The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-05-12
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"a We tAI4f14 tfts&kt II AIllkt ltttE[-
yiou<. let Us make il as nearly SO n
We can" They were our Eourbons
and ef the densest kind. Their faces
were turned backward not forward.
They were looking through the dismal
shades OF the dead past. and not
| through the glowing day OF the living
7 present. The bill WAS framed in the
. interest of the whole people. Ii was
/ intended. in the first instance, Ia stay
the mountain of surplus in the treas
ury. threatening overwhelming and
possibly immediate disaster, even nov
yividly impending, and second. To re-
lieye as far ~ prudence would permit
AZ this time. the oyerbursiened indus
/ tries OF the country from excessive
I taxation. the proceeds Of which do not
pass into the treasury but so directly
I to the support OF the grasping raonop-
/ olie-, which were for the most part
combined in utterly indeiensise and
atrocious and oppressive trusts. A
hill had been introduced by a member
of the house Kandaill and referred To
{ the committee. provided larger re-
( duction of international taxes and
Z dealt very curiously indeed with the
customs duries; bat taking the iron
/ and steel schedule a. a fair index uf
the ceniu. proposed in the bill, and
one with which the member introiuc-
/ ing il was supposed TO be the most
familiar, and, passing judgment ON
the whole from this, IL was safe to say
that il was not in line with the reve-
nue. reform. not in the interest of the
consumer, nor middle man, nor the
manufacturer; bu., in fact, increased
the burdens on every ayoeation.
every industry, the iron worker
as well as the farmer. Taking
it item by item il gave the astounding
result that for every dollar OF redue-
tion on the duties in the iron schedule
twenty-six dollars were added to the
burdens of the public, already too
onerous 10 be borne.
ACTUALLY AS IN CREASE or TAX.
Instead OF reducing the taxation,
this bill actually proposed to increase
il. The majority Of the committee on
ways and means had sought first to
relieve the manufacturing industries
by placing on the free list as far a.
possible such articles as were essen
tally necessary to them 10 enable them
To compete not only in their home
markets but in the markets OF the
world. Second a revision and read
justment of the various schedules
under the existing tariff would leave
ample duties on all merchandise that
could possibly be imported from
abroad in competition with home
products and protect the home manu-
tacturers and the labor employed by
them- Protection, SO called would
not add penny to the wage workers
pay or give one days additional labor
in the year, but IL would rob him of an
undue proportion of his earnings To
purchase the necessaries of life and
keep him "A trembling dependant
Since the recent history OF this country
showed that the tendency of protected
Industries was towards combinations
in the form of trusts under which pro-
duction WIS arbitrarily suspended rails
ing price, to the consumer and throw
ing the workman out of his job. A
monopoly more terrible, more danger
Gus to the liberties of the country,
more oppressive to the lahorer could
no, be imagined.
BURDENS or THE FARMERS.
Upon no class OF people does the
present fiscal burdens bear 80 heavily
as upon the farming class One OF the
strong arguments of the protection
lists to the farmer was the home mar
ket that protection was alleged to in
sure for his his produce was it, fall
lacy and fraud, and the intelligent;
farmers would not longer be deceived
by H. He called attention 10 natural
gas, and said that the manufacturers
who are 81 fortunately situated re-
quired nothing more 10 enable them
Ia take the start of this majestic
world TO bear the palm alone. But
free material, open markets around
the globe, no unnecessary restriction
here nor there, cheap food and cheap
clothing.
rHE vExEb wool QUESTION
Another vexed question IL wool.
This bill put wool ON the free list. not
only in the interest Of the wool manu-
factnrers, but in that OF the sheep
hasbaniry itself, TO enable the manu-
tacturers of this country to compete
in the home market and io export a
surplus abroad, he must be able To
purchase his wool a. favorably. not
only as TO price but ~ To the selection
of quality and kinds, ~ does his for
eign competitor Immediately wool
free our manufacturers would l,egin to
draw upon the markets of the world
for raw material to meet the Ameri-
can demigoas. The result would he All
advance in wool in foreign markets
and an advance abroad would advance
the price here. tariff or no tariff
IN CONCLUSION.
In conclusion he said We are
here. sir. We the majority Of the ways
and means committee. aud of this
house in defense Of American indus
try. We alone offer il protection.
We seek alone the independence and I
aggrandizemeat Of domestic labor by
hterafing 10 from unnatural restraints I
and allowing il the undi<tarisesi pos .,
session and complete enjoyment of it, /.
owns earning The other side offers !
i, whatg A nsonoJzaiixesi narke; in /
which 90 bay the nece~-arir- Of life on
the one hand, and on the other a la 4
hor market subject 10 the caprice of
trasts. VIII the iahoTing man accept
that generous tender AMI vote with
the monopoly party under the I
coercion oi the employer II they do !
the EideoGs iisAsieF foreSecn by JET (
fer~on a. a natural rs<gslf of restriction I
and the subsidy polisy. viii rash /
doSn upen u and the government of
tssr lfseA UNlss pass INTO sss~ manu-. oi I
those Who "fealy propose ta EscrserE 4
IT, p<aseFs and use them "a saaaasr /
the people for their ssn enrichment.
Mr.. Scss, spike for ssore than tao 4
hours and he was so5.siiy aia4Asdesi - I
be cogr ustsst.
gorE - NEKTISs rEFfSEe.
BEFORE the debate tcgan tf.i. morn I
ing Mr. Nils. of TsxA-. ircns the epra-
n1iff.e en rules reported = rroiut5sss
providing th&; the c1r at daily meet
inr u sEse hosse shall hereafter ts II /
o'ss1rk. sad that after the general dr. /
bate 90 the tariff islil shau have siov
the hssase sta 81 cum e4ch day
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@Tafxg PEEeBEs
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Assarrss4n lAlso-, sassi that IN sAss esTEs
test h<t~@ea free sEa4se srsd pr1seetsas
ths Republican party hss3 On is rssei
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