Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — THE BINDING-TWINE; MATTER. [ARTICLE]

THE BINDING-TWINE; MATTER.

Ind'nnnpolis Journal. Democratic speakers like Senator*' Voorhees and 'Furpie, by their misrepresentations, insult the intelligence of the people. They assume that the people can not ascertain the facts, and, re-* lying upon that assumption, they in«d suit them by telling* tifem regarding simple matters. Theiij misrepresentations regarding the duty on binding twine is a 8 imple. They both declare that the present duty isi a burden, but they do not state tha fact that the duty unbinding twine has been put, in the present law, at thd very low rete of seven-tenth of 1 can! a pound. Now, all these Democratic Congressmen either voted for or advo-j rated the Mills tariff bill. What was, the duty imposed on binding twine ini that bill? Was it on the free list? Nothing of tho kind. The duty was 25 pcr cent, ad' valorem. Last yean binding twine sold by the car load front: 11 to 16 cents, according to the quality. It is fair to say that the price in Eng-, land could not have been less thaa| from Bto 13 cents per pound. A dutyj of 25 per cent, ad valorem would have been from 2 to cents per pound.] That is'whatthe Mills biil would have done—the bill for which Bynum and every Democratic member of thcl House voted in 1888. the bill Voorhees went up and down the coUn-, try advocating as a Democratic ure. And now they are condemning! the Republican party for burdening the farmers with a tax which is seventenths of 1 cent a pound on binding twine! When it was a Dexuocratia measure from 2 to 3| cents a pound, was a proper tax: but, in a Republican law, seven-tenths of - 1 cent is a burden and an outrage!