The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
EAST AND WEST.
Manufacturers Of Each Demand Pro-
lection for Thsir Own Products,
But Wants the Others Free Free Trade
Democrats OF the NORTH and South
stand Solidly Together 4 Titanic
Task Bcfore This Cong ress.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4-Already MEM
bers OF the house commit, on ways
and means and the senate committee
on finance are experiencing the prelim-
mary struggles between the manufac
turers of New England and the con-
sumers of manufactured articles in the
far west and northwest in the early
work upon the new tariff bill. There
is no division of sentiment between the
free trade democrats of the south and
north. They. stand solidly for abso-
lutte freedom in all commercial transac-
tions both domestic and foreign. But
when-it comes to passing upon ques-
tions of local interest, the demo
Gratis of New England and those of the
far west and northwest fight.
1t would seem that these two sections
have few interests in common. New
England makes yankee notions" and
the great manufactured articles for the
great west while the latter produces
from the ground for the former. The
Yankee wants protection for his pro-
ductions and free competition with the
world in the supply of all which the
western farmer produces. The humble
tiller of the soil who labors in the set
ting sun of course would like farm pro-
duce to be protected hut he is in open
war against the Yankee who supplies
him with manufactured goods. 1t
would seem that the southerner and
the inhabitant of any of the middle
states was an uninterested spectator in
the struggle upon which the two tariff
committees of congress are entering.
1t seems to be an endless task to rec
oncile the two widelyseparated inter-
ests of New England and the Trans.
Mississippi country. Chairman Wilson
of the committee on ways and means
says that no committee can do it's duty
with its eyes and ears wide open; that
it is necessary to ''go it blindly'' in the
work of tariff revision. as it is almost
impossible to give audience and action
to one interest without doing violence
to another. When the Mckinley tariff
bill was prepared there was general
raising of customs duties, and almost
every one interested in the production of
any article from the shop or ground
was given favor; but now that it is nee
essary to cut down the duties and at
the same time increase the revenues OF
lHe government. Une TASK De1Ore con-
gress becomes almost appalling.
When the Mills bill was presented to
congress half-dozen years ago, hear
ings were given to consumers and pro-
ducers alike; but it is not the intention
in this congress to ask consumers to
speak, because there is little time in
which to prepare the tariff bill There
is great anxiety everywhere as to what
the new measure will provide, and
greater suspense as to what interests
viii be injured by being brought into
closer competition with foreign riv.
ais. The southern sugar and
rice planters are trembling. The
first are afraid their products
will go upon the free list, while the
latter are counting upon the loss OF
their bounty. 1t would seem, how.
ever, that the sugar men of Louisiana
are always to light upon their feet.
When the democrats prepared their
Morrison and Mills bills they simply
reduced the duty on sugar, and when
the Mckinley bill put sugar upon the
free list, Louisiana was given boun-
ty. These are the only southern inter.
ests jeopardized at present; but New
England seems suspended in mid air.