| Show I THE FREE LIST Our muddled morning contemporary is dense enough to say that the McKinley bill places on the free list articles which were imported last year to tho amount of 5365000000 and on which the people paid something like 55000000 in purely revenue taxes and it also mentions the extension of the free list as a very commendable performance per-formance The only extensions of the free list that will be of benefit to the common people are those on lowgrade sugar and the raw material ma-terial for binding twine That on sugar alone will reduce the tax 59000000 and this is a piece of good Democratic doctrine put into practice Whatever benefit follows from the free list is in the teeth of tho Republican Re-publican doctrine of protection and it i an absurd way of defending Republicanism to praise the extension of the free list However the free list includes few lst incudes things of importance besides lowgrade sugar Here i the free list Acorns alzarine beeswax books in foreign languages and in raised print for the blind braids made of straw grass etc cat gut or wormgut chickory coal tar dandelion root feld spar straw for floor matting currants dates tamarinds istle jute butts manilla sisal sunse a few kinds of textile grass crude opium gold sliver and nickel ore potash rags anise caraway canary cardamon coriander cotton curnweln fennel fenugreek hemp hoarhound mustard rape Johns bread sugar beet mangelwurzel sorghum and all flower seeds Target shotgun barrels nitrate and chlorate of soda sandstone burr stone in blocks unmanufactured cliff stone pumice stone rotten stone sugar below 16 Dutch standard sulphur tar tinsel wire tobacco stems turpentine oxide and salts of uranium and unmedicated waters This list contains every article from which the tariff was removed It will bo seen that the common people have been benefitted in but one or two articles and tho dismal talk of our contemporary that the imports of abovementioned articles constiute over onehalf of our total impor ations is foolish prevarication Now notice a few of the taxed articles articles on which the tariff averages 60 percent per-cent Books maps paper blankbooks envelopes envel-opes typemetal inks penholders pencils penknives pocketknives scientific apparatus appa-ratus and instruments works of art soap manufacturers of cotton including thread spools printed bleached and unbleached un-bleached cloth stockings and other knit goods readymade cotton clothing wool of all kinds blankets flannels stockings and other knit goods woolen and worsted yarns woolen shawls readymade wool clothing a long list of woolen cloths of all grades silk goods coal lumber shingles laths hmo nails screws saws files windowglass plateglass paints flarseed and linseed oili crockery and china carpets car-pets oilcloths cutlery salt starch iron ores pig iron scrap iron steel rails structural struc-tural iron cotton ties machinery jewelry jew-elry and other articles besides the farcicial tax cn wheat potatoes eggs and a few other farm products of which we export II ten times more than we import I is not the free list that is objected to but the taxed lst Whatever the free list accomplishes be Democratic triumph and to hear a Republican paper boast of the free list is for it to boast of the blessings bless-ings of the application of Democratic doctrine doc-trine |
