The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-09-13

tHaU sum, ana the Oalance tor the supply
of our people is either imported directly
or in the shape of yarns and clothing
That will always be so. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the duty is more than
90 per C mt. upon woods, and notwith-
standing the fact that this bill will make
1t about 80 per cent upon clothing made
OF wool, yet lnasmuch as We do not fur
nlsh the necessary supply for our own
people, the foreign article will come in
at an enormous price. l have no exact
means of telling the difference that the
American people pay in consequence of
these enormous duties and the amount
that they would have to pay for their
| clothing if the duties were not in ex-
lstence.
SENATOR VANCE went on to say that
he believed that woollen duties cost the
American people not less than 800, OOO,-
900 per year. He declared that this tax
| and all other tax not necessary was in
f1icted on the American people osTENsI-
BLY, for the sake of 100000 men, but
REALLY for the private profits of 15O,-
/ GOO capitalists who are engaged in man
ufacturing. We quote again:
| It does not stop there, Mr.. President.
| would that it did. We are taxed by
this bill likewise in advance for manu-
factures which are yet unborn; taxed
not to support them, not to help their
| infant struggle into manhood, but taxed
| to bring them into existence, and that
| most enormously. You will remember,
| Mr.. President, that in the discussion on
! tin-plate it was shown that the increased
| duty imposed upon that article would
make duty of $15, 200, 900 per annum,
| and that it would take at least five
years to start mills enough to make one
half of our supply, and that therefore
we should pay tax without particle
Of benefit in anticipation of pauper
industry for five years amounting in the
total to 1000, 900.
At the same time, sir, that the tax on
tin plate was doubled the duty upon
cotton ties was trebled, or very nearly
trebled, and if the manufacture of cot
ton-ties was as difficult to start as the
tin plate industry, ard it had to endure
that present tax Of lO5 per cent for five
years i'll oIder 10 get the manufacture of
ties started here, it would cost the peo-
pie Of the South, who alone use this ar
ticle, over $4,000,0O0, and after it was
started they would have to pay still
higher prices than they now pay for the
European article. Where is the states
manship in that? Where is the Justice
in it? Where is the policy, where is the
common sense in reaching out and tax
ing ourselves beforehand in the hope
that, though there be none here now,
preadventure, perhaps, please God,
some day there may be such a manufac-
tory started?
| Why, Mr.. President, common sense
says ''No; do not subject yourselves to
such tax as this. You have got wheat
that is rotting in the barns and begging
TO 60 abroad for sale. You have got a
surplus Of cotton, you have got sur
, plus Of meats, and the European men
, who make the tin plate are hungering
} for your products. Why not exchange
them at once and be done with it?" But
, the policy of this bill says, mo; do not
do that; let your wheat rot, burn your
corn in your stoves, and keep your cot
ton at home for the purpose of depres-
sing the price Of that which you have to
) sell abroad; do anything and everything
> except depend upon foreigners if you
please or establish by taxation the fac
tory for these things at home by paying
3 | Two pounds of cotton where you now
) pay one, or two bushels Of wheat where
! you now pay one. That is the policy oi
] this bill.
t Mr.. President, another
f objection to this bill and | will have
done-that is, will quit. It is intensly
f and scandalously sectional in charcter
8 There can be no doubt about that by any
one who looks at the bill. Sugar is
< made free. 1t is a Southern product
q The machinery for manufacturing sugar
f from beets in the Northwest, in you
t country, sir Mr.. Ingalls, in the chair ii
S made free; and not Onl SO, but all tina
e has been bought from the 1st of Janu
l. ary up to this time, and the duties pai(
e thereon shall be refunded, but the ma
e chinery for the sugar that is made in tn,
J., low country of Louisiana is taxed heav
J. lily as usual.
u Rice is a Southern product and th
r. duty is reduced. Binding twine is mad
d free for the Western fields, but the dut
n on cotton ties is trebled, and the dut
v on jute bagging remains at high rat
h still upon the dutiable- list. That is th
h way it goes
d Mr.. President, l heard of Dutchma
D. once who was describing horse race, i
which the best horse was beaten, an
v there was universal suspicion of fou
t play, that the owner of that horse ha
7e hedged up his description by saying, 6
"a tell you, my dear friend, be may hay
er made some money, but | would no
ye give my house and lot for the cussir
at what dot man takes" would not hav
J.. given my house and lot to have cast
ID vote over there for free binding-twin
IN and turn right around and vote to put
,g high tax upon jute bagging.
e. believe, sir, that the Western ia
j. mer, as he sweets in the harvest-fel
O. and gathers his golden grain and bind
t. it with free twine, will be ashamed
ty look in the face of his brother farmer {
es the South. | think he would blus
ed through all the dust and CRIME of tn;
of harvest field, and he would not endul
a to be told by his Southern brother, IN
en- Senators voted to give you free binding
e twine, but your Senators as soon as the
,e had received that favor turned roun
he and doubled and trebled the duty on tt
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