The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-10-11

production of domestic wool was sc. 264. 81
pounds, or ~ pounds per capita, while il
1884, after twenty -four years of protection
the total production had increased to 800.
OO0, 900 pounds, or 5.4 pounds per capita
This increase justifes the policy Of affcrdins
this important agricultural product ade
quate protection. It is only bv tn.
maintenance of the American system tina.
the operatives in American wooler
mills can hope to retain the immense advan.
tages in respect of wages which they have
over the workingmen of England, Germany
and France. The protection Of the allied
industries of wool and woolens has not
however, leen beneficial alone to the per
sons employed in wooden mills 1t has al
the same time, helped to increase the wage
and to employ operatives in working III
OO,OOO,O pounds where but sc, 200, OO(
pounds were manufactured. Coinciden
with this constant advance in wages and en-
larged employment there has been grea
reduction in the cost Of wooden goods t.
American consumers. =
The Reduction on Sugar.
In conclusion, the report says:
s'The excessive duty Of from to 81 cent
pound now imposed upon sugar adds i
considerable sum to the daily cost of living
of every family in the United States. The
high rates of duty have not successfully de
veloped the sugar producing industry of tn.
United States. The natural advantage
which the producers of cane sugars in thu
tropical islands have over those of tai
United States preclude domestic competition
upon equal terms, if it were not for the fac,
that parties interested in the production o,
sugar from sorghum or beets are confident
of the rapid development of these industries
the committee would recommend still
greater reduction in the rate of duty upon
sugar.
Your committee has considered numer
GUS suggestions for the repeal of all internal
revenue taxes and the abolition of the en-
tire internal revenue system, but it deem.
the adoption of this course at present botl
lmpracticable and unwise, not only because
the repeal of these taxes would create large
annual deficit but for the other reason that
the taxes levied on distilled spirits used as
beverage and on beer should be retained.
and the legislation to protect American
dairy products from fraudulent limitations
should be enforced"
"a Sectional BILL
The majority terms the Mills bill "a sec
tional bill, +" and says it's provisions spoint
to an attempt to discriminate in favor of
the planters of the cotton growing States.
This discrimination, = it says, lis not less
marked in favor of the people of Canada
and against the farmers and the lumbermen
living along our northern border.''
The majority treats at length upon the
advantage of home market for food pro-
duets, arguing that the number of our food
consumers, rather than of food producers.
should be increased. 1t is true. it saws.
that the decline in prices of agricultural
products has been very great but the value
of these, when measured by the value of
clothing, farm utensils, and other necessi-
ties of a farmers life, is much greater now
than in any Of the years preceding 1860.
The report denies that the Mills bill only
makes an average reduction of 3d. 80 on
every $500 of dutible merchandise imported.
1t enumerates number of articles which
paid an average ad valorem rate in 1887,
under the present law, A. 46 per cent, and
would have paid under the provisions of
the House bill 22.51 per cent, and says that
instead or retaining an average ad valOrem
rate upon all articles enumerated in the bill
OF 1918 per cent it would actually retain
but %. 81 per cent.
The majority defines free trade country
as one which does not impose protective du-
ties upon importation, and says:
careful comparison of the provisions of
the House bill with the detailed suggestions
contained in the resolutions will show with
what fidelity the program of the free trade
conference held in Chicago in 1885 has been
followed in every essential particular.
The majority deny that war tariff is
being maintained in time of profound peace,
and express the opinion that the sections of
the House bill intended to modify existing
laws relating to the tax on distilled spirits
are certain to open wide the door to fraud
in the collection of taxes on distilled spirits.