Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20
MoaRlsoNs TARIFF BILL.

in the party. 1t seems that the reduc-
ton it is to make in the Governments
revenue is too much at the expense of
the South, and in the interest of the
Northern and Eastern manufactures.
We copy the following from the
Courier-Journals Washington cores
pondence
Mr. Morrison says the bill will effect
nm estimated reduction of $50 600, 600 in
the revenues from customs, based on
the revenue Of last year The greatest
reduction on any one article is in the
case of sugar, where the new duty will
result in a.decrease Of so, 600, 900 in the
receipts. The addition to the free list
will involve loss of B. 500, 100, and the
reduction made 10y the bill on other
articles about $5,000,000. Added to the
free list are lumber, timber, wood (un-
manulActured), hths, shingles, salt,
hemp, jute, iron, sulphur, lead and cop
per ores, and coal. Besides these, there
are many articles Of less consequence to
the revenue, such as potatoes, hay, corn,
brlstes, beeswaX, dye-woods, unmanu-
faciured earths, undressed stone for
building purposes, acorns and dandelion.
The bill provides that from and after
July l, 1886, the following rates OF duty
shall take effect: Wood, (manuiactur-
el), for each side planed or finished, 80
cents per thousand leet, board measure.
Cotton thread, yarn, warps, or warp
yarn, valued at from % cents to 81 per
pound, s cents to 36 cents per pound,
according to quality. When valued at
over one dollar per pound, 40 per cent.
nd valorem. The principal reductions
in cotton cloths, are in the coarser ma
terals.
The evidence continues to accumulate
that Gen. Hancock was not altogether
wrong when he said the tariff was local
issue. 1t seems like an impossible mat
ter to adjust duties to the liking and
interests of all sections.
We of the South must certainly
complain at the arrangement the above
would indicate. The placing OF lumber,
ores and other raw materials on the free
list is a direct blow at the new found
prosperity of this section; it will enable
Eastern manufacturers to act independ-
emily of the South and crush our grow
ing industrial enterprises that threaten
them with serious competition.
We have all the raw material and will
in time acquire the facilities for its
manufacture. Then we can more than
compete with the East which has only
the manufactures, but the East is at
tempting to lorestall this by the admis-
sion of free raw material.
Lumber can then be brought in I'M
limited quantities from the regions of
British America, and the saw-mills Of the
South will have to shut down. There
will no longer be such things as furni-
ture factories in this section and the
products of our forests, now coming so
much into demand, will remain neg
lected,
Iron ore will be brought from North
Africa by ships rs ballast and landed
free OF duty and transportation charges,
at Northern ports. The Southern fur
naces Will cease to prosper, if they man
age any longer to exist There will be
no more such hourisllng towns in this
section as Birmingham and Chattanooga,
and all Southern cities expecting future
greatness from iron interests may bid a
long farewell to all such hopes.
The bill, too makes an unwarranted
disparagement against the sugar and rice
industries, both OF which are essentially
Southern.
We candidly and earnestly favor a
reduction of the tariff so as to lessen
taxation and make the burden easier on
those who have it to bear. 1t may be
said, without fear of successful contra
diction, that the tariff as it now exists
needs both reducing and reforming.
But should all the reduction be made
at the expense OF one section Should
the so called reform be a scheme to de-
stroy Southern prosperity and keep the
Southern people hewers of wood and
drawers of water to those of the North
We hope that Mr. Morrison's new
bill may be relieved of some of these
objections in its passage through the
Ways and Means Committee before it
is again introduced into the House
Above all things, we would like to
see Democratic harmony on this ques-
ton, but we could never bring our
selves to endorse measure so manifest
ly to the detrimcnt OF the South.
SENATOR HOWELL E. JACKSON made
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