The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 21, 1894, Page 2

IT IS A MONEY-GETTER The Sugar Schedule Will Provide a Tremendous Reyenue.— Most Important of all. DESPITE REPUBLICAN LIES $50,-| 000,000 WILL BE SO DF- | RIVED. | The Senate Bill all Right.—Comparing | The Mchinley Law And The Pending Measure.—Study Weil These Figures. Washingtun, D. C, June 13 — From the very day the Senate finance | committee announced its amended sugar schedule the Republican pa pers have been indulging in all sorts of hysterics. Some of the Demo cratic newspapers have followed the lead, with an utter both figures and conditions they lave gone busily about trying to show that the entire proposed legis lation has heen for the benefit of the Sugar trust, and that it willreap un- told millions or profit And the which these Republicans have been accepted as final by a few Democratic newspapers which did not seek the truth, the agitators who preferred not to know it until an im pression has been created in some sections of that the sugar schedule was not a revenue provision, but the rankest kind of corporate protection. Under the sugar schedule more than $50,900, 000 will be derived in revenue It is by far the most important sched ule of the bill, and it is not strange that it has been the center of attack. It will be savagely attacked by the Republican press, and at the very beginning of the controversy it would be well for the facts to be understeod. If the Democrats are going to accept Republican figures and attempt a defense from them, they will be hopelessly engulfed. And yet this has been just what many newspaper correspondents have been doing, and any number of Democratic newspapers have taken these estimates and proceeded with a denunciation of the Senate bill as a McKinleyized edition of the House bill. Notwithstanding the urgent de mand for quick action on the tariff it is perhaps well that the Senate discussion has taken a wide latitude. The tariff question must be settled, and the facts which have been ad- duced will be invaluable for subse- quent discussions. It is no argu ment to take the unsupported state- ments of either Republicans,who are interested in destroying the bill, or of Démocrats who must defend eer- tain schedules which they them- selves have forced the committee to incorporate in the bill. What the public must know, in order to ar rive at a satisfactory solution, are the facts as shown by the official statistics. It can make its own cal- culations and arrive at its own con clusions. With regard to the sugar schedule what are the facts in which the pub lic is vitally interested? Was it necessary to place a tax on sugar? If so, was the bill framed so that the maximum revenue would go into the United States treasury and the min imum to the sugar refiners known as the Sugar trust?’ How does the Senate amended schedule compare with the McKinley law and under which could the trust haye the bet- ter opportunity for robbing the peo ple? Before the next Presidential cam paign the people will have made up their minds and the sugar schedule, which provides by far the largest revenue in the bill, will be a pivotal point in discussions. It must how- disregard for figures the country ever, be taken in connection with! other schedules. No laboring man would consider that he had derived any great benefit froma law which gave him six pounds more of sugar for $1 and made him pay twice as much for his clothing. He wouldn't consider himself growing rich if his sugar was furnished gratis by some extension of a bounty system, while every other article of necessity was increased in price from 25 to 100 /) | show? Briefly the comparison bes! ‘tween it and the McKinley law cen be thus summarized: Under the McKinley law $27,000,-} 000 was the profit of the sugar’ re- finers, comprising what is known as |the Sugar trust, last year. | Under the Senate bill $8,600,000 | iwould go to the Sugar Refiuers’ trust. Under the McKinley law the peo- ple paid a tax of $15,000,000 on su gar bounties and $23,000,000 to the sugar refiners under six tenths tax, making a total of $38,000,000, not 1 cent of which found its way into the United States Treasury ; Under the Senate tariff bill the tax on sugars will be $57,000.000, but of this amount $43,000,000, or more than 75 per cent, goes into the Treasury of the United States These statements are not ported. cused the Senate Finance committee { unsup The Republicans have ac of framing a schedule which will confuse the people. Buta simple calculation will show the net results, and anybody who understands mul- tiplication can take the figures showing the sugar importations and home productions and make them There were consumed in the Un ited States in 1893 in round numbers 3,700,600,000 pounds of foreign su gars and 560,000,000 pounds of What did this mean under the McKinley law? That the United States paid cne-half cent on the refined sugar with one tenth cent added for countrics having a bounty. Most of our sugars came from Germany, which had a bounty, making the tax on the 4,260,000 000 pounds of sugar at six tenths of a cent $25,000,000, which, added to the