Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-12-20

10 Us carpet woods. nuils and wofsiecs
=; lower rate than wooden waste will
be likely 70 receive attention.
Persons who are not versed in the
doctrine Of Protection assume that all
promiccS 10 reform The tariff are prom
Uses TO reduce duties. This is an error.
! 10 reduce Protective duty once wise
| ~ laid can never be necessary on any
economic ground
| For the duty, If protective. is always
on the theory that IL will develop a
domestic competition in the production,
which will, in its own good time, SO re.
duce prices that the duty will repeal il
| self as tax on our consumers and re,
main only as fence against foreig n
competitors in the production. In the
case of any Protective duty. TO repeal il
before it has developed this degree o!
competition is premature, and is like cut
ting. down fruit tree before it has come
into bearing. To repeal it after il has
developed such degree of competition
as places domestic prices on level
with the foreign is unnecessary, as in
this stage the duty has ceased to be a
! tax
1t is, moreover, wasteful in double
sense, since Protective duties at this
stage collect an important share of the
national taxation from foreign compel
| ing producers, while preserving the
market, in large degree, to the do
nestle producers, who, since their
ability to sell cheap depends largely on
the extent of their sales, can maintain a
lower price if they have the whole
domestic market to supply than if they
have but the half that remains after the
other half is occupied by foreign COM
pettors.
Hon. Henry b. Metcalf, a consistent
temperance advocate:
My standpoint is, of course, that of
unconditional Protection 10 American
industry as fixed national policy, be-
cause absolutely wise, just and benet-
cent. / regard the Protective Tariff
system of revenue as distinctively
American, and our existing internal
revenue system as quite as distinctively
un-American; and the latter, being alb
solutely war tax" ought not TO
enter into the adjustment Of our
nations permanent economic plan.
Revenue, from whatever source,
should not be collected in excess of the
needs of the government, under due re-
gard to economy without parsimony;
and as | see no reason why the needed
revenue on such a basis may not be
conveniently supplied without further
use of the internal revenue system,
deem the present favorable time for
the utter abolition of that system. In
this connection may properly remark
that where | am best known | am re-
garded as q somewhat radical temper
ance reformer, and l advocate the re-
peal of the present internal revenue tax
laws after careful study of the temper
aDce problems involved.
Senator Sherman:
can only say that think the bill re-
ported from the Senate Committee on
Finance will be pressed for considera-
ton, and, hope, acted upon by the
Senate at an early day. Whether the
two houses can agree upon the subject
is question have no better means of
determining than you or any other
citizen.
Thomas q. Sherman, Tariff Reform
and Free-Trader:
Being anxious 10 see the Tariff des-
troyed rather than reformed or reduced,
1t is my wish that its special friends
should follow the policy Of the Chicago
platform, and that the next tariff should
be dictated by Judge Kelley or Major
Mckinley. This wish may affect my
forecast Of the future, although | have
tried TO judge impertialy. and it is
barely possible that the new Congress
may vote according to the real opinion
OF majority of its members, which is
opposed to that policy, but | am conf
dent that il will not do so.
l. is also my wish that the new Tariff
should, and, upon the whole, my belief
that it will, remain without serious re-
duction, until 1894. In that event it
will produce an annual revenue Of near
ly $500. 600, unless we have terrible
panic. 1t will then have TO be reduced
fifty p cent Ii the reduction can on
ly be delayed by our friends, the Pro
tectionists. until the election Of 1896,
the whole Protective System will be
swept out Of existence at one blow,
which is much the best thing for all the
country. Gradual reductions are in
furious to every body.
A. R. Whitney, one of New York's
most public spirited citizens, and an
earnest Republican,:
We won this fight on the issue made
by the Democratic party, and Free
Trade, or anything pertaining to it,
cannot be resurrected in our generation.
The Republican party has now come to
stay, and have pledged themselves to
Protection of wages Of the men who
won this fight, and to do this and per-
feet Tariff bill is very simple.
Let a commission, consisting of the
editor of The Press, Mir. Ammidown
and three others as competent be APP
pointed; and you could perfect bill in
thirty days that would be acceptable to
the Republican party
Senator Allison:
answer, that in my belief the Tariff
will be revised practically on the lines
proposed by the Senate substitute for
the pending House Bill Discussion
will doubtless disclose defects in some
of its details, but the general plan of
the substitute will be adopted either
this winter or in the next Congress.
Edward H. Ammidown:
II any one thing has been determined
by the lafe Presidential campaign, it is
that the people Of the United States will
not suffer unnecessary taxation, nor
taxation which yields more revenue
than is required for the economical adj
ministration of the government.
If any other thing has been settled by
the late campaign, it is that the labor
and industries of the American people
must be protected by Tariff legislation
from destructive foreign competition.
No Tariff will satisfy cur people or be
permanent which fails to meet this
second requirement.
We have here the two conditions I'M
der which future Tariffs must be con-
structed. 1t will be the duty of states
men, and demand the highest order of
craftsmanship, to reconcile these condi-
tons in practical legislation.
L. A. Hartshorn, tho we'll known
Tariff speaker and writer:
The Tariff question after all is SIM
pie one, and the Republicans can be
trusted to deal with it intelligently.
Except in times of war or other unusual