Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
THE MCKINLEY BILL.
How IT was Enacted and What its
Effects Are.

Effects Are.
The Hon. Henry &. Turner, of
Georgia. member OF the committee on
wAv~ and means in the last two Con-
crr-,'-. IN response to an invitation
iur contribution. sends the following,
Nhicl J. part ui an interview he re-
Gently gave ont 10 the CoHStitutioa
AMI other papers in Georgia:
The Mckinley hill was confcssedly
designed To- check imports. These
imports are the goods we receive
abroad ia exchange for our exports.
10 las increased burdens on these i'm
ports j. tAutamont to an imposition OF
new burdens on our cotton, corn,
wheat. and provisions, with which we
pay iur our imports. Our cotton,
corn, wheat and provisions will not
paw for a. much abroad as before. \
taull taN j. therefore, in effect an eX
port taN on everything we send abroad.
1t restricts our foreign market, and
ovcr-tocks the home market, with
consequent depression of prices OF
what our people sell and increase OF
the prices of what they buy. The Re
publican party seems to regard the
people rs Jacob did one of his sons:
q | - "a
down between two burdens
This tariff was put on us by means
fatal To- liberty It was done with the
high and 10y denying a hearing to
representatives. of the people. 1t was
enacted 10y means OF an imperious
Dictatorship in the only assembly of
representatives. Of the people provided
hy the constitution and in that house
IN which alone it was ordained that
revenue bills can originate.
"Thc conservative forces of this
country were never 50 united before
on this issue. The people are flushed
with victory ON this field rs they
never were before. They understand
the uses and abuses OF taxation. They
never knew So well the difference be-
tween revenue and robbery. | took
the liberty last winter of asking 4 very
noted Republican leader why his
party So ignored the last verdict OF the
people, and he replied that it was the
id lrummcrs that beat us" And il
may mix proianc and sacred things,
| believe that drummers, resenting
governmental interference with their
prices. hccamc APOSTLES of free trade
, that the merchants repeated Their
lessons over tie counters, and thell
: customcrs-thc pcople-never before
, had such practical and vivid illustra
tions uf the cXtortions of the tariff
There will he still better texts fol
these commercial gentlemen mex
year. II is great advantage to know
the ground and 10 understand the us,
. of the artillery.
"On the basis of last years imports
We can, 10y additions to the free lis
and 10y "A judicious reduction Of pro
% tcctivc duties on the necessaries o
Y life. release to the people hundred
, millions OF revenue. BY the inciden
I tai effect Of such II measure we cal
relieve the people of two or three hun
p. drcd millions more now paid to manu-
D.. iacturers in protective prices of thei
- products. Such a reduction can b
.. made without the least embarrassment
p To the government, and will afford tn
4 best protection against wasteful pre-
=, nigacy. II would in single yea
= amount To more than all the gold an
all the silver found or mined last yea
), throughout the world. 1t would b
- better to leave these millions with tn
r. people than to have the entire yiel
- Of both the precious metals among a
4 the nations for last year turned int
4 coins in our mints barring our supe
a. scriptiOn-
j. a bird in the hand is worth two
L. the bush" a dollar in the pocket
r. worth ten in somebody else's poke
Of But such saving to our people woul
ic Ice greater and better than a make
H. gift Ia them, without any cost to ther
ic of all the money that could be mac
c- out Of all the new gold and silv
r. found last year among all mankint
g II would bc money made in their ow
va min,s, coined by their own industrio1
IL hands. in the sweat Of their faces.
iy would bs their own.
lie This cause OF tariff reform ther
at fore implies opposition to class legisl
Mt ton, oppressive taxation, tinanci
nj construction, extravaganza in publ
.cr expenditures, arbitrary methods
legislation, and the singular iniqui
of taking the scant money of the po
oi sections of the country and bestowi
Ias it upon that section which is alrea
ng rich. And | confess that while
~ have the enemy down ardently lo
."i to see him smittcn hip and thigh
ar all these tremendous issues"
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