Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — PLATE GLASS OUTRAGE. [ARTICLE]

PLATE GLASS OUTRAGE.

As far back as December i 4. 1868. lon. D. W. Vorhess, then a member if Cengress aad new a United States Senator, offered the following resolutions and moved the previous question : Whereas. The inereased priees at--»hed to all eomasodities of life ren- ,* the expense of living aßd of supl >oriing families almost if aot quite for such purpo•k at the eommencemeat of the war “ « ar. DOW engaged; ft,re •re be*it Resolved. That the Commie on lillitary Affairs be instructed ‘are and report at aa early a > •raoticable & bill providing ror the ocrease of the pay of the private ■oilier* mow or hereafter in the Army * he United States to the . uffl of S-* i#r month. Also providing f<K V 1 aerease of the pay of all •°“L ra *®'~ ioned aad nonoommissloaed omc *nd musicians now er hsreatter i» aid army 40 per eent. en the amount ew paid them by law, aud also >roviding for the payment t ‘thasol iters who have heretofore besn enlised, including th se who have been 'onerably discharged by reason o* Usability or other ;cauee, of an -.moaat of bounty money equal to i he ilghest amount now being paid by he Governmeat for yoluateers, At the timejSenator Voorh«es|offer>d the resol tioa. greaabacks as compared with gold were worth sev>nty six cents on the dollar, They vent down the aext year to thirty* ight cents, but Union aeldlers were compelled te take them at par while hey paid good prices fer everything hey purchased. But a Republican Jtngress refused to come to the re* lef of>the soldier, and from thas day o this justice has novtf been done dm. Senator Yoerhees now- has a dll before the Senate to equalise the ountlea of soldiers, a measure o astiee, but the Senate is Republican md the bill is permitted to sleeps

Indianapolis Sentinel: Mr. W.C. "DePauw has furnished the Journal a übulatod statement showing that the /aces of men and women engaged a the manufaeture of plate glass in he United States are higher then aie .sidin France, Germany.** lginn. and Incland. As a matter of eeurs* Mr. iePauw wonld have it understood bathe went into the plats glass bulges and stays in it for the beneyo•nt purpose of paving his working aen and wemen high wages. The lonrnai says that “the plate glass msiness. arter years of precarious ‘Xistence, during which hundreds of honsands of del ars were same, has >egun to pay, and since 1879 capital hus invested has begun to realize a mall return." Who has the manuaetnre of plate glass “begun to.pay?” ’he people? By no means. It hss »egun to pay" the monopelUts who lave invested their money and have jeen able te persuade Congress te exort from the packets of the people he money required to make it “pay.” t should be understood distinctly hat Mr. DePauw don’t pay out of lo y legitimate prsfits of his business he amount of wages which he claims • be in excess of wages paid in Euope H« persuades Congress so levy v tax on plate glaes for his speeh 1 >eneflt, and with the money thus exorted from the peonle he pays the xcess of wages. He adroitly commis the people to pay an enormous ax on plate glass that he may make .nnual fortunes on his investments ia savs, to Congress, we will suppose: “I have invested $500,000 in he plate glass businss, but my capi»l don’t pay me. 1 want to be helped ,ut of the sad consequences of my aistake. New, if you will compel he people to pay me 120 per eout. oore than the article is worth I ean ncreaee my profits. I ean make aoney; It not, I shall have to abauton'the business. Congress responds, md’Mr. DePauw b gins to make me** iey for himself. Let u> see about his plate glass business. In 1882 th-' Jnited States imported “plate glass „bove 24x60," 1,415,218 sguare feet, alued at $661,663. The tariff tax on his glass amounted tj $727,609, more hen double Its aepraised value, in ound number j $120,946 more than it fas worth. This $727,609 tax was mpesed on $601,663 the value of the lass, to help Mr. DePanw get rich. Jhis plate glass outrage ought to be horoughly understood simply for ae reasen that it illustrates a number of ot er outrages perpetrated by he Republican la riff. We will sup.pee that Mr. DePauw had in .the New iTork market a lot of plate glass 24x 0, worth $601,668. We will suppose hat‘the amount named is the actual est of production, and if h« sells at he valuation named, he makes no aoney. We will say Mr. BePauw mght to make a profit of 2K per •nt. on the lot, $601,663. This wo.d mount to $150,415. He finds it diffialt. to sell at that profit because of oreign competition. He asks Conn tress to interfere in his behalf He ismoans his fate. Me is profoundly uterested in his workmen; self is icarcely considered at .all. While Ir. DePauw’# plate glass waits fer a astpmer a ship enters the port of new York with plate glass on board, mounting in value to $661,665. Con** 'res* makes a note of the fact and ays the imported glass shall pay a i-uty of 120 nor cent or $727,609, and •he moine't that Congress so deides, Mr. D aPatnv’a lot of plate glass ilued $601,668 advances until ir, is eld on the market at. a valuation of ‘1,819,272. Congress has not only rive* him 25 per cent, profit but aluastfive rimes twenty-five per cent, ongrees has taken the $727,609 out the people’s pockets and placed

It in Mr. DePetw’e poeket. end yet Mr. DePauw’s organ remarks that the foreign manufacturer “pars the dnty on plate glass." When Mr. D« - Pauw and the editer of the Journal had suceeeded in constitu-iiu<? th** article in qoe-tion, and had antved at the conclusion that foreign manu* facturera pald*thejtarift nu on glass and other imported coKiiucdliics. they must have been in a e nation to contempiato each other i ; speechless admiration.