St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-05
1T MAKES THEM TIRED.
The Democratic Minority Handle
the Substitute Without Gloves.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-The minority
them were consulted or informed about
the provisions of the substitute reported
by the Republican majority until it was
reported to the full committee on the
25th of last month. and of the hearings
before the subcommittee since last
May, they assert that it is safe to say all
the interests benefited by high pro-
tective tariff have been fully heard, and
had much influence in shaping the
substitute, while the great body of
the people, the taxpayers and vic
tins of this policy, have not ap-
peared, and have not been heard.
CriticiSing the substitute the minority
say the essential difference between the
house bill and the senate substitute is
apparent and radical at the outset in
the matter of revenue. The one is
framed in the interest of the public
treasury; the other in the interest of
private pockets. The one is framed in
the interest of the whole people; the
other in the interest of 100000 manu-
facturers. The one is designed to re-
duce both government revenue and tax
alton, the taxation especially which
bears heaviest on the necessaries OF
life; the other is intended to raise pub
lie revenue indeed, but to maintain pri-
vate revenues by increasing and retain
ing taxation on all the neceSsares of
life. Practically. the substitute offers
to the people
FREE WHISKY AND TOBACCO,
leaving all the expensive machinery for
the collection of the revenue and en-
forcement of the law in full force while
it increases taxation upon the actual
and indispensable neceSSarieS of life,
and this, too, when there is large sur
plus in the treasury, and under existing
laws that surplus is being increased at
the rate of over S10,000,000 per month,
thus withdrawing and withholding
from the channels of trade, commerce
and business of the country money alb
solutely necessary to their sue
cessful operations. The substitute,
the minority say, not only retains
duty On raw wool, but increases the
duty from 10 to IL cents a pound on
clothing and cOmbing wool, and the eX
listing duty is retained on carpet woods,
which all parties agree are not produced
in this country, and the changes made
in the manufactures OF wool increases
the taxation, and to that extent in
creases the cost of the manufactured
article, and especially the cheaper
grades-the clothing OF the poor. In
the cotton schedule, they say. the great
process of ''leveling up" is called into
reuuisition. By changes in classified
ton and by new subdivisions, still fur
Their duplicating the administration,
and by changes in rates. in effect prin-
cipally increasing taxes, most glaring
Inconsistencies and determinations are
perpetrated in this so-called revision.
Commenting on the connection between
the tariff and trusts, the minority says:
The present tariff is the
NURSING MOTHER OF TRUSTS.
II is the wall behind which these COM
binations are formed, by which the
people are plundered. Tariffs keep out
the foreign competition and the combi-
nation suppreSSeS the domestic, and the
whole people are at their mercy and
must pay whatever is demanded. Lam
guage is inadequate to describe the in
EQUITY of these corporations against
the rights of the people, or
to depict their DISASTROUS effects
upon the general welfare. AS the
tariffs, which render trusts possible, are
established and maintained at the
special instance of those who form
them, it would seem but simple Justice,
as we'll as good policy, to tear down as
much as possible of their covert and re-
fuse to longer aid them in wrong-doing.
They are not private AFFAIRS" as has
been asserted. but public evils of the
gayest character, affecting the price of
every article which contributes to
the comfort and support of
the people. The provisions of