Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-12-14
MORE TARIFF TINkERiNG.
Cleveland Wants Coal, Iron aud Sugar
on the Free LIST

The tariff act passed at the last session of
congress needs important amendments if
it is to be executed effectively and with
certainty. In addition to such necessary
amendments as will not change rates OF
duty | am still very decidedly in favor OF
putting coal and iron upon the free list.
SO far as the sugar schedule is concerned
[ would be glad under existing aggrava-
lions to see every particle of differential
duty in favor of refined sugar stricken
out of our tariff law. If. with all the
favor now accorded the sugar refining
interest in our tariff laws, it still Ian
cuisines to the extent of closing refneries
and thousands of discharged workmen
1t would seem to present hopeless case
for reasonable legislation, and whatever
else is done or omitted ] earnestly repeat
here my recommendation l have made
in another portion of this communication
that the additional duty of one-tenth OF
a cent per pound laid upon sugar imported
from countries paying "A bounty on its
export be abrogated 1t seems to me thai
exceedingly important considerations
point to the propriety of this amendment
With the advent of a new tariff policy
not only calculated TO relieve the con
sumers of our land in the cost of then
daily life. but to invite a better develop
ment of American thrift and create fol
us closer and more profitable commercial
relations with the rest of the world, L
follows as a logical and imperative neces
sity that we should at once remove thu
chief, If not the only. obstacle which ha!
so long prevented our participation II
the foreign carrying trade of the sea
a tariff built upon the theory that II Il
well to check imports and that a hom
market should bound the industry an,
effort of American producers was fitl.
| supplemented by the refusal to ALLOW
| American registry to vessels built abroad
/ though owned and naVigated by our PEG
! pie, thus exhibiting Willingness to aban
| don all contest for the advantages o
| American trans-oceanic carriage Gu
new tariff policy, built upon the theor
that it is well to encourage such importa
! tons our people need and that OF
products and manufactures should fin
markets in every part of the habitabl
| globe, is constantly supplemented by tn
greatest possible liberty to our citizens /
the ownership and navigation of ship
( in which our products and manufacture
may be transported.
The millions now paid to foreigners fo
| carrying American passengers and proc
ucts across the sea should be turned int
American hands. Shipbuildng, which ha
and again take his place, sturdy and II
dustrious citizen in time of peace and
be revived by the prospect of profitab
employment for ships when built, and II
American sailor should be resurrecte
dustrious citizen in tim of peace and
patriotic and safe defender of America
interests in the days of conflict. I'll
ancient provision of our law. denyr
American registry to ships built abroa
and owned by Americans appears In Il
: light of present conditions not only
be n failure for good at every point. but
be nearer a relic of barbarism than an
thing that exists under the permission
a statute of the United States. | ear