The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-05

a mart of his raw materials. he VIII have
10 nav S per cent. more than the duty i'm
posed on The finished article. and on the
remainder Of his material he will have 10
pay the same rate of duty that the In
porter will pay for the finished article
All the materials used in the production
OF cotton ties are made du:iaole, but the
ties themselves. highly finished article
of steel. are placed on the free list II they
ara used for binding cotton. but If they are
used for baling hay, an agricultural pro-
duct of much greater value in the United
States than cotton. then the ties viii have
10 pay q duty. United States Senator
AIdrich. of Rhode Island, tried TO save
this industry 10 the United States, but the
Democrats all voted TO place il on the free
list.
Cod oil, which is used in the manufac-
turs of leather, was put on the free list at
the request of Mr.. Smith. of New Jersey,
the senatorial leather manufacturer. But
other kinds Of oil will remain on the duti-
able list
The Democrats also insisted in putting
books printed in German on the free list,
and Populist Senator PETER failed in his
effort to have small duty retained on
salt. Salt in England is controlled by
trust known as the Salt Union.
At meeting of this trust in Chester,
England, in 1891 the chairman of the
board stated that the production of salt
had been restricted in order to increase its
price. But it is proposed by the Demo-
Gratis TO put this article on the free list.
and thus to turn over the seaboard mar
kets to the English trust. where 1t can dis
pose of its surplus product at lower rates
than 1t sells salt for in Great Britain.
Salt on the free list and sugar on the
dutiable list, when the production of salt
gives employment in this country to ten
men where the sugar industry gives en-
ployment to one.
Wool, lumber and bituminous coal were
ali on the free list as it came from the
house, and while bituminous coal is as
much raw material" as wool or lumber,
nevertheless the s.coal'' senators from
the South, German and Gibson. of Mary
land, and Morgan and Pugh, of Alabama,
demanded a duty on this variety of coal
and their demands were recognized by a
duty of 30 cents ton. But this duty will
not save the coal interests of Washing
ton now protected under the Mckinley
bill by duty of IS cents ton. The high
est wages paid in the Nova Scotia
mines is only 40 cents a ton. Even
with the accent q ton duty provided
in the senate draft of the Wilson bill.
a reduction of fully one-third in miners
wages would be necessary, and at the re-
duced scale the markets of New England
and the Northeast generally would prob
ably be secured by the Canadians.
President Mcbride. of the United Mine
Workers. declares that wages in the btu
minous coal fields of the United States
have been forced down until they are 1t
level where the miner scarcely earns
enough money to keep body and sould to-
gether.
What would become of bituminous coal
mining in this country under free trade or
q reduction from the present duty of 10
cents a ton? And yet this is the Demo-
cratic senate's fulfllment of the pledge of
the Chicago platform of 1892 of "a tariff
for revenue only" it is a sectional meas
ure; it is neither fish, flesh, fowl or red
herring.