Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-04-07

No. 80.
try 5s7. 900 barrels. For the yea
Tending August 81. 1891. our total ex
ports to Cuba were SfI. 900. 600. 70
the corresponding period, ending Aug
gust 81, 1892, our total exports wcr
$40, 700. 900, undera law not two wear
in operation. OF this great increas,
nearly 81, 900, ooo were in flour, abou
s.. 900, 900 were in bacon, pork ans
J other provisions. and large proper
ton of the remaining exports wer,
also agricultural products. And vel
the Democratic leaders in Congress:
seriously propose to shut the door OF
this splendid opportunity in the face
of the American farmer.
The pretcxt for the proposed bill
IS not TO raise more revenue. The
declaration OF its author and the
House committee is that it will reduce
/ the revenue. The same effort 1t tariff
reduction has been repeatedly ade
IN the past when we had a surplus
revenue in the Treasury. The pres.
ent law was adequate to meet all ex-
penses of the Government. and did
meet them for the first two and half
wears of its operation. During no
year Of President Earrison's admins
trStion did the receipts fail below the
expenses of the Government. and
when President Harrison went out
of power, while his administration had
paid off more than $500, 600, 600 of the
principal and interest of the national
debt, yet he turned over to the admin.
istration which succeeded him sur
plus of upward ofSl24 ,oco, 900. includ-
ing the reserve fund, which under the
Republican policy had never been en-
coached upon.
THE TwO SCHOOLS.
"rhe advocates of tariff taxation are
divided into two schools. Both schools
believe in raising public money by a
tariff, and only differ as to the kind Of
tariff to accomplish this purpose.
One school, the Democratic school
advocates tariff fer revenue only;the
other, the Republican school, advo.
tates tariff for revenue and also pro-
lection. A revenue tariff has no other
aim or purpose and diselaims every
other save revenue. \ protective tar.
1T while raising all needed revenue is
ever mindful that the taxes imposed
shall be upon those foreign products
which will most encourage domestic
production and rest most lightly upon
the consumer. The revenue tariff
is unmindful of the development
and prosperity of our country. The
protective tariff, while having reve-
nue. and the needs OF the Treasury al.
ways in view, steadily keeps i'll mind
our own industries and the occupation
OF our own people. A revenue tariff
seeks out articles of prime necessity
often such as we can not produce in
our own country and makes them the
subject of taxation. The Senate has
just introduced an amendment to the
Wilson bill which is striking illus
tration of revenue tariff. II takes
sugar, an article which enters into
every mans household and which for
the most part we do not produce
at home, from the free list and
places it upon the dutiable list.
"A revenue tariff will raise revenue
for time at least, but it is inadequate
to encourage, promote, and protect
production in our own country. Pro.
lection seeks out those articles of for
eign production which we can produce
at home and puts tariff upon them,
and while every importation of such
articles produces revenue which goes
into the treasury, il at the same time
stimulates our domestic productions
and sustains and defends our domestic
enterprises. So long as we have to
use the taxing power, why not use it
i'll the interest of our own people and
their occupation What is the gain
if we do put money into the public
treasury under a revenue tariff and
thereby discourage domestic enter.
prise and destroy the opportunity for
capital and labor to earn money
Why tax foreign article which we
cannot produce rather than one which
we cam In the former case we help
no domestic industry; in the latter our
tariffs discriminate against the foreign
and in favor of the home product.
"a tariff levied exclusively for
revenue encourages foreign inpofta-
ons--that is what it is made for, ard
when such tariff is levied on arti-
Giles the like Of which we produce at
hoins, it discourages our own produc-
ers by depriving them of the home
market which justly belongs to them.
A revenue tariff encourages no home
enterprises; supplies employment to
no American workingman; it takes
employment from him because in the
encouragement Of foreign importation
it diminishes the demand for Amesi-
can products. it diminishes the de-
mand for the American products
The use Of a foreign article, which a
Democratic revenue tariff encourages.
means less use or no use Of a like do.
nestle article So long as labor is
cheaper in Europe and conditions are
lower there than here. a free trade or
revenue tariff upon competing goods