River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-03

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iariff; that in levying duties on imports
revenues should not alone lie consid-
sred, but that those duties should be
o ADJUSTED as 10 give encourage
ment 10 American capital and employment
! to American labor. The Rspsblican party
insisted that the present protective system
should not be disturbed, except so far as
might be necessary TO correct its incongrui-
ties and harmonic its provisions IL Con-
gress followed the lead of the President in
his bold declaration and secured reduc-
ton by such a revision Of the tar e he pro-
posed, leaving untouched, as he suggested,
the internsl-reyenue system, not only would
the protective system be destroyed, but the
Nation would be out on the highwry OF free
trade. AS members were free-trsders OF pro-
tectionists the bill of the committee would
be approved or condemn ed Tie pend
ing measure stood without parallel
in the history OF American iegisa-
ton. Conceived in dsrkness. brought
forth in secrecy, its parcatlge care
fully concealed, it was AT last laid at
the door OF tie Committee of Ways and
Means where The majority took IT, up IS
tenderiy as though IL were 4 Legitimate of
spring, hurrie liy brought &c INFO tie lIonse
TO be adopted by the 0emocr..is p T y and
nursed by the harlos OF free trade But
whatever its parentage, wine, her british
ree-trGder or Golden Club-aitEer 81 which
was capable of the Ige-justice and
fairness compelled him 70 STATE that public
suspicion of its percentage did not attach to
the members of the majority, and in fur
ther vindication of tie higl character IL
would DO no violation OF the secrets of the
eUmmittec-roOm TO state that when pressed
on this point no member of the majority
was so lost to oil sense of personal pride
as TO acknowledge the psTentage The
pending bill exposed 10 fore "a assault
many OF our principal industries Iho great
wool-growinE industry OF TIE country. only
in the infancy OF its development, was to be
exposed to a ruinOus foreign competition
which would surely prove its destruction
The majority tried to delude the people into
the belief that cheap wool meant cheap
clothing. He admitted that wool would be
cheaper while our foreign rivals were try-
ing to destroy our industry, but when they
had eliminated from our market the pro-
ductiou of 800 600, 900 pounds of domes-
tic wool we would find ourselves bound
hand 8nd foot at the mercy of the foreign
producer.
The President asserted that the duty on
imports enhanced the price Of both the
foreign and domestic articles to the con-
sumner, and that the removal of tue ddty
would proporJionately reduce the price.
He Burrowsl would b. thought that the
insentient pen with which the President
wrote that paragraph would have refused
to record the error Gould it have spoken
to him it would have said: 1.-THE pen With
which you write this folly is cheaper by
half than before the duty on it was i'm
posed" The Presidents argument had
been echoed by every free-trader in the
United States, and had been hailed with
delight by every free-trader in England.
There was comprehensive and complete
answer TO the Presidents argument II
was not true. He commended to the
President his own admonition
"It is condition which con-
fronts US and not q theory" and
that condition was an absolute reputation
of the Presidents theory He challenged
any man TO name product OF a single well.
established American industry that could
not be bought cheaper to-day under the
pr6tee;ive system than at any period under
free trade. The difficulty with the Presi.
dents theory Yas that he forgot that the
price Of a commodity did not depend on
the rate of duty, but upon the great law Of
supply and demand The gentleman from
Texas OK Nils has stated that our taxes
were higher to-day than during the war.
He spoke only of dutiable imports, omit
his calculation was not only misleading but
entirely valueless The same miscalcula-
ton DESTROYED the force of his argument
that tue average rates Of duty to-day were
heavier than during the war Taking our
entire imports tbs average to-day was
thirty-one per cent, while during the war
it had been thirty per cent The one per
cent increase was largely attributable to
lower prices. Following the memorable
law, IS pr.ces declined the per centGge OF
the advaloTem rate increased Efforts were
being made persistentiy 10 lnGuce the
American farmer to believe that protective
tariffs were hostile to his interests Mr.
Burrows argued that the farmer wss direct
" interested in maintaining the protective
system and q home market This home
market should be to him tie Offset
of the deepest sol:o.tude. and upon
it the future OF the agricultural in
teTests Of the country hang. Here was a
lesson to be drawn by the South from The
history of the past Profession had en-
HANGED the value of the land in the North,
it would hrIng il to the South It would
bring IN era Of unexamp.ed prosperity IL
wou Il develop her mines, lighi = fires OF
her furnaces, construct her ri S. invite
capital, employ laborers, plant ci.iss in her
vast. places, and leld the people into the
highw Of Industrial prosperity. During
the last ninety DAYS $3.50 GOO 900 capital
had gone into her manufao ur ~ indus
tries There was not an indus ~ Of TIE
Soath which he would not cherish rs lhoTgl
it were an industry of Mich gan. He be-
hevad in protection not for his state alone
but for his country. He believed in Ameri- |
can industry, in American capital, in Ameri- |
can labor against the whO'e world
-S . e----
~" / don't know about that young
Wabash. nv dear, said Mr.. Breezy.
OF Chicago. TO his beautiful daughter. |
''Are YOU really interested in him?'
"Papah, / adore himr'