Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-10-05
TARIFFS COMPARED.
PRINCIPAL SCHEDULES FROM 1899
CAREFULLY EXAMINED.


the tariff. 1t is not surprising, therefore
that the rate of duties upon imports into the
United States has been changed no less thar
dfty times since the establishment of thei,
government. But emitting minor changes
| Of which there have been as many as three In
ons year, the different tariffs adopted by
| congress may be classed under eleven heads
! viz:
/. The Hamiltonian or Federalist tariff
/ the first adopted, signed by President Wash
ingtou on July 4, 1889, and amended many
times in the following twenty-three years
and generally by higher rates. 1t was sus-
| pended for a time by the embargo of
President Jefferson, which practically pro
hibited all trade with Europe
| 2 The war tariffs of 1S12-15, nominally
moderate, but made prohibitory for time
/ by the British blockade.
| 3. The Lowndes-Ca Calhoun tariff of 1916.
/ avowedly protective and designed 'to pre-
serve those industries called into existence
by the exigencies of the war and by the
blockade"
4. The first "Clay tariff" sometimes called
the Republican tariff of 1924, raising the
rates Of 1916 and adding many articles pro-
duced in the newer states. This was the first
tariff levying duties on wool
5. The tariff of 1928, the highest before the
war, denounced by its enemies as 1.-The
| Tariff Of denominations"
&. The modifying tariff of 1882, designed
to correct the inequalities" Of that of 1928.
z. The compromise tariff of 1888, designed
to pacify the nullifiers of South Carolina and
providing for taking off one-tenth of the
higher duties each year until all should reach
a uniform rate of 20 per cent.
8. The Wing tariff of 1912, adopted on the
plea that the treasury was empty and the
manufactures Frustrated, and designed to be
both for revenue and protection
o. The Polk-Walker tariff of 1916 abolish
sh all existing duties and providing for a
lower scale of duties on what was alleged to
be scientific plan" The rates averaged
about % per cent, if Injuries be included.
10. The Democratic Republican or second
compromise tariff of 1857, reducing the rates
Of the Polk-Walker tariff on the plea that
the revenue was excessive
II. The Morrill, tariff of 1861, the first
tariff providing for a general system of COM
pound and ditferential duties specific and
I'D valorem and making differences between
goods imported from different parts of the
world. This tariff was frequently raised
during the war, revised in 1866, 1867. 1869
and 1870, reduced 10 per cent. in 1872, raised
to the old rates in 1875, and slightly reduced
In 1885, the result being the present tariff.
1t has been avOwedly protective throughout.
The Mills bill would make certain reduc-
lions ON the rates left in 1883 and place sew
eral articles, of which wool is the most i'm
portant, on the free list
The student or American tariff legislation
should keep constantly i'll mind the fact that.
until 1879, the tariff question was always
complicated with the questions of banking
and currency, and that a change in the one
often produced results now enormously
charged or credited to the other. While
there have been eleven general tariffs and
some forty minor changes under the general
heads, there have been no less than eight dis
tihct systems of currency and banking.
which may be thus titled: The Hamiltonian
United States bank era, 1889 to 1911: the
Madlsonian state bank era, 1911 to
1917; tho Clay, etc. United States
bank era, 1917 to 1867: the Jack
son-Benton hard money! experiment..
1887 to 1911; the general state bank system,
1871 to 1862; the greenbacb and national
bank system with suspension of specie paw
mcnts, 1862 to 1879, and the era of ''equaliza-
ton" cf com and paper, from 1879 to the
the currency alone finds his scientific conclu-
sions constantly set at naught by the facts
the interfering factor is the tariff. If he at
tempts to deduce general conclusions on the
tariff from admitted facts, he is perpetually
.hwarted by revulsionS due to the currency.
II he attempts TO combine the two in one he
IS still often perplexed in forming correct
The following compilation presents a COM
IA allfbt1 f ntsttp
upon those articles the duties upon which
would be affected by the Mills bill were IL to
become a law. Limitations It's to space, how
aver, have made 1t possible to show the most
notable changes only The items are CLASH
It alphabetically, the nomenclature of the
Mills bill being observed so far as has been
found practicable. The first date given in
hcates the Year the article under considera-
ion was first placed on the schedule the
next date the first change of note. etc
In every case, however, the rate of the
schedule of 1883, now in force, and referred
20 here as ISIS, " is given just before the fig
Tres proposed by the Mills bill. In the mat
Ter OF such articles as wool, iron, sugar, etc.
