The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-30

Tariff Eefsrm Wili Revive Business
Crush All k'onopolics,
Dissolve d cgai Government Partnershs--'
and q, The Whole 'rupls n CMn
the Argument Furnished by tee
Ways nad Means Committee.


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WAsE'NGToN' Dec ~. ihc Ati.sx
lean people, after the fullest and most
thorough debate ever given by any
,,oonlo 20 ,h,;r fs,oi ,o,;o,. b.y, do.
r, -, ~,
huerateiy anu righ''y oeciue'' .'iie ."s
existing tariff is wrong IN principle ana
grevously unjust in opcration."
Such ;s the onep;nu nara ,rrnph of the
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naJoiiv iopo' .. " wy ~
cratc meinpers Oh tne why's anu ihcaHs
committee Tuesday to the full commit
tee. The report was written by Chair.
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-. a., -? n1.
iores ms ue'hoc'"oiS "ssoeia'eS N'oh
day night, ant received their cordial
approval.
sC,ont;nu;nr tLe rnno,t saws.
.rpov have dcc;,in, os free ,nc,, ,,uat o,vors
secideY,hn, the never Of tnxn,ion has no law.
a., or cons,i,ut,onni excrcise eycont for rro
,,sa,n, ro,on,o sor ,ho sunror, n, mo roynrn
r,ant c. roanv ,r,wnto an,errriso. h, ro hoor
.a,.r ,n, ,r,,nrsh;,, ,,;.h tno ,,o,orn,,,or,.
so morv nr,io,c i,tcres,s nav share In TIN nro.
rogot,ve nf ,ay;rr ~ O01 OoO pcon,e that INV =,
,omt 10 "a ,h,s ,ieg,, no, s ne"nsr "S
;iv encountered bv nm opnosition tint rallies bc.
hind IT tho intolerance OF monopoly. the mower
ri concentrn,cd wealth the inertia OF n yed boh.
its md tho honest errors of n generation of
false teaching
Howevcr ,yc may denv tho cyisfe,cc NJ INV
legislative p,edyc. or OF the right of any con
rress to ma,tc such pledye for the continuance
Of duties tnnt carry with then moro or less
acl,nowlcdred protection. we must recopnize
that creot interests do ex,st whose cxistence
and nrosneritv IL Is no mart Of our reform ei th.r
To impcril or curtnil.
In dealing with the tariff question. Ms with
every other lsnr.standinp nbrss that has inter
woven itself W tn our social or Industrial avs.
IN the bepinn;nc tempernte reform is safest
having In itself Tho nri,,cin,e of growth.
A glance at the t1rir lecjslatio of our conn.
trv ought to sotisry every intelliyent student
that projection has n,wnvs shown its foIsitv "a
q system Of economy hv its absolute fnilurc to
insure hcnlthv and stable prosneritv to mnn,,.
fnct,,res Years npo Edward Everett stated
IN nm oration NJ Lowell. that tho en- cious men
who founded ,he manufacturers OF New ENGLAND
were never friends Of the bjyh tarifY no,,cv
-. Whom conurcss hegan to renonl war bur.
lens there arose n demand throuchou. Tho
country. without respect to partv. for n reduc.
ton of the war tariff. Unable TO resist this
demand. the protected industries bafled and
thyarted any reduction of consequence until
1872
when the reform tar;H sf Is4s was before
congress- tho mir xns fnil Of nronhesiea that a
would des;ro- our mnnufncturin7 industriea
throw lnbnr ont Of cmniovmcnt or coynne, A. ~
work Mt manner wores. and dwarf and arrest
the nrosnerc,,s growth nj tho country
Every represen.ntive of four great manu,ao.
turing states of New England voted ayainst n
with gloomy forebodings of its blphtinp effect
Tho rnte OF duties provided in Tint tnriff was
much iowcr than those NJ the hill, We here offer
what wns the result, Instead Of nnralvziro
the industries and pauperizinp tho labor of New
England or the rest of the country the tariff of
1886 gave immense yicor 10 manufacturers with
steady employment and increasing wages to
labor So ,nat, after eleven years experience
under It, the longest period of stability we have
ever enioyed under any tariff tho represent tn.
tives of those same states. with practical unan.
unity voted for further reduction of twenty
per cent and by q two.thirds vote sustained the
toriff of 1877. which made reduction of twenty
five per cent
And SO we'll contented and prosperous were
the manufacturers of that and other sect ,ons O,
the country under the low rates of The tariff OF
1857, that when the Morrill, bill Ut 1861 took the
first backward step there was q general pro
test against it.
The history of American industry shows thai
during no other reriod has there been moro
healthy and rapid development Of our manu-
4 featuring industry than during the fifteen years
of low tariff from ls46 to 1861, nor more
healthy and harmonious growth OF agricultural
and all other great industries of the country.
No chapter in our political existence carries
with 1t more salutory lesson than this and
none could appeal more strongly to lawmakers
to establish just and rational sy stem of public
revenues, neither exhausting agriculture by
constant blood letting, nor keeping manufac
turers alternating between chllls and fevers by
artificial pampering. In this direction alone
lies stability, concord OF sections, and Of great
Industries.
When the senate substitute for the bill
passed by this house in the Fftieth congress-
which substitute is q real basis of the existint
law-was being prepared, Senator Hoar, o.
Massachusetts, appeared before the senate sub
committee and used this language:
"Instead of coming before your subcommittee
for formal hearing on our Massachusetts In
dustries thought the best way to CAREFUL,
prepare o table of oil the various industries
perhaps some GO or 10 in all, and ask Brother
Aldrich to 20 over them with me and ascertain
what the people wanted in each case, and 4
there were any cases where the committee hat
not already done exactly what the petitioner.
desires. or had not infexibly passed upoI
the question, I could have u hearing befor,
YOU. but find In every instance the actio,
81 the committee. al M. Aldrich thinks 4
likely tc he. as entirely satisfactory to the in
terests i represent. with the exception Of on,
or two. and the papers IN regard to theae case
Ihave handed to M ifdrich'I
We have helicved that the first sten toward
= reform of The tarir should he a release O
tares on the materials of Industry. There en-,
No M s,,h.tantial ana hensfciol reduction uno,
the necessarv cIothin0 and other comforts n
ths American neonIe nor anv suhstantinl nm.
henefcioi eninroenent of the field of America,
iahor q Ion0 ae va 20 = the material used In IN
rrocasse. NJ rroductior Everv +ax nm tbe rro
dncer fails with increased force nm tho ro,
swmer Everv tar m the nroducer in mi
country II n nrotaotion IN his comnetitors in nj