The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-06-07
II Il Riddlsd Unmercifnlly n the HOUSE
of Its Frisnds-Good Doctrine Advanosd
BY the High Tari6 Peopls-A symposs-
nm az Republican Lenders.

H1lCCee mas aImOSC wholly mistaken Jn0
popular demand for tariff reform. Listen
ing for days and weeks to the represen-
tatives OF special interests who, on the
committees invitation, hurried to Wash
ington to support their tariff bounties
and get more if possible, the COMMITTEES
reached the remarkable conclusion that
the country at large wanted such
changes as would advance prices on con-
sunsers and enable q few persons to pile
up great fortunes. The people
Of the west want. not an increase Of the
tariff, but a reduction OF duties all along
the line"
The Tribune, since writing these words,
has become ven outspoken, and Il
now demanding free wool and free raw
materials generally. On the general
question OF protection it argues that pro.
lection has made clothing dearer, while
at the anne time reducing the wages
Of the mill operatives. Editor Medill is
one Of the great lights Of his party, and
the friends Of tariff reform are curious
to see how he will adjust his relations
with the party In the near future.
The American, Of Philadelphia, which
is edited by Professor R. E. Thompson,
always defends protection on what II
thinks to bescientiflc and moral grounds.
Professor Thompson enjoxp the distinc-
ton of being the only prominent college
professor in the country who teaches
protection. The estimable professor says
in The American that the committee
ought to have put iron ore on the free
list. On the other hand, The Iron Age,
which is the principal trade journal Of
the iron industries and a protectionist
Of the straightest sect, remarks with
cruel bluntness that the professor wants
free iron ore because the Pennsylvania
Steel company wants to import free Gu
ban ores, and that it is to sshis friends
interest" to have the duty removed.
The Pittsburg Dispatch ridicules the
''rather cheap attempt to throw a tub to
the agricultural whale in advance Of the
duties on eggs, butter and potatoes"
The same paper thinks that the sugar
duties ought to have been abolished al
together. The Philadelphia Press, on
the ether hand, thinks that 1t may be
'sopen to demonstration that not sufi-
Client protection has been given to the
sugar refining interests"
It is from New England, however, that
the loudest complaints have come. The
kind of projection which is crushing
many New England industries has re-
ceived some heavy blows recently from
protectionist papers there.
The Boston Journal is the leading pa
per of its party in New England. It
says that the duty on hides is no more
defensible than the duty on raw silk,
which the committee was frightened into
dropping like q hot potato. The duty, it
says, would confer no ~appreciable benefit
upon farmers anywhere. which is the
opinion of even the New York Tribune.
The Journal thinks that ''the duty would
be q serious injury to the leather manu-
facturers and the great boot and shoe in-
dustry, and would be distinctly and de-
a step BACKWARD and it also
sees no good reason for the increase Of
the duty on carpet woods.
In this opposition to the wool duty The
Advertiser, which is equally or
prot~ectionist, concurs; but it's OPP
position is more pronounced. It says
that a large majority Of men engaged In
manufacturing would undoubt-
prefer to see lower duties on wool
The people, The Advertiser thinks, .are
not in q mood, at this period Of surplus
revenue. to be driven into unreasonable,
not TO say unnatural, protection"
The Boston Transcript says that New
England .sdoes not propose TO have IT'D
interests sacrificed for the benefit Of any
Of the new or the old states" and il
charges that the hide and wool duties
were put into the Mckinley bill ito pay
Of = political debt. :
The Philadelphia Telegraph expresses.
the same view. but with much greater
vigor. This Republican paper says:
when the Mckinley bill was promul-
gated the people for the first time were
made to understand that the fat fried ont
OF the specially protected firms. corpora
lions, combines and trusts was to be re-
turned, and that It was to be got BY con-
gress frying it out Of them. II this Nc
Kinley bill should become a law there
Is not . poor devil Of citizen from d
end OF the country to the other who will
not be put into the pan and placed over