Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1888-03-06


tariff bill are attracting general atten-
ton. Is we'll as the discrimination
against Republican States. In calling
attention to these facts the New York
Mail and Express has this to say: Yet
there is sort Of low political cunning
in the little Mills bill. Its free trade
features strike hard on the people of
the Republican States. Congressman
Burrows, of Michigan. bears witness to
this when he says to the Tribune's
Washington correspondent: L have
studied the bill carefully enough to dis
cover that if it becomes . law it will
swamp all of the most important indus
tries of Michigan-wood- growing. lum
bering. salt making. the raising of fax
and hemp, etc. In fact, it doesn't leave
US any thing except the privilege of
fishing, and l do not tnow whether
Ca uld permi. us to engage in
'ls sSR re / 9 ssssa E. n b
be- loud not 60 into the bill ii
the latter be constructed on any princi-
pie whatever. but because to place it on
the free list would mean the loss of the
electoral votes of Virginia to the Dem
ocrAtio party and endanger the partys
supremacy in Tennessee and Alabama.
You see it is mainly . sectional bill"
The Republican Pacific coast catches
it, of course. Says Congressman Nor
pou. ssT, Tho D. co..t xbo Hill rr,lI
be Objectionable in general and in de-
tail. 1t would destroy many of our in
dustries Just in the process Of develop
ment. Take, for instance, our raisin
interests. We produced last year from
100000 to 2O,0OO.OOO pounds Of
ralsins. and the industry is only in its
infancy. The bill would reduce the
tariff from 2 cents per pound to IL
cents, which would be sufficient to ena-
bic the importers to drive our raisins
out OF the market
Republican Vermont and Ohio are
special victims of this partisan bill.
which protects only Democratic inter-
ests. THE sheep industry of Yer
mont, says Congressman circuit, of that
State, has suffered severely from the
tariff reduction of 1888. IS has that OF
the whole country, but this means ami
hilation. and how the President and his
party can expect the sober judgment of
the American people to approve it is,
indeed, . mystery. Wool and marble
with so per cent. duty struck of, and
lumber. all demand hearing from my
State, and l think the committee will
grant it unless their heads are com-
pletely turned"
The bill" says Congressman Gros-
venor, of Ohio. lis shamefully SEQ
tional. 1t strikes ct the lumber. wool.
salt, vegetables, hay, fish and many
other of the products of the North.
and carefully keeps hands off from cot
ton goods. rice. sugar and many other
things OF the South. The Kentucky bour-
bon 10 protected by the Kentucky mem
Der of the Ways and Means Committee.
The potteries OF Ohio are hit hard, but
the specialties of the South are not mo-
Tested. The salt industry of my dis
tict will be destroyed if the bill passes.
The wool men of my section will be
forced out of business.
These are some of the aspects of .
tariff bill that is the natural outcome Of
the small. narrow. and inconsistent par
tisanship which has An ex-Mugwump
President, now spoils- Democrat in his
fierce determination to get second
term, fora Reform fgurehead. and
whose fgurehead in the Democratic
branch of Congress, Speaker Carlisle,
stands for the Whisky Ring" and
Free Trade, the Whisky Ring being
the only remaining substitute for the
old slave Power" in the South and
controlling most of the Southern poll
ticians and newspapers. Anything to
keep up the whisky tax is its motto.