The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-28

try always striving toward higher plane of cNliizauon. We have, therefore before us al. ways three problems-wages to be maintained hours or labor 10 be lessened and prices to be lowered Not one, but all. It is true that in. Vehuoh alone keeps pace with and regulates the demand for higher weges and fewer hours whlch are the conditions of our higher plane but 1t can not be more. It can not meet in nd oltlon the lower prices Of lower level of civil. izatton.
 ilme was when lower prices and higher wages were secuted as incompatible and ab- surd and as things that could not exist to. gether but to-day both are recognized as req. sonaole demands when reasonably limited Lower prices will take care of themselves and so will higher wages if they are not interfered with by competition from regions where the oiuerent social status causes laborers to be content with lesser results The consumer VIII take care Of himself if you look after the producer For he is oue and the same person But while this bill in it's principle if it has any, IS not unprotective, 1t will be absolutely so in practice, not only in.its direct reductions but also In It's indirect reductions, sure to come from the change from specific duties to ad Va. lorem, which is marked feature of the bill An ad Valorem duty, as the name implies Is one which varies according to the prices If prices could be exactly determined 1t would be ialr. But unfortunately, prices are very much | matters of opinion, on which honest men may | differ much and rogues more Inasmuch as l the duty depends the price, a cheat on the price is cheat on the duty If piece of goods | Is worth S5 yard and the duty is 25 per cent the correct duty is sL5O If the price be in- | voiced at SL5O yerd the duty collect | cd becomes proportionately lower, and not only Is the government cheated out Of it's proper duty, but the manufacturer is cheated out of the protection | his government has promised This, therefore, | nn I ta h, nufn 70 | ev ry 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 l ernment and yet these ad valorem duties. thus | objectionable, have increased in number every where, being substituted in nearly ai the | schedules for specific duties ..' | How the bill will act as a revenue raiser. and | how IL can act as an injury {. the goYer ment | and the producer both together, is well cxcm- | plihed by the pottery schedule, An amount | equal to twoflfths of the amount Of Il i'm. ports are made here, valued at B. IOJ,0)0. Nine | millions and half dollars are imported. Un" der existing law the revenue obtained is S6, 5UU> | OOO Under the proposed bill if the manufactur. | CTS hold their own and the mos sanguine friend | would not dream of that the loss in revenue | would be s!,OOO0J. If the manufacturers were | entirely driven out and all our wares had to be | imported the loss in revenue even then would | be Sss2, ,OO0 The crockerv schedule seems hard. | lv to be managed with view to revenue. | While 1t would be impossible to specify the probable effects Of this bhl a few Of the most | important may be touched upon
 | As 10 the future relations between Canada | and the United States il perhaps would not be | decorous for us talk fully, but there are | those who believe that what they think is The l m destiny pf ihig continent ia l ton 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, conduces to that end | Those on the other hanl wHo look upon tho | dominion simply as another nation will be sur | prised to see how freely is accorded to her l privileges and opportunities in derogation of
 those of our own citizens; privileges and op- | portunites for which the dominion would be | glad to give ample and uustinted concessions By this bill they will, without money ana 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. If we | should lose anythiHg thus gained it will be an addition 10 the general misfortune Of this bill l Another serious objection is, the bill decreases | the revenue according to the calculations usu. | ally mnde by the treasury department as com | pared Wltn lo5d dDOut ~fOJ, "o. ms Ihtge | deficit coming 1t oeS, upon depleted
 treasury is appalling in q bill for revenue only. | How his great hole in our resources as na' | tion is to be filled no one knows At 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 it's | wished-for clew.
 | Against the consideration of such bill, mak ing such deficit and leaving 1t unprovded for, | the minority va nlY protested when the bill was | laid before the committee. Who would dare, it Of sound and statesmanlike mind to make a
 deficit of s74 0OOO0O and blindly Vote it, with no
 plan in sight to meet the expenditures; That | same pro est we make to 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 ths bill and then be cOerced into the other? Who knows, if they were rre'
 sented together that we might not prefer to
 stay where we are? The progress of this at
 tempt at what has been called reform has a!-
 ready created such feeling that lhe country is
 stirred all over, When the scheme of revising
 taxes by methods used in the time of war is
 presented in addition to those now imposed
 there may be such further rcyulsion Of feeling as will accomplish the work Of defeating this
 bill
 While as party men we m ight rejoice at its
 
 the present time are superior to even ihe most
 defined political advantage and advise that the
 bill do not pass. We have not thought 1t ad'
 visable to make any appeals 10 passion or
 prejudice
 In lUO representative cities, where the mum
 Der employed exceeds 2,5OJ,DOo, fully one-third
 are without employment These are engaged
 fin the protected industries. Those who thought
 they were beyond the touch of the tarif now
 know the solid fact that all 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.
 Col. Jones Will Remain.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-COl. Jones, ot
 Kansas, who is enlisted in the marshall
 ship fight in that state, had given it
 out that he would leave to-day for