St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
THE GRARRERs, POOL.

There has been great deal of gable
by the tariff makers over the protection
to farmers in the duties on farm prod
ucts that are never imported to amount
to anything. No intelligent farmer is
deceived by this into accepting the new
connection as not an unequal produc-
ton. his share coming entirely in the
added burdens. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat is of the most stalwart school
of RepublicaniSm, but it never sacri-
fees news for party. Its Washington
correspondent gives an interesting ac-
count in detail of the formation of this
MCKINLEY tariff. which is conceded to
be without precedent in the history of
this and most other countries for the
favoritism it exhibits for class interests.
Two or three of the points explained by
this writer may be noted. The maple
sugar bounty was not intended to be-
come a part of the bill. and was orig
lnally put there to placate the venerable
MORRILL,. of Vermont, with the under
standing that it would he struck out in
conference. But when the time came
for striking out, Senator EDMUNDs
threatened to vote against the bill if it
were put out. Of course, this settled its
retention, and the sugar makers in YER
mont will be paid two cents pound for
all their product out of the common
treasury. A senator from Montana. OF
one of the big cattle states, insisted
upon duty On hides. Massachusetts
kicked, Senator DAWES stating that it
would send six Democrats to congress
if its shoemaking industry were bur-
dened in this way. Hides were left on
the free list. a Kansas senator wanted
spruce lumber OH tine free list, but the
retort came from Maine that it would
give that state to the Democrats. Maine
was saved, of course, at the expense
of cheaper lumber. The proposition
to strike out the clause allowing
the importation of brandy to rein
force California wines was sacri-
feed to the menace that California
would go to the Democrats. 1t was pro-
posed to reduce, instead of raise the
duty on mems buck gloves. Glovers-
Vile, n. T., rose up i'll fiery wrath in
the person of Senator HISCoCK, and de-
manded the highest duty as the price of
loyalty to the party. Consequently, the
| gloves have been advanced in price
S1.50 pair. the amount of the in
creased duty on those imported. This
is not one OF the cases to be used by
! those who undertake the ponderous
task OF showing that high duties make
the home products cheaper. This Re-
publican authority uses this language:
ION the outside there has been much
fair and patriotic talk about protection
| OF home industries. On the inside tariff
legislation has degenerated into a grab
for special interests" He says that
eight Republicans drafted the orig
lnal bill, six of the eight repre-
sentatives of the manufacturing
centers of the East, and but
one from the agricultural states of the
West. The senate committee and the
conferrees Of both houses were of SINH
| lar stamp, and the measure became a
law very much as the grabbers dictated.
| The narrator sums up the story with
this statement:
"The short of is that this tariff legislation
| has been by, of and for the manufacturing
Interests of the country. The crop raiser has
| not had fair show at any stage of the
| game"
1t is possible that some gratitude is
due those obese gentlemen who were
in quest of larger profits in their busi-
ness, that they did not ask still higher
rates, as Senator CAMERON represented
the Republican disposition when he
said that his only aim was to secure the
highest rates proposed. 1t was simply
a grab affair, manufacturers pool, in
which 1.-The crop raiSer' had no hand.
Although this is indisputabie. it Is
somewhat surprising that Republican
authority should so clearly confess the
| truth.