The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-09-06

ocratic party, it is that all raw ma
terial which enters into manufacture
shall bear no import duties, but b.
absolutely free. Mr.. Beck said, Feb
6, 1888: Il do not propose to MAKE
wool free. I Wish 1t could be done.
Mr.. Springer, Of Illinois, member
Of the House when the conference
report was under consideration, said
II do not complain Of the reduction
of the Tariff on wool. In fact, 1 an
in favor Of rapid reduction Of the
rates of the Tariff on wool, and the
placing Of the product on the free list
within very few years. There is nc
change in the Tariff that will produce
4 greater benefits to the people than the
placing Of wool and raw materials en-
tering into the manufacture Of woolen
good upon the free list. No industry
would be impaired, but all would be
i protected and encouraged"
I On the Both, Of March, 1882, Mr.
Abram Hewitt, of New York, a con-
spicuous Democrat, and deservedly So
offered the following resolution: THAT
all raw materials" meaning thereby
all materials which have not been
subjected to any process of manufac-
ture, land all waste products" mean
ing thereby all waste materials which
are fit only to be manufactured, 'shall
be placed upon the free list" and said
upon the floor Of the House, speaking
to that resolution: Il am absolutely
in favor of the abolition Of the duty
on wool" Mr.. Bayard said in the
course of the debate: II always
thought, and | think now, that the
tax upon raw wool is an absolute ab-
surdity for the American people to
impose" I might multiply these
declarations of Democratic leaders to
an extent which would consume all
the time l am justified in using to-day.
These, however, are sufficient to give
the unquestioned drift Of Democratic
sentiment for free wool, and are
enough to advise you that with an
opportunity, with majority in the
House and Senate, they would put this
valuable American product upon the
free list, and open up the American
market to the destructive competition
| OF foreign woods.
Before the passage of the new Tariff
Bill, Senator Sherman, on the Doth Of
February, 1888, offered an amend
ment to fix the duty on wool at -
and IA cents per pound, instead of 10
and - cents, but three Democrats
voted in favor Of it, fourteen Repub-
licans and twenty-six Democrats
against it.
Again Senator Bayard's anxiety for
the manufactures appeared, when he
complained that "the step of the Hon
orable Senator from Ohio is a step
backward-a step to perpetuate the
disabilities Of the American manufac-
turer."
Mr. Bayard said on the 25th Of Feb
ruary, in opposing the Sherman
amendment, 1.-The notifications pro-
posed by the Senate bill, agreed to in
the Committee of the Whole, and
again confirmed in the Senate, and
now proposed to be re-opened, is very
slight. 1t is very moderate-as mod
crate as any other reduction in the
whole scale of the tariff duties-but
two cents upon pound. Ishould de-
scribe the amendment Of the Honora-
BILE Senator from Ohio as an amend
ment to produce an additional OBJ
struction to the manufacture Of wool
en- goods in this country. This tariff
AN excessive tariff upon raw wool,
has been utterly delusive in it's results
to the wool grower" And right here
let me diverge moment to say that
the third plank of the Democratic
platform, which declares "The act Of
the Republican Congress reducing the
tariff on wool, while at the same time
increasing it on woolen goods already
highly protected was iniquitous legis-
latiop, discriminating in favor Of a
monopoly and against the agricultural
interests of the Country, and ought to
be corrected" is grossly false in its
assertion if so distinguished Demo-
crat as Senator Bayard was intelligent
and honest in dealing with his fellow
Senator, when he answered the fol-
lowing question put to him by Mr..
Maxey, of Texas. Mr.. Maxey said:
THE Senator from Delaware is a
member of the committee on finance,
and ask him whether in his judg-
ment in the arranging and balancing
of the schedules the tariff as laid in
the bill before US ON wool is ratable
and equitable in proportion to the
tariff on woolen goods? x The
answer to that will control me in my
vote on the Sherman amendment. "
Mr.. Bayard said: II consider that the
tariff on wool is in greater proportion
than shat upon the woolen manufac-
lures. In this contradiction Of essen
tial facts I leave the Democratic party
Of Ohio and Senator Bayard to har-
monize their respective statements.
They are members Of the same politi-
cal family, and | would not intrude
upon their family differences. 1t is
needless FOR me to say that everything
was done in the Senate by Senator
Sherman and others to give the wool
growers just and adequate protection
to their products. In the House no
direct votes were laid upon the wool
schedule. Before it was reached the
tariff bill had passed the Senate. It
came to the House, and thereafter all
action in that body was had upon the
Senate bill and conference report as a
whole. 1t may be proper, however,
to state that the Ways and Means
Committee Of the House, majority of
which was Republican, voted author
izing one Of its members, when the
wool schedule was reached in the
House, to offer an amendment which
provided for the retention Of the wool
tariff of 1897. kvery Republican of
that committee voted in favor of that
amendment, and but one Democrat on
that committee voted for it: and this