The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-01-11

then, 10 the more than t200, 900 900 thus
made away with by the last administra-
ton, We should add the $3.50. 900 900 loss
70 revenue by the omission OF taxes on
tobacco and sugar alone, we should have
clear idea Of the rapid and hesdIone
steps by which has been brought about
the present empty treasury. I do not be
lieve that those who voted to put the last
administration in power expected any re-
vision from 1t In the direction Of increas-
ing rates. The campaign OF 1888 was
fought on the question Of reforming and
reducing the existing tariff, and not on
the question Of revising and raising the
tariff Of 1888. No single interest in the
country. either In congress or elsewhere,
had the hardihood TO assert It meant
demand for an increase in the protection
afforded by the bill Of 1888, and II was
only wantonness, seli-greed, rapacity and
selfshness and the knowledge that their
demands, no matter how exorbitant,
would be graciously accorded that brought
them to Washington 1890 to write in their
own interests the successive schedules Of
the Mckinley bill. Under the operations
OF that bill, the taxes on every one OF the
important schedules have been merci-
lessly and needlessly increased. In man
ufactures, wool has been raised from an
average OF 20 to an average OF 100 per
cent. In manu- ctures, glass has been
raised from an average OF 81 to Ga per
cent. In manufactures, iron and steel,
although the year 1887 had been a year Of
immense production and prosperity to
those interests, the tariff was raised from
an average of 46 to So per rent. On cot
ton goods, although the tariff of 1883 had
been made by the manufacturers them
selves, the duties we're increased from an
average Of 40 to 81 per cent.
The tariff OF 1890, he said, represented
not only a high and liberal protection,
but il represented all that greed and sci.
ishness and rapscity dared to demand Of
the American people. To illustrate, Mr..
Wilson showed piece Of cloth worth
about 81 cents yard, on which the act
Of 1890 placed tax Of 1903 per cent, a 50
tax on 81 worth Of goods. Mr.. Wilson
then continued: The members OF the
committee on ways and means had en-.
deavored to meet tie duty entrusted to
them as far as they could by releasing
from taxation those great interests on
which the industrial prosperity and well.
being Of the American people were most
dependent. OF all the reductions made
in this proposed bilf, there are none
in their beneficence to the consumer,
none in their benelicence to the laborer OF
our country, that can be compared with
the release Of taxation on the materials Of
industry. The members Of the committee
felt that they could not gin to reform
this system, built up story upon story
until 1t pierced the clouds, unless they
boldly, honestly and unselfshly sought
to relieve from taxation the great innda-
mental materials OF American industry,
and SO the bill proposed to put upon the
free list, among other materials, these
great elemental materials OF industry.
wool, iron ore, coal and lumber. All the
reasons for it, all the reasons against it,
have been presented to the American
people. 1t has become, at least during
the two or three last campaigns, an ac-
knowledged part OF the Democratic scheme
Of reform whenever they undertook 10 re-
form the tariff. believe that II every
other feature Of the bill were abandoned
or reversed, and congress should simply
carry Through bill putting wool upon
the free list and reducing the taxes
upon wooden goods, great, benefcent
and revolutionary step would have been
taken in the work Of tariff reform that
would justify all the efforts the committee
has put forth. do not hesitate to say
that even II by protection upon wool, the
price OF that product could be raised, the
right 10 raise it doe, not exist at the ex-
pense OF the T0,0O0,000 wearers OF wool
en- goods In this country. Very few men
in the tillabie inhabited lands east Of
the Mississippi river now raise sheep
for wool ii at all. Sheep are
raised for the carcass, and not for
the wool, in all sections Of the country
today where agriculture has become prof.
liable and where the population has be-
come fixed. There Is no country Of the
world to send q pound OF wool to the
United States that can produce more
cheaply than the people who have their
aocks upon the great ranches Of the west
Nowhere in the world from which any
wool would come TO compete with us
could wool.raising be carried on more
cheaply under more favorable circum-
stances than 1t is carried ON In Texas.
Higher wages are paid in New Zealand
than are paid in the state Of Texas by
over SO per cent; higher to the herder in
New Zealand than to the overlooker in
Texas by IS or 90 month. II there is
oby otiu ktces thuh1tfS w WYNN We COutu
throw down today the tariff laws and
defy the world and march forth to acquire
new fields, 1t is the great iron and sleel
industries Of this country. Sotrue is this
that but for the timidity and sefishness
that come from 80 years Of learning, or
supposed learning, upon tariff for pro-
lection, the great iron masters OF this
country might today boldly say; Throw
down the wall; we will not supply this
country, but We win go out and build up
other great countries in this respect"
During the debate Congressman Wilson
furnished tariff data on the subjects Of
coal. lumber and wages which are OF
special interest to this section of the west.
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