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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2G
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THE FREE LIST HILL
Tho farmers' freo list, passed by
the domocratc house, Is now awaiting
tho action of a republican senate. It
is one of tho most important and far-
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reaching measures introduced into
congress for a generation. This is
conceded by enemies, and claimed by
friends. One'standpat congressman
dramatically exclaimed: "To accept
this freo list is to abandon protec
tion!" ard probably It will bo tho
abandonment of his sort of protec
tion. Another exclaimed with equal
fervor: "There is no place in the
principles of the republican party for
a freo list!" If that be true, which
the News would regret to believe, we
suspect there is no place in the na
tion's councils for the republican
party.
But in spite of all that has been
written and said about the free list,
comparatively few persons know
exactly what it is; and fewer still
havo much definite knowledge as to
tho changes it will make in the farm
er's expense account. Therefore, the
News will devote several editorials to
going over tho matter In detail; first
presenting a general summary of the
bill.
The free list, technically known as
House Resolution No. 4413, is en
titled: "An act to place on the free list
agricultural implements, cotton bag
ging, cotton ties, leather, boots and
shoes, fence wire, meats, cereals,
flour, timber, lumber, sewing ma
chines, salt and other articles."
Going into detail, the bill specifies
among agricultural implements
everything from plows and divers
makes of harrows to farm wagons;
and expressly declares that all parts
of the same, imported separately,
shall likewise be free of duty. All
sorts of leather are specified, and
also all parts of shoes and boots.
Harnesses and saddles, complete or
in part, finished or unfinished, are
put on the free list by this bill.
Barbed wire, woven wire, wire rone.
wire staples; all forms of beef, veal,
mutton, lamb, pork, dressed or un
dressed; all forms of flour; all those
forms of cereals which masquerade
as foods and really improve our
health by diluting our nourishment;
all kinds of lumber and timber, ex
cept the finer grades of cabinet
woods; sewing machines, and all
parts thereof; and salt in all forms
and packages, are made free of duty.
A sirfglo glance shows that this bill
should relieve the cost of living of a
number of tariff additions hitherto
imposed. Most of the free list ItemB
have special reference to the farmer.
But freo sewing machines, free shoes
and leather, and free salt appeal to
all; and- so do free meats and cereals
and flour. The News has never be
fore printed a tariff measure which
contained so much in so little; which
was so packed with meaning for the
whole country. The separate lists
will be dealt with separately. But
here we wish to point out one re
markable fact:
Almost everything which this bill
puts on the free list is now controlled,
wholly or in largo measure, by a
trust.
Go over it with us, and see if this
sweeping statement is not justified.
Agricultural implements? The har
vester trust controls their manufac
ture and sale absolutely; and, as will
bo shown in detail later, taxes tho
American people a considerably
heavier price than is paid by the
foreign buyer of the same things.
Bagging? Four-fifths of all the
jute bagging used in this country is
handled by what is known as the
bagging trust. Leather, and boots
and shoes? Tho monopoly in this
line of products is one of the tightest
in the universe; so tight, indeed, that
we doubt if free trade will break it
up altogether, though free trade will
help greatly. Fencing wire in all
forms? There you get into the gentle
grasp of tho steel trust; and no more
need bo said. Meats beef, ham.
bacon, etc? The beef trust handles
those things; and once again, further'
explanation la needless. Cereals? The
evidence is not conclusive, but so far
as it goes, the cereal manufacture is
pretty well centralzed. Flour and
bread? Ask the milling trust, with
headquarters in Minneapolis. Tim
ber and lumber? Government re
ports indicate that les3 than a hun
dred men own four-fifths of the
standing supply of timber in the
United States. Sewing machines?
Absolutely trustified. Salt? The na
tional salt trust is one of the richest
organizations of its kind; and, just
in passing, Joseph F. Smith, presi
dent of tho Mormon church, is head
of the western branch of the salt
monopoly.
Did you realize before how thor
oughly the tariff had delivered the
farmer over to the tender mercies of
the trusts? Frankly, we did not. We
knew it in a general way; but not
until this free list come out did we
put together tho separate facts of our
acquaintance, and see how tight those
facts held the farmer to the good
pleasure of tho trusts. The farmer
sells practically all his produce in
a free trade market, and a competi
tive market. He has bought nearly
all his supplies in a tariff-walled
market and a trust-controlled mar
ket. The free list bill is a step to
ward righting that iniquity.
Later on, we shall show how many
of the articles named above, though
manufactured in America, are sold
abroad cheaper than at home. Today,
there is room for but one illustration
of this kind, and we choose sewing
machines. A gentleman from the
south, visiting in New York, saw a
sowing machine which he thought
would just suit his mother. He went
In and inquired the price. It was
$29. The man could afford it, and
said he would buy. The polite sales
man took out pencil and pad, and
asked the customer's address.
"I want to send it to my mother,
in Edinburgh, Scotland," was the
answer.
The salesman hesitated a moment
no wonder and then said, in substance:
"You don't need to send this ma
chine over to Scotland. We have
the same machine, exactly, on sale
in Edinburgh. The price there is $19
apiece!"
That Is the difference between
trust-controlled products protected by
heavy duties; and trust-controlled
products on the free list. Denver
News.
LITTLE BOY AND HIS DREAM
Tho little boy smiled in his sleep
that night,
As he wandered to Twilight Town;
And his face lit up with a heavenly
light
Through the shadows that drifted
down;
But he woke nextmorning with tear
stained eyo
In the light of tho gray dawn's
gleam,
And out of tho stillness we heard
him cry,
"I've lost my dream my dream."
And he told us then, in his childish
way,
Of tho wonderful dream he'd
known;
Ho had wandered away from tho
land of play
To the distant Land of the Grown;
He had won his share of the fame
and fight
In the struggle and toil of men;
And ho sobbed and sighed in tho
breaking light
. "I want my dream again."
As the years passed by, the little
boy grew
Till he came to the Land of the
Grown;
And the dream of his early youth
came true,
The dream that he thought had
flown;
Yet once again he smiled in his
sleep
When those near by might havo
heard him weep,
"I want my dream my dream!"
For he dreamed of the Yesterdays of
Youth,
And the smile on a mother's face.
Grantland Rice, in Columbian.
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In the year 483 the Emperor Zeno
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declaration:
"We command that no one may
presume to exercise a monopoly of
any kind of cloth, or of fish, or of
any other thing serving for food or
for any other use, whatever its na
ture may be, either of his own
authority, or under a rescript of an
emperor already procured, or that
may hereafter be procured
nor may any persons combine or
agree, in unlawful meetings, that dif
ferent kinds of merchandise may not
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