St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-27


into manufacturers of all sorts. All duty
paid upon such articles goes direct to the
cost of the article when manufactured here,
and must be paid for by the consumers.
These duties not only come from the con-
sumers at home, but act as protection to
foreign manufacturers of the same COM
pleted articles in our own and distant mar
kets.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's MESSAGE, 1882.
A total abolition of excise taxes would al
most inevitably prove a serious, if not an in
surmOuntable obstacle to thorough revis-
ion of the tariff and 10 any considerable re-
duction in import duties. The present tariff
system is, in many respects, unjust. 1t makes
unequal distributions both of its burdens
and its benefits. i recommend an
enlargement of the free list, so as TO include
within il the numerous articles which yield
inconsiderable revenue, a simplifcation OF
the complex and inconsistent schedule of du-
ties upon certain manufacturers, particularly
those of cotton, iron and steel, and sub
stantial reduction of the duties upon those
articles, and upon sugar, molasses, silk, wool
and wooden goods
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's MESSAGE, 1854.
The healthful enlargement of our trade
with Europe, Asia and Africa, should De
their wares as neither we nor the other
American states are fitted to produce, and
thus enabling ourselves to obtain in return
better market for our supplies of food, of
raw materials and of the manufactures in
which we excel.
SECRETARY FOLGEE's REPORT, 1888.
In the recommendations of the president
and those of this department, and the action
of congress, and in the expression of public
opinion, there has been substantial accord
Is TO how the needed reduction of the reve-
nue. should be brought about. 1t has been
generally conceded that the internal revenue
taxes, except those upon spirits, fermented
liquors, and upon the circulation of banks
might well be abolished. My last report said
that taxes upon spirits and tobacco, being
upon things not needful. should be retained
rather than those upon the common neces-
saries of life, which, as a pro position, is not
to be controverted. But it was conceded by
all that a substantial reduction should be
made'upon nearly all imported articles sub
jected to duties.
SECRETARY M'CULLOCH's REPORT 1884.
First-That existing duties upon raw ma
tcrials which are TO be use1 in manufacture
should be removed. This can be done in the
interests of our foreign trade. Secondhand
the duties upon the articles used or con-
sumed by those who are least able to bear
the burden of taxation should be reduced.
This also can be effected without prejudice
to the EXPORT trade.
SAID KELLEY, THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA PRO
TECTIoNIsT:
(Speakinp OF wool in 1860 Let the raw
material come in. Let us make blankets that
VIII drive cut English blankets. Let us make
own English frieze'' and "Peterboro
frosted beaver" Let us be able to rival Eng
land and France ana other representative
nations in making these cloths
IN 1884 HENRY CABOT LODGE SAID:
Craze public questions confront us. There
is large, perilous and growing surplusin
the revenues. 1t must be removed, not by
needless and extravagant expenditures, not
by abolishing the proper taxation of whisky
and tobacco. but by freeing entirely those
great necessaries of life which enter into the
daily consumption of every household, and
by wise and discriminate reductions.
IN 1882 CONGRESSMAN II KINLEY SAID:
The free list might be enlarged withouta f-
Getting seriously q single American interest
THE PIONEER PRESS.
On July 10, 1854, The st. Paul Pioneer
Press said in the course of an editorial on
Blaines letter, just then published:
His comparisons between the development
of different states, to prove that protection
has not been inimical 20 the progress of agri-
culture, illustrates his adroitness and his
purpose 10 let no ground of possible advant-
age escape him. 1t is hardly necessary to
state that the Pioneer Press, i'll company
with great many Western Republicans,
does not agree with Mr.. Blaine on this point.
= e IL need only be said that the coinci-
1aupn Of IntiOnol- nrOSnqrifv with any mo-
litical system whatever, under the natural
conditions presented in the United States
during the last twenty years. does not and
cannot prove the lat er TO be the cause of
the former. Nor can it be shown that the
wages of labor are determined by the ell
forcement OF protective tariff. -.
a. On JulS 22, 1881, the Pioneer Press said
with reference 10 the internal revenue tax:
Adjustment of internal revenue means,
or would mean, the impossibility
of tariff reform, since the government must
enjoy revenue from some source, and If IN
ternal revenue lie cut off, tariff reduction
could not be achieved.
But the GLOBE cannot afford space to
quote from the many able utterances of the
. Pioneer Press in behalf Of tariff reform.
That its position of the question has been
for many years Numerically opposite 10
that taken by it under the exigencies of the
present campaign is too well known to re-
quire extended evidence. 1t may not be out
of place, however to make one more brief
extract from an editorial of the date Aug. 8,
1854:
1t Is astonishing how few people really
seem TO believe that adherence to principle
is paying thing III politics: and yet the
facts are on the side of those who do SO be-
lieve.