The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-20
ELI AND HOKE ON REVENUE.
The Views of Statesmen who DO Not
Rule the Treasury.

The Views of Statesmen who DO Not
Rule the Treasury.
They were talking about the low balance
In the treasury the other day at the Colo
nial club when Eli Perkins, the great
American truth teller, was asked what
caused IT,
ut was caused" said Eli, "by the Re
publicans foolishly paying out s3s 0o0, 900
to reimburse the states for the equipment
OF troops in 1881. This had been due 10 the
states for 80 years Cleveland wouldn't
pay this debt, but the first thing Harrison
did was to pay il. How foolshl He ought
to have let it dangle along and let the next
administration pay IL. That's what Grover
did"
'But how shall we raise sufficient reve-
nue. now!r was asked.
why, lower the tariff, import more
goods. and collect the revenue on them"
But can we import these things and
still make them at homes'
why, of course, any one can see that.
Hoke Smith says so"
What would you put tariff onY"
"Hoke and would have tariff for rev.
enue, not for protection. We'd adopt the
English tariff The English have a tariff
of cents on tea, 5 cents on coffee, cents
on cocoa, 1.20 on tobacco, e.. 80 on whisky
and ! cent on sugar Sugar, coffee, tea
and tobacco are free in America"
And tin, what would you do with thatg
We have So factories now, making about
one-tenth Of the tin used"
"Oh, let il come free from Wales. The
more we import the more we'd manufac-
ture here. Can't you seer"
And the "a pearl button factories now
in this country. what of thems Would
you take the tariff off and let our work
men work for German wages or go back
homer"
'Why, yes. With low tariff they'd all
be imported from Austria, and, at the
same time, our factories would be running
here. Hoke Smith says So"
And what will we do with sugarf We
are paying out now s2OO, 100000 for sugar.
All our surplus wheat goes for sugar.
Miles square are going into beet sugar in
Nebraska and California. Sugar cane is
moving up into Texas and louisiana. It's
going up the Brazos. A half a million
bales of cotton came out last year TO give
place TO sugar and rice. Shall we take the
bounty of and buy our sugar in Germany,
France and Cuba, or keep on the bounty as
Germany did, and by and by make all our
own sugar. Shall we choke Of the splen-
did sugar factories at Grand Island, Nor
folk, and Aberdeen, Oak ?"
"Why, yes; import it and get the rev.
enue. What's $500, 600, 600 worth of home
made sugar to u.s. What's S50,0 900 Of
homemade tin to us? What do we care for
so, 100000 worth of homemade plate glass,
and 500, 100000 worth of irons Let the
knitting factories 20 back to Chemnitz, let
the sugar factories go back to Germany,
let tin plate go back to Wales, let pearl
buttons go back TO Vienna, and plate glass.
pottery and velvet go back TO England and
France, We want to get the revenue on
them. We are in for revenue The boys
voted for change and we are going to
have it, They got 80 per cent protection
and 300 per cent better wages than any
other workmen on earth. and now they are
going TO get 80 per cent protection, have
the same wages and the things are all
going To be made in Europe. You hear
Hoke'
Then the old truth-teller wiped bis
glasses with his red bandanna handker-
chief and went on reading the presidents
New York Sun.