst. The rates of daty were placed lower by that act on luxuries than on the necessa- | There was less increase finer goods the There w rease on cotton than woolen I ries of life. than on coarser. 2 jewelry than on cut! is than on table kn ign than on linens mon chamy THE SUGAR TAX heavily or the ben: oe manu- and he is left with more pound tax on sugar, 3 cents a pound | mit, assuming responsibility for a en coffee, 14 cents 2 pound on hides | |atatement so directly at variance and 10 cents a pound on tea He, with those of the then majority. a may impose these taxes at will and | Prophecy @o lugubrious that its remit them at pleasure. He is ret, ere mention was enough to almost required to consult either cabinet or €Cite jeers—I told you that the ef- He may levy 250,000,000 ! feet of the proposed rate on yarns without convening congress, or cou- would burden the 'tarers as well as the people as high (a3 100 per cent on some kinds, i your statistician tells you that under bill there has been collected thousands of cungress. wool manufac sulting that body if it is in session. Tam astonished that in a freerepub the right of taxation through chosen representatives was lie. where the bought with blood, such a thing is; Since its passage on : possible as the surrender of this Pounds of yarn duties as high <# 120 per cent. that the proposed rates on worsted 8% Id amount toa : Your statistician sh per cent. I cnt we The most sacred is to deter manner of his said right to « right the freeman mine the extent aud taxation. But it that 114 years after the right of taxation was substitute: 1 for taxation me man has awls to reflect 93 that it is over yer cent. is self. 1 goc $s wou i goods would yoa tke hout some of | hive t) pay under th ug lave so ae as 147 per cent. ; were willing, Su0ws th ia 393 sithout eve a’ ?=7 swrecd t blood T warned you then: They relegated to private life the léader who had conceived it and the followers who had executed it. Au arrogant majority was converted in- to an insignificant minority. New England has a majority of democrats here, the west sent a majority, the south a majority. So overwhelming was the defeat that if you divide the cvuutry into two parts north and south, acd remove every democrat from the south, the democrats from the north would jority. The battle is on on to the fin- ish. On the one side is arrayed the democracy in favor of just taxation; 0. the other its ing for exc etill be in the ma- ram clamore taxa- We will pot avoid this conflict opporents and 28331Ve uj st tion. Id not if we would. Let the battale rage and the fiercer the bet- som 2enition is ple the shal] be ley- ste support of iment th lin for the $100 Of the be- at the few. oi