The evening world., 1893-12-19
LAST EDITION
TARIFF
d BEFORE
CONGRESS.
To.Day'S Report Of the Major.
ity Of Ways and Means
Committee
FALSE PROTECTION EXPOSED.
The New Bill Prepared First as
a Real Aid to Home
Industry.
REDUCTIONS AND REASONS.
Early Tariff Laws and Effects on
National Prosperity.
FALSE PROTECTION EXPOSED.
REDUCTIONS AND REASONS.
Early Tariff Laws and Effects on
National Prosperity.
(By Associated Press.)

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WASHINGTON. Dec 1s.-The follow
Ing is the majority report Of the Ways
and Means Committee. on the Tariff
THE TARIFF REPORT.
Tit American people. after the fullest
and most thorough debate ever given by
n people to their fiscal policy, have
deliberately n rightly decided that the
existing tariff is wrong in principle and
grievously unjust in operation. They
have decided, as freemen must always
decide, that the power of taxation has
now lawful or constitutional exercise ex-
cept for providing for the support Of the
Government
Every departure from this principle is
q departure from the fundamental prin-
ciples Of free institutions and inevitably
works out a gross inequality In the citi-
zenship Of a country.
For more than thirty years we have
levied the largest part Of our Federal
taxes In violation of this w. truth until
we have reached in the existing tariff an
extreme and voluminous system of class
taxation. to which history may be chal-
lenged to furnish any parallel.
EVIL BOARD OF PROTECTION.
'0'y hlSi tlSco nave Dten
taken into partnership with the Gov
eminent; so many private interests now
share in the rich ~prerogative of taxing
attempt to dissolve this illegal union is
necessarily encountered by an opposition
hat rallies behind 1t the interference of
%eai5R. The the inertRi Sw OF fi Sf eG RaSifs, aad
me honest errors of a generation of
raise teaching.
PRESENT BILL NOT PERFECT.
The bill on which the Committee has
expended much patient and anxious labor
to the mandate Of the American people.
protection than to be free Of ali error U5 in In
It's complex and manifold details.
However, we may deny the existence
OF any legislative pledge, or of the right
O. any Congress to make such pledge
lot the continuance OF, duties that carry
protection. we must recognize that great
interests do exist whose existence and
prosperity, 1t is no part of our reform
We believe, and we have the warrant
OF our own past experience for be-
lleving, that reduction OF duties will
to all our great manufacturing Indus
Tres, however much they may dread
the change.
TEMPERATE REFORM SAFEST.
n dealing with the Tariff question, as
tTbnan every other long-standing abuse
ga or Industrial system. the legislator
must always remember that, in the be-
ginning, temperate reform is safest, hav-
ing IN itself the principle of growth.
PROJECTIONS FAILURES.
glance at the tariff legislation of OH
own country ought to satisfy every intel
ngent student that protection has al.
Ways shown Its falsity as a system OF
economy by, Its absolute failure to insure
lectures. "aiu
II teaches men to depend on artincia,
nelp. on laws taxing their countrymen
pn IN prosperity in business, rather thar
.nrows business out of it's natural chan.
nesl into artificial channels, where there
tt ainttv always be %fuctuation. and uncer,
oiity Of large business interests thf
None OF every popular, election.
fuliv IL nave recognized this truth more
70 ina the wiser men who from time
nv ZINE nave engaged In the so-caiied
projected Industries.
an ie ora ago Edward Everett stated, in
men oraIlon at Lowell, hat the sagacious
Men who founded the manufactIres o.,
high tariff policy. q
or ms House from Ma~ssachusetts and
o om OF our foremost writer's on economiC
aavs'ions, declared 1t to be within his
MN personal knowledge that when the
proposal was made to Impose the nrn.
ffssctVe tariff OF 1916. the leading manu-.
Was u OF Rhode Island. among Whom
"ds Mr.. Slater, the father OF cottnn
spinning in this country, mel AZ ti''t tSfn
ana OF n OF their number
una anter denoerate consultation, came
hhaad1 rather be let alone, as their btisInnss
well - grown up naturally and succeeded
eminent. "'"e ny Gov
dhey argue that by laying n nro
,hruve tariff their business would IA,
sSml9qWn out OF its natural channeIs an
fRSnniIected to f~uctuation and uncertainty
less' as usual. the clamor of selfish ant
las lar-sighted men n the ambItion ~
demn makers to usurp the place OF proyi
a nv ro prevailed. The country entered or
.esult that the Government help beRot 4
toOninaed on Seventh RuOs)