bounty, made $38,000,000 if the $11,000,000 paid out in 1893 are taken aud $40,000,000 if the esti mate for 1894 is accepted. Under the benign Republican policy the refining trust had everything its own way. The sugar came in freo. It has been asserted on the floor of the Senate and accepted by both Democrats and Republicans that the trust made $21,000,000 in 1892 $27,000,000 in 18° This is how they did it. In 1892 the refiners got 1.03 cents a pound on sugar, the average between the price of raw and refined sugars. Es- timating this amount at 1 cent in stead of 103 it would make on the 4,260,000,000 pounds total consump tion $42,000,000, of which one half was expense and the other half profit. In 1883 there was a difference of 1.16 on the hundred pounds, ora profit of $48,000,000 from which must be deducted the cost at $21, 000,000, making the net revenue to the trust $27,000,000 Now with the senate amended bill apply the calculations under the bill as shown by the tax which has been imposed. The average price of the raw eugar in the London and Hamburg markets for the past six months, as shown by Senator Jones from the trade journals was $2 86a hundred. At 40 per cent ad valorem the duty on 100 pounds would be $1.14. The duty of $1.14 per 100, added to the foreign cost of $2.86, makes the total cost $4 a hundred, or 4 cents a pound. The total amount of the sugar tax under the present bill is fuund to be the total sugar consumption of 4,260,000,000 pounds at 1 14 cents a pound ad va lorem duty, plus the one eight of a cent for refined sugars, which the consumer has to pay. ‘This gives domestic sugars. and under the senate bill $57,000,000 as the total sugar tax Of this amount the revenue to the VEST GROWS WRATAY. | | The Missouri Senator Roundly Scores Republicans for Their Tariff Course. | Washington, June 9.—In the Sen-| ate to-day Messrs. Hale, McMillan} and Dolph protested against the re-| duction of the duty on baled hay injurious to the interests of the! farmers in the states along the} Canadaian border and Mr. Vest, in a} passionate outburst, arraigned not! oaly the Republican side for delay-| ing progress on the bill, but some his Democratic associates, for refus- ing to co operate in pushing its con- sideration. “If you are going to defeat this bill,” said Mr. Vest, turning to the Republican side, his words flowing ina perfect torrent, ‘defeat it like men, not like thieves in the night by | parliamentary assassination. I under stand that the senator from New Hampshire, Mc. Chandler, keeps standing at the head of the editorial columns of his paper in black proud type, kis slogan that it is better to kill time than kill industries. At this} rate this bill will not be disposed of in six months and you over there (shaking his fist menacingly at the other side) want to kill this bill like an ox in the shambles while the peo- ple are holding up their trembling and helpless hands praying for ac-|{ tion. I protest in the language of | the distinguished chairman of the ways and means committee (Mr Mills) when his bill was before the house, “if you are to defeat this bill, strike it down in open debate, don’t nibble it to death like pismires or kick i! to death like grasshoppers ” Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wash- burn of Minnesota moved to continue the d bate on the agricultural sched ule un ler tho five minute rule. This was agreed to and the buckwheat, corn, wheat, cornmeal, rye, barley and barley malt schedules were adopted in short order. Those on macaroni, rice and rice flour, butter, cheese, fresh and condensed milk, beans, peas, cider and egys were also disposed of. WHEAT CONDITIONS IMPROVED. + A Gain of 2 Per Cent in Winter Wheat—Oats not Poor. Washington, June 9.—The June report of the department of agricul- ture makes the acreage of spring and winter wheat for the whole country 95.3 per cent of last year, making a total area in round number of 33 million acres. The acreage of win- ter wheat sown compared with that which was harvested last year was 99 per cent. There is an increase of acreage as compared with 1893 in but ten states, the principal part of which was made in the states of Kansas and Illinois. The precentage of winter wheat acreage of the prin- cipal states are: Ohio, 95; Michigan, 85; Indiana, 91; Illinois, 122;Kansas, 126, and California, 503. The percentage of spring wheat area for the whole country is 87.8 per cent. The percentages of spring wheat acreage of the princi- pal states are: Minnesota, 87; Ne- braska, 81; South Dakota, 85; North Dakota, 90. The condition of winter wheat has improved since last report a little less than two points, being 83.2 per centage against $1.4 on May 1. The percentages of the principal states are as follows: Ohie, 96; Michigan, 98; Indiana, 92; Illinoie, 84; Mis- souri, 82; Kansas, 57; California, 60. The condition of spring wheat presents an average for the entire country of 88 per cent and for the jeasy,polished manner, have been do ,city- they succeeded in “takivg in” a} | number of farmers. The agent first calls upon the; government is found in multiplying the ad valorem duty of 40 per cent, or 1.14 cents a pound, by the im. | portation of 3,700,000,000 pounds, which gives in round numbers $42,- 000,000. principal spring wheat states as fel- lows: Wisconsin, 96; Minnesota; 99; Towa, 90; Nebraska, 44; South Dako- ta, 79: North Dakota, 97; Oregon, 96. The acreage of oats is nearly one Working an old Swiidie. Sweet Springs, Mo., June 11.