The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-05-01

! the tOilers together, discuss their duties
and teach and inspire them with true
p morality Sound rules of life must be
founded on religion"
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
The Republican committee have pre-
sented to congress their new tariff bill
and it is deep disappointment to the
Democrats and free traders, The Demo
cratic and mugwump press has constant
ly assailed the committee and as CON
stantly predicted dreadful results to
business from certain provisions which
they knew would become part of the
bill. The shoe manufacturers would be
ruined by tax on leather. The wooden
industry would be sacrificed to the wool
growers; and the people generally would
be wronged by increased taxation, and
the dangerous surplus would be larger
than ever. These and other pleasant
prophesies and accusations have been
the staple and substance of free-trade
discussion for months past. They saw
in the immediate future fatal divisions
among the Republicans and surprising
and decisive Democratic victories. New
England was to be captured by the re-
volt of the shoe towns and cities, and the
desertiOn of the wooden and iron manu-
factuTers. 1t was delightful spectacle
to witness the sudden and fervent sym
pathy for the wronged and suffering
manufacturers, by the same men, who
for years have denounced the manufac-
turers as 'robber barons," million
aires" the 'pampered pets of tariff and
privilege" Now they are willing to sac
rifice millions of farmers, miners and
iron makers to swell the profits of these
tariff favorites." And the inconsis-
tency and demagoguism is called ''re-
FORM and patriotism" and devotion
to the interests of New England.
Well, the new tariff bill does not tax
leather but retains it on the free list: it
protects the farmers WOOL but it in
creases the duties on wooden goods to
compensate for any additional cost of
raw material and also to reduce the i'm
pOrtatiOn of woOlen goods, which. for
the last year have exceeded fifty millions
in value. This adjustment of tariff
duties satisfies the farmers and the cloth
manufacturers, and not word of objec-
tion comes from these two branches of
industry. The shoe industry is satisfied
and content; but alas, the free trade
| cranks and the Democratic prophets are
not satisfied or content, but are dis
gruntled and Respondent and bitterly
disappointed. The tariff bill, instead of
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consolidate the party. The duties on
coal, iron and scrap iron are left lust
where the Mills bill fixed them and. of
course, the Democrats cannot object to
this. Besides, sugar is made free, and a
bounty giveu to the sugar growers for
protection and for the development of
beet and sorghum sugar in the West.
This will relieve the breakfast tables of
the people of an annual tax of over forty
millions. The repeal of other duties in
the bill will make total revenue reduc-
ton of some seventy millions. This
ought to crafty the Democrats who have
so dreaded and denounced the surplus:
but strange to say, they are angry and
bitter over this feature of the bill The |
South does not like it, and their north
ern allies follow suit and denounce it, |
The free traders have never desired to
remove the duties on sugar, because they
created surplus, and this surplus was
constantly used as the fulcrum of their
level for the overthrow of the tariff sys-
TEN. The surplus scarecrow will disap-
pear with the passage of this bill. So
far we have:
Free sugar !
Free hides
Adequate protection for the farmers,
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Besides, the duties on metal goods are
reduced, and on steel rails the present
duty of seventeen dollars ton is re-
duced to thirteen dollars.
The duty on tin plates is increased to |
stimulate home production and employ
American labor. We now import all our |
tin plates at annual cost of over twenty |
millions of dollars. The manufacture of |
tin plates is now an English monopoly |
established in Wales. This country has |
the iron, and tin, and the labor, and this |
industry should be home industry and |
not foreign monopoly. They assail |
this attempt to establish new Ameri- |
can industry, just as they opposed the |
tariff on steel rails. They say 1t will in |
crease the cost of the plates to consumer |
to the amount of the duty imposed, and |
establish another privileged plant to |
enrich millionaires and plutOcrats. They |
opposed the duty of twenty-eight dollars |
on steel rails with the same logic; but |
time and experience have exploded their |
logic and their predictions. Steel rails |
were selling $50 ton when the first |
tariff was imposed; they steadily de-
clined in price under protection, until |
to-day they are sold flor S33 a ton, as |
cheap as they are sold in the London
market. Experience and the develop
ment of American industries have con-
futed and crushed every essential dogma
of the free trade school. Its advocates
have been proved to be false in their
logic, mistaken in their predictions, pro-
foundly ignorant of the principles of
the protection policy and insensi-
BILE to the facts of history. The
unparalleled progress and prosperity of |
American industries during the last
twenty-five years is an unanswerable vim
dication of the tariff policy and a stag
gering blow to the free trade crusade. 1t |
is an enormous refutatiOn on a continen-
tai field of trial, of the free trade theo-
ries. 1t vindicates the craftsmanship
and patriotic wisdom of Washington.
Madison, Hamilton, jefferson and Frank
lin, the founders of protection, and it
scatters and destroys the sophistries, de-
lusions and falsehOods of Calhoun and
Davis. Bismarck, the founder of states
and empires, and profound student and
statesman, recognized the stupendous
victory of protection after the crucial
test, under war and peace, for twenty
five years and expressed his admiration
and wonder in the German Parliament
and advised Germany to adopt the pol
icy. And Germany accepted his advice,
discarded free trade and adopted the
protective policy. And Germany, under
this policy, is advancing in prosperity
and all her working men are receiving
higher wages. To all this; to all the
teachings of our own experience; in the
face of our amazing growth in Iall direc-
tians; against the teachings of all the
great statesmen of our history from
Washington to Lincoln, the free traders
can only repeat the pairot cry, 'the tariff
is a taxN'-NOrth adams Transcript.
''Do you think I'm a foOl?" asked
violent fellow of doctor. Really re-
piled the doctor, II would not have made
the assertion, but now that you ask my
opinion, am not prepared to deny it."
81 have seen dehorning machines,
and win very briefly describe them
seven black Polled Angus bulls" This
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