New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-29
STATED BY WILSON.
Some of the Salient Points of the
New Tariff Bill Touched
II. Upon
By the Chairman of the WAYS and
-. Means Committee Of the
House.
Provisions Of the Mckinley Bill De-
nounced-How the Present One
Differs.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S. - Chairman
Wilson has issued the following state
ment in regard to the tariff bill
The Democratic members Of the COM
nlittee on ways and means have felt as
none others could feel the 1no1s1p7l:c;7
RESPONSE billy resting upon them and the
manifest difficulty and dal;cacy OF the
duty assigned them Of fo4 ming a tariff
bill for nation Of 70, 00O, 900 Of people.
The bill they were called on to reform is
a vast and laOyrinthille system Of class
taxation, the elimination OF SO years
control Of the taxing power by I,
few great interests, gathering into
their train host Of petty
toll gathering. It was carefully framed
to prevent, as long as possible, what its
author called ANY monkeying with the
tariff, by which ne meant any success
full effort of the people to undo Or to
lessen the bounties which its benetciaries
We're permitted to write therein in their
own words and their own figures.
Wrong Kind Of a Free I.ist.
It transferred to the free list proper
and fruitful revenue articles where
most Of the taxes paid by the people
We're received by the government, and
greatly increased the rates Of those
articles where all or most Of the taxes
paid by the people went into private
Golfers. And it was bolstered about by
many defenses, chief among which are
swept and garnisheed treasury and a
swollen and colossal scale OF permanent
expenditures. Such are the cOndi-
Jlons that confronted us at the
threshold of our work. The COM
nlittee have welcomed information
and counsel from every t1Jlstv erthy
source, and while they do not expect
their bill to escape just criticism, in all
Of its details, they Go present it to the
country as the result OF months of pa
tlent, anxious toll, and Of an honest de-
sire to discharge their duty. purged of all
faint of local and personal favoritism Or
prejudice.
Its Main Features Are Two:
First-The adoption wherever it
seemed practicable Of ad valorem, in
stead OF specific duties.
Secondly-The freeing from taxes of
those great materials of industry that lie
at the basis CT production.
Specific rates Of duty are Objectionable
for these reasons: They frequently con-
ceal a rate OF taxation too enormous to
be submitted to if exposed to ad valorem
terms as the duty of s cents a hundred
pounds on salt in bulk, which amounts
to over 81 per cent Oh a common neces-
sary Of life. They always bore heavily
On the common articles used by the
masses and lightly on the
expensive articles consumed by the
rlch. as tax Of thirty dollars
on all houses would be little or nothing
on the great mansion and very high on
the humble home. And contrary to
common belief, specific duties lead to
greater frauds in administration, for
counting and weighing at the custom
house are done by the cheapest and
most easily corrupted labor. while adj
valorem rates are assessed Ey the best
paid and responsible appraisers.
The BoIdest Innovation
Of the bill is its large free list of the raw
materials. Taxes upon productions are
double wrongs. They gather and cu1nu-
late on the consumers of the finished
products. They hurt labor by narrow
ing the market for what it produces
Coal and iron are the foundations Of
modern industry. Material progress is
measured by the amount of their con-
sumption. No other country can
supply them as abundantly or as
cheaply AS we can. No possible
competition can interfere with our own
producers few miles in the interior of
the country. Remoteness from from the
sources Of supply is in itself enough dis
advantage to any section Of the country.
without further burdens in tariff taxes.
With releases from taxes on their ma
terials,
There Ks No Limit
to the growth of our foreign trade. This
will more than compensate the home
producers of raw material, who, tariff
or no tariff, control all the interior of
the country, from an unprecedented loss
of markets anywhere along the seaboard.
Its incalculable advantage to labor is
apparent. In every great line
Of manufactures we can produce
in six months to nine months enough for
our home market. We can get rid of
ovr surplus only by foreign trade. AS
long as we have taxes on the materials
Of industry we cannot build up that
trade, hence the other alternative, trusts
to keep down production to the home
market.
The Workingman Can See
whether his interest is with system
> that represses production and robs him
, of employment, or with system thai
gives natural and healthy play to pro.
duction and emancipates him from
trusts and like combinations of capital.
AS to the details of the bill, will
, briefly recapitulate the salient changes
) Of the several schedules. In the chemis.
| try schedule we have transferred to the
, free list quite number of articles used
: in anufacturing, the most important
: Of VIII ia cr11rhnr;o o,1o IL.