Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-09

instead OF relieving the tax.ridden people
clamorous for relief the bill actually PRO
posed to increase the duties He said
the measure. from whatever point Il was
looked al was a misbegotten, ill-shaped.
pretentions and uDjustifiable monster,
with no excuse for existence and no pur-
pose In its life but TO obstruct the Dem
ocratc party and delay justice which the
country demanded. The majority Of the
committee on Ways and Means had
sought first 10 relieve the manufacturing
interests by placing on the free list, as
Tar as it possibly could such articles az
were essentially necessary to them TO en-
able them 10 compete, not only in their
home markets but of the world. Secondly
IN the readjustment of various schedules
under the existing tariff to have ample
duties on all merchandise that could pos
sibly be imported from abroad in compe-
tition with home products and TO protect
home manufacturers and the labor en-
ploYed by them. The bill now under
consideration had been formed for the
double purpose OF reducing the surplus
and relieving the country Of needless tax
alton. The speaker wished il to be clear
" understood that the interests of labor
had been steadily held In view and that
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which his opponents professed to give,
but to which their policy had been direct
ly opposed. He said that Protection, So
called, would add no penny to wage
workers or give one days additional work
in year. but it would rob him of an I'M
due proportion of his earnings to pur-
chase the necessaries OF life, and keep
him a trembling dependent The Speaker
went on TO say that upon no class Of peo-
pie did the present fiscal burdens of the
country bear so heavily as upon the
farming class. One OF the strong argu-
ments that Protectionists made TO the
farmer was home market and that pro-
lection was alleged to the insurance for
market for his produce. II was fallacy
and fraud and intelligent farmers would
not be long deceived by il. Turning his
attention 70 the metal schedule of the
bill, Scott cited the case of the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works as exhibiting
the operations Of monopoly duty, swell
ing the profits of the manufacturer into
the most unreasonable and even appalling
fgures.whilst adding nothing TO the wages
OF labor. and at the same time restricting
the market of the farmer for his produce,
though simply pillaging him upon his
purchases Of implements and apparel
de called attention to natural gas and
said that manufacturers who were so for
tunately situated required nothing more
10 enable them to take the start of this
majestic world and bear the palm alone"
but free, raw material. open markets
around the globe. and no unnecessary
restrictions here or there. cheap food.
cheap raiment and blankets. Scott went
on TO say that the tariff did not protect
the coal miner, but robbed him in Just
so far as il increased the cost of what he
consumed by the imposition of duties the
Government did not need TO meet its re-
quirements- The speaker next took mp
the subject of wool, and said that the
aim of the majority of the committee has
been TO readjust the duties upon wooden
and worsted goods, SO as to enable man
ufacturers not only to pay the same
wages they are now paving. but to cheap
en- the goods. thus enabling them TO com
mand the home market, which they are
largely deprived of. and to compete in
foreign ones. Free raw wool and duties
on manufacturers of wool
would accomplish this. In conclusion
the speaker said: I'VE are here, sir; we,
the majority of the Ways and Means
Committee, and of this House. in defense
Of American Industry. We alone offer
i protection. We seek alone independ-
ence and aggrandizement of domestic
abor by Iberating from unnatural re-
'traints and allowing undisturbed posses
ZION and complete enjoyment of its own
earnings"