St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-28


any national party since the war. Year
after year has seen increases of the
tariff rates for the benefit of the favored
protected industries. On many they
were prohibitory; on others, oppress-
lively high and burdensome. On many
classes of goods the rate of duty was
higher on the coarser grades than on the
finer. In this way the necessaries of
life and the things the PLAIN people
must have bore higher duty than lux
uries. Under this system the revenues
have fallen off until there has for
months been deficiency of receipts as
compared with expenditures. The
promise of universal prosperity which
was made by the authors of the McKin-
ley bill on Its adoption had not
been fulfilled, and under it de-
preston and panic reigned. The
bill has been prepared with all the care
we could give it and has been framed to
raise revenue for the support of the
government instead of individuals.
Free wool is given the manufacturer.
and heavy cut made In WOODEN goods.
1t can be truly said that all the duty
taken from wool has gone to the con-
sumer of WOODEN goods, and even
more"
Mr.. Hopkins, of Illinois,
A REPUBLICAN MEMBER
of the committee, said: The bill as
reported to the Republican members of
the ways and means committee today is
in such form that 1t is very difficult to
give detailed and accurate statement
with regard to its workings. From the
examination have been able to give it
can saYlthat it is most radical, and in
the changes that are made, approach
ing more nearly TO free trade than
any previous bill that has ever been
presented to congress. 1t will reduce
the revenues from imports from 1892
about S60,000,060. 1t has largely in
creased the free list and made radical
changes in the iron and steel schedules
and those OF earthenware, glassware,
chemicals, oils and paints, woolens and
other textiles; iron ore, coal, lum-
ber and salt; ands. many agricult-
ural implements like plows. tooth
and disc harroWS, haryeSters, reaperS,
drills, mowers, horse rakeS, cultivators,
threShing machines and cotton goods
be on the tree list the 1st of next March,
and the reduction in the manufactured
goods is to take effect the 1St of July
next. If the bill is carried out in the
form in which it is presented to the
members of the ways and means
committee, it will close down
the great majority of the
woolen mills which have been in
operation under existing laws, and
throw out of employment the men,
women and children who have received
employment at remuneratiye wages.
The bill will destroy the sugar industry
in this country. Under the Mckinley
law bounty of 2 cents pound was
given to the sugar beet and other sugar
| producers, and under that system
a splendid beet sugar industry has been
started in Kansas, Nebraska. and other
| states. The farmers i'll those states
will have to go back to raising corn and
wheat. This bill serves notice Oh them
thath the Democrats prefer
THE FOREIGN PRODUCT.
1.-THE S20,000,000 annually that were
sent abroad before the advent of the
Mckinley law will again be paid to the
foreigners and the laborers of that in
dustry in Wales and other foreign tim
producing countries, and that amount
of money will be taken out OF circula-
ton in this country, and the laborers
who, under the existing conditions,
would be given employment at re-
munerative wages will have to walk the
streets without employment and beg
for bread"
MIR. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania. a Re-
publican member of the committee,
said it would be impossible for him to
express any opinion except III a general
way, as the effect of the bill, he said,
would be to reduce the revenue about
$50, ,0OO. 900 per annum. He thought the
bill should be called "a tariff bill only
for revenue"
MIR. Dalzell criticized severely the ad
valorem system of revenue which the
bill incorporated, as he claims that it
Invariably results in cheating of the
government, and has been condemned
by every secretary of the treasury,
Democrat and Republican alike, from
time immemoral. He SAID the free list
was wonder. "lf am not very much
Mistaken" he said, 1.-The bill will
give rise to law suits with
out number. The bill cannot
prove otherwise, than severe blow at
our supremacy as manufacturing ma
ton. The fact is, it must necessarily
fail upon the cause of labor. This
means long step backward to the
laborlng man. | am at loss to know
how any sincerely patriotic American
can wish for its passage"
Secretary Herbert, when questioned
tonight in regard to the new tariff bill,
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