Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — Page 2

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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BIBCOCK. IDITOH AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF £ JASPER COUNTY. Published Wednesdy’a and Saturday’s. Entered aa Second-Class Matter June 8. 1908, at the post office at Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Office on North Van Rensselaer Street. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. • Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1900.

A LINEN JOKER

Another Illustration of Tariff Ways That Are Dark ALDRICH HELPS HIS FRIENDS The Sort of Thing That Comes From Secret Hearings More Favors to Powerful and Wealthy Cotton Goods Manufacturers—More Burdens on the Consumers of the Cheapest Linen Articles of Necessity In Every Household. It must l;r» remembered that the Aldrii'h tariff hill, which Senator Aldrich and his Finance Committee arc now asking the Senate to kindly pass for them, was framed after a number of secret hearings before this Committee of representatives of 'certain interests which enjoyed this especial mark of favor. In spite of all tlie strong criticisms directed against this ugly policy of “star chandier'’ secrecy thrown around the statements of those who seek special privileges of taxing and plundering the American people, the Senate Finance Committee persistently refused to make their hearings public, although the Ways and Means Committee of the House had public hearings. * It is not at all surprising, therefore, that die Aldrich hill is found to lie crowded with “jokers.” Of course, these sprout most abundantly in darkness and secrecy. And they come into tile light only by slow degrees. The linen trade awoke one day very recently to find, much to their surprise, a little “joker” that was loaded for them and their customers.

A Quiet Little Trick. This trii'k, like all tin* “jokers," was done very quietly while the bill was in the hands of the Senate Finance Committee, so quietly that none of the newspapers reported any change in the linen schedule, over the rates fixed iu the l’ayne bill. But when Aldrich’s bill came to be carefully examined it was found that one little wptd had been introduced in Just the right place to carry the effect of substantially increasing the duty ou a long line of linen articles of necessity in every household. Effect of a Well Placed Word. The little word that did the business is “plain.” Being carefully Introduced just before the word “woven" in Hue 24 of paragraph 352, it has the effect, in connection with paragraph 353, of carrying from a 35 per cent to a 45 per cent duty almost all the cheap grades of damasks, napkins, damask crash, huckabacks and all figured linens which have been paying 35 per cent duty under the Dingley law, this rate being considered an extreme protection. Harder to Get Linens. Here is a sly Increase about 80 per cent on the existing rate of duty. It appears that this was done as a special favor for certain manufacturers of cotton goods, who seek In this way to drive the American people to use more of their cotton goods and pay more tor them, by making It much more expensive and difficult to get the real linen articles which, for sanitary and other reasons, are most suitable and necessary, and which, for climatic and other reasons, are not nude In this country. The Revenue Sacrificed. The revenue for the government has

no consideration here. It is sought to restrict, If possible prohibit. Importations In this line. The cotton goods have already received Increased and most extreme protection In the schedule covering goods In their own line. The outrageous increases In the cotton goods schedule, concealed and otherwise, have been openly exposed and denounced In the senate by Senator Polllver, of lowa, long a Republican leader in the senate and a high protectionist, who has been driven Into open revolt by Aldrich’s high-handed demands for unlimited plunder for his favorites. Mors Wealth For ths Wealthy. The cotton goods manufacturers have grown very rich and powerful under the existing protection. Less than two months ago the Troy Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company, of Fall River, Mass, was reported in the New York "Journal of Commerce" to have issued to its stockholders a $300,000 bond Issue aa a dividend, this being equivalent to 100 per cent cm its capital stock. The man who is believed to have .. been the active representative of the cotton goods manufacturers before the Senate Finance Committee is a commission merchant and manufacturer who, beginning with almost nothing, Is said to have become a millionaire. He Is a great entertainer and Is said to have 4 wonderful Influence with the Senate Finance Committee. He seems, in fact, to be a man very much of the type of L, N. Llttauer, who has become famous because of his wonderful influence with the Ways and Means Committee of the House in making upj the glove schedule. One of the manufacturing concerns of which this powerful cotton goods manufacturer Is* Belling agent and In which be Is soldi to have a large Interest, Is what 1b 1 known as the Stevens Mills at Fall! Jliver, Mass. Concerning this enter-! jprise the Now York "Journal of Com-' tnerce” said on May .4: "The business' of the mills has grown from small beginnings until today it Is stated that $2,000,000 worth of merchandise Is turned out annually, Including quilts, damask and cotton towellngs. The ■took of this company has been advancing steadily of lute and prospects of a large stock dividend are discussed at Fall River.” How the Prices Rise.

