Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-11-03

be sufficiently reduced without maxim.
inroads ON the protective system has led
them to fancy mathematical calculations.
About one-half of the reduction il is
claimed the Senate bill would make is on
account of the elimination Of internal tax
from tobacco and alcohol used in the arts.
This is as far as the Republicans dare 90.
in the present state Of public sentiment.
ia the direction of free whisky but it
is long stride, nevertheless. If this bill
should become q law, the quantity Of
''alcobol used in the arts would be
amazing The door would be opened to
frauds more gigantic than have eyer dis
graced our revenue system, and 1t would
be necessary to have considerable addi-
tions to the official list TO keep the whisky
business straight
Used in the arts is a veneering
phrase, intended to deceive the people
who want whisky, If it must be distilled
and used, to pay the expenses of the Gov
eminent, as far as may be. leaving the re-
duction in taxation to be made on the
necessaries of life. A removal of all the
internal revenue is plainly the ultimate
purpose of the Republicans. and the bill
reported by Mr.. Allison is chiefly con-
spicious as an entering wedge which. in
hllAuS lIduIt ~ AOGng Will GBiAh
the whole structure.
The chief objection to our internal
revenue system, on the part of those who
take a dispassionate and non.Dartisan
view of the matter, is the danger of cor
ruption under il. This the Senate doc
tors offer no remedy for. On the con-
trary. they relax the quarantine, and pro-
vide for the spread of the disease.
The next chief feature OF the bill is the
reduction in sugar. This is the PROPOSE
ton that threw the Republican members
from Kansas and California into open
revolt when Mckinley and others were
trying TO frame something TO offer as q
substitute for the Mills bill 1t is not
likely to prove more satisfactory. because
it has received the party stamp of ap
proyal at the Senate end Of the Capitol
| The Representatives from Kansas and
California cry for stiff protection for
their infant experiments in saceharinc
production.
Other parts of the Senate bill are framed
with view TO swinging particular inter
csts into the Republican column. rather
than with the purpose to fairly and intel
| ligenily revise the tariff. Ii is a strictly
party measure, with present party emer-
gencies uppermost in consideration. II
| Is luli Oh springs 10 CdlCn MOouCoCh.
The whole wooden schedule is raised
in the hope that the manufacturers in the
| three doubtful states may be led to the
conclusion that their only hope lies in the
triumph of Harrison and Morton. and
that it is their supreme duty TO give their
employees a holiday at the election and
inform them that it will hardly be neces-
sary for them to return the next day il
/ the Democrats win
There is a sufficient reduction in the
metal schedule TO promote the process of
| frying the fat out Of the Pennsylvania
manufacturers The design seems to be
to convince them that the new bill is bet
Ter for them than the one which passed
/ the House
Lumber is undisturbed, fact which is
significant Of the Republican fear that
Michigan may drop into Democratic line.
| The lumber barons are notified that they
must assist The party which protects mo-
popolies In brief the bill is full Of bids
| for the support Of the money interests Of
the country and is poor in promise to the
/ people