The National tribune., 1888-05-24
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deficiency to pay for the goods with our agri-
cultural products and we had sold Europe last
year all of the wheat aud corn the continent
could take at the ruling prices, who could tell
what prices Europe would have paid if we had
thrown upon her markets $1,000 600
worth of agricultural products in excess of
the quantity we had sold? The farmer and
manufacturer in this country must depend
almost exclusively on our home market. Any
other policy would mean ruin and bankruptcy
TO the country. The greater the producing
power of the people the more independent and
wealthy would the country be.
Mr.. Randall made an excellent explanation
of the principles of his bill, and denied that
monopolies were produced by the tariff The
Standard oil trust, the whisky trust and the
cottonseed oil trust, and Others that he could
mention-the greatest trusts in the whole
country-were not protected by the tariff, He
was for the protection by the tariff of labor
not in one State merely, but in all States. He
was for the protection and maintenance of that
industrial system that allows to labor a larger
prOpOrtiOnate share of its products than was
realized in any other country or under any other
system.
He proceeded to attack the Mills BILL and
show its inequalities and uuiustices. He said
"A declared purpose of this bill is to secure
free raw materials to stimulate manufactures
In execution of this idea the bill places on the
really manu- featured articles, such as salt, saw
ed and dressed lumber, glue, various oils and
chemicals, china, clay, ETC. These constitute
the products of large aud useful industries
throughout the United States, in which many
millions of capital are invested and employing
many thousands of workiugpeOpc At the
same time the bill leaves or puts upon the du-
table list lead, iron, zinc and nickel ores and
coal, which might be called raw materials. Fur
ther than this, the bill not only makes so-called
raw materials free, but places on the free list
the manufactured products of these materials.
Thus the manufacture of such articles is made
impossible in this country, except by reducing
American labor to a worse condition than that
of labor in Europe. 1t goes even farther, and
places or leaves dutiable certain so-called raw
materials, such as iron ore, lead, coal, paper,
paints, ETC., while placing the free list arti-
cles made from these materials such as hoop
iron and cotton ties, tin plates, machinery,
books and pamphlets, etc. In other words, the
bill leaves or makes dutiable the raw material
aud puts on the free list the articles manufac-
tured from it, thus not only placing an unsur-
mountable barrier in the way of making such
articles here, but actually protecting the for
eign manufacturer and laborer against our own
and imposing for their benefit burden upon
the consumer in this country. Again, the bill
places lower rates on some manufactured arti-
cles than on the materials used in making
GHCiii VI AiIStdACCJ " pc uitLdi, ID per CENT
pig lead, A per cent; carpets, 80 per cent.
yarns used in their manufacture 40 per cent
1t leaves an internal revenue tax Of more
| than 300 per cent. on alcohol used in the arts,
amounting to as much as the entire amount of
duty collected on raw wool This article en-
tiers as a material in a vast number of impor-
tant and needful articles, which the committee
have either made free or have so reduced the
rates thereon that the duty would be less than
the tax on the alcohol consumed in their manu-
facture. In some cases the difference between
the duty imposed by the bill on the so-called
raw materials and the articles made from them
is so small as to destroy these industries except
upon the condition of leveling the wages Of
home labor to that of Europe. This was so in
the case of pig lead and red lead, which is made
from it, and Of pig iron and steel blooms and
steel rails Such legislation would leave the
ore in the mines, or the pig lead in the smclt-
ing works, or the pig iron to rust at the fur
naces, while foreigners would supply our mar
ket with these manufactured products. In a
large number of articles throughout the sched-
ules the productions proposed by the Mills bill
are so large that the effect must be to destroy
or restrict home production and increase enor-
m0usly foreign importatiOns, thus largely in
creasing customs revenue instead of reducing
it, as claimed by the advocates of the bill. Par
! ticular mention in this connection is made of
| earthen and chinaWare, glass leaf tobacco,
manufactures Of cotton fax, hemp and jute, car
| pets, brushes leather gloves, manufactures of
! India rubber and pipes"
Mr.. Randall asserted that instead Of the Mills
| bill reducing customs revenues $54. O00 000 as
was claimed, it would be fair to estimate that
its effect would be to largely increase the rev.
enue instead of reducing it; while the amount
! of material wealth it would destroy sincalcula-
| bic Those supporting the bill, ne said, hold
| themselves out as the champions Of the farmer,
while they take from him the protection duties
! on MS wool, hemp, flax meats, vegetables, etc.
! And what do they give him in return? They
| profess to give the manufacturer better rates
! than he now has. If this be So how is the
/ farmer to be benefited, or where does he get
compensation for the loss Of his protective
! duties?
Much has been said about removing taxes on
necessaries and imposing them upon luxuries.
! What does the Mills bill propose 1t gives olive
/ Oil to the cpicure and taxes castor oil 50 per
/ cent; it gives free tin plates to the Standard
! Oil Company and to the great meat canning
mouOpoies and imposes duty Of 100 per cent.
! on rice it gives the sugar trust free bOneblack
and proposes prOhibitory duties on grocery
/ grades of sugar; it imposes a duty of 30 per
/ cent. on the poor mans blanket and only 30
! per cent. on the Administer carpet of the rich.
| 1t admits free of duty the fine animals imported
| by the gentlemen of the turf and makes free
! the paintings and statuary of the railway mil
| lionaire and coal baron.
MILLS TRIES THE GAG ACT.
Before Mr. Randall had completed his speech
| his hour had expired, and a request was made
| that he be permitted to continue. To this Mr..
| Mills Tex objected, and his objection was
met with a storm of jeers and Kisses from the
Republican side.
Mr.. Cox IN. " Immediately rose and Gu
deavored to induce Mr.. Mills to withdraw his
objection, but this Mr.. Mills peremptorily re-
| fused to do, stating that the extension of time
would have the effect of requiring Mr.. Brecll-
inridge (Ky.) to speak too late in the after
noon.
The House was in an uproar, but the Chair
man recognized Mr. Mckinley, who gracefully
! Welded ID minutes Of his time to Mr.. Randall