The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-03


meet all the requirements OF the public
credit. Such contamination aS this,
ho full OF relief TO tho people and Oi
strength, safety, and honor to tho roy.
ernment, may well atone for the imper-
tcctlons aud shortcomings alleged
against the pending measure, aud will
constitute the rock on which the ten.
pln Of tariff reform will be built, and
against which, in the amulioratcd future,
tho gates OF avaricn oppression, and
fraud shall not prevail.
FanIts and impGrirClons. can, Of
course, be alleged and pointed out;
concessions nro apparent which have
been unwillingly made in order 10 SC.
cure its passage; articles on tho free
list as they came from the house have
been made du,Inblc under the durc.s OF
4 small majority here; yet deeply as
regret the necessity Tor these changes.
| do not hesitate TO say that the bill,
taken rs q whole as il now stand, with
its combination OF lower taxes on the
necessaries OF life, and at the same time
increased revenues for the government,
will be hailed rs n substantial measure
OF reform and relief by the great pro-
ducIng misses OF the American peo-
pie.
Manufacturing interests which hun.
drOd years ago wcrc indeed aud in fact
in their infancy, and were nursed and
tostnred while yet in the cradle of their
birth, are now the colossal task-masters
OF the whole people, commanding trIb.
ute from every days labor beneath the
sun, haughtily striding tho corridors OF
this capitol. and Issuing their edicts in
the tones Of dictators for or against the
enactment OF measures in the halls OF
Congress. Those who own and repre-
sent these swollen and arrogant inter-
csts do not hesitate to declare OH what
terms bill vitality affecting 7O,O00,OOO
Of people will DO permitted to become 4
law, and in default OF what provisions
for financial profits TO themselves they
will insure its defeat. In the hard
working days OF attempted tariff re-
form they are met everywhere, and, as
rule, bear themselves as favori,cs OF
power generally do.
The enactmen. OF the Mckinley law
in 1890 was Il gigantic crime, not only
against every workingman and working
woman in the United States, but also
against every individual manufacturer
and against all manufacturing inter
ests. II was not SO designed BY its
authors, but such was its real aud lnev-
liable character. 1t declared policy
so ilagltious in principle, so rotten in
morality and go raveRous in its exac-
tons on the absolute wants oil life, its
possible duration was only question OF
timo when the next election by the peo-
pie should occur, and yet the vast man
ufacturing interests OF the country were
tempted and sednced into accepting its
delusire brides and into an eager adj
juatment oil themselves to its alluring,
though eyanescent and shor:-livcd, pro.
visions.
1t can never be forgotten that the en-
actmcnt OF tho Mckinley law in 0c,o-
Der, 1890, was followed almost immedi-
atcly by reduction OF the wages oil all
workers in iron and steel, beginning ut
Homestead. in Pennsylvania. under
Carnegie, resulting in bloodshed and
wholesale murder, and extending 10 all
parts OF the country aud to almost every
branch Ci manufacturing industry.
Mr.. Voorhees, defended the nd valercm
system as iairer. honester aud more
easily underatood than specific duties.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
On the subject OF the sugar schedule
he said: Absolute free trade in sugar is
an attractive theme, but no such thing
has ever existed ior single hour since
the organization OF this government. A
moderate duty has always been imposed
upon sugar, aud it has always been
staunch revenue support to the govern
ment. In that great model OF Demo-
cratic tariff for revenue on!y-iho tariff
oil lSi6-it was declared in short and
simple phrase that sugar Of oil kinds"
and Syrup OF sugar." were subject to 4
duty laid tax OF 80 per cent advalorem.
Every dollar collected from tariff tax
on sugar and paid into the treasury re-
lieves some other article, OF even higher
necessity in the cconomi!y OF life, in the
imposition oil tariff taxation.
During the present fiscal year ending
June 80 there will be paid by tho treas.
ury Sl2.S00,000 as bounty to the pro-
ducers OF sugar, and every dollar OF this
vast sum is first collected from those
who plant corn, raise wheat, aud engage
in all the various pursuits OF labor.
Nearly thirty millions oil bounty money
have been handed over 10 the sugar
makers Of the United States since the
law went into operation, and each year
the sum is rapidly increasing. Ii the
law is 10 remain unrepeaicd the time is
near at hand when 1t will confer rs q
mere gratuity more than $50, O00, 900 per
year oil q small fraction oil our popula-
ton, engaged in no public service, but
in their own private enterprises.
In turning to another subject, on
which much ignorant and some malevo-
lent criticism has expended itself, my
task is easy and the way smooth. In
securing n sufficient revenue Tor the
support OF the government with rs light
tax as possible ON tho nccessarics oil
life, have at all times earnestly ia
vored an increased tax on whisky. /
would be glad to-day if the pending
bill provided Tor n tax oil 81 20 per gal
lon instead OF 81 10. as it does. Revenue
raised from distilled spirits, the pur-
chase and consumption OF which is
never necessity OF life. is deep graf
iticalion to me, aud the TACT that twenty
millions OF the surplus accruing under
this bill will be furnished by the tux on
whisky is genuine JOY to my mind.
INCOME TAN AND WOOL.
Speaking OF the proposed income tax,
which he warmlyupholds, Mr.. Voorhees,
said:
The proposition contained in the
pending bill TO levy a tax OF . per cent
on all net incomes OF corporations and
ofindividuals.in excess, Of 81 900 per an.