St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-22

which seems to be 25 per cent.
becomes about 20 per cent, and not only
IS the government cheated ont of It's
quarter VI d aos,ar, but the manufacture
er is cheated out Of one-fifth of the pro-
lection his government has promised
him. This, therefore, is not theory. 1t
Is within the experience of every mer-
chant that goods which cannot be pur-
chased at all in Europe can be pur-
chased. duty paid. in New York at
lower prices than like goods can be pur-
chased by the honest merchant who
values them at their true market value
and pays the duty demanded by the
government; aud yet these ad valorem
duties. thus Objectionable. have in
creased In number everywhere, being
substituted In nearly all the schedules
for specific duties.
How the bill will act as q revenue
raiser, and how it can act as an injury
10 the government and the producer
Doth together, Is we'll eXemplified in the
changes made in the pottery schedule.
only an amount equal to two-fifths of
the amount Of the imports is made
here. valued at S,S00,0 Nine millions
and hall are imported. Under exist
ing law, the revenue obtained is s., $780,
600. Under the proposed bill, if the
manufacturers hold their own, and their
most sanguine friend would not dream
or that, the loss in revenue would be
S2,0Oo,0oo; If the manufacturers were
entirely driven out and all our wares
had to be imported, the loss in revenue
even then would be 1882, 600. The crock
cry schedule seems hardly to be man
aged with view to revenue. While it
would be impossible to specify the prob
able effects of this bill, a few of the most
important may be briefly touched upon.
Another
SERIOUS GENERAL OBJECTION
to the bill is that it decreases the rev.
enues, according to the calculations
usually made by the treasury depart
ment. as compared with 1898. about
S74,000,000. This large deficit, coming,
as it does, upon depleted treasury, is
rather appalling in bill Tor revenue
only. How this great hole in our re-
sources as nation Is to be filed no one
knows. At this date not even the CON-
mittee Itself knows, unless the presi
dent, anticipating in his message to
congress the report OF the committee on
ways and means, shall afford to the
committee Itself its wished-for clue.
Against the consideration of such bill
creating such a deficit, and leaving it
unaccounted for, the minority vainly
protested when the bill was LAID before
the committee. Who would dare. if of
sound and statesmanlike mind, to Gre
ate deficit Of s74,000,000 and blindly
vote it, with no plan in sight whereby
the government could meet its eXpendi-
lures? That same protest we make to
the house and to the country. The bill
ought not to be reported without the in
ternal revenue bill which is to make up
the deficiency.
Are we to pass the bill and then be
coerced into the other? Who knows if
they were presented together that we
might not prefer to stay where we are?
The progress of this attempt at what
has been called reform has already Gre
ated such feeling that the country is
stirred all over. When the scheme of
raising taxes by methods used in the
time of war is presented, in addition to
those now imposed, there may be such
further revulsion of feeling as will &C
compllSh the work of defeating this
BILL
While as party men we might rejoice
at its passage, as citizens of the United
States we think the exigencies of the
present time are superior to even the
most desired political advantage, and
advise that the bill do not pass.