The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-27

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| amount OF their consumption. No other
country eau supply them abundantly
| or cheaply as We eau. No possible compe+
tition can Interfere with our own produc-
| ers, few miles Ia the Interior of the
| country. Rsmoteusss from the sources
of supply is In itself enough disadvantage
| to apv section Of she country without
| further burdens in tariff saxss. Untsxsd
| ores, coal, lumber. wool aud other
| fibrss must immensely stimulate pre-
duction in certain parts of our country.
| The thin edge of American ma ufactures
! from taxes upon their materials,
| there is ne limit TO the
( growth of our fereign trade.
| This will more than compensate
| to the home producers of raw material.
| who. tariff or no tariff. control all ths
Interior of The country for any appre-
| hended loss of markets anywhere along
the seaooard. Its incalculable advantage
| to labor Is apparent. In every great
| line of manufactures, we can produces In
| six mouths to nine months enough for
| our home market. We can get rid of our
! surplus only by foreign trade. As long as
we have taxes on the materials OF indus
| try We cannot build up that trade. Hence
| the other alternative OF trusts TO Keep
| down production to the home market.
| The workingman can see whether his
| interest is with a system that represses
|
employment or with system
that gives natural aud healthy
| play to production and emsucipates MIN
| from trusts aud like combinations of
| capital.
AS 10 the details of the bill. will
| briefly recapitulate the changes of the
several schedules.
SALIENT POINTS OF THE BILL
In chemical schedule We nave trans
| ferred to the free list quite number OF
articles. used In manufactures. the mast
| important OK which is sulphurfc asid, one
of the corner stones of all chemical
industry. The duty on castor oil Is
reduced from eighty-dvs to thirty-five
| cents per gallon. aud the duty on lin
| sesd oil, which was secretly raised to
| thirty-swo cents Dy the Conference Conn
nittse on the Mckinley bill. after eacn
hous. had epsniy voted for lower duty.
| we put at nftesn cents q gallon. Pig
| lead being re iucsd from swo to one cant
pound. lead paints are correspondinglY
| reduced.
The Mckinley bill Increased the duty
| ON opium prepared for smoking, to $l2
| pound. in the vain hope of lssseaing its
Importation. The Custom House officers
on the Pacific coast declare thss
this increase of dutv has simply
placed in the hands, of smuRglers the
bringing In of spium to she dsmoraliza-
ton Of the customs service, aud the lost
of over half a million revenue. The duty
proposed Is believed to be collectabls. and
will put the traffic under Government
control and supervision.
In the pottery schedule substantial res
ductions are made. Plain white ware Is,
dropped from the high schedule in which
1t mysteriously crowded itself Decorated
ware Is reduced from 60 to 45 per cent.
Undecoratsd from 55 to 40.
In common window glass, where close
combinations have kept up the prices to
consumers, under the shelter of duties
averaging hundred per cent, reduc-
tion of more than onebalf has been made
in all the larger sizes. There is no
doubt that these rates will permit q very
healthy growth of the industry here.
In plate glass reductions are made, the
largest sizes from so cents to 80 cents per
square foot; of silvered from so to IS
cents,
IRON AND STEEL SCHEDULE.
In the iron aud steel schedule we be-
gan with free ore. The discovery of the
immense deposits of Bsssemer ores In
the lake region. aud OF foundry
ores tn the Atlantic has rapidly
swept as to the leadership OF the
world in the production OF iron and STEEL
and brought near at hand our undi.puted
supremacy in the fgreat field OF manu-
facturers. The use OF steam shovsls
reduces the cost of mining to point
where the wages paid natural labor" are
irrelevant. Pig iron we reduce from
6. 70 per ton, which is from so to 80 per
cent. to a Uniform duty of 2215 per cent,
a rate some what higher 10 higher in
proportion than the rest of the
schedule because of cheap
freight rates on foreign pig, it
being favorite frsight on westward voy-
ages. Steel rails we reduce from 1874
per ton. now rs per cene., to 25 per cent.
As the pool which has kept up prices go
many years In this country seems now
disorganiz ed, the other producers will soon
need protection more against Mr.. Cars
| negie at Pittsburgh and Mr.. Stirling at
Chicago than against foreign producers,
The residue of the schedules vary from
25 to 30 psr cent, wood screws being put
at ,hs latter figure. Bsaus and
end girdsrs ara 35 per cent. because of
iety of Lengths and sizs 8. aHd also Of the
freq aess necessity OF changing the rolls
in making beams and girdsrs. bssauss Of
the irregular quantities ana lengths and
sizes OF orders.
TIN PLATES REDUCED oNE-HALF.
Tin plates are reduced 20 40 Der cent.
little more than ons-Ihird Of the Me-
Kinloy rate. This revenue duty, and
at the same tune enough TO permit
any existing mills to live aud nJurish.
Cheaper grades of Dockst cutlery are 35
per cent; higher grades. As. Table cuts
leCy IN pub &s % pSA NSue. LuhbG 6FS very
sR Rbssantial reductions from presens
rates, which, bsing specific. reach
| IN some grades of pocket cutlery as high
af ninety per cent. bat with rele ass Of
LAKES on raw materials, especially on
pearl and ivory for handles, seem ample,
Both copper ores aud pig coppar are
made free, we being large exporters Of
| the latter aud the duty serving only to
enable the producers TO SELL lshighsr to our
people than TO foreigners.
| Nickel is free. Lead ore has O small
duty of Is per cent. Pig lead l cent a
| pound.
Silver leac ores are restored to the
| free list. Unnanufactured lumper
is free. Manufactured is
put at 25 per ceut with the
proviso that IL any export duties are
| charged on foreign LUMBER, it shall be
| admitted only at the rates now existing.
| DUTIES ON SUGAR.
| Sugar has been a difficult subject to
| deal with.
| Raw sugar was transferred to the free
| list by the McKinley bill because nearly
| all the taxes paid on it went to the Public
| Treasury. A strong desire among soma
members OF the committee was Co put
| ah ad vaiorem duty of 90 to 25 per
| cent. on 1t and TO abolish the bounty at
| ouce. Afler much consideration 1t was
| decided to reiuee by One-half the duty
| on refined sugar and to repeal the bounty
| one-eighth each year, leaving raw sugar
untaxed as at present.
In the tobacco schedule those rates
| were sought which would brin1 most
revsnue. The present taxes of 50 aud