The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-29

dustry than during the IS years Of Low
tariff from 1916 to 1861, nor q NOR,
healty and harmonious lgrowth of agri
culture and all the other industries Of
, the country.
A salutary Lesson.
No chapter in political experience
carries with it a more salutary lesson
than this, and none could appeal more
strongly to lawmakers to establish a just
and rational system of public revenues,
neither e~xhausting agriculture by con-
slant blood letting, nor keeping manu-
%.acturer. alternating between chills and
fevers by artificial pampering. In this
direction alone lies stability, con-
cord OF sections and of great
industries. We have already said
that the public discussion may
| disclose errors of minor detail in
the schedules of the bill. To escape
such errors would require so thorough
and minute a knowledge of all the divis-
ons subdivisions, complex and mani
fold mazes and involution of our chemi-
cal, textile, metal and other industries,
that no committee of congress-, no mat
ter how extended the range of their per-
sonal knowledge, or how laborious and
painstaking their efforts, could ever hope
to possess. We have not forgotten
that we
Represent tho People
who are the many, Us well AS the pro-
tected interests, who are the few, and
while we have dealt with the latter in no
spirit of unfriendliness, we have felt
that it was II duty and not their priv
ilege to make the tariff schedules. Those
who concede the right of beneficiaries to
nix their bounties, must necessarily COM
NIT to them the framing and wording of
avs by which those bounties are Sc
cured to them. A committee of congress
thus becomes merely the amanuensis of
the protected interests.
Instances are neXt cited in which it is
claimed schedules have been framed in
the words of the men representing the
to he protected, and then the
continues:
Every Tax Upon the Producer
falls with increased force Oh til con-
sumner. Every tax ON the producer in
this country is Il protection to his COM
in all other countries, and 80
aarrows his market as to limit the num-
Der, and lessen the wages of those TO
whom he can give employment.
Repeal Reciprocity.
1t Is the purpose of the present bill to
in toto, section 3 of the tariff act
of Oct. |, 1890, commonly. but most en-
.'oneously called its reciprocity provision.
That act placed sugar, molasses, coffee.
ca IN hides on the free list, but au-
horized the president, should he be salts
led that the government of II ether
ountry producing such articles imposed
luties upon the agricultural or other
'roducts of the United States, which he
night deem reciprocally unequal and I'M
e~asonable, to suspend the provision
nder which these articles We're admit 4,
into this country free. This section ,
brought no appreciate advantage
American exporters, is not in intcn- {
ION or effect a provision for reciprocity 7
ut for retaliation. =
The state of the treasury is touched q
pom n the statement made that some
;hedules arc left higher OH that account
ian they otherwise would 5e.
The change from specific to ad .
duties is commended and the b
'ciprocity clause of the Mckinley bill l
r
CONSIDERABLE space is also used Inf U
,mmentlng upon changes in certain
'hedules, such as iron, tin and sugar.
The majority report is signed by the
'emocratic members of the committee. 3
ne Republican members will hereafter =
!bmit a minority report attacking the l
'ilson bill and majority report. e.