The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-30
A RAID ON THE BAR0NS
THE WHOLE COUNTRY TIRED OF
HIGH TARIFF TAXES.

House Which Show Which Way the
Wind Blows-Western Republicans
Not in Line With Their Party's
Leaders on the Issue.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The House to-
day went into committee of the whole
on the Indian appropriation bill Mr.. Nell
son, of Minnesota, took advantage of the
general debate to speak upon the tariff. 1t
was not honest, he said, to call men who
favored tariff reduction free traders. Men
who opposed all forms of tariff
reduction were not the only
friends of American labor, nor were
they the only guardians of American enter
prise. The question of protection or free
trade was not fairly involved in the problem
Congress had to solve. The question was
whether the surplus should be got rid of by
extravagar expenditures, or whether taxes
should be reduced. The great body of the
people were agreed that the surplus should
be reduced by the reduction of taxation.
The next question presented was whether
that reduction should be applied to the
tariff or internal revenue taxes.
LIQUOR AND TOBACCO.
A reduction of the tax on liquors he held
tobacco tax, while there was greater
diversity of opinion, he thought
there was no serious clamor for
its removal. Tariff taxes might
properly be divided into two heads
revenue taxes like that on tea and coffee.
and protective taxes like that on commodi-
ties not foreign to our own country. Only
so high duty should be laid as would fairly
cover the difference in the cost of produc-
tion here and abroad. That is what he
termed low tariff. Any rate above that
was a high tariff 1t had been the fashion
to ascribe the higher wages of this country
to the tariff. That he considered to be false
pretense.
HOW IT is ACROSS THE WATER.
England was free trade country, while
Austria, Germany, Italy and France were
protection countries, and vet wages in
England were much higher than upon the
continent. The main cause for the lower
wages of Europe was to be found in the
density of population and the greater sup
ply of labor.
He sent to the Clerks desk and had
read a letter received by him from
Charles A. Pilsbury, of Minnesota,
(who, he stated, was a prominent Kepubli-
cam, warmly commencing his course in
Congress upon the tariff question, and de-
Claring that 80 per cent. of the Democrats
and Is per cent. of the Republicans of Min
neSota agreed with him in his views. The
reading of the letter was applauded on the
Democratic side Mr. Nelson CONTINUING
said that when our oreat West Is fiIIad m
and we hepin tn annroxiuate Eurone in
population then our labor would fail to get
better wages under the protective system.
PROTECTION running AUSTRIA.
He read from Consular report to show
the bad effects attributed to the protective
tariff in Austria. When labor found moth
S ~ w anu VI eIe AoIiIu no mar
ss hev she 10 patient p1 was peFohd the reaGh OF
eaIlil Ieiileules. @ ne [elerreu 10 Cne Dill IN
iouu0Gu W li1iiseil l%aciils % si'SaI, Iiiniiia
nehiP' JuUe ana coal ana ssai grass on the
iree Ilst, ana sal9 Ihat taNlng sugar all
sll an eSery a5 uoilaI sworCn USED In tnls coun
ury pau o1C. III TAXES. TeInP' JUN slsal
edG gIGSS, nl'tullia anu WINES nad Lala SooOOO,
VOO IN taxes a curing IN 6ne last IlScal year on
i iIllpol u VI evo,Vog,ooo, ~; an average au va
q,,,rae fo1. tbdPnreoj,IaS, u od %
letter from a prominent farmer in his sec.
ton saving that binding twine cost 1870.
pfr roiInd7 which amounted TO 2c ner
bushel on wheat. and that some relief should
be afforded
Mr.. Wade. of Missouri. interrlpted the
speaker to declare that he bought his twine
at lie per nound
now TUT, ,y,,,r> d, ous
c.;: M ~ ~, W Di1o"o
- 1'oi0oIi oHU " oH0 U09A
anu hau read extracts from Mlnnesota
newspapers an ana private letters 20 nllnsel1
IaeofllS IafiH revision. Inc readlng was
received WIN greaG applause on the Demo-
crttlc slue. one OIL the9e letters was from
a ,I iuiliDe[ D ma lahulacGurer' VINO thahkea MIN
thr' NeIsoi! lot lhcluulng lunoer IN the
!lee llSO Oh ms Dill ana adalhg Ihat' except
&c reared IL would elnbarrass the measure,
ne "ou!o ne glad 10 see wool lhcIuded
alSo. announcer correspondent pegs relet
from tAe hlgh tax on window glass,
A91t,,o,,r1 ~ H. a. Co,'yt,.r, - 49,
long enough at the mercy Of Pittsburo,
manufacturers Still another man writes
that the Nelson bill is good enough as far
as it goes. but t.for Gods sake amend il by
putting wool on the free LIST y He adiure1
Mr.. Nelson NOT TO be frightened by the
bleating of the sheen They need no more
protection than the hogs and hens
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=, Inv ne" Wv inN mr.
:, Mr. Nelson next quoted " estern hepuo-
Iceh platIorms declaring IN lavor OF re,
ugeCl0h IN the tarift at an early nay, ana
aoue1, amidst the laughter anu applause OF
ne democrats, ana now, my Irlenus, IS
me appointed time" Continuing ne SAID
sherman had been forced at the meeting of
the necessity of tariff revision and