The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-03

Ky niooe Pl1solnR eNiptncles of the terri
Bile contest In which we were engaged
neither breadstuffs nor lumbereyer becsma
tne subject OF one penny in taxation. Now
as to the article of lumber. | again remind
the house that there has never been a raw
upon this article. The gentlemen from
ONO may talk on this question as he
pleases; but l say that wherever the west
ern frontlersman undertakes to make him
self a home, to till the soil, to carry on the
business Of life, he needs lumber for his
cabin, he needs lumber for his fence, he
needs lumber for his wagon or cart, he
needs lumber for his plough, he needs
lumber Tor almost every purpose in life.
KELLEY ON FREE WOOL.
William D. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, on
free ~wool-July %, 1855: Let the raw ma
terial come In. Let US make blankets that
will drive out English blankets. Let us
make our own English frieze'' and
"Peterboro' frosted beaver" Let us be
able to rival England France and other
representative nation In making these
cloths.
INGALLS, VIEWS.
Senator Ingalls,, February Is, 1873: We
cannot disguise the truth that we are on
the verge of an impending revolutions; the
old issues are dead: the people are arraying
themselves upon one side or the other of q
po~rtentious contest. on one side is CAPITA,
formidably entrenched in privilege, aro-
CANT from continued triumph, conservative,
tenacious to old theories, demanding new
concessions, enriched by domestic levy and
foreign commerce, and struggling to adjust
all values to its own standard. On the 9TH
er is labor, asking for employment, striv-
ing to develop Observation-Disclosures, battling
with the forces of nature, and subduing the
wilderness; labor. starving and sullen in
cities, resOlutely determined to overthrow
a system under which the rich are growing
rlcher and the poor are growing poorer; u
system which gives to a Vanderbilt the
possession of wealth beyond the dreams of
ayarice and condemns the Door to a power
ty which has no refuge from star alton but
the prison to the grave.
TREASURER M'CuLLoCH's REcOMMENDA.
TION.
Hugh McCulioch, secretary of the treas
ury. Recommendations in report, 1884.
Ffrst-That the existing duties upon raw
materials which are to be used in manu-
facture should be removed. This can be
done in the interest of our fsreign trade.
,Second-What the duties upon the arti-
Giles used or consumed by those who are the
least able to bear the burden of taxation
should be reduced. This also can be af-
fected without prejudice to our export
trade.
GRANTS MESSAGE.
President Grants annual message, De-
cember, 1874: Those articles which enter
into our manufactures, and are not pro.
duced at home, it seems to me should be
entered free. Those articles of manu-
facture which we produce a constituent
part of, but do not produce the whole, that
part which we do not produce should be
entered free also. | will instance fine
woods, dyes, etc. These ~srticles should be
imported to form a part of the manufacture
Of the higher grades of wooden goods.
Chemicals used as dyes, compounded in
medicines, and used in various ways in
manufactures, come under this class. The
introduction, free of duty, of such woods as
we do not produce would stimulate the
manufacture of goods requiring the use of
those we do produce. and therefore would
be a benefit to home production. There are
many articles entering into 'home manu-
factnres" which we do not produce our
selves, the tariff upon which Increases the
cost of producing the manufactured article.
All the corrections in thisr regard are in the
direction of bringing. labor and capital in
harmony with each other, and of supplying
n Of the elements of prosperity so much
needed.
OTHER VIEWS.
William Mckinley, Ohio, 1882: The free
list might be enlarged without affecting in
juriOusly q single American interest.
Senator Warner Miller, of New York,
1882: The sooner that we have that (tar-
itf) revision the better it will be for all in
dustries.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, 1882: l
will vote in any direction to bring about a
resolute attempt to give us a revision of the
tariff. | say that as representing a protec-
Zionist constituency.
Mr.. Kassen, of Iowa, 1882: Some excess
slve duties remain on the statute book;
some duitiahle articles should be on the
free list, and some of the provisions on the
tariff have become obsolete.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, 1882: We
agree that the tariff should be revised and
the taxes reduced. Under existing law we
aro nnlluatipn frnrn tho nonnIa ut fha ITpi-
ted States as national taxes the sun of
fifty to one hundred millions of dollars
more than is requisite to meet all the prop.
er current expenditures of the government
and all our obligations to the public cred
itors.
HALE's VIEWS.
Eugene Hale, of Maine, tn the house,
1871: The duty on salt is now eighteen
cents per 100 pounds in bulk and twenty
four cents in sacks. The best Turks Island
salt can be purchased at the place where 1t
is produced for from nine to ten cents per
bushel. Any gentleman here can compute
for himself the percentage of duty resting
upOn this article. l believe there is no
question about the reflection of millions of
people day by day is SO decided as 1t is in
declaring that there should be no tax upon
this article of salt. l have been asked to
amend the bill introduced by, me to cut
down the duty fifty per cent. lido not con-
sent 10 that. l believe this should go upon
the free list; that the monopoly which has
obtained heretofore for the Onondaga Salt
WOrks-as great and COMPLETE as any mon
OpOly ever granted by the tudors In Eng
lands most desp0tic times-0ught to cease.
WHAT SHERMAN SAID.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, 1850: In can
sidering so complicated a subject as a tar
iff, nothing can be more deceptive than the
application of such general phrases as a
protective tariff, "a eyunue tariff ia
free trade tariff" Every law imposing a
duty on imported goods Is necessarily a re-
straint on trade. 1t imposes a burden upon
the purchase and sale of imported goods
and tends ia prevent every importation.
The expression "a free trade tariff in.
wolves ar absurdity. If you converse with
Intelligent men engaged in the business of
manufacturing, they will tell you that they
are willing to compete with England,
France, Germany and all the countries Of
Europe, at the old rates Of duty. If you
reduce their products to the specie basis,
and put them on the same footing they
were on before the war, the present rates
of duty would be too high. 1t would not
be necessary for scarcely any branch of in
dustry to be protected to the extent Of your
present tariff law. They do not ask pro-
lection against the pauper labor of Europe,
but they ask protection against the crea-
ton of your W laws.
MORRILL, AND MIDLER's STATEMENT.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, 1870: 1t Is a
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