The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-20
lobor 10 this market in competition with

labor 10 this market In competition with
'sf' ." s'm prWluct, representing
sh"' MI pti''r paid labor. It results
-. s.s.by our money, our manufactures
and our markets to other nations. to the
injury Of our labor, our tradespeople.
and our farmers. Protection keeps
home for the benefit OF our own people.
II is scarcely worth while to more
than state the proposition that taxation
upon foreign competing product il
more easily paid and less burdensome
than taxation upon the non.cOmpeting
product. In the latter it is always added
to the foreign cost, and therefore paid
by the consumer, while in the former.
where the duty is upon the competing
product, It Is largely paid in the form OF
diminished profits to the foreign pro.
ducer. It would be burdensome beyond
endurance to collect our taxes from the
products, professions, and labor Of our
own people.
THE INCONSISTENCIES OF THE BILL.
There is another singular thing In
connection with this bill, and I have
nowhere seen attention called TO it,
Now do not intend to examine the bill
item by item. The minority OF the Com.
mittee on Ways and Means (whose
views, on behalf OF my political asso-
ciates, presented) went sufficiently
over the bill in detail. But there are
few striking things in the bill which the
country understand. No one would
have supposed from hearing this discus
sion but that the bill reduced duties all
along the line. You never would have
suspected, had you listed to the gentle.
man from Texas ]Mr. Mills, or the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania Mr.. Scott,
or the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.
Bynum], or other gentlemen OF the
Ways and Means Committee, that this
bill increased duties, would you? How
many men on the other side OF the
House know what is in this bill? !
would like to poll them.
Now here is single item, steel billets.
The present duty on stell billets Is As
per cent. ad valorem. In this bill 1t Is
increased to 81 per ton, which is equiva-
lent to GS 30 per cent.--an advance Of As
per cent. DO you know what Is made
out OF these steel billets? Wire fencing,
which incloses the great fields of the
West and the raw material Is increased
As per cent. by this bill; and If the prin-
ciple of the gentlemen who advocate the
bill be true, that the duty is added to
the cost, every pound of wire fencing
that goes to the West will be increased
from one-quarter to one-half cent
pound all this under Democratic bill.
What else is made out of stell billets ?
Nails, which everybody uses, which
enter into the everyday uses OF the peo.
per cent, and the raw material Is in.
| proaooA AZ nor s,aut Ao n friond uoop
me suggests, when one end goes up the
other goes down and the latter, trust,
will be the fate of this bill.
Why, sir, the duty on wire fencing is
only As per cent. ad valorem yet the
billet from which wire fencing is made
must pay in this bill SO per cent. Here
| [illustrating]i is piece of wire rod drawn
from these steel billets and which finally
goes into fencing. This is dutiable at As
| per cent. under this bill /; and the steel
from which IL is made Is dutiable at 63
per cent. What do you think of "raw
material for manufacturers No &C.
count is here taken OF the labor required
to draw the rods.
But, Mr.. Chairman, that is not all
which is remarkable about this bill, this
great bill which is based upon principle,
1t is said, which the President stands be-
hind and beneath, and which he insists
shall be passed, whether or no, in this
House, and for the passage OF which he
is dispensing official favors for, as the
Post, of this city, says, ''there is an
Allentown for every Sowden."
What else? Here, for example, are
cotton.ties, which present another queer
freak in this bill. Everybody knows
what cotton-ties are they are hoop-iron
cut into lengths just large enough to 60
round a bale Of cotton. Now, If the
Southern cotton planter wants some OF
this hoop.iron with which to bale bis
cotton he goes to the custom house at
New York or Charleston and cuts off oil
cent OF duty; but If tho farmer.consti.
tucnt of my friend who sits before me
Mr.. Nelson or your farmer constituent
want some hoop iron Of precisely the
same width and thickness and goes to
the custom. house TO get it the Govern
ment makes him pay one cent and 9
hall of duty upon every pound he takes
while 1t let's the cotton. planter take hit
for nothing. II the Western farmer
wants 1t for his bucket or his barrel OF
to 90 on his wagon. bed, or II the washer
woman wants 1t for her washtub, every
one OF these must pay cent and hal
pound, under the philosophy OF tn,
gentleman who framed this bin, whil'
the cotton.planter gets his absolutel.
free OF duty.
Gentlemen, is that fair? I appeal :,
Southern men who sit before me ap
peal to Northern Democrats who 81
around me is that fair upon any princi
pie of Justice or fair play? Talk abou
sectionalism You raise the question
in your bill you make sectional issu
which deeply regret, and ! am sur
, you must upon serious reflection.
, There are some other features in thi
' bill which are little singular. The pre-
posed duty on white lead is 2 cents
, pound, while orange mineral, which
4 made from while lead, is reduced to on
!. cent and hall pound. That il anothe
0 case of high duty upon raw material an
low duty upon the finished product.
q Why, what in the world, Mr.. Chai
|. man, has this bill done for the peopl
!. anyhow? What has it done for tn
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