The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-10-10
Revision With Protection.

The Republicans OF the Senate FL
nance Committee show the country
how to reduce the revenues and revise
the tariff while preserving the princi-
pie and measures of Protection entire.
ly unimpaired. They show how the
Republican party would in power meet
the overshadowing fiscal and economic
problem which presses for settlement.
They show how to cut down the sur.
plus and remove taxes to the extent of
$75,000,000 without injuring any Of
the great industrial interests. This
Senate bill is the practical interpreta.
tion and enforcement of the Chicago
platform.
The whole campaign has turned
thus far on the overmastering issue of
Protection against Free Trade. This
issue is emphasized and vitalized by
the Republican measure of Reduction
and Revision with Protection. The
Senate bill and the Mills bill are as
wide apart as the poles-in spirit, in
methods and details and in effect. The
Senate bill openly avows its domi,
mating principle to be Protection; the
Mills bill in every feature points
straight towards Free Trade. The
Senate bill makes its reduction by cut.
ting down the tax or the tariff on
great necessaries of life where home
production is not destroyed; the Mills
bill makes its reduction by cutting
down the tariff on a wide range of
manufactured articles below the point
that protects. Where the Mills bill
cuts sugar only twenty per cent in
order to strike all the harder at our
great system of manufactures, the
Senate bill cuts sugar one half and
thus saves $50, 900, 900 to the breakfast
tables of the American people. Where
the Mills bill makes as little reduction
as it dared in the internal revenue
taxes, which are the real war taxes, in
order to aim a more deadly blow ut
the protective tariff, the Senate bill
makes about half its reduction in this
way without taking single step that
will not meet popular approval.
The theory of the Senate bill is sim.
pie and ineligible. 1t removes all of
the internal revenue taxes about which
there will be no dispute among good
men and friends of Protection. 1t in.
creases the free list by adding articles
not produced or but lightly produced
in this country. 1t makes the large
reduction Oh sugar as the most direct,
palpable aud general relief to the peo.
pie. And with reference to the great
body of manufactured articles, 10
very many cases it leaves the duty
unchanged in some it makes a small
reduction where it is believed that il
can be borne; 10 few it raises the
duty little where justice seemed to
require it; the general purpose evi'
IDENTIFY being to remove aey incongru
tiles that may exist and to adjust the
tariff to the present conditions of pro
duction and trade. Senator Sherman
in his speech said that, if the bill
could be passed it would be the bes
revenue measure ever placed on tn,
statute book. Senator Sherman i
high authority, and his judgment car
ries great weight. Possibly the coun
try would not be prepared to say a
much on an examination over night
but the most cursory inspection
sufficient to show that it is a stroD
Protection measure and follows righ
lines.
AS a measure for reducing the SUI
plus the Mills bill is a sham and
fraud. 1t reduces duties all aroun
and so would increase imports and il
crease the revenue, As Free Trad
measure, il is an audacious and braze
success. On the other hand, the re
duetion of s75,000,000 by the Senat
bill is direct aud indisputable An
on the greater question, il keeps th
issue Just where it is between Prote'
ton and Free Trade. -Phiia Press.