— Four geutle:nen, well dressed and of } ' ing the “light rod” act in the| vicinity of Cra . a country post-|! office nine miles northeast of this} Theiz vi of op-! eration are just coming to the know!-| edge of the public, though it has} been about three weeks since theyj| There} { is nothing new in their plan, but he: is and plan were in the locality named. farmer, informs him of the nature of his Pusiuess, aud as inducement, of fers to rod his house or barn, as the} case may be, for a mere nominal} sum, for its effect in securing other | He finally produces printed contract in which a much higher rate is named, but he tells the farmer that makes no difference that the settlement will be for the business. aj small sum named. The contract is signed and the agent departs and obtains the same kind of contract from any one, all being given special rates to induce the business. In a few days a wagon drives up anda couple of men go right to work and put up rods under the contract, which they produce. As soou us the work is done they fill up rods at 75 or 80 cents a foot iastead cf 10 cents a the v a note for th foot as agreement was, and the farmer finds his bill a large one, and on examining the contract he signed he finds that it is expressly agreed that no verbal agreement shall be binding on the company. J. H. Harbold, one of the victims, was compelled to execute a note for $50 on a coutract which he thought was $6.50. Lewis Roscher, a neigh- bor, was i: like mauner forced to sign a note for $210, aud John Van- buskish for $75. Cleveland Leaves Washington. Washington, D. C., June 14.— President Cleveland has quitted Washington for rest and recupera tion from his recent illness. At 7:30 o'clock this evening he stepped into a carriage at the White House, in company with Private Secretary Thurber and Dr. O'Reilly, the White House physician, and drove to the steamboat wharf, where the light- houss tender Maple was lying. Capt. Evans was io waiting, and the Presi dent, Dr. O'Reiliy and Capt. Evans boarded the which started promptly down the Potomac. It is the intention of the President to cruise down Chesapeake Bay as far as the capes in order to enjoy the ocean breezes.and the trip is expect- ed to last four or five days. tender, A Washington correspondent, in describing the tariff battle in the Senate, says Senater Jones of Ar- kansas isthe leader of the reform forces; Vest is referred to asthe reserve corps of the Demo cratic side and a tower of strength to the party; Senator Harris is the heavy tragedian of the tariff debate; Senator Aldrich is the especial mouthpiec> of the manufacturing interests; Senator Chandler is the guerrilla of the Senate, and old Senator Hoar dispenses the sulphur- ic acid. The correspondent says there are other members of the Sen ate, but none worth mentioning in the cateyory of tariff statesmen ex- cept Senator Mills.—Kansas City Times. Senator HE bestinvestment in real estate is to keep build- ings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell—many a good house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should be, though, ‘‘the best paint or noné.’’ That means Strictly Pure The sugar planters receive as their share, under their 500,000,000 pounds production, $5,700,000 and and the sugar refiners, who made $21,000,000 profit in 1892 and $27,- 000,000 in 1893, will get one fifth of | = Springfield, Mo., June 9.—A. B. eet SR OCD OGD POURS OT | Crawford, the alleged $18,000 de These calculations show just how faulter of the American National much truth there is to the generally | bank, is still seeking a bond. Col- circulated repert that the sugar | opel John O'Day, his brother-in-law, point less than last year, the gerer- al average for the whole country is 99.1 The returns show the condi- tion to be 87, against 88.9 last June. Crawford Still Huating Bondsmen. per cent. the Republican statesmen and a few of the Democratic newspapers are attempting at this time to show. But to the schedule as adopted by the Senate committee. Asan inde- pendent proposition, what does it But this is what all of; trust made the senate sugar sched has declined to go on it, and Craw- ee ford is still uader the guard of the | The dispatches say the water is}marshal. Crawford's bondsmen sur- receding at Portland Oregon. Al-|,ondered him to Judge Philips three most the entire city has been flood- days ago because he was putting his a ty out of his hands acd it was damage to farmers on the low lands| Proper : | Will be great. thought he intended to skip. White Lead You cannot afford to use cheap age Tobe sure of getting Strict- ly Pure White Lead, look at the brand ; any of these are safe: “Southern,” “Red Seal,” “Collier.” For Cotors.—National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. 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