The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-04-10
HIGH TAXATION.
THIS Is THE PURPOSE OF THE McKIN
LEY BILL


It is General Attack on American In
dustries, and is in the Interest of
Trusts.
| EFsom tie National, ,Democrat.]
The tariff bill which has at last been
reported to the ways and means COM
mittee by the Republican Members
thereof is first and foremost an attack
o" the manufacturing industries of this
country. The protests of the shoe and
leather men of New England, New
York and Pennsylvania against the
tax on hides led the committee to aban
don the project and restore hides to
the free list, where they have been for
18 years to the great advantage of
| American labor aid commerce. But
at the imperative demand of four great
beef packers in Chicago and some of
the great cattle syndicates OF the far
West, the Republican Members of the
committee changed their minds again
and decided to put tax on hides,
which is opposed by the New York
| Tribune, the. Boston Home Market
Club and the entire shoe and leather
trade, regardless Of localities or.poli-
tics. @
The cordage industry is threatened
without any compensating benefit to
the farmers of the Northwest, who
have been demanding free fibres and
free binding twine. The Mckinley
bill makes the duty on binding twine
a cent and a half a pound, and while
it puts jute and sisai on the free list, it
fixes a duty of $25 ton on hemp and
hemp or fax tow, and Mayor Filter,
of Philadelphia, who was one of the
candidates in Chicago in 1888 FIR the
Republican Presidential nomination,
says that the Mckinley bill would,
if it became a law, drive to Canada
and Mexico an industry now employ
ing $4,000 Americans.
The duties on imported tobacco will
infict serious, if not a disastrous,
blow upon large cigar making indus
try.
The woollen industry fora year past
has been in critical condition fail
ures have been unprecedented. The
carpet industry has suffered especially.
The Mckinley bill strikes blow at
this decaying industry by raising the
duties on all grades of wool. It is at
tempted to offset this by incre. sed du
ties on all woollen pr8ducts. but this
will simply increase the prices to the
consumer; the hi cher prices the man
ufacturer will have t. charge will re
strict his sales and leave him worse off
than he is now.
The bounty of fseven cents pound
for cnconns and 81 pound for raw
silk is a gross injustice tn the men who
raise corn anil wheat and potatoes and
pork. and not only get no bounty, but
cannot sell their p' 'oduce at remuner-
alive prices
These changes of duties are designed
to make the farmer feel that his inter
ests are being conserved. They will
not accomplish that result in any ap
preciable degree because this country
produces an excess of agricultural
commodities. We can protect the
American manufacturer against the
foreigner because the foreigner send:
goods to this country. But our agri
cultural products go abroad We al
ready produce more than we consume
Within a short distance of the Cana
dian border American farmers may
feel foreign competition slightly, bu
this does not extend to our agricultu
raj interests generally. The Canadian
barley is imported, not because it j
cheaper, but because it makes bette
malt. The price of wheat is fixed il
London in competition with the whea
of Russia, Indiana, South Americ
and Australia. Corn is not much ex
! ported or imported. Of pork we pre-
duce much more than we need a
home, and European countries hav
closed their ports against our pork be
cause we have closed our ports to thei
products. American wool is use
mixed with foreign wool, and a blo'
} at the manufacturers Of woollens. j
: the shape of an increased duty o
wool, will simply re act against tn
: domestic wool raisers. -
The increase of duty en- tin plate
after next year will raise the price o
3 every tin pot and pan it will raise th
! cost Of every can Of vegetables, and
:: the Gamers cannot get the increas
? out of their customers they will get
out of the farmers by paying less fo
9 the vegetables they put up; it will ais
2 raise the price Of every tin roof an
! every sheet iron roof.
: The Mckinley bill is bill to rain
taxes for the benefit of the beef pacl
ers of Chicago, few sheet iron mar
t ufacturers in Pittsburg, the stare
t trust, the linseed oil trust, the lea
trust, and some other large combin,
tions of capital. Even the New Yor
9 Tribune warns the farmers that the
g will get NO good out of the hide dut
9 1t Is "a tariff for protection, with il
7 cidental revenue" says the New Yor
p Herald, such as the Republican pla
q form promised and as all Republics
q speakers pledged themselves to NAL
: if the people would restore them
; power.
,, It is as iniquitous and oppressive
law as has ever been proposed sin,
the foundation Of the governmen
Every corporate and capital intere
= that afried out" finds its reward
3 The bill, which strikes at the hal
: : earnings Of the laboring poor in eveI
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