The Dawson journal., 1883-02-08
THE TARIFF BILLS.


| Log-rolling of the most shameless
nature attends everp top of the tariff
bills The lobby now gathered il
" ashington was never larger nor bus
Ter than just at present, and this body
of unrecognized legislators is made ur
of men devoted to special interests, tc
particular items in the pending tariff
Bulls. Each man serves notice. upon
the other representative robbers that
they must stand by lis ''infant indus,
try, or else he will turn to and slaugh
ter their infants The trouble about
this business is, the South has no sein-
fants" worth mentioning. The south
filled with Consumers is the chief vic
tim of the log-rol!ing. But let that
pass
The villainy of the tariff bills has
been on an increasing scale. The bill
OF the commission was certainly wicked
and insncere enough, for according to
Nj. Ncmmo, it would increase the
revenue il ilnportations continued to be
as large as they we're last year. Gas
a general rule, says Mr.. Carlisle af-
ter carefully stud ing the vicious shan
1.-THE proposed reduction Of rates rela-
ted to articles Of but little consequence
to the people at large, and very frc.
quontly the reduced rates we're still
proaibitory, SO that no relief whatever
was granted to the consumer. Upon
many important articles the rates OF
duty were largely increased, and in
some instances more than douLlel."
The senate bill is on attempt to
maintain the present tariff essentially
urimpaired but villainous as that bill
is, the house bill discounts it altogeth
er. The latter is not bill at all to
reduce the revenue. AS Mr.. Tucker
said, ''the idea of tariff has been per
verified from its original purpose antil
experts Lad been employed not Of find
ing how the revenue could be raised
D how revenue could be prevented in
the interest of monopylists. And yet
so clumsy is the bill that it will pro
badly increase the revenue instead o.
reduce it. At the outside Mr. kelley
does not claim that it will effect a TO-
duction exceeding $2J, 1853, 700. AS
about $I2,000,000 of this amount is
TO be taken from sugar, there remains
only about S., 100000 to come from
all other articles, or about FIVE rei
cent The mountain has labored and
brought forth mouse, even at Mr.
Kelley's estimate of its proportions
The truth is ths house bill is a protec
ti0n bill of the protectionists Ever,
considerable infant industry is cared
for in it, The tax on cotton fies is in
creased from 1913 A to 5000 a ton
quininessis taken from lie rec list and
taxed 20 per cent al the wooden good.
used by laboring people and their fam
lies are taxed from twenty per cen
to fifty per cent more, and on cottof
stockings, hose, half-Aose, shirts an
| drawers, the duty has been increase
from thirty-fve per cent to forty -fv
per cent. Perhaps the meanest thin,
in this swindling monstrosity relates t,
the reduction on sugar AS sugar
made in the south, it was decided t
make it stand all the materials of re
dnction in the bill but instead of re
ducing the duty upon sugar fit for con
somption, the duties were taken froI
the low grade OF raw sugar, SO tn.
every pound of sugar that the peopl
use must pass through the hands {
, eastern refncrs.
The bill is a compound sham an
swindle. 1t would effect no consider
bic reduction in the revenue. It r
; lieyes the people ofno burdensome +
on necessaries. 1t simply provides f
bounties in the iron, steel, cotton, woo
= en- goods, glass and earthenvare into
D ests, and leaves the entire problem
$ tariff reform untouched. Ft is, in
n word, mass of pretense and jugglir
that deceives nobody who wishes to
$ undoceived The southern memb
Y who votes for it votes to tax the peot
/. he represents in order to maiuta n
t system of counties The like which t
!. world never saw Atlanta Constit
), ton.