The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-12
s TARIFF on WALL pAsER.

what the "Rsform" Club sayS-But tAs
Free Traders Left Duty - II Whss
They Framed the Mills 3tll-SOunOshinR
About the Industry.
Tariff Reform Is the name. printed In
large type. across the head OF four
page pamphlet recently issued. It 10
the latest addition to the series issued
by the "Reform" Club, and, like its
predecessors, while pretending to give
only facts, twist them out Of shape, and
deduces conclusions totally unwarrant-
ed, even by its own data. Their pre-
paration and printing is paid for out Of
the always OVERLOOKING treasury Of the
''reformers, and they are gratuitously
distributed in the rural districts, where
the high-soundingk phrases descriptive
of the "reformer's" devotion to truth
will find easier credence than in local.
tiles where his dishonest purposes and
interruptions methods are better known.
The particular document under con-
sideration treats of "Wall Paper and
the Tariff" 1t reviews the rapid pro-
gress of the industry in the United
States, and, with stupidity ins~plic-
able, gives table Of the rates Of duties
at various times, showing that the do
mestio industry from its earliest begin
nings was well protected In 1850 it
shows the duty was ~ per cent; in
1890, 10 per cent in 1892. Is per cent. |;
in 1908, TX per cent; in 1916, IS per
cent and in 1924. 40 per cent. That is,
the great statesmen who shaped the
destinies Of the young republic, and
started it on its marvellous career Of
industrial development, foresaw the
great future of paper making, and gave
it ever more and more protection, till it
had 40 per cent Tariff wall about it
in 1924. The relation of cause and effect
between the table OF tariff rates and
the wonderful expansion Of industry is
not pointed out in the pamphlet
OF course the object Of the pamphlet
eer was to establish the iniquity OF the
Mckinley tariff rate on wall paper.
"In the production Of this classoS paper
our manufacturers lead the world.
They need no protection whatever "
Those are his words The reader is led
to suppose that the one remedy for this
terrible state Of affairs is to place the
'.reformer" in power, and the Protection
to wall paper will forthwith die an
ignoble death, to the infinite relief of ita
previously taxed victims, the purchasers
of wall paper. Well, the ''reformers'
had the power to shape tariff bin .
few years ago according to their OWL
sweet will Did they abolish the dmty
on wall paper? No. But they certainly
reduced it? mo not even that. They
left it just exactly as it is in the Nc
Kinley law, IS per cent. ad valorem Is
per cent less than the duty under the
tariff of 1924. It was protectionist
congress and . Protectionist president
that in 1883 reduced the duty from So 70
IS per cent. So that this reform
essay is as.much an arraignment Of the
I Mills bill as it is Of the Mckinley law.
In the meantime no one needs to lie
awake o. nights on account Of this tariff
tax, for, as the t'reformer" himself tells
us, 1--WE can produce wall paper cheaper
than any other country in the world v
and since the tariff lis Of no benefit tc
the manufacturers here" our people
must necessarily be buying the cheap
est paper in theworld.