The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-22


BILL or II the manufacturers hold their
own and the most sanguine friend would
not dream OF that. the loss III revenue would
be 100000. II the manufacturers were en-
SreiY urlNeh out anu al our ware should
be imported the loss In revenue even then
would aggregate SSS2. 900. The croCkery
schedule seems hardly TO be managed with
a view 10 revenue.
BOON TO CANADA.
While IL would be impossible 70 specify
the probable effects OF this bill, few OF the
most important may be briefly touched
upon AS TO the future relations between
Canada and the United States. it perhaps
would not be decorous for us 10 talk fully.
but there are those who believe that what
they think is the manifest destiny OF this
continent is one Nation and one market and
one development Those who have that
bill, viii see how little this bill, as COM
pared with existing law, conduces TO that
end. Those, on the other hand, who look
upon the Dominion simply as another ma
ton will be surprised 10 see how freely Is
accorded TO her privileges and opportuni-
ties in derogation of those of our own citi-
zens; privileges and opportunities for which
the Dominion would be glad 10 give ample
and unstinted concessions. BY this bull
they receive them without money and with
out price.
What effect also this bill will have uopn
the treaties made by the last administra-
ton with Cuba and the Spanish-Amer1can
calculations and no suggestions II We
should lose anything thus gained IL would
be so much addition 10 the general mis-
Another serious general objection 10 the
bill is that IL decreases the revenue. &C
cording TO the calculations usually made
by the Treasury Department. as compared
with 1893, about S4OD0.00O. This large deficit,
coming as it does upon depleted treasury,
is rather appalling in a bill for revenue
as nation is to be filled no one knows. At
this date not even the committee itself
knows, unless the President anticipating in
his message to Congress the report OF the
committee on ways and means, shall AFFORD
to the committee itself its wished-for clew.
Against the consideration of such bill
creating such a deficit and leaving II UNI
accounted for. the minority Nainly protested
when the bill was laid before the commit
tee. Who would dare, If Of sound and
S74, 900 600 and blindly vote IL with no plan
in sight whereby the government could
meet its expenditures? That same protest
make to the country.
The bill ought not TO be reported with
out the internal revenue bill, which is 10
make up the deficiency. Are we 10 pass the
bill and be then coerced into the other?
Who knows, IL they were presented to-
gehther that We might not prefer 10 stay
tempt at what has been called reform, has
already created such feeling that the coun-
try is stirred all over. When the scheme
of raising taxes by methods used in the
those now imposed. there may be such fur
Their revulson OF feeling as will accomplish
the work of defeating this, bill.
While. as party men we might rejoice at
its passage, as citizens Of the United States
We think the exegencies of the present time
are superior 10 even the most desired po-
litical advantage. and advise that the bill
do not pass. We have not thought IL de-
sirable to make any appeals to passion or
To prejudice; so far from that. we have
taken thus far no notice of the condition
of business now, which is terrible and OF the
Workingmen, which beegars description.
There is no need for us TO present this To
the country. 1t is presenting itself In one
hundred representative cities, where the
a half of people, fully one-third by the
most conservative estimate, are without
employment. These are engaged in the pro-
tected industries. Those who are not and
who thought they were beyond the touch
all industries are prosperous only when the
protected industries are prosperous. Spread
this all over the country, you must, and
the result VIII Startle even the unthinking
1t Is not nec-sSary for us to bring this TO
public view. No ingenuity can keep Il out
OF everybodys face and eyes. Workingmen
deep and sorrowful feeling We will not
which this bill has already created. An
end can be put to all this by the defeat of
the bill, and to the accomplishing of this
every energy should be bent. The best way
TO put an end TO this agitation is TO put an
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