Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-22
RANDALL's TARIFF BILL.
The Measure of the Pennsylvania Pro-
tectioniOt Defeated.

The Measure of the Pennsylvania Pro-
tectiOniSt Defeated.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 11.-Rspresenta-
tive Morrison's report on the Randall tariff
bill, Gays that tho bill proposes 70. remove
all internal taxes on tobacco, snun and O.
gars, amounting on a basis of last years
report, to $28, 600, 600; ON apple, peach and
grape brandy, to 81 ,400, 900. on spirits for
uSe in arts, variously estimated at from ST.
600, 600 to 5000, 000 and believed to be at
least SIC, 00O, 600, making in the aggregate
of internal revenue taxes to be removed,
$50, 100000. In an appendix of estimates
submitted with the bin, "a part of il, the
reduction of revenue from customs on tariff
to be affected by it, is estimated at IS, &c.
600, making the aggregate of the proposed
reduction $4S, COX, 600. The enactment Of
the bill into law would leave the govern
ment $48 GOO, 600 short of the sum necessary
to the administration of the government
and requirements of the public debt, au-
thorized by law, including debts incurred by
the payment of persons already allowed,
the validity Of which we may not question
and the payment of which is enjoined upon
Us in the oath we have taken to support the
constitution. The committee therefore re-
port back the bill with the recommendation
that 1t do not pass. Apparently the bill II
presented In the belief that Q necessity ex.
listed for reduction, not of taxes. bat Of
revenues, and that the desired end Ii reached
both through higher and lower taxes. Esti-
mates with the bill are made on this arbi-
trary assumption and are entitled to no res
pect whatever. The report then proceeds 70
consider the Randall bill. 1t says the esti-
mated and intended effects Of the bill are
believed TO make plain the methods By
which taxation on the basis of i-uporks and
revenue receipt in 1886 would yield &14, OO0,-
600 of revenue and be made to divert that
sum from public purpose 90 private gain.
( - l. -.
sidered the first avowed attempt in our leg.
islative history to empty the treasury by the
use of taxing power. If this measure may
be supposed to have any purpose, relatingto
| the system of finance ii points to direct tar
alton, for where internal revenue taxes are
| taken Of and custom house taxes laid
on so high that the people get the burden,
| the monopolists the benefit and the treasury
/ nothing, new sources of supply viii be iney-
liable. The measure Is not supposed
| to foreshadow any such system or 20
/ do more than indicate a mind unlearned
/ in methods and unmindful of the q 900 600
of people who do something, some work
or are engaged in gainful pursuits. Eigh-
/ teen millions ofthese earn on an average
not much more than 300 year, which u
! necessarily consumed IN the means of sub
! sistence, while substantial savings 60 to
other ends. Now We are overtaken by and
are In the midst Of our industrial paralysis,
/ q million Workmen are luis Tor want OF
work 10 do, and capital IN still greater pro-
portion than unemployed labor, lies
dead or unproductive. Our hills and
mountains are full Of mineral wealth, mil.
lions OF acres of productive lands wait for
the pillow, homes for the homeless Millions
. are 10 be had for the taking. Favored with
plentiful haTvests, blesaed with health the
only plague which atfiicts as il idlenesa.
What we need il q profitable employment.
There ia an apparent puny effort in the bin
through increase OF taxation 20 shut out
goods from abroad. that they may be made
at home. II this effort was 50 successful a
TO prevent the importation Of all manufac-
lures, we would have direct taxation, and
three-quArters Of q million of men ret IN.
} employed. Their profitable emploS meni
! amounts 10 nearly the differences BY what Ia
peculiarly known as good and hard timeG
The removal Of the tobacco tar will furnish
no new employment, neither will its snnoka
nor it, juices turn a wheel, shaft or spindle
: Wool, hemp, salt and cheap food for toilina
men lie at the foundation Of the great SIC
: cessful industries To free these from taxes
will cheaper production without lowering
: the price Of labor, and our idle men may b
enabled 4 make something which may b
sold proftAbly abroad, with which we ar
overlooked 80 home.