The Iola register., 1890-05-09
AN EXCELLENT BILL.
10 Ii Framed In the Interest of the Peu
pie and Not of Classes.

n Il Framed In the Interest of the Peo-
pie and Not of Glasses.
We congratulate Major Mckinley and
the majority OF the House committee of
ways and means on the symmetrical
tariff bill that has been reported, after
q careful consideration of all the mani
fold and difficult questions of detail
that rendered perfect tariff an impos-
sibility, but which have never before
been met with more courage and firm
ness, and have never before been so sue
cessfully met
or most Of the main features of the
new tariff we have already spoken. The
changes have been few, but important
The free traders have tried to discredit
these changes because they were made
in Difference to Republican protests,
East and West. Well, Major Mckinley
will not try to deny that charge. He
has not acted in the spirit OF doc
trinaire having the power to enforce a
tariff constructed on the theoretic prin-
ciples and without regard to large local
interests Americans never would or
should endure that sort of legislation.
1t has been, on the contrary, the aim of
Major Mckinley to give to all interests
and industries and sections fair hear
ing, and to be just and considerate to
all. Hence the free trade clamor over
the concession to Massachusetts, of a re-
moval Of the proposed duty on hides,
and about other like wise and states
manlike surrenders to large interests
that had justice on their side.
The spirit of the whole tariff is eI-
pressed in these three comprehensive
sentences by the bill itself: ''This bill
Is framed in the interest of the people
of the United States. 1t is for the bet
ter defense of American homes and
American industries While securing
the needed revenue, its provisions look
alike to the occupations of our own peo-
pie, their comfort and their welfare, to
the. successful prosecution of industrial
enterprises already started, and to the
opening Of new lines of production
where our conditions and resources will
admit"
There are some features of the tariff
that may be considered as showing the
manner in which the committee has done
its work.
1. With regard to the protection of
our wool producers. The committee
sought and got the views OF that able
expert, General Rusk, the Secretary of
the Department of Agriculture, and, in
letter packed with instructive. trust
worthy and convincing statistics, he has
made out an unassailable argument for
the demands of the wool-producing in
terests, showing that by a continuation
OF the protective policy we could become
the greatest l-producing country in
the world, and of all the grades of wool
1t is believed that under the new tariff
our products of wool can be raised to
600. 900, 900 pounds a year, requiring
about 100000, 900 sheep while the
changes in the wooIen schedule will
transfer to the United States the
manufacture of from $4,000, 900 to
$50, 900, 900 Of woolen goods now made
abroad. ..... "
2. As to the tariff on pig iron The
report puts the case in a nutshell when
it says that sit is product Of the high
est skill, requiring for its manufacture
large and expensive plants, the capital
invested in which in our country to-day
more than equals that which is in
vested in any other branch of our iron
and steel industries. Pig iron is made
in twenty-five States in the Union. Its
manufacture Is increasing rapidly in
many States, largely as the result of
the protective duty. which has long
given encouragement to its production.
1t has had marvelously rapid growth
in the Southern and Western States in
the last ten years, and it is to-day the
leading manufacturing industry south
of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. 1t has
been the most potent of all influences
in the industrial rehabilitation of the
South"
3. As to the tariff on imported sugar
and the bounty on American sugar. It
is demonstrated that the bounty of 2
per cent on American sugar. involving
''the expenditure of but little more
than $1,000, 900 per annum, with the
present production of sugar in this
country, is far better than the imposi-
tion Of duty involving the collection Of
S55, 975, $40 in duties in the last fiscal
year, not to mention the amount in
involved"
4. The committee has acted in ac-
with the request of our best
American artists in putting foreign
works of art on the free list
So another cause Of constant COM
plant by the free traders has been re-
moved.
5. The great care shown in reviewing
the rise and progress of the silk in
dustry in this country and the recon-
of bounty for its encour-
agement is q notable feature of the re-
port
The tariff bill will stand the fire of |
the free traders in the House. Debate |
will make it popular, and the Senate
will accept it as whole, with few |
amendmentS-N. Y. Mail and Express. |
OUR HOME MARKET.
Il Absorbs from Ninety-Five to Ninety |