Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-1896EXPORT, 91,000,878,417 s IMPORT, 8680,556,233. Balance of Trade for Uncle Sam, 8325.322, 184 Largest ever knewn I The Dingley bill can’t beat the above showing. “A decrease in wages must tako place before prosperity can be ex pected.”—Stephen B. Flkins. U. 8. Senator (rep ) and monop disk Ex Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, in speaking of the tariff bill has this to sav: “From a Republican point of view it would be better that the tariff bill should fail than that the senate sugar schedule should stand. It is the most brazenland audaoisus hold up of the century. It makes train robbery respectable. It hts no ex cuse except the insatiable greedland rapacity of the most shameless squad of plunderers that ever escaped the penitentiary. Ordinary marauders are content to rob a bank or swindle a community. These brigands propose to pillage the nation, and to compel congress to become their accomplices.”

“Every one knows,” says the Indianapolis News, (rep.) “that the extra session was convened for the purpose of making a tariff that would yield m.re revenue than that which the government now receives. Mr. McKinley in his call summoning congress, and in his message to it dwelt with much impressiveness on the necessity for greater revenue. Many assurances were given that there was no purpose to impose extravagant protective taxes; Mr. McKinley was animated solely by .he desire to relieve the embarrassments of the treasury. L ittle or nothing was said about protection. The fair inference from every statement made by those in authority is that if there had been no deficit there would have been no extra session. Yet in spite of this consuming desire -to increase the rev; enue, we are now told, after weeks, and months of work over a tariff which was to be framed especially for revenue purposes, that the republican leaders are apprehensive lest neither of the bills now before the country will yield sufficient revenue. That in, the gentlemen have been so busy in protecting everybody, that they Lave quite forgotten the needs of the treasury. And now when the work is, we hone,approaching completion,they are frightened lest the purpose which they professed to have in view may be unaccomplished. In a word, the sugar trust is bigger in their eyes than the government itself.” “Senator Aldrich has told the country that the Dingley bill will, if adopted, yield insufficient revenn \ He was so distrustful of his own bill as a revenue measure that he was driven to increase the beer tax and to impose a taxon tea—both purely revenue taxes. Even with these taxes the chief of the Bureau of Statistics is on record as saying that the senate bill will be as defective as tbe house bill from the revenue point of view. And now with the increased beer tax and the tea tax abandoned, the country has good reason to fear that any bill hkelv to b? adopted will result in a deficit.”

The sugar schedule of the new tariff gives the sugar trust more protection than it has yet enjoyed, and sugar stocl rose promptly as soon as it was known what protec-, tion the sugar refiners are to have. Senator Allison, in his statement defending the sugar schedule said that the sugar trust needs protect tion to the extent proposed in the tariff bill. No revenue will be de rived from the importation of reflned suga! s, because the duty is prohibitory, and the trust will be able to exact from the American people the Pull measure of protection. Millions upon millions of dollars will be poured into the ccfs sere o< the trust under the provisions of the new schedule.