The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-12-29

which demand has to be listened to In . coun.
try always striving toward higher plane Of
civilization. We have. therefore. before US u.
ways three problems-wages 70 be maintained,
hours OF labor to be lessened and prices 70 b
lowered Not one, but all Il Is trne that in
ventlon alone keeps pace with and regulates
the demand for higher weges and fewer hours
which are the conditions of our higher plane.
but 1t can not be more. Il can not meet in I'D
dition the lower prices OF q lower level Of civil
izstion
Time was when lower prices and higher
wages were secuted As incompatible and alb
surd and as things that could not exist to-
Rether, but to-day both are recognized as rea.
sonable demands when reasonably limited
Lower prices will take care Of themselves. and
30 viii higher wages il they are not interfered
with by competition from regions where the
different social status causes laborers to be
content with lesser results The consumer
will take care of himself II you look after the
producer. For he is oae and the same person
But while this bill in its principle II 1t has any.
is not unprotective. 1t will be absolutely SO in
practice, not only in its direc: reductions, but
also in its indirect reductions. sure to come
from the change from specific duties to ad va
loren, which is marked feature Of the bill
An ad valorem duty, as the name implies Is
one which varies according to the prices II
fair. But, unfortunately, prices are very much
matters Of opinion on which honest men may
diner much and rogues more 1nasmuch as
the duty depends on the price, q cheat on the
price is cheat on the duty. II piece Of goods
is worth s; yard and the duty is 25 per cent,
the correct duty is sI.5O. If the price be in.
voiced at sL5O yard the duty collect
ed becomes proportionately lower, and
| not only is the government cheated
out OF its proper duty, but the
| manufacturer is cheated out OF the protection
his government has promised. This, therefore,
is no theory. 1t is within I experience of
ev ~ merchant that goods which cannot be
purchased at all in Europe can be purchased,
duty paid in New York at lower prices than
like goods can be purchased b. the honest mer-
chant who values them AZ their true market
value and pays the dut demanded by the gov
eminent, and yet these ad valorem duties, thus
Objectionable have increased in number every.
| where, being substituted in nearly all the
schedules for specific duties
How the bill will act as a revenue raiser and
how ii can act as an injur, the government
| and the producer both together, is well exem-
plifed by the pottery schedule. An amount
equal to two fifths Of the amount Of the i'm
ports are made here, valued at g. 10000. Nine
| millions and half dollars are imported I'm
der existing law. the revenue obtained is g. 5O0,.
| 900 Under the proposed bill il the manufactur.
ers hold their own. and the mos sanguine friend
would not dream OF that the loss in revenue
would be g., QUO, O0J. II the manufacturers were
entirely driven out and all our wares had to be
imported the loss in revenue even then would
be $751;, 0O0 The crockery schedule seems hard
lv to be managed with . view to revenue
While it would be impossible to specify the
probable effects of this bill, few OF the most
important may be touched upon.
AS to the future relations between Canada
| and the United States. 1t perhaps would not be
decorous for us talk fully but there are
those who believe that what they think is The
manifest destiny of this continent is annexa-
ton and one market and one development
Those who have thought in their minds of
the bill will see how little this bill, compared
| with existing law. conduces to that end.
Those. on the other hanl w"o look upon the
| dominion simply as another nation will be sur
| prised to see how freely is accorded to her
| privileges and opportunities in derogation OF
| those of our own citizens: privileges and op-
portunities for which the dominion would be
glad to give ample and unstintPd concessions.
BY this bill they will. without money ana with
out price, receive them
What effect also this bill will have upon the
treaties male by the last administration with
Cuba and the Spluish-American countries the
committee presented no calculations. II We
should lose any thi thus gained il will be an
addition to the general misfortune OF this bill.
Another serious objection is the bill decreases
the revenue according to the calcu ations usu.
ally mnde BY the treasury department, as COM
pared with 1891 about S74 o. 20. This large
deficit coming as ii Oes, upon a depleted
treasury is appalling in bill for revenue only.
How This great hole in our resources as "A ma.
ton is to be filled no one knows At this date
not even the committee itself knows, unless the
president anticipating in the n .ssage to con-
gross the report of the committee on ways ana
| means, shall afford to the committee itself its
wished for clew.
Against the consideration OF such q bill max.
| ing such deficit and leaving it unprovided for,
| the minority VA nj. protested when the bill was
| laid before the committee Who wouli dare,
| il OF sound and stateSmanike mind to make q
deficit of S4. o. 100 and blindly vote it, with
plan in sight to meet the expenditures? That
same pro est we make TO the house and to the
countrt. The bill ought not TO be reported
| without the internal revenue bill which is to
| make up the deficiency
Are we TO pass the bill and then be coerced
| into the other: Who knows if they were RE
| scented together. thai We might not prefer to
stay where we are: The progress Of this at
tempt at what has feen called reform has al.
ready created such feeling that the country is
stirred all over. W zen the scheme o! revising
taxes by methods used in the time Of war is
presented in addition to those now imposed
there may be such 'urther revulsion OF feeling
as will accomplish ,hs work OF defe Iting this
bill
While as party men We m light rejoice at its
passage, as citizens we think the exigenceS OF
the present time are Su, erior to even the most
defined political advantage and advise that the
bill do not pass We have not thought ii ad-
visatle to make any appeals to passion or
prejudice
In lJ0 representative cities where the num-
Der employed exceeds = 100, fully oae- third
are without employment These are engaged
in the protected industries. Those " no thought
know the solid fact that all Industries are pros
porous or none We spread this all over the
countr: and the result will s;artle even the I'M
thinking
The remainder of the report is taken
up with analysis and criticism of the
schedules of the new bill.
Col Jones Will Remain.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Col. Jones OF
Kansas. who is enlisted in the marshal.
ship fight in that state, had given il