It has been thought better to give one short
explanatory paragraph than to attempt to
give the schedules i'll full. In fact, this would
'e impossible, as a comparison of the schedules
IN wool alone would quite fill this page. The
letters N: O. p. T. stand for mot otherwise
~ 5000 'N'' iiSA Z hAS bAe HSuIeS.
Acetate OF Lead browns 1912, 4 cts. ID.
1864. 20 cts. lb.; 1878. cts h., 1888, cts. lb.;
Mills bill. cts. ID.
Acetate of Lead. white: 1912, cts. ID;
1872, 10 cts ID; 1885, cts lb; Mills bill. cts ID.
Acid. fannie or tannin. 1864, $500 lb..
1875. Sl.o0 lb.: 1853. 81 ID: Mills bill so cts ID.
Acids, acstic, acetous and pyr,Ifr-
ae""s, exceeding specific gravity of AZ 1000 per
b.. 1872 20 per cent: 1864. so cts lb 1875 80 cts
b.; 1853, 10 cts. 1b.; Mills bill cts lb.
Acorns and Dnnd elton Root. and all sub
titutes for coffee IL. o. p. e. 1870 free 1875, cts
b.; 1883. cts. h.; Mills bill. free.
hiumt 1916. sl.00 and $500 cwt; 1924, q. cts. |
b.; 1872 IL cts lb; 1896 20 per cent; 1864 cts.
b; 1855, cts. lb.i Mills bill. free.
Annine OIL and its homologues: 1870. free:
$50. free: Mills bill. free
Anthony, as rcgllus or metal: 1908. free:
SIG. 20 per cent; 1864 10 per cent; 1875 10 per |
ant lSSS 10 per cent: Mills bill, free
Bags OF Jute for grain: 1884. 80 per cent: |
SIS, IS per cent; Mills bill, free
saryta. Nitrate OF, 1854. 30 per cent;
Ills bill. !. ct. Id.
Baryts, Suiphate OF: 1912 y ct LII. 1s.s
per ceut.; 1861. = ct. H.; 1855, 10 per cent:
ills bill, free.
Beads 1882. 10 per cent; 1892. IS per cent;
s46. 30 per cent 1854 so per cent: 1855 80 per
emit: Mills bill, 40 per cent.
Beeft 1874. ct. lb.: 1876. 20 per cent; 1864,
ct. h.: 1855. eta. ID; Mills bill, free.
ReeswaN, 1912, Is per cent: 1876 20 per cent,
SIS 20 per cent; Mills bill frees
Belts, endless. for paper or printing machines:
SIS. 20 cts Id and So per cent; 1855. 20 cts. h.
md so per cont Mills bill. 30 per cent
Bicarhonate OF Sodai 1864. IH cts ID
sSS. Ia cts. lb.i Mills bin. u ct. 10
Bichromxt- OF Potr sh; 1924. l2A.per cent:
So. 70 PER cent; 1864 cts. Ib. 1875. lets. H.;
SIS, 3 cts. ID; Mills bill. ~ cts. 10.
Hacking OF all kinds: 1854. so per cent? 1883.
3 per cent; Mills bill, 20 per cent.
Boards or PIanks. rough: 1912. per cent;
SIS, Sl.oo sud s2.oo per NJ hd meas; lsss. 81 90
md $500 per NJ BID. meas. Mills bill. free.
Boards or PIsnks, planned: IS.2, so per cent;
SIS. $40 and $50 per NJ add; 1883. Sl.oo and
'I.So per NJ add; Mills bill. free.
BoNnets; 1924 10 per cent 1916. so per cent:
Ses, so per cent: Is42. SIS per cent; IS46. 80 per
ent,; 1854 90 per cent; 1878. 40 per cent; 1855,
o Per cent: NJ lis bill. so per cent.
Borax. crude, 1912. free; 1886. IS per cent:
SGa cts. 10; 1878. free; 1883, cts. lb.; Mills
iii. free.
sorax, refined, 1ss9. IS per cent; 1854, 10
ts. ID: 1855. 5 cts. lh.; Mills bill free.
Bricks: 1871. 10 per cent: 1882 Is per cent;
s4a Is Ter cent. 1864. 20 per cent: Isss. 20 per