The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-28

| lie at the basis of production"
| Wilson continues by saying that spe-
cific duties are Objectionable because
/ they can be used to cause GENEROUSLY
| large and inequitable taxation, and be-
cause they lead more readily to frauds,
as weighers and counters at the Gus
| tom house are cheaper and more easily
corrupted in their labor than those
under the ad valorem system. More
over, the ad vaIorem system has
worked well in practice and is essen
| TALLY fair 1t defends the large free
list of raw materials on the ground
/ that the taxes on production is
double wrong, eliminating on the con-
sumers and hurting labor by narrow
| ing the maket They made these free
! for the further reason that no other
country can supply them as cheaply as
we can. No competition can interfere
with us in them, and freedom from
taxation must immensely stimulate
the production of ore, coal, lumber,
wool and other things in certain parts
of the country The thin edge of Amer
| lean manufactures has entered every
country, and with free raw materials
there is no limit TO the growth of our
foreign trade, with incalculable advan-
| tage to labor.
| He continues by saying that in every
great line of manufacture we can
produce enough for home consump-
| ton in six to nine months and we can
get rid of our surplus only by export;
that trade cannot be built up as long
as the raw materials are taxed; hence
the formation of trusts to keep down
lproduction to the great detriment of
labor.
The statement then points out the
| various items of reduction in the
lschedule including sulphuric acid to
! the free list because of its general use:
castor oil, from IS to So cents per gall
lion; linseed oil from IS cents to Is cents
per gallon; pig lead from 2 cents to l
cent per pound, thus reducing the
price of paints. It declares the in
crease of the duty on opium to $12 per
lpound by the Mckinley bill simply put
the business into the hands of snug
glers on the Pacific coast. The present
bill puts the tax where it is thought
lit can be collected. The duty on COM
mon window glass is reduced more
than half, which will stimulate home
production, because it has been pro-
lduced under trust conditions. There
lis also a marked reduction in plate
glass.
In the iron and steel schedule free
ore is on account of the discovery of
bessemer ores in the lake regions and
foundry ores in Alabama and will give
us supremacy in this great line of
manufacture. Pig iron is reduced
from $672 per ton, an equivalent of so
to 80 per cent, to uniform duty of
l221a per cent; steel rails from 1914 per
ton, equal to rs per cent, to rs per
cent The residue of the schedule
varies from rs to 30 per cent; beams
and Orders, IS per cent; tin plates,
reduced nearly half, to 40 per cent,
(which would allow existing mills to live
land flourish; cheaper grades of pocket
Iai oho
las; table cutlery, So; copper ores and
pig copper are made free. We are
large exporters of the latter and the
Iduty served only to allow the pro-
Queer to sell higher to our people than
Foreigners; nickel is free; lead ore only
l15 per cent; pig lead l cent pound;
silver lead ores free manufactured
lumber, free; manufactured, 25 per
lcent. On the subject of sugar the
statement says: Sugar has been a
difficult matter to deal with Raw
lsugar was transferred to the free list
Iby the Mckinley bill because nearly
lall the taxes paid on it went to the
public treasury. There was strong
desire among the members of the COM
mittee to put an advalorem duty of
l25 per cent. on it, and abolish the
Ibounty at once. After much considera-
ton it was decided to reduce to one
half the duty on refined sugars, and
-Irepeal the bounty one-eighth each year,
leaving raw sugar untouched at pres
lent.
All manufactures of iron and steel
have a tariff of 25 per cent, except
least hollow ware, coated, glazed or
timed. Iron and steel chains of all
kinds, 80 per cent.
I'm the tobacco schedule, rates were
sought which would bring the most
revenues. The present tax of $2.75 per
pound on wraps and leaf blotted out
many small establishments and i'm
paired the revenue. We make the
rates S1.00 and S175 on wrapper leaf
and So cents and 80 cents on filler IN
lStemmed and Stemmed manufacturers
of tobacco, 40 cents; cigars are reduced
from $3.50 per pound and 25 per cents
advalorem to SO per pound and % per
cent These are believed to be the
most productive revenue rates; live
lanimals, 20 per cent; barley is re-
duced from 80 cents a bushel to 20
cents, or about 10 cents; breadstuffs,
of which we are immense exporters,
are free except to countries which
lput duties on our like products, in
which case it is 20 per cent; fresh
vegetables, fruits, eggs and like food
products are taxed for the benefit of
the working people of the city; salt in
bulk free, in packages the covering is
ldutiable.
The tariff on spirits is a double inter
nal revenue rate, with some slight re-
duction on still wines, malt liquors,
ginger ale and like beverages in the in
terest of increased revenue. For the
same reason the duty on champagnes
is reduced to 81 per dozen quarts
against IS in the Mckinley bill Sub
stantial reductions are made in cotton
manufactures, especially cheap clothes
and prints; hemp nd flax are free;
dressed live hemp and fax 1c. and 11bc.
respectively; leather goods are classified
according to the material and length,
and uniformly rated at specific duties,
which average not over 25 per cent on
common varieties and near 40 per cent
on fine lamb and kid gloves; in the
schedule of sundries, many articles,
like hatters' plush, are put on the free
list
THE duty on cut diamonds, pearls
and other precious stones is increased.
Works of art, I am delighted to say,
are put back on the free list.
'Burlaps and cotton and grain bag
ging, Is per cent, when exported as
covering free; wool is free. This takes
the stills from under the wooden manu-
facturers and begets the hope they
may revive from the languishing con-
dition in which they have been for a
quarter of a century, and that we may
get wooden goods at reasonable rates."
The statement concludes as follows:
"The above is a rapid summary of the
chief changes made by the proposed
bill, and will give a satisfactory idea,
| believe, of its general structure 1t
is estimated it will reduce the reven-
ues on the base of the importationS of
1892 about S55, 600, 000 with an immensely
larger decrease of tax burdens to the