Telegram-herald., 1890-06-12
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.


PLANTS AGAINST IT.
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What = rEas EAturs q the complaints
Against thLs b.ly That it shuts 10 out =
= fgresza market 10. fgr whatever ths.t
= worth y our clrizets WI D. f-sE ,ss
accessibls 9l1er tbs ia ss uateT ne
p-sseIl iaw We place 10 tax or bur
dsn 81 restraint gpon AUeril a. EE,1l.cts
gong out u tAs o0antTy They aze -
tree to SEEK ths beet market - ths
products q any nv-l com2lzrcsasl power,
and a. free - ~ ouE ~ thOlgh ,Fe Rad
absolute free trade. Statistics show that
prutectlve tariffs have not interrupted
0ur export trade. bat that It has increased
under taem
IL the year 1873. bsing the frs year
after the protective tsir II 1872 went
into gIeist.Qn. Our exports exceeosd our
imports go. 5s2 ~. and IN ths follow
iag year they exceeded our imports
s5.l3l 228. Ia tho Two years following
Tie excess Il imports over exports Was
$l545j .00. The last year under the
tariff ths excess u exp0r,s over imports
was s34.3l7.249. - during the five wears
of the tarlE of 1872 the excess IF exports
over imports was So SIS coo Under
tho low tariff of 1916 this was reversed,
an1. Wi-h tho Eingie exception Of 1888.
the imports exec ecied the exports cover
Ing period II fourteen years $ie5, $685.
62J.
During the war and down to 1875 the
Imports with two exceptions exceeded
tho exports From 1875 down 70 1889
Inclusive covering period OF fourteen
years. there we're only two years when
chr imports exceeded our exports, and
.he total excess Of exports over imports
was 81 .JSl sos. 81 of the products Of our
own people more tnan we brought into
the United States. The balance % trade
has been almost un!nrerruvte3ly IN our
favor Guringthe Protective Tariff periods
Of our history, and aCaiH5t Us with few
exceptions during Revenue Tariff peri
ods This would seem 70 indicate a
h-1llhful business condition with tho
outside world, resulting from the Re-
publican economic system. and an IN
healthful condition, where we had 70
send money out os the country TO pay
our balances under the Democratic sys-
TEN.
The chief complaint against this bill
comes from importers and cOnsignees
here, on the one hacd. and the foreign
merchants and consienors abroad. Why
Go they complain? Nan;sestly because
in some way this bin VIII check their
business here AMI increase The busi-
ness OF our own manufacturers and pro-
ducers; il VIII diminish the importation
Of competing foreign goods and increase
the consumption OF our home made
goods. This may bs q good reason to
influence the foreigner 10 oppose its pas
sage. but IS hardly a sound reason why
Americans should oppose it.
If the bill checks foreign importations
Of goods competing with ours, Il VIII IL
crease orr production and necessarily
increase the demand for labor at home.
This may be n good reason why the
cheap labor Of other countries should be
unfrieudly TO this bill, but furnishes the
best OF reasons why the worllEen of the
United States should favor il as they do.
We do not conceal the purpose Of this
biil-we want our own countrymen and
all mankind 10 know it. 1t is 20 increase
production here. diversity our productive
enterprises, enlarge the field and in
crease the demand for American work
men.
What American can oppose these
worthy and patriotic objects? Others
not Americans may find Justification for
doing so. This bill is an American bill
L. is made for the American people and
American interests.
The pres. Of other countries has de-
nounced the bin with unrneasGrei sever
ity. the legislative assemblies OF more
than one distant country have given it
attention in no friendly spirit. It has
received the ccnsrre Of diplomates and
I foreign p0wers-fo- al of which there is
manifest reason-it may pinch them,
bat no American citizen surely can OBJ
joct 10 i on that account. We are not
leyislating for any ration but our own;
. for our people and for no other people
are we charged with the dnHes OF legis-
lation. We say - our foreign brethren,
we VIII not interfere IN your domestic
legislation; We almonish you 70 keep
vo1r hands off of ours"