Yet to add «to the profits of these already very prosperous people, the secretly arranged increase of duty will be enacted unless the people who are to tie burdened protest most vigorously and without delay to their Senators and Representatives in Congress. The .masses who buy the cheaper goods will lie the sufferers, for the, increase applies to what are known as “light weight" goods, which go into the consumption of those who cannot buy the high priced or heavier qualities. On a great deal of the crash toweling now retailing at 10 cents per yard, this increase of duty will force the retail price up to 12Vi cents per yard. Iluck and damask toweling now retailing at 12Vj cents per yard will have to be sold at 15 cents. Linen table damask now retailing at GO cents pier yard will be 00 cents and that retailing at 75 cents will be 00 centsp much of that which is now SI.OO will be $1.25. However, almost all the linen table damask now retailing at more than SI.OO per yard will not he advanced. Similarly, linen table napkins now retailing at SI.OO per dozen will be advanced to $1.25, and those now at $1.50 per dozen to $1.75; hut those now retailing at $2.00 per dozen and over will be practically unaffected. This matter illustrates a genera! characteristic of the l'ayne and Aidrich tariff bills. The poorer the consumers are, the harder they are hit.

FOR FREE RIDES

A Great Struggle With the Senate Against the Proposed Duty A STRONG PROTEST NEEDED The Payne Bill Struck Off the Duty on Hides, but Aldrich Plans to Put It Back at the Demand of the Beef Trust—The Farmer Gets No Benefit From the Hide Duty—The Independent Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers the Country Over Make a Hard Fight For Their Industry. Will the United States grant a monopoly of tanning leather to the beef packers at Chicago, In addition to that which they have already in the production of beef? Thut is the real question involved in the contest for free hides now going on at Washington. In this contest there are on the one side the packing Interests and on the other side all the tanners and shoe manufacturers of the country as well as the consumers. The Packers Crippling the Tanners. The pnekers already control the production of the greater part of the hides produced in the United States. Under the present Dlngiey tariff they have for twelve years been enabled to get a high price for their hides by reason of the duty of 15 per cent on the I foreign article, and they have grown rich during this period, while the tan- ; ners of leather have had smaller profits , during these years of prosperity than ever before in a like period. These tanners have been looking forward for a long time to a revision of the tariff, In the hope for relief from the Injury they have felt from the duty on hides. , Recently the Chicago packers have engaged largely in the business of tanning leather and are now using their production, of. hldea and others which

they purchase for this purpose. The independent tanners must therefore either abandon the business or get their supplies of raw material from foreign countries. But they will be at a great disadvantage in tanning leather In competition with the packers. They do not object to a fair competition, but they do not want the government to give the packers a special advantage over them in the shape of a duty on foreign hides. In short, they do not want a tanning monopoly to be created by the tariff for the packers, thus putting out the people who have grown up In the business. All Loss and No Gain For ths Farmer. A pretence Is made that the farmers and cattle raisers get some benefit from the Increased price of hides caused by the duty. It has been shown conclusively, however, that this Is not the case, as the price of the animal is based on Its beef value and not on the value of the hide, which Is a very minor part The packer who takes off the hide and sells it Is the one who gets the Increased price because of the duty. All intelligent farmers know very well that the packers pay little or none of this Increased value of the hide to the farmer when they buy his cattle. The duty on hides does, however, add to the cost of the shoes worn by his family and the harness used on his horses. Moreover, the duty on hides does not cause the production of a single additional hide In this country, because Rattle are raised for beef and not for the hide. This country does not and cannot produce a sufficient quantity of hides. It Is therefore most absurd and wrong to injure the leather and shoe manufacturers of the country by depriving them of the raw material need'ed In their business and to give a practical monopoly to the big packers. The Consumers Must Protest. The Payne bill as passed by the House of Representatives made hides free, but It is the Intention of the senate to restore the duty of 15 per cent on hides. A vigorous protest should be made by the people against this duty, the only effect of which would be to foster a monopoly and add to the cost of a necessity of Ilf&

AN ALDRICH ADVANCE

Denunciation of Aldrich’s Attempt to Put a Duty on Hides—The Beef Trust Not an "Infant Industry" Hides Were on the Free List For Many Years Before the Dingley Bill. The restoration of the duty on hides in the Aldrich bill after it had been stricken out in the Payne bill as it passed the House of Representatives is one of the many outrageous advances which Senator Aldrich proposes* to have enacted by the Senate and insisted on in the Conference Committee, notwithstanding the overwhelming public demand for a genuine and honest revision of the tariff downward, and notwithstanding the universal protest of the independent tanners and of the manufacturers of shoes and other articles of leather. A big mass meeting of manufacturers in the leather industries was held in Chicago in the latter part of April and in speeches and ringing resolutions reported in the Chicago Tribune, one of the leading Republican newspapers of the country, declared that they were fighting for their business lives against the meat packers, commonly known as the Beef Trust. These shoe, harness, trunk and leather manufacturers declared that the meat packers were gaining coutrol of the leather business of the country, and they called upon the finance committee of the United States Senate to agree with the action of the House of Representatives in striking out the duty of 15 per cent on hides of cattle, so that their industries might have a chance to live. Their resolutions, sent to President Taft and to the members of the Senate, called attention to the fact that, prior to the enactment of the present L>lngley tariff, hides had been on the free list for twenty-five years and that, reviewing all of the tariff legislation prior to 1807, hides had been ou the free list for seventy-eight years and only subjected to a tax during about thirty years for purely revenue purposes. The resolutions also show that the duty in the Aldrich bill is solely for “protection" to the Beef Trust, which is certainly not an “infant industry” or in need of favors from Congress.

To Prevent Moist Hands.

When doing plain sewing If you fcave a little flour in a saucer and dip your fingers in occasionally the bands will be kept free from damp, and the work will be beautifully clean on the nottest day without washing so often, as many people do.

To Restore Faded Ribbons.

By adding a little pearlash to a soap lather faded ribbons placed in it will be restored to their natural color. Faded breadths of silk can be restored If treated In the same manner.

When Cooking Peas.

Do not shell them. Wash the pods and put them on to boll. When they are done the pods will break and rise to the top of the kettle, leaving the peas at the bottom. They have a better flavor cooked this way.

Cooking Old Potatoes.

If old potatoes turn black when cooked add a little vinegar to the w» ter when yon put them on to boil, and they will be nice and white when cooked.

To Brighten the Carpet.

To finish up the sweeping dip the broom In ammonia water and go over carpets the last thing. This restores, tho*color and makes cleaner floors.

Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. It Is too bad, but there are people who find it simply Impossible to be clever and good at the same time. There are people who are so absorbed with being conscientious that they never have time to do anything. People who have had spring fever straight through the year can’t have the pleasure of acquiring It with the first balmy day.

As a maker of explanations a man may be a good demonstrator, lecturer, teacher or Just a plain liar. Deciding on a spring suit is very difficult when you must determine whether you will have your old blue or your old brown suit rejuvenated to play the part. The connection between a good guesser and a sure winner may not always be obvious, but still it is apt to be close. There Is no use In claiming a thing as your right unless you have a strong arm or something just as good to back your claim. In these strenuous days, when everything Is effervescing, it is hard to tell a woman from a suffragette. When Cupid declares a dividend Hymen’s stock rises like yeast batter in the nighttime.

Simple.

“How does a man qualify for the Ananias club?”

“He just signs a statement that he never told a lie and feels certain that he is able to live up to the record.”

Clever Girl.

“Why did he marry her anyway?” “He is rich.” “What has that got to do with it?” “That's the answer ”

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