The Portland daily press., 1893-12-22

both 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 are made
here, valued at So, 500, 900. Nine
millions and half are imported. Under
existing law the revenue obtained is five
millions and d half. Under the pro
their own, and the most sanguine friend
would not dream of that, the loss in
revenue would be $4,000, 900. If the
manufacturers were entirely driven out
and all our wares should be imported
the loss of revenue even then would be
$3.50, 900. The crockery schedule seems
hardly to be managed with view to
revenue.
1t is proper to add that this bill has
been FASTENED with as much celebrity as
could be used, and hence there has been
but little time given for the country to
exactly formulate it's objections. We
trust that that system is not to be con-
tinued, but that full and free examina-
ton may be given to all the items SO
that the exact measure Of its damage
may be calculated. Speed in action may
be repentance at leisure.
Another serious general objection to
the bill is that it decreases the revenue
according to the calculations usually
made by the Treasury Department as
compared with 1898 about S74, 600, 900.
This large deficit, coming as it does up
on depleted treasury, is rather appall-
ing i'll bill for revenue only. How this
great hole in our resources, as q nation,
is to be filed, no one knows. At this
date not even the committee knows it.
self, unless the President, 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 a
bill creating such deficit and leaving
it unaccounted for,
The Minority yainly Protested
when the bill was laid before the COM
mittee. Who would dare if of sound
and statesmanlike mind to create
a deficit of $74, oG0, 600, and blindly vote
it with no plan in sight whereby the
government could meet it's expenditures?
That same protest we make to the
House and to the country.
The bill ought not to be reported with
out the internal revenue bill, which is
to make up the deficiency. Are we to
pass this bill and be then coerced into
the other? Who knows if they were pre-.
sented together that we might not prefer
to stay where we are9 The progress of
this attempt atsswhat has been called re-
form has already created 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 accomplish 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.
We have not thought it desirable to
make any appeals to passion or to
prejudice; SO far from that.we have taken
thus far no notice of the condition Of
business now which is terrible and Of
the workingmen which beggars descrip-
ton. There is no need for ussto present
this to the country. 1t is presenting it
self. In one hundred representative cities
where the number employed exceeded two
millions and half of people fully one
third by the most conservative estimate
are without employ. These are engaged
in the protected industries. Those who
are not and who thought they were be-
yond the touch Of the tariff now know
the solid fact that all industries are
the country as you must and the result
will startle even the unthinking. It.. is
not necessary for us to bring this to
public view. No ingenuity can keep it
out of everybody's face and eyes, Work
ing men all over the country are express
ing their deep and sorrowful feeling. We
will not strive In any way to increase
the turmoil which thissbilI has already
created. Amend can be put to all this
by the defeat of this bill and to the ac-
complishing Of this every energy should
be bent. The best way to put an end to
this agitation is to put an end to the
causes.