The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-27

cry agricultural product OF the North, such
would enable the farmers Of the Dominion Of
Canada to bring their products into our
country unimpeded by revenue duties even.
and resulting In great loss Of revenue
Protection and Discrinina ton.
6 Wool, an important agricultural produc-
t tl Of .tWenty-one states, was placed on the
Rice and the agricultural productions Of a
few Southern states were given a protec-
ton of 80 per cent. Sss
nobaeco largely produced in the South
manufacturing in various forms is honey
combed with trusts and agreements to main
tain prices.
The duty on barley was reduced more than
90 per cent and the duty on malt was in
creased IL per cent.
Duties were levied upon raw materials and
list.
The great industries of the country, such
as iron and steel, cotton fabrics, except
rate Of duty to encourage the largest i'm
portations from abroad and the smallest
production at home.
4 Many of the wooden manufactures We're
so reduced as to close their mills, while
manufactures of boots and Shoes of leather,
and Of paper in all its forms remain prac-
Hcally as provided for in the act Of 1890,
with sufficient protection to enable the pro-
ducers here to hold the market.
The duty on pearl buttons was high in the
facture here or rather to restore it.. This
was especially denounced everywhere in the
campaign of 1882. and yet the duty on
pearl + M It from the house
cent protection to the producers here, and
was so phrased, as I am told, to actually
increase the price.
y The duty on lcorice in all it's manufacture
was 51a cents a pound under the law of
1890, a high duty. and was reduced 5 cents
a pound by the Wilson bill The fact that
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Democrats in Connecticut Of course had no
influence in preserving this highly protec-
tive duty.
Soda-ash. produced in Syracuse by the
largest single combination in the Emitted
States, retained the duty of II cent per
pound pound, as provided for IN -, the act Of 1890:
a syndicate of Democrats in the United
States and English capitalists.
+ Lead ore was placed at Is per cent ad
valorem while ample protection was given
is called the 'lead trust"
Duty on soap, whether fancy or common,
was left practically unchanged in the bill.
Duty on common window glass was left
at 81 to 60 per cent.
Inequalities of the Schedules.
The duty on tin plate, so much denounced
and so often declared impossible OF pro.
duction in the United States. was fixed a. at
the duty on black sheets from which they
are made was fixed at 80 per cent. The
duty on tin plate was placed at 10th Of a
cent per pound higher than the act OF 1883,
with it's raw material maintaining high
duty. although iron ore was made free. and
the crude manufactures of iron were greatly
reduced.
Cotton ties were placed upon the free list,
although the iron or steel from which they
are made was made dutiable at p per
cent ad valorem in the house and Increased
to so per cent in the senate.
Duties were reduced all along the me
on spirits, wine and malt liquors Imported,
making an aggregate reduction Of more
than 81 $780, 600 in the revenue.
silks. pushes and kid gloves and kindred
articles of luxury were reduced to the ex-
tent Of $4,000, 900. So that this bill, as 1t
passed the house, was full of inconsistencies
revenue or protection. Bid gggr
They marked many Industries for abso-
lutte destruction and others for gradual de-
cay, and others were preserved without
change. But in all this adjustment they
reduced the revenue $75,O0O,000, creating
a present deficit of that sum and a perma-
100000.
These are some of the details of the house
bill before it reached the senate. Ihey
went beyond any public declaration hereto
revenue to support the government: In all
the debates Of 1892, in all the public utter
ances Of President Cleveland, and in the
congressional debates it never before was
claimed that a departure should be made
from the uniform principles Of our govern
ment to raise our chief revenues from 4. I'M
ports. The tariff of 1916 was tariff to
raise all the revenue from imports, ana
from Mr. Jefferson's time internal taxes
have been denounced by the, Democratic
party as an unjust method of raising rev
senate it provided nominally for $123 COZ, coo
from duties on imports. and $2OOOOO,OOO IN
round numbers from internal taxes. thus
laying the foundation for an entire chanse
Sv, oyNr0 Cnd Or
cussel the plan to raise revenue chiefly from
internal taxation. 1t would not then have
received the approval of the people. 1t was
said over and over again on the stump that
duties sufficient to meet the expenditures
of the government supplemented by excise
taxs upon distilled spirits and tobacco would
incidentally give the American producer all
the protection he needed, as also the re,
uuired revenue, and it was not contemplated
that internal taxes would be increased ex-
cept perhaps an increase on distilled spirits.
Even Democrats Opposed the Meas
So that without the sanction of any
party and without previous debate this
house bill completely changed the policy
of taxation which had uniformly prevailed
whether levied on the basis of free trade
or protection from the foundation Of the
government up to. this time. 1t has been
truly said over and over again In the senate
debate that this bill, wanting in consistency
and falling In revenue, could at 10 time
votes in the senate. The Democratic sena-
tors from the great producing states like
New York. Ohio and New Jersey, and even
Maryland, Alabama and Louisiana, all Dem
ocratic except Ohio, were not willing that
this house: adjustment shouldsstand as the
Democratic bill on the subject Of revenue,
and although there was a5great difference
of opinion in the senate among Democrats
there being extremists there as in the
house, who would gladly have accepted the
house bill or made it even more radical in
the direction Of free trade. yet for success
they yielded to this conservative force in
the senate, and without going into detail
at this moment it became apparent that no
bill could pass that body that did not at
eastgmake aspretense sof giving a fair pro-
lection to many Of the great Industries Of
: the country, especially those located in tho
states have named, and the amendments
made In the senate We're made not only to
increase revenue but to satisfy i'll part at
least the sentiment of protection in the
states [ have named. Esss sfsS4 sg,
OF course this departure did not and does
not satisfy the controlling influences and
forces of the Democratic party and the
senators who engineered the trading forces
in the senate to secure protection for GER
tain industries are bitterly denounced by
their party. It does not satisfy President
Cleveland, who joins in this denunciation.
and therefore instead Of having season Of
rest and stability, as respects our great
production, we are told from every stump
that this adjustment and arrangement Of