The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

content with lesser results The consumer
will take care of himself II you look after the
producer. For he Is e and the same person
But while this bill in its principle. II Ii has any,
Is not unprotective, 1t will be absolutely 30 in
practice not only In its direct reductions, but
also in its indirect reductions, sure to come
from the change from specific duties to ad va
loren, which is q marked feature Of the bill
An ad yalorem duty, as the name implies. Is
one which varies according to the prices II
prices could be exactly determined 1t would be
fair. But unfortunately, prices are very much
matters Of opinion on which honest men NAV
differ much and rogues more Inasmuch as
the duty depends on the price, cheat on the
price is a cheat on the duty. If a piece Of goods
Is worth % yard and the duty Is 25 per cent,
the correct duty is Sl.5o II the price be in.
voiced at eL50 yard the duty collect
ed becomes proportionately lower, and
not only is the government cheated
out OF its proper duty, but the
manufacturer Is cheated out Of the protection
his government has promised This, therefore,
Is no theory. 1t is within e experience Of
ev ~ merchant that goods which cannot be
purchased at all in Europe can be purchased,
duty paid. in New York at lower prices than
like goods can be purchased BY the honest mer-
chant who values them at their true market
value and pays the duti demanded by the gov
ernment and yet these ad valorem duties thus
Objectionable. have increased in number every
where, being substituted in nearly all the
schedules for specific duties
How the bill will act as a revenue raiser. and
how ii can act as an injur5 t the government
and the producer both together, Is well exem-
plified by the pottery schedule An amount
equal to two fifths OF the amount of the i'm
ports are made here, valued at 8 4D.0N Nine
millions and a half dollars are imported I'm
dara viStfn lax tbo rad fc
zoo Under the proposed bill If the manufactur.
ers hold their own and the mos sanguine friend
would not dream of that the loss in revenue
would be s., 2,O00.001. II the manufacturers were
entirely driven out and all our wares had to be
imported the loss in revenue even then would
be sS82, 600 The crockery schedule seems hard
ly to be managed with view to revenue
While 1t would be impossible to specify the
probable effects of this bill, few of the most
important may be touched upon.
AS to the future relations between Canada
and the United States it perhaps would not be
decorous for US o talk fully. but there are
those who believe that what they think is The
manifest destiny Of this continent is anneKa-
tion and one market and one development
Those who have thought in their minds of
the bill will see how little this bill, compared
with existing law. conduce5 to that end.
Those, on the other hand. VINO look upon the
dominion simply as another nation will be sur
prised to see how freely Is accorded to her
privileges and opportunities in derogation OF
those Of our own citizens; privileges and op-
portuniiies for which the dominion would be
glad to give ample and unstinted concessions.
BY this bill they will, without money and with
out price, receive them.
What effect also this bill will have upon the
treaties made by the last administration with
Cuba and the Spanish-American countries the
committee presented no calculations II we
~ S& ,.-,ll 10.
addition TO the general misfortune OF this bill.
Another serious objection is, the bill decreases
the revenue according to the calculations usu-
ally mnde bv the treasury department as COM
pared with 1884, about s14. 00i,oO. This large
deficit coming as IL oeS, upon a depleted
treasury is appalling in bill for revenue only.
How his great hole In our resources as q ma
tion is to be filled no one knows Al this date
not even the committee itself knows, unless the
president, anticipating in the message to con-
gress the report Of the committee on ways and
means. shall afford to the committee itself its
wished-for clew.
Against the consideration of such bill max
ing such deficit and leaving it unprovided for,
the minority va MY protested when the bill was
laid before the committee Who would dare,
IL of sound and statesmanlike mind, to make
deficit OF s74 O0O. 900 and blndly vote it, with no
plan in sight to meet the expenditures? That
same pro est we make 10 the house and to the
country. The bill ought not TO be reported
without the internal revenue bill which is to
make up the deficiency
Are we TO pass the bill and then be coerced
into the other? Who knows, IL they were rIe
sented together, thai we might not prefer TO
stay where we are? The progress OF this at
tempt at what has been called reform has al
ready created such feeling that the country is
stirred all over. When the scheme of revisin ng
taxes by methods used in the time of wal is
presented in addition to those now impos ed
there may be such further revllsion OF feeling
as will accomplish the work OF defeating this
bill
While as party men we might rejoice at Its
passage, as citizens we think the exigencies OF
the present time are superior to even the most
defined political advantage and advise that the
bill do not yass We have not thought it nd
vsable to make any appeals to passion or
prejudice
In 100 representative cities, where the num-
Der employed exceeds $50, 900, fully one third
are without employment These are engaged
I'm the protected industries. Those who thought
they were beyond The touch Of the tariff now
know the solid fact that sll industries are pros
porous or none. We spread this all over the
country and the result will startle even the un-
thinking.
The remainder of the report is taken
up with analysis and criticism of the
schedules of the new bill.
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