THE GENTLE ART OF TAXING FARMERS
the gentle art of taxing farmers A» Teld m Dialogue Between Senator Aldrich and Dolliver MR. DOLLIVER. It will interest most people to know that the gum boots in which the farmers of America are...
...In pretending to revise the tariff at the extra session, Aldrich and the "House leaders" failed to recognize the advance that had been made in the sentiment of the country in twelve years.—New York Journal of Commerce...
...Later it is entirely proper, if suspicion points that way, to investigate whether the hired man threw a match in the pile of waste paper.—Kansas City Times...
...I am on the side of the citizens who sometimes have to walk in the mud to the polls to vote the Republican ticket in Iowa...
...The popular feeling against Mr...
...This law which we refuse even to look at with a view of correcting errors and absurdities, transfers this merchandise bodily to paragraphs intended to protect woolen clothing, and we see trie fine vaudeville sketch of a pair of rubber boots being solemnly weighed tip in the custom houses of the United States and assessed at forty-four cents a pound and sixty per cent, ad valorem as wearing apparel composed in whole or in part of wool...
...Johnstown Democrat...
...Mr...
...It will interest most people to know that the gum boots in which the farmers of America are wading around in the snows of winter are lined usually with wool, and that when a box of them appears at a port of the United States they are not troubled by the thirty per cent, duty on manufactures of rubber...
...President, does the Senator mean to state that any such importations have ever been made, and that any such duties have ever been charged...
...There are many other manufactures of rubber besides rubber boots...
...Besides, automobile tires seem to be down on this bill in the metal schedule at forty-five per cent.—Reprinted from the Congressional Record in Everybody's Magazine...
...Certainly nobody would ever start on an enterprise like that...
...I will single out the boots and move to put them on the free list...
...Certainly no such importations have ever been made...
...PERTINENT COMMENT THE investigation of Secretary Ballinger and the Interior Department is likely to be a protracted affair, as all congressional inquiries are...
...Aldrick...
...Because they are otherwise provided for...
...Cannon is too strong to be stayed by anyone, even the President of the United States.— Springfield Republican...
...Then why is there an increase from thirty to thirty-five per cent, on manufactures of rubber...
...Watterson is one of the foremost optimists.—Chicago Record-Herald...
...So President Taft is to be commended for his decision to urge Congress to enact necessary legislation for the conservation of natural resources without waiting for the outcome of the investigation...
...Henry Watterson has bet a breakfast that J. G. Cannon will not be Speaker on the first Monday in December, 1911...
...The trust has been making huge donations to the Republican campaign fund year after year in order that it might continue its work of bleeding the American consumer in peace and quiet...
...If they are cheaper in the United States than anywhere else, I intend to move to put them on the free list...
...Because manufactures of rubber include— Mr...
...Col...
...lt still remains to be seen whether Cannon's standing by the President is not meant to be conditioned upon the President's standing by Cannon.—New York Evening Post...
...For his utterances, Senator Clapp has been read out of the Republican party, along with Cummins, La Follette, and others, but he seems to be still able to use his "joker" finding proclivities to advantage.—Shreveport Journal...
...It would not require very much sagacity to separate an automobile tire from an ordinary gum boot...
...Now, as the result of a sheer accident—the appointing of Loeb as collector for the port of New York—the poor Sugar Trust is being made the goat after having paid colossal sums for immunity...
...This is now, I take it, for the purpose of making that everlastingly certain...
...Senator Depew begs to say that he is willing to sacrifice Mb own interests, his pleasure and comfort for six years more if the great State of New York finds it absolutely impossible to find any one else suitable to serve as United States Senator.— Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...President, rubber boots are cheaper in the United States than in any other country in the world...
...Mr...
...When a man's house is beginning to burn the first thing to do is to put out the fire...
...We have automobile tires made of rubber—a great quantity of them...
...cannot help heaving a sigh for the Sugar Trust," remarked a member of congress...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 2
