Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Senator Turpie, in the following letter to Hon . V. Zimmerman, of Rochester, fully explains his recent vote in the U. S. senate to retain the tariff on soft coal. Mr. Turpie says: I voted to retain the preseut tax on coal in order to keep in line with the democratic party on that subject. The “Mills bill” originally, dut ooal on the tree list and was amended to fifty cent duty, j and as it finally passed the house, left goal untouched, bearing a 75c. per ton dut}' under the present law. Coal was, befoae ’B3 under a duty of $1.25 per ton which wa» prohibitory. In ’So it was reduced to 75 cents per t 0.., the present law. The “Mills bill,” as above stated, did not change the present law. This bill was endorsed by The National convention at St. T <ouis, and a political before the countrp was made «p*i its provisions. 1 could not claim to be either wiser or gi eater than the party upon tins subject. In Indiana we have the 10Ilawing coal mining counties, Fountain, Parke, Vigo, Clay, Owen, Sullivan, Greece, Daviess, Rnox. Gibson, Perry, Spencer and Warwick. In each of these counties the democratic party mace the canvass to the people expressly on the basis that no change should be made in the datv on ooal. It would huve been a violation of our public pledges tc have put coal on the free list after this. Besides, I think the vete right in itself. The duty on coal is not prohibitory now; its ♦ftaat is to keep down monopoly. To remove it wholly would injure the output and chance of employment and the wages iff the miners engaged in the work. So I have been informed by minerß themselves, men who {worked in the mines. This then is legitimate protection. If coal was free it would come in ballast to the sea-board and while it might tenefit a limited class of persons living on or near ihe sea coast, it wonld not benefit the consumers in Indiana because freights make tie m ice too high. All the democratic senators except eleven veted as I did to sustain the “Mills bill” and present law. I »m of the opinion that yon wonld kave votod the same way yonrself if yon had been here. With thanks for yonr kind withes, I am, very resk-ectfmllj year*, J&AVIB Turpii,

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