The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-08-19
to accompany it. In this report h


uses such expressions as these:
1--WE have not been SO much concerned about
the prices OF the articles we consume as we
have been to encourage system OF hone pro
ductiou''
..The committee viii admit that free trade or
revenue duties would temporarily diminish the
cost o. products consumed by the people but i
would only be because the foreign product AZ !.
lower price would force down the home product
or disrlace II altogciher"
Cheaper products from abroad to the Amer
lean Consumers means cheaper labor al home
and lower rewards to the domestic producer
with no permanent bencht to the consumer.
THAT country n The least prosperous where
low prices and low wages prevail
"Your committee has not sought hy the pro
posed lerl-lI'on to further cut down prices ss
the expense ~ our own prosperity, but % PRO
vide with certainty against that increasing com
petition from other countries whose conditions
our people are unwilling 10 adopt We nave
not believed that our people, already snrerinr
from low prices. can Or will be satisfied with
legislation that will result In lower prices. No
country ever suffered when prices were fairly
remm crntivc ii every field % labor. and IL has
been the purpose Of the committee 70 SO adjust
duties upon competing foreign products A. 70
save our people from ruinous competition from
abroad"
The extracts present the views Of the
ways and means committee clearly
enough. The committee did not be-
lieve that the American people would
be satisfied with legislation that would
make prices lower. They. therefore.
reported bill which wonld not make
them lower. But now they say that
these assertions about the bill were
falschoods. While we are about il we
~ IL -
lican platform says distinctly:
1--WE assert that the prices Of manufactured
goods OF general consumption have been re-
duced under the operation OF the tarih act OF
1920"
What the ways and means committee
of 1890 said the bill would not do the
republica platform Of 1892 says il has
done. The law was praised IN 1890 be-
cause IL would not cheaper. and is
praised in 1892 because il has cheap
ened. 1t is hcraldcd as q magnificent
success because II has accomplished
what il was intended 70 prevent This
is the measure ofrepublican statesma an
ship
The report of the senate finance com
mittee. not vet accessible. is Of the
same general tenor. IL we may judge
by the advance notices that have been
sent ont. Prices. they say. are cheaper,
and we are left 10 infer that the Me-
kinlcy bill made them 50. The rcpub-
lican organs draw this Inference II the
committee DO not. Comment on this
report will be in order when II is re-
ccived. bnt the republican papers are
making their comments in advance on
an ex partc statement Of what il shows
| All their comments are directed to
show that il has done what IL was said
before its passage Il would not do. and
which the American people would not
approve. According 10 its friends and
advocates. therefore. the Mckinley bill
IS disastrous failnrc. the spcll-binders
arc frauds. the fnt-fficrs are confidence
men and the manufacturers that fur
4 n.shcd the fat have been buncoed. -
/ Louisville Couricr-Jourpal.