Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

lo,V6Z, VT dozen eggs imported IN w.
1t will be seen that in 1890 we imported
$79,Sl2, 1G2 worth of farm products. much of
which it is believed Will be produced here
under the protection given by the new tariff
law.
The Democratic party is now claiming
that free sugar is in the direct line of their
economic theory and principle. They would
have the country believe that they have al
one OF the items of the bill which they
! thoroughly approve. Such is most remote
from the truth, as the history and record of
the party will show; First and foremost
has formulated and passed has placed
duty upon sugar, raw and refined. Every
tariff bill which they have proposed to pass
placed duty upon sugar. Sugar was made
dutiable under the walker tariff of 1916 It
was dutiable under the first bill which the
Democratic party offered after the war,
known as the Wood Tarih Bill" 1t was
made dutiable under the two Morrison bills
and the Mills bill.
DEMOCRATIC REVENUE POLICY.
The late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Manning, in his report to Congress, recon-
mended in distinct terms, the retention of
the duty on sugar because it was a revenue
duty, and was q subject from which a large
revenue could be derived. Every Democrat
in the House voted against the clause of the
new law making sugar free, and voted for
the retention of the duty of 2H cents
pound. In the Senate united Democratic
vote opposed the free sugar clause, and 1ustl-
fed their opposition because it was reve-
nue. duty and in strict accord with the
economic principle advocated by the Demo-
cratic party. So that we have free sugar
under a protective tariff which has been i'm
possible under free trade or revenue tariff,
and we have it free under protective tariff,
because under the principle OF protection we
do not tax those foreign products which ex-
perience and Il thorough trial have demon
strated we cannot produce in quantities
one section of the law s55 OOO,OOoo of taxes
are removed from the shoulders of the
people.
But it is said that free sugari is accompanied
with bounty provision which is even more
burdensome than the tax itself. This is not
true. We did provide for bounty to the
sugar producers of the United States. The
thing which would destroy this industry
and make valueless the millions of dollars
invested therein. And so they provided
having removed the tariff that the sugar
producers of this country should receive
bounty equal to the tariff. This will en-
courage and stimulate the production of
sugar, if anything can, and it will cost the
government this year less than 81 ], 900, ,000 an
annual savinS of 100000 for the duties
amounted to $55,0O0000.
THE PROVISION FOR RECIPROCITY.
There is contained in the new law reci-
procity provision by which the administra-
tration has already made valuable treaties
with Brazil, San Domingo and Spain. 1t is
provision which in no way encroaches upon
the protective principle, nor can in any way
destroy or undermine our defensive or pro-
tective tariffs.
Reciprocity is based upon our free list and
practically upon noncompeting products. 1t
provides that the United States having made
sugar, molasses, tea, coffee and hides free,
if the country producing these articles and
sending them to the United States shall i'm
pose duties or orther exactions upon agricul-
tural or other products of the United States
reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, the
President has the power to suspend by proc
lamation the proviso relating to the free in
PRODUCTION of such articles, sugar, molasses,
tea, coffee, hides, etc, against such countries
imposing these duties and exactions, and the
original duties shall be imposed.
There is much criticism about the duty on
tin plate, and fully as much misrepreSenta-
ton as there is criticism. 1t is generally
supposed that under the Rew law tin ore or
block tin is now dutiable. Under section
200 of the law it will be seen that the duty
on block tin goes into effect on the 1st day of
July, 1893. That is, the manufacturers of tin
plate have free tin ore or block tin for two
YEARS. Then there is this further provision:
That unless it shall be made to appear to the
satisfaction of the President of the United
States who shall make known the TACT by
proclamation, that the product of the mines
of the United States shall have exceeded
5000 tons in one year prior to July l. 1895,
then all pig tin shall after July l, 1885, be ad-
mitted free of duty.
PROVISION FOH FEEE LIN PLATE.
The duty on tin plates went into effect on
July /, of this year. There is also q provision
in the law that on and after October l, 1897,
unless it shall be made to appear to the sat-
isfaction of the President, who shall there
upon make proclamation of the fact, that
the aggregate quantity of such tin plates
produced in the United States during either
of the years next preceding June 80, 1897, is
equal to one-third the amount of such tin
plates imported and entered for consump-
ton during any fiscal year after the pas
sage of this act and prior to October J. 1897
then they shall become free.
1t is said we cannot make tin plate. How
absurd, for we are already making it, and it
will not be long until we shall make the
larger part of the consumption. We are
making tin plate to-day. 1t is to be here in
Niles Democratic encouragement cannot
stop it; foreign interference cannot check |
American genius and resolution.