Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — BITS OF THE TARIFF AND REV ENUE. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF THE TARIFF AND REV ENUE.

Brpresentu’ive Carlisle, the most prominen* esodidate for Speaker, nest session, says the tariff bill is a bodge-podge. and that the fortyeighth Congress will <o over die work again. A tobacco tlea>er gives It as his opinion that the rebate clause of the revenues hill will cost the Government $3,0’0.000 or >*,000.000 on tobacco alone, The rebate is on while packages, and dishonest, dealers can systematically swindle the government ut of large sums. Comptroller Knox says the passage of the new act relieves national and state banks and private bankers from a tax which, on an average, amounted io >1,000,000 a month. A great amount of additional labor is thrown upon the secretary of the treasury by th passage of the bill, as he must define the la v in every particular. On one point alone which will be sprung the secretary will have to make a >3,<>00,000 ruling aud others of equal importance may develop. Pitt-burg iron masters interested in the tariff have been unanimous iu their declarations that under the law a reduction of wages of all kinds of workmen wiil be necessary. If this is persisted in will very probably result in a general strike.* A large number of employes assert that an attempt to reduce wages will be stubbornly resisted. Bradford manufacturers are disappointed over the new law; while Chicago operator? say it is more Injurious to iron interests than any legislation, wit bin half a century, and* that- the means of Keeping the mills open will be by sweeping reduction in wages and putting th -m at such a point that laborers, in turn, must have cheaper board. Poles Bros,’ mill at Pottstown, Pa., which was stopped some weeks ago, on account or uncertainty about the tarift, started yesterday, but the men struck after one heat, on account of a notice that wag a s would be reduced.