| Show TARIFF AN Ihie lh tariff on all se K ms to bo ho tho the theone ono one item Horn In the long list lint II l of oC product i subject to 10 nn nil Import duty that In is not open den p n ti I purely purel partisan attack front from either cither side sid H of or ono one party part dratted drafted the tin proviso that gives sheK to the W oil industry the th practical ad advantage vantage of ot a I protection that It Il nn no longer scents Io ml to need noM and anti representatives r r eon of or another h party In 1897 copied It from the tile law of ot 1894 This The American oil Is sold abroad Ib oad at It a 11 lower price than at nt homo borne i caused a n mild wonder Why If such Is the tact fact was Amen Ameri American east cnn coal coni oil not regulated 1 In price by b being placed by the tho th Dinghy I law on tho the free tre fre list Sir Mr a 0 Republican member of ot the thio House from rosa Wiscon Wisconsin sin aln In p Po speech criticising ing the tho moth math cds ds of or tho the Standard fitt company compau statistics st 1 to tl that the In fn the tho United st for tho the years caR 19 was 1 1041 cont ceni per var gallon as a against 99 cents c in tn Hamburg 77 17 In London and 5 cents c ml Iii tit aw York export price Deihl transport costs cost and duties cl and lind i al nl allowing a lowing one olle cent per for the thu superior r quality of at American nil iti the United States price was WM In the first half of 1905 cents per gallon l above nl oo that of or Germany ermany 12 1 cents above that of ot Denmark and above that thai of or England We re cannot vouch ouch for ro fo tile the correct correctness ness nesa of ot Mr III figures Hut If It Mr figures are aro car cor correct reel to what purpose did tho Dingley law lav enact that petroleum crude and refined should be on the tho free tree list hot The Tho fact tact Is said to be bo that after putting oil all oh on tho the free froe list Congress eructed enacted the following provision Provided That If Ir there be Imported Into the tho United II States crude petroleum um tins or the products of nf crude petrol petroleum coin eum produced In any country which Imposes a duty dut on petroleum or Its tit products exported from the United Slates there shall In 11 such lIuch csell be lit levied paid and collected a n duty upon said crude cru or Its products so Imported 1 equal to the duty Im Imposed Imposed posed pc cd by Jy y such lIuch country Russia la its tho the one country froim which coal oil aU might bo ho Imported Mr Jr Kustermann says say that county country would be bo to sell us liS part of ot othol hot her product and sell lell It at lit a 1 less Ie price titan than It Is III so 1 1 for fOl to by b tho great mon monopoly opal opol In this country But Dut Russia nus lo by ly Imposing nn an Import duty automatic automatically automatically ally created a 1 corresponding duty dut at al atour atour our ports It Is claimed an us a 11 a mat mattor mattor tor tel of ot fact that hot the tho Russian I 1 oil which has hn coins comb Into this country with within in the last host six years ears was taxed 1 at It the Ilia rate of or 54 5 per iter gallon on tit crude and timid 4 cents ent on tho the d I dlly IBy By lly tho th lit complexity of the lie laws their real operation Is I obscured Uy lly this tha th discordant statistics often quoted quote 1 Ito tha plain man scarcely knows what U to think Would It not lint be e Just as liS well to take toke tho the tariff out ot or politics and put It upon sortie some basis b that hat all nil poo tiec plo could understand I |
