Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-19
TODAY'S TLEEGRAMS.
THE TAHITI BILL
uaiority Report Of the Committee o.
ways aud Means.


wAsufgaroN, Dec. l0.-The ma
jorIty report Of the ways and mean
oommitte. on the tsrih bill was sub
miileI to the House At the opening
today. The report sayt; ..|
The American people, after iulI
.nd tb, most thorough debate eve
given by a people TO their hecal policy
deliberately decided that the existing
tariff IL wrong In principle and grew
oualy unjust In operation, lhfl
have decided, as free men must ni'
WAYS decide, that the power Of taxation
exists for 1.-THE lawful or constitutional
purpose of providing revenue for tue
supuort OF the government. Every
departure from this principle u uu'
paftufe from the fundamental princl.
ples OF free Institutions and inevitably
works out gross inequality In tht
citizenship Of the country. For more
than thirty years We have lowed thr
largest part VI our Federal taxes in
violation Of this vital truth, until we
have reached the existing iafiu ana
the extreme and vOluminOuB hyHiom
Of class taxation 10 which history
may be challenged 10 furnish parallel.
SO many private enterprises have uueh
taken into parinorship with tho goN-
eminent; 10 many private interests
now share In the rich prcrogauVu OF
taxing seventy millions Of people, thai
any attempt TO dissolve THIS lIltgHi
union Ia NECESSARILY encountered
by the opposition that rallies behind
the intolerance % monopoly, the
pawer VI concentrated wealth, tue IN.
ertla Of Fixed habits and the honest
errors Of "a generation 0I falst teaching.
The bill, ON which The cammiitir
has expended much patient nni
anxious labBr b. no. offered as n CONE
plete response 10 the mandate OF thV
American people. 10 mo- more pf1icu'
aas 10 DO pufgtd OF all protection than
10 be- ireo from OH CrlOr lu iia con-.
plex and manifold details. How
ever We may dDuy the existence u
any legislative pledge or " tho hight oi
any Congfpas ~ make such plangn Tor
the contiuuaucp uf duties tina. carry
with them more or lrTH aUknUw lodged
protection, W. must recognize chat
great interests 90 exist, whose exist.
ence aud prosperity 10 is no part Of our
reform either 20 impufil or cur,ail.
We believe, and have tue warrant OF
our own post experience for believing
that reduction Of duty will not iulufc
but give more abundant life 20 our
great manufacturing industrlen, how.
ever much they mHydrend the chanrr.
In dealing with tue tara question %
with every other loug-slanding abuse
that has inttfwUvon Itself with our
social or industrial tyslUm, the lepislh.
tor must always remember that IN the
beginning temperate reform is safest,
having In iiteli tho principle 81
growth.
A glance ut the tariff legislation Of
our own country ought 10 satisfy every
intelligent student that protection has
always shown lie ialslty a. system VI
economy, by IT. absolute failure g.
produce healthy and stable prosperity
10 the manufacturers. itteaohes men
10 depend on artificial help, on laws
taxing their countfymen for the pros
perity Of their business, rather than
upon their own ekill aud effort.
IL throws business out OF iia natural
channels into artificial channels iu
which there must always be- dnctua-
zion and uncertainty, and makos the
tariff system foot bali for party poll
ties and the instability OF the large
business Interests = stake OF every
popular election. No one has rccog.
nigsd this more fully than the wise
men who have from time 10 time ru-
gaged In so.cAllod protected industries.
The report then deals ut length with
the tariff history OF the country, show.
ing when the first proposed manufac-
tories opposed It and desired 10 be let
alone. Once In u while, however, tho
protected Industries asked for more
ana more protection. Finally came
the royulsion Of lSi6, when taTif wac
reduced ngaiuht the protests Of the
manufactures, stating that II would
ruin them, and against tho solid vote
of tho representatives, Of the
manufacturing states In Congrass.
The result was that the low
tariff developed great vlgor In the
manufactures with steady employ.
ment and increasing wages for labor.
Alter eleven years' trial the repre-.
HentHtives OF those same states with
practical unanimily voted foT "a fur
ther reduction Of ~ per cent, and by a
tWO-thirdH vote sustained a 20 per
cent reduction under the tafin
OF 1857. People were well satisfied
with u. The report quotes from a
number ofepeeohea In Congress against
the Morrill, bill, among them ono by
Sherman.