The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-15
Nleveland Leader.l

ton takes no account OF the many articles
on which, like sugar up 10 No. Is, Dutch
standard. the duty is reduced 100 per
Cent.-abolishcd. The needs of the gov
ernmcnt require the collection of customs
10 the amount of about S225, 900. 900 an
nualy, and the smaller the number af
articles on which duty is collected the
higher, of course. the rate must be.
The new law lcvies higher al valorcm
rate on the articles remaining on the
dutiable list. but it reduces the ad
valorem rate on all imports. Seeing that
the net decrease IN customs revenues will
be about so, coo. 900 tcOuld not be other
wise. The average al valorcm on all
imports under the Old law was about 30
per cent; under the Mills bill il would
have been 2Sl5 per cent; on the basis of
last years imports it will be p per cent.
under the new law. That is the right
way, and the only right way. To figure
the true ad valorem rate. If all the du-
ties were entirely swept away except
that on rice we should have a 100 per
cent. tariff, for that is the tariff on rice,
according TO Mr.. Carlisle's method of
calculation.
The new law. Mr. Carlisle says will
reduce the revenues but increase tax
by saying that il will increase the prices
of certain articles more highly pro-
tected than heretofore by an amount far
greater than the net reduction of the
revenues. He aflirms that there will be
a heavy increase in the prices of articles
in the iron. wool, cotton. and flax and
linen schedules, owing TO higher protec-
ton, and that this increase will aggre-
gate many times the $40, 0O0.0 900 net re-
ductiOn in the revenues. Mr.. CarliSleS
whole theory. IL will be seen, is based
upon the assumption IF large increase
i'm the prices OF such articles. If
they are not so increascd-not for
month or a year, which is possible, but
permanently. for term of ycars-then
the whole foundation will be knocked
from under his argument. To prove
that prices will not be permanently in
creased by the higher protection. q
hundred Illustrations could be given.
The one instance of wire will snail suffice.
The duty on wire nails was more than
doubled in 1883, when we did not pro-
duce a pound OF them. The price was
then So a keg. 1t is now less than 50
keg. 'Mr. Carlisle has put himself on
record as predicting results from the
new law that will not occur-prcdiction
that will return TO confuse and confound
him, and all his free trade associates,
within five years.
Senator Carlisle objects to the bounty
whole country, and OF the fact that the
protective policy equalizes its advan-
tages by affording protection to the iron
i'm one state, the wool i'm another, and
the sugar in third, thus creating di-
versifcation of industry and an ease
and rapidity of exchange beneficial TO
the whole country, and impossible under
other conditions.
The final objection of the Kentucky
senator to the new tariff law is in regard
10 the so-called reciprocity provisions
He says the law does not provide for rec
iprocity at all, but for retaliation, and
that 1t clothes the president with unwar-
ranted power TO levy duties upon the
lugar, tea, coffee o. other articles from