Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1905 — THE TARIFF ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

THE TARIFF ROBBERY.

Why Railroad* Make Ko Proteat Against the Steel Tr**t. There must be some agreement between the railroad managers and the steel trust for a rakeoff, or the railroads would never be so lamblike and submit to being robbed on the steel rails and other steel products they buy without strong protest. Here is the Pennsylvania railroad, for instance, contracting for 170,060 tons of steel rails at the price the trust sets of S2B per ton. That costs the\stockholders of that railroad about $1,300,000 more than if there was no tariff, the tariff on steel rails being $7.84 per ton and the price In England being S2O a ton or less for such a large order. The consumer in the end pays this tax. for the railroads get the money back on their rates on freight and passengers, and the $1,300,006 tariff tax that the Pennsylvania railroad will pay—which the government does not receive, but the steel trust collects—is added to the cost of living, which all pay their share of. When you come to think that all other railroads are paying the same tax to the steel trust, the cost to the American people is enormous.