Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-03

duty paid on such articles 90 direct to the
cost OF the article when manufactured here,
snd must be paid for by the consumer.
These duties not only come from the con-
sumsrs at home, but act ss q protection to
foreign manufacturers IN our own and dis
taut markets. "-PresideRt Grant.
81 hold that 3 properly adjusted compe-
titiOn between home and foreign products
Is the best gauge by which to regulate in
ternational trade. Duties should be 30
high that our manufacturers can fairly
compete with the foreign product, but not
40 high as to enable them to drive out the
foreign article, enjoy q monopoly OF the
trade and regulate the prices rs they please.
This is my doctriDe of protection. flames
A. Garfield.
Al recommend an enlargement OF the
free list so as to include within it the nu-
merous articles which yield ineonsiderable
revenue; q simplifcstion of the complex
and inconsistent schedule Of duties upon
certain manufactures, cotton, iron and
steel, and substantial reduction OF the
duties upon those articles, and upon sugar,
molasses, silk, wool and wooden goods. ~
President ArthHT's Message Of 1882.
''By this law the tariff Of 1857 thedu'
ties were placed lower than they had been
at any time since the war of 1912. The
act was we'll received by the people, and
Has indeed concurred in by considerable
portion of the Republican party. "-James
| e.. Blame.
every advance toward free exchange
| of commodities is an advance in ciyilizs-
| ton; every obstruction TO D free exchange
is born of the same narrow, despotic spirit
which planted castlss upon the Rhine TO
plumber peaceful commerce; every obstruc-
ton to commerce is tax upon consump-
ton; every facility to tree exchange
eheapens commodities, increases trade and
production, and promotes civilization.
Nothing is worse than sectionalism within
nation, and nothing is better for the
peace Of nations than unrestricted freedom
of commerce and intercourse with each
other. john Sherman.
at is believed that the time has arrived
when q reduction Of the duties on nearly
al the articles in our tariff is demanded
and feasible. It will probably
be found that in general the reduction car
chiefly be made on the raw material, OF
coarssr manufactures, rather than those
upon which n greater amount of labor has
been bestowed. "-Seerstary Foiger's Report
1882.
''First-That the existing duties upon
raw materials which are to be used II
manufacture should be removed. This
can be done in the interest Of our foreign
trade.
''Seeond-That the duties upon the ar
ticles used or consumed by those who ars
the least able to bear the burden of taxa
ton should be reduced. "-Seeretdry Ne
CHllOeRs Report, 1888.
"a substantial reduction of tariff duties
is demanded, not by mere indiscriminatt
popular elamor, but by the best conserya
tive opinion of the country, including
that which has in former times been most
strenuous for the preservation OF our ma
tional industrial defense. Such reduc'
ton of the existing tariff the Commission
regards not only as q due recognition oil
public sentiment and measure Of justice
10 consumers. but one conducive to the
general industrial prosperity, and which,
though il may be temporarily inconvenient
will be ultimately beneficial to the special
interests affected by such reduction. ~
Report Of Republican Tariff COmmissiO"
1888.
This is what the flower of the Rspubli
can flock thought about the tariff question
Now, we intend to expose the "him- liam
game the Lnteiligsneer is playing, or be
lieyes it is playing, on its readers. II
says:
Ifyou leave on sugar an average rate Of Is pc
cent, it is because sugar is Southern produc
and the Sugar Trust is your friend and ally. l
youleaye more than 100 per cent. on rice, 1t
because rice votes your Democratic Free Trsd'
ticket You would do the same for wool II /
lived in the same low latitude.
This sounds very nice and virtuous ant
is calculated to deceive those who know
nothing about il.
Now, the truth is, and we do not believe
that even the IatelHgeReer will denyit thai
She MILLS bill makes over four time'
larger reduction on sugar and about three
times larger reduction on rice than thu
whole average reduction under the bill. II
reduces the tariff on Southern" rice II.
per cent and on Northern" wool 10 PEI
cent! Which suffers the most? AL
msthematicians, we believe, will unite OF
the verdict that Southern" rice is TIT
greater sufferer, by p per cent. Rice IL
grown by Chinese (which may account fol
the Republican attack on the rice tariff
and the 99l per cent tariff which thu
MILLS bill leaves on it having reduced
it to that from liz per cent? shows thu
difference between the cost of cooley labol
in China and the coat of colored labor II
the South. Does not the Republican
party want it's beloved colored voter Il
have this protection against the Chinamsn'
The last Republican tariff revisers thought
rice needed 112 per cent protection and
wool but 10 per cent. Will the Intelh
qeneer accuse the last Republican admin
istration of discriminating in favor o.
tho Southern rice industry? Th'
| DSuOcIhlS ldhc OhAy ~ - NNA
of the protection on wool bu'
take 121 per cent off the protection o
rice. Neither industry will be Injured by
il and, because wool is the manufacturer
raw material, taking off the tax must re
vive the wool manufacturing industry
without which revival the wool grower cal
never hope for an Improvement in hi
market. The utterly absuS and assinin'
cry of such demsgogues as the Intelligence
that the MILLS bill is sectional measure
is enough to make angels weep when il il
shown that the protection to distinctivel.
Southern industries is reduced much NOR
than the protection to the distinctiyel.
Northern industries.
As the MILLS bill deals with Southern
rice so does il deal with Southern sugar
only the Sugar Trust suffers far more
The present Republican war tariff oil