The evening world., 1893-12-19
LAST EDITION
TARIFF
b BEFORE
CONGRESS-.
To.DaJ'S Report Of the Major.
ity Of Ways and Means
Committee
FALSE PROTECTION EXPOSED.
The New Bill Prepared First as
q 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,)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-The follow
Ing is he majority report of the Ways
and Means Committee. Of the Tariff
THE TARIFF REPORT.
The American people. after the fullest
and most thorough debate ever given by
any people to their fiscal policy, have
deliberately and 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
Goverpment. y
Every departure from this principle is
a 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 han 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 chaI-
lenged to furnish any parallel.
EVIL BOARD OF PROTECTION.
So many private enterprises have been
taken into partnership with the Gov
eminent; SO many private interests now
share in the rich prerogative of taxing
seventy millions Of people. that any
necessarily encountered by an opposition
that rallies behind it the interference OF
monopoly, the power of concentrated
the honest errors Of n a genera ttis; an n3
false teaching.
PRESENT BILL NOT PERFECT.
The bill On which the Committee has
expended en much patient n anxious labor
ss the @ onedsd s Of s 8 e9am mssIean response nsoni.
1t no more processes to be purged Of ali
itI complex and manifold details.
Of any legislative pledge. or Of the right
or 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
leving, that reduction Of duties will
;aot injure. but give more abundant life
70 all our great manufacturing Indus
the change.
TEMPERATE REFORM SAFEST.
N dealing with the Tariff question, as
Win every other long-standing abuse
cha 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.
A glance at the tariff legislation of our
own country ought to satisfy every intel
lgent student that protection has al
ways shown its falsity as a system OF
economy py its absolute failure to insure
nealthy and 4tahIa nrnQnartt,K
features. ""
It teaches men to depend on artiac,a,
help, on laws taxing their countrymen
upon their W skill and effort. M
throws business out of it's natural chan.
nesl INTO artificial channels. where there
tainty, and 1t makes a tariff system the
tootball OF. party politics, and the sta.
bility Of large business interests The
stSRe or every popular election.
tuiiy than the wiser men who from time
10 time have engaged in the so-caiied
projected Industries.
an grafton at Lowell, that the sagacious
men who founded the manufactures OF
NNeW England were never friends OF a
Hon. Amasa Walker, a former member
one ms nv House from Massachusetts,, and
SWn psrson aici Rnowl It to t be within his
proposal was made to Impose the pro.
tective tariff Of 1915; the leading manu-
was Mr.. Slater. the father OF cotton
spinning In this country. met at The
e~onnting-room of one OF their number
anu after deliberate consultation. cams
unanimously to the conclusion that thev
bSaadd rather be let alone, as their business
nad grown up naturally and succeeded
Weii, and they felt confident of its con.
eTM prosperity. If let alone by Gov.
tiiC
ihey argue that by. laying a pro.
thrown out of its natural channels and
objected to nuctuation and uncertainty
But as usual. the clamor OF selfish and
Tess far-sighted men and the ambition M
lawmakers to usurp the place OF proyi.
eenee prevailed. The country entered on
protective policy, with the unfaiiIna
NSalt thAt the Government help begot 3
(oOaiaausd On Seventh PuO&l