Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-15

one side or the other of a portentous
contest. On one side is capital, for
midably intrenched in privilege,
arrogant from continued triumph,
/ conservative. tenacious to old theories,
demanding new concessions, enriced
" domestic levy and foreign com
! merce, and struggling to adjust all
values to its own standard. On the
other is labor, asking for employment,
striving to develop domestic indus
tries, battling with the forces of ma
ture and subduing the wilderness;
labor, starving and sullen in cities,
resolutely determined to overthrow a
SYSTEM under which the rich are
growing richer and the poor are grow
ing poorer: a system which gives to a
Vanderbilt the procession of wealth
beyond the dreams of ayarice and
condemns the poor to poverty which
has no refuge from starvation but the
prison or the grave.
| HENRY. CABoT LODGE, NJ. c., Mass
achusetts, September, 18S4-Graye
/ public questions confront us. There
! is large, perilous and growing sur
| plus in the revenues. 1t must be re
moved, not by needless and extraya-
giant expenditures, not by sbolishing
the proper taxation of whiskey and
tobacco, but by freeing entirely those
great necessaries of life which enter
into the daily consumption of every
household, and by wise and discrim-
mate reductions.
JoHN D LONG, NJ. c., of Massa-
| chusetts, September, 1SS4-There are
only two ways to reduce the tariff.
One by raising the tariff to prohib-
tory height, which nobody advocates;
the other, the free list is the honest
revenue reformer's hope
/ WILLIAM MCKINLEY, NJ. c., of Ohio,
1s82-The free list might be enlarg,
ed without affecting injuriously a
single American interest
SENATOR WARNER MILLER of New
York, 1SS2-The sooner we have that
tariff revision the better it will be
for all industries.
Hon. AsHBEL P. FITCH, NJ. c., Of
New York, May Is, 1S86-In the in
terest of the Republican party anc
in the interest of common fairness,
; propose to ask the gentlemen on thi!
side the House to consider for 4:
moment how the present tariff, which
we have promised to revise, now at
fects the people whom | have de
cribed, and to consider what the,
pay taxes on in the general distribu
ton of the customs taxes now in force
PRESIDENT ARTHUR, Annual Mes
sage, 1882-A total abolition of excis
taxes would almost inevitably prov
a serious, if not an insurmountable
obstacle to thorough revision of tn
tariff and to any considerable reduC
ton in import duties. The presen
tariff system is, in many respects, III
just. 1t makes unequal distributions
both of its burdens and its benefits
y l recommend an enlarge
ment of the free list so as to includ
: within it the numerous articles whic
yield inconsiderable revenue, a sin
pliication of the complex and incor
: sistent schedule of duties upon cel
tain manufactures, particularly thos
" of cotton, iron and steel, and sui
stantial reduction of the duties upo
those articles, and upon sugar, molai
ses, silk, WOOL and WOODEN goods.
= CHALEs ]. FoLGER, Secretary c
the treasury, Annual Report, 1881
: the recommendation of the Pres
: dent and those of this department
and the action of Congress and in th
expression of public opinion there ha
been substantial accord as to no
: the needed reduction of the revenu
should be brought about. It hs
been generally conceded that the il
ternal revenue taxes except those Vi
on spirits, fermented liquors and vi
: on the circulation of banks, migl
well be abolished. My last report sal
that taxes upon spirits and Tobacco,
: being upon things not needful, shoul
= be retained rather than those uno