Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-06

Degradation of American Labor. These
| charges are as false as they are misleading
1t would seem that no man can propose tc
cut off excessive taxation, without sub.
jecting himself to the charge OF Free
Trade True, the Government revenues
might be reduced by making the duties
so high as TO prevent importations al.
together, but that is the other end of the
rod, which increases the taxes paid to pri.
vate persons. If the first method of reduc.
| ton leads to free trade, the other leads tc
/ free plumber, which is worse. 1t is safe tc
say that there is not Senator in the body
or g man in anyway prominent in the
councils of TIM Republican party, who a
one time or another has not admitted the
! necessity of reducing taxes in order to stoE
| the surplus. They are, therefore, free
traders, and desire the ruin of Industry anC
the decentralization of labor.
The minority respectfully submit tha
they are Americans who supplant Ameri
can labor with the labor of unnaturalizec
foreigners whenever they can be got cheap
FREE WOOL.
The minority concludes the report as fol
lows: We are firmly convinced. that be-
sides the advantages TO the whole country
which would result from the placing Of
wool upon the free list, it is easily demon.
strab,e that each will reap his share Of
benefit. With consumption of 60. 0OO DOC
pounds of raw wool in 1887 and a popula.
ton of 60,000,000, the average per capits
consumption is easily reckoned at ten
pounds, or fifty pounds for an average
family OF five persons, and the Northern
farmer constantly exposed TO the rigors OF
cur winters, consumed som ething more
than the average. 1t requires from three
n fCIIv. AZ, 70, al,
so that from twelve to sixteen pounds oil
wooden clothing for the family, it will thus
be seen, is a low average. This is now taxed
from 90 to nearly so per cent. The manu-
faeturer is not benefited, because his finished
product comes into competition with for
eign product, made not only from untaxed
wool, but OF cheaper wool. If the tax be
taken off woods we will import more woods
OF course. and in no other way can our
great factories prosper, because their ca.
paclty is beyond our own wool production
When the factories are turning out more
proouct the employees have stesdier work
aud better wages, and indirectly, of course,
the whole country is benefited
Under the House bill the manufacturers,
with free wool, will secure even higher
competitive advantages over foreign pro-
ducts than under the present law Manu-
ioStuiClS Will eApOTl WOODEN SOOQS as we
now export cotton and leather, and the de-
mand for wool will be better. The wool
market will encourage increased produc-
ton, while the average wool grower will
reap from cheapened clothing more benefits
than he ever did from the tax of his pro-
duct, which he must himself pay. The
minority, therefore, dissenting from the re-
port of the majority, commend to the Sem
ate and the country the bill of the House
OF Representatives as measure for the re-
duction OF taxes based alike upon Justice
and good policy. IsHAM G. HARRIS,
d. W. VOORHEES,,
c. w. VANCE
concur in the above report indorsing
the House bill in respect to articles placed
on the free list, but desire some modifica-
ton in the dutiable list.
]. r MCPHERSON.
Senator Beck. in supplemental report,
eulogizes the Mills bill, snd says The eff CT
of the Senate substitute, in every feature of
1t, is TO increase the cost of goods to the
home consumer and to close the markets
of the world against imports and exports as
well, except such as are really agricultural
and have to be sold abroad at any price
they bring in free markets with competi-
ton