The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-10-03

| even give Senator BuLler LQo OppOFtu-
nifty of making contest In the Senate,
as be has no organization backing him.
THE NEW TARIFF.
| The Hon William L. Wilson Shows Whore
Mckinley Taxes are Reduced.
Just before leaving for Europe the
Hon. William L. Wilson addressed a
letter to the New York World explana-
tory of soma features in the new tariff
law. From it We extract the follow
Ing:
"Let US now consider, In some detail
the most helpful reductions made In
the bill as it finally became law, be-
ginning with those articles altogether
released from taxation by both House
and Senate bills.
I'm the chemical schedule S712,0CO
worth of articles of the importations
of 1893 are transferred TO the free list,
the most important of which are sui
phuric acid and sulphate Of soda, which
lie at the basis Of many chemical man.
ufactures.
In the metal schedule the amount
similarly made free Of