St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-01
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

The new tariff bill prepared by the
WAYS and means committee reveals a
measure which is at once bold, compre-
henslve and conSiStent.-Omaha World
Herald.
The ways and means committee DEM
oerats nave worked long time on that
tariff bill. and miserable thing they
have made of ii. after all.-Milwaukee
7Wiscon sin.
Z The direct result of the new tariff law
will be greatly to increase the balance
OF trade In favor of tie United States,
and TO draw to our ports the riches of
the world.-Kansas City Times.
The advance statement is no doubt
designed as ''feeler' before the party
enters upon its final attack on the
American system OF protection for
American labor.-Des Moines Register.
h he bill is admirable in theory, aud is
a practical tax measure carefully worked
out. tt will need few amendments, and
only a short debate. Our federal tax
alton is getting close to the constitution.
st. Louis Republic.
- As rule the duties are made lowest
upon the cheaper goods of universal
use. and highest upon articles of lux
ury- 1t is a poor mans tariff bill,
rather than one for the creation of
trust and opoly.-Pittsburg Post.
Democratic preference for ad valorem
duties, so easily evaded and Inviting
differentiation and false bills of sale,
dominates the new tariff measure. Tar
III administration is to take step
backward instead OF forward Omaha
Bee.
The managers in charge of the bill
have given the public to understand
that it is subject to changes. and many
features that are found to be objection
able Will be radically changed or en-
tirely eliminated when the performance
is given i'll the Senate.-Baltimor Amer
lean.
There is one excellent feature of the
bill, and that is the principle of ad
valorem duty. 1t is safe, sound and
easily understood. We wish the princi-
pie mad been applied more fully and to
many OF the articles placed On the free
list.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Any element of protection n such a
policy must necessarily be un-Dem-
ocratic. and if all interests do not share
in this element of protection, then we
shall have tariff as unequal and as
UNJUST as the Republican affair which
the Democrats have solemnly promised
to repeal. Constitution.
If the Democratic majority has ac-
corded with the sentiment so emphatic
ally expressed at the polls in 1890 and
lS92, 1t has gone long way toward exc
cutting the will of it's countrymen
whatever controversy arises over Its
bill, as reported, should be faced with
unfiInehing courage.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Reserving comment on the details of
the administration tariff bill until a
more thorough study has been made of
them, the Chronicle feels justified by
the published outline in declaring that
the bill is drawn on sectional lines,
rather than on the lines laid down by
the Chicago platform.-St. Louis Chron-
icle.
II will soon be made apparent to Mr..
wilson and his associates that THAR
only hope of tariff legislation is to mod
ify not only the incongruities and con-
tradictionS Of the bill, but its radical
nature, so that its enactm will not
lnfilct new and prolonged depression on
! the national industries. .-PittSburg Dis
patch.
The free list is of the most ample di-
mensions, and IL will puzzle many
staunch Democrats to discover wherein
the demand for "a tariff for revenue
only" has been complied with in offer
ing bill which frees SO many articles
and falls SO far short of raising the re-
quired revenue Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
The measure is at best a coYardiy
makeshift. 1t is not free trade, as the
Democratic platform demanded, and it
is not protection. The Guise of protee-
tion IS maintained under ad yalorem
duties, and the advantages of free
trade are offered to importers by the
vast opportunities of SWindliug af-
forded by underyaluations. cleveland
Leader.
While the bill is reversal of the eX-
treme protection policy which the Re-
publican party SO successfully inaugu-
rated three years ago. its moderate re-
duetlon of paipablY outrageous protec-
ton ideas will meet the approval of
every Democrat who comprehends the
action of the committee. and who will
recognize the fact that the measure is
fulfillmeDt of the pledges made to the
people.-Chicago Globe.
1t aims at national legislation freed
from the taint of class or sectional con-
siderations. 1t seeks the greatest good
for the greatest number, and places the
plutoerats begotten of high protection
upon the common level of our American
citizenship. 1t is not an attempt to
tinker a rotten and discredited system
of tariff, but to replace it by one which
conforms to the fundamental principles
of our government, and recognizes the
equal rights of our people.-Detroit
FreePress.