New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-10

vdual wealth and earnings. We have become sell,
supporting. sefdefendng Nation with popuallon 0,
sixty Million possessed Of the resources education ana
skill requisite for their happiness and for the promo
Our Government, with It's protective policy has ac,
complIshed and will accomplish for each citizen an
No wonder the President supplements his saadcmeh.
of belief in the old sophism that protection SO
not made TO discredit the SYSTEM But mere we
assertion Ss wers P' e would prove
monstrosity In government-made Tor enec. ~ ,no
iiIity to it. This IS eSuaed BY the profession Of
desire to mako our labor more remuneratVe, anu az
her s se0 market IN hc world for competitive share
object
THE BATTLE-GROUND OF THE CAMPAIGN
The issue fairly Joined by the two great political
parties free trade protection will be the Amer
lean policy after March, 1880 Neither subterfugc
nor new confessions of faith Will conceal or obscure
the real question. The history OF the Rcpubhcah
party its Platforms above ALL the bill reported
to the Senate as substitute for the Mills BILL leave
no doubt as TO the position of that party The
Democracy has declared for FREQ trade and Tor the
destruction Of our National industries. We have
home market composed of 60,000,000 consumers OF
the fruits of agriculture and the goods maze ny
our manufacturing Industries. The Republican parry
has resolved preserve that market for these people
and the Democracy, with equal resolution proposes
free competition with foreign capital ana loIeisn
vorlmen II is the question that divided the
North and South and melted a bloody and expensive
war and the division is on the same agricultural ana
geographical lines Ii is another great struggle on
the part of our southern friends ioi cneap aia ur
Northern states "a darker evil than that OF slavery
There are about 800 paragraphs IL the Mills bill
relating to enumerated articles in the dutaDe schedule
Of our present tariff The Mii Dbl iLanslees 10 o
tysix relate manufactured articles, and twenty SiN
Minis hi reduces the duty on articles in nearly 200
paragraphs of the present law by II onc %,
free trade o. The oTsa Is re rec
capital foreign labor. unless our labor be reduced
to the foreign rates for wages IL IS cheap ihnor 'e
| pafhy with well paid labor before the war
Their laboring class now. then, are the oolored
rights naturally would cheaper the value of their
labor, equally effective step for their DEGRADATION
over them Wciipaid are well fed. well clothed,
strong become educated, and Will not remain In
j know the cxcusc is the reduction of our revenues
On that point there IS no particular difference @
ate Finance Committee provides the more surely lor
larger reduction han the NILS Dill ana e tSs
controversy Democracy is NOT dstS no OVgp @
wrng from the taxpayers annually TO be squandcred
IN mprovidcnt appropia0ns was S tne parry ern Jrs
over Their appropriations The Democratic leaders
have coined another phrase. and but little has been
! hungry crowd in possession of the Departments has
nearly exhausted it, and for the meagre amount re,
! is camorng Reduction Of surplus is not so IN
| dustrlously used conjure with as four years ago.
claimed ng f for P the Measure i reduction in
Of about % qS T% friends ea that they
could he reduced 300 900 900 or more
Both sides concede that reduction can DC maze,
and in about the same amount stil leaving sufficient
to pay the interest on the public de9t ah 10
The Government therefore the question of the amount
of taxation is not involved In the discussions put 'hal
in which the reduction shall be made Both parties
propose raise largo proportion OF our revcnues
bat fnScpnndcnt Of the incidental benefits claimed
for projections it a matter Of no consequence to
customs duties are levied and collected on 400 articles
which enter equally into general use mere ana M
will be produced in this country In suiiclcn quanI
ties to supply our wants, or upon one nan on 'al 9Vo'
the other half being placed on the free b' sos no,
rcn incrcaSed II The duty IS distributed upon the
Steel Of both or placed wholly upon one How is the tau
Increased or made more oppressive II irNlcu uion an
s 5e s s0I be dbep added To- hc free t The free
list half may of course, be arranged as 10 insure
an unequal distribution Of taxation upon localities
# there are articles used exclusively in portion Of
the country. cotton ties In the cotton states, thcn
10 place them upon the free list would be dishonest
equalization Of taxation To Illustrate this point; taxi,
PRODUCTS '' and Animal fats and largely ues and
makes valuable waste products and materials ina,
| for that industry: OF this article We make
duty is 90 per cent. and wherein is i more burden,
some than the duty upon sugar equally In use by all
| "A
consumer lghicncd because 81 per cent al yaorcn
Is placed on sugar. and soap Is added TO the free
| list. rather than 30 per cent upon sugar and 20
per cent upon soap or has the site Of the industries
| something TO do with IL
SECTIONAL CHARACTER OF THE MILLS BILL.
What l have just said illustrates the sectional char
actcr of the Mills bill, and also equally dsposes o
! the prrtcnce that 1t is not free-tradc measure.
have before list of the principal products of the
manufac cries of the United states. The value anc
places of manufacture are taken from the census re
port Of 1850, and doubtless there has been some in
crease since, but there has been little or no chang
in respect the location percentage Of product II
tie respective states. The list contains about 100
lines Of goods, all protected. The aggregate
value of product for the last census year, 1879
nearly two thousand million dollars. Of TN:
amount less than 3 per cent was manufactured ii
those States which composed the Southern Confcd
eracy, and little more than % per cent was manu-
featured and made chiefly outside of the States which
contributed their quota to the Confederate service
This is startling fact, but have something Sun Il
add more remarkable. The Mills bill envelopes then
all within its cutte-fsh folds and advocates 3S pc
reduction in the protection now Afforded them b!
We have heard it stated in this chamber, and 1t ha
been shouted all oyer the country maj the Sis e
present protection q OF per cent. IhaI statcHe en-
IS untrue. and unless made by one ignorant OF Tn
facts, was intended to deceive. Ii IS easy enough e
make bill-he House OF representatives has mao
Cnc-whch will show an average reduction OF only
or per cent in the duties upon those articles as
when duties are reduced. but which viii in effec
practically open our market TO free foreign commerce
The average reduction OF Ine au VI u'
under the Mills bill is asccrtained by finding wha
DER cent the collected under the present Ia'
on certain dutiable goods would be on their ioelS
value. and the per cent the less amount c0llccte
under the rates OF the Mills bill would be on the 10Y
e;gn value. The difference, Mr. Mills claims wOul
hc the average reduction; therefore, If the diherenc
IN the two rates upon one article Is small anu u
importaiions large-as in the case OF Sugar-ahd ia
importaiions Of the others comparatively small VII
large reduction of rates. SUI the sugar VIII nou u
thc average reduction: and this uck a WlthuraW IN
word "trck'l. has been perperated me hl-n a
valorcTn rate upon sugar with its large importation
makes the average percentage Of reduction upon a
aIpear small but the protection upon the astc"
,pI1nId lac uractlcallv removed. But omit sugar an
tbc Uouors Wines. tobacco and silks upon which n
rates arr not changed from the calculations an
I The average reduction of the present duties uIo
I American manufactured articles In the duiablc Us
I'm the Mills bill viii be from 40 per cent 10 % pc
cent. =, H.. ,...on,o,toar ,ho d,,,
& aIded ia The price. and without any compensation