The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17


wanted, yet it is heap sight better than
that awful Mckinley bill and that
under il business Is sure to revive and
big boom Of prosperity sweep over the
land, of which the poor workingman Is
| TO get the lions share.
1t claims TO relieve the tariff burden.
Let US look into this claim for moment.
The estimated decrease in taxation
under the Gorman bill according to
treasury department figures is SOP, ,4O7, =
973.90.
OF this amount the chief decrease is
on wool and wooden manufactures, some
$96,5SS, ,342.59 being the estimate. In
other words $26, 5SS.3i2. 50 worth of
protection is taken off wool and woolen
goods. thereby giving to our foreign ri
walls that amount Of advantage in their
efforts to capture our markets.
Thus one of the leading industries OF
the country is deprived Of protection by
having more than one third Of the entire
reduction Of protective duties taken
away from it.
Over Si0,000,000 reduction is made on
metals aud their manufactures.
The farmers. besides being injured by
the millions taken away on wool duties,
are still further deprived Of over $3,000,-
600 of protection on agricultural products
and provisions. Flax. hemp and jute
manufactures thereof are deprived of
$1,000, 900 worth of duties. While earths
earthenware and glassware yield
reduction of nearly $4,000, 900, the
first effect of which was to cut down
the wages at Trenton and Pittsburg.
Thus $4s, 900, 900 out of the s6s, 900. 900
reduction comes on five big industries.
So much for that sida of the question.
Now for the other side.
Refined sugar. which In 1893 yielded
only $i93, ,294 in duties under the McKin-
ley act, is expected to weld,
under the German bill, $i3,47S,957
in duties, an increased tax on
all the people of $48, 1896, ,663 per year
by direct tax on every home in the
land. and thanks to the advance infor-
nation given the Sugar Trust nearly a
year will elapse before any of their tax
will become available. The income tax
is expected to yield over $50. 900, 900, an
other direct and infamous process Of
taxation never before resorted to except |
as a war measure.
Thus by s62, 900, 900 in round numbers
the duties have been reduced, and by
$64, ,000, 600 direct taxation has been sub
stituted in its place. American indus
tries have been Disseminated against by
see 900, 900 OF protection taken off, with
the consequent competition benefited
thereby while an added tax of $64 ,0OO,-
600 not laid by the Mckinley bill has
been put directly upon the people.
The industries of the country have
been paralyzed for year and half;
people have been deprived of work and
to work at less wages; bust
ness houses have been crippled or
forced out Of business by this tariff tin
kering and for what end?
Simply that s64, 900, 900 more Of direct
taxes might be laid upon the people;
that the sectional prejudices of the
South might be satisfied in wrecking
Northern industries that other coun-
tries might be given the benefit OF our
home markets, the most valuable in the
world, in order that the Democracy |
might pose as the party which lightens
the burdens Of the people.
We ask the intelligent workingman of
the country If this is what he voted for
when he cast his ballot for Grover
Cleveland and the Democracy? If this
the "clovcr" promised him?