The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-09
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OF all civilized people, the skill and
genius Of mankind to the city OF Chicago,
which will prove an education and in.
spiration to our people.
The tariff law / must not overlook. 1t
made complete revision OF the tariff,
not alone of rates of duty, but of admin
istration. 1t was framed upon the prin-
ciple OF protection. 1t Was constructed
so as to secure the needed revenues for
public purposes and yet aTording to our
people the needed protection against
other countries, whose labor conditions
make it undesirable that we should
open up our market without restraint to
their products. The farmer, the Isborer,
the manufacturer, and consumer we're
all consulted. decreased duties when
ever it could be safely done, it enlarged
the free list and removed all duties from
those articles of every day use and ne
cessity which we cannot produce in the
United States. 1t advanced some duties
from mere revenue rate to fairly pro-
tective rate, and we are already feeling
in many industries the practical wisdom
Of the new rates. We advanced the
duties upon spirits, tobacco, champagne,
opium, seal furs, broadcloths, silk, em.
broideries, laces, fine linens, fine cut
glass, French and German china, jewelry,
playing cards, firearms and pianos, also
tin, which we mean to manufacture at
home instead of importing it from
| abroad. We consume 80 per cent. of
the tin produced in, the world, and
under the new law, if there be no adj
verse legislation, we will make it at
home from our own raw materials, with
our own skill and labor.
Agriculture received in the bill the
most considerate care and its products
secure large measure OF protection than
was ever accorded them under any
tariff law. The chief advances in duty
are to be found in this schedule, and
are believed to be necessary to defend
the farmers OF the Uuited States from
competition, which is dangerously near
and getting nearer and more threatening
every day. The bill placed upon the
free list among others sugar, ETC., books
for the blind, many dyes for co!oring,
j1te, jute butts, and other fbers not
grown>in the United States, needles for
sewing, nickel and nickel matter and
materials for>ships of every kind de-
signed for the foreign trade.
The bill reduces t6e>duties upon the
following sketches: leathess boots and
shoes, lumber, rice, starch, COPPER and
copper products and the producfs>of
nickel. nails, spikes, tacks, hammers,
trace chains, wire screws, nuts and
washers, files, ra.ps, binders twine, rope,
log chains, stone plates, horseshoes,
sewing needles, iron piping, structural
iron, bar iron, hoop iron, sheet iron,
wire rope and wire netting, steel rails,
turpentine, varnishes, camphor, glycer-
inc and chloroform. twenty-five psr
cent. of the articles in number under
the old law were reduced by the new
law. Thirty per cent. of the articles
were left ON the new law as they were
found in the old law.
Forty per cent OF the advances Of
duties made in the new law were upon
agriculture, and its products, and their
manufacture. More than 10 per cent.
of the advance made were upon tobacco,
spirits and opium. No detailed record
of the new law would be appropriate to
this occasion, nor is it necessary. It i
furnishing its own review In practical
observation and experience. 1t will
make its own demonstration and is doing
so to the satisfaction of its friends and
the confusion of its foes. Its enemies
should be required to explain, for they
have been caught in deception, and
not it's friends. They, in all decency,
should now confess, either that they
willfully misrepresentedo or were deluded
They have already been convicted Of
falsehoods. They imposed upon the
people, and must make answer to them
All the interests of the country, agri
cultural and manufacturing, are in q
healthful condition. The new tariff law
has brought no blight, but has already
dispensed blessings to every section
Witness the South. Its progress and
development in the last three months
have exceeded any previous three
months of our history. The new tariff
has not put up prices but it has put uI
new plants. 1t has not imposed new
burdens upon the people, but has widen
ed opportunity in every avenue of hu
man endeavor. 1t has encouraged the
American people to greater effort, and
has opened up new fields for labor here
tofore unexplored.
Some people call the new tariff lar
prohibitory, when it gives larger. freel
trade upon the lines of protection thar
any previous tariff law. It has some