The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-28

THE NEW TARIFF.


The new tariff has become a law. The
vccl industry, with its 10000 partici-
pants Is wiped out; our lumber and tim
Der market Is opened 10 Canadian inva-
sion. Woolens. glass, pottery and metals
are given such greatly reduced protection
that ia most OF the industries employers
will DO Obliged to close their doors or cut
wages. The new tariff overthrows recip-
rocity and loses 10 us the large increase OF
trade il brought. The new tariff destroys
reciprocity with ali sugar producing
countries, and st the same time throws
open our doors to the wool Of Argentine
and Australia without eracting any re-
turn. The great American numbering in
tsrest along the border Is dealt serious
blow. to the benefit Of Canada. Washing
ton state will feel this blow. and will suf-
fer. too. by the reduced protection TO coal.
iron ore and hops. on which the duties are
cut down almost one-hslL The farming
interest along the border states from
Minnesota to Maine viii be crippled By
the operation of the new tariff The pro-
tective duty on farm products 10 cut down
or obliterated so that Canada has free ac-
cess 10 our vast market, while We get
nothing in return save loss.
Under the Mckinley Law Canada was so
sorely pinched that she was ready to beg
for commercial union, whose logical ulti-
mate would have been political union. The
German bill gives her commercial union,
and no wonder the Toronto press expresses
the opinion that under the new taritf there
will be general revival of Canadian pros
perity.
The new tariff establishes the odious In
come tan: the new tariff stands for vast
robbery OF the people for the benefit Of the
sugar and whisky trusts. To the sugar
trust the new tariff means an enormous
bonus OF $40 0oo. 900. while at the same time
the people will be compelled to pay over
$50, 0o0, 600 more a year for one of the daily
neeessarios Of lite. Meantime the wool
grower. Whose industry IL wiped out by
free wool. sees not only Southern sugar
but Southern rice protected. The new
tarif Is protectionist in principle. but il
is not a fair tariff ell around, like the
Mckinley tariff; IL extends high protec-
ton 10 sons favored industries. while 10
grinds other industries TO the earth by
the severity Of It's reductions. Thus one
manufacturer Of certain kinds OF steel is
enabled by high duties 20 pay his hands
as high wages Is they have received, or
even higher, while other manufacturers
of steel la tho same neighhorhood. pro-
duesng different articles, are forced to re-
duoe wages 30 per cent. or shut up The
favored monopoly can thus get labor
cheaper. because thousands doing similar
work will DO thrown out Of employment,
even while he can realiEs a great profit
without any reduction.
While pretending 20 stand mp for the
theory that specific duties are wrong, the
trainers of this tariff did not hesitate TO
defend the rice Of South Carolina by
specific duties. while they give the ami
mals and hFeaistutfs OF she Northern
farm the benefit of 81 valorsm duties.
Specific duties are given % favored indus
tries; ON round wire. blasting powder,
powder. cigar labels. red pepper: the
duties on cotton goods are more fully
speciao than those Of the Mckinley tariff,
but when an interest 10 10 he slaughtered
the fiimsy dsfenss Of al yalorem duties is
applied.
The great wooden industry Is left % de-
struction with only al valorem duties,
and nearly all the duties on cutlery. fax
and linens. leather. euttons. boiler plate.
hoop iron. chains. fenos and corset wire.
nails. firearms and railway fish plates. are
al vaIorem, aud leave producers At the
mercy Of fraudulent impostasions. The
following shows the character Of the da-
ties In the present tariff. and thu ehsrae-
ter 81 the duties on the same articles under
the proposed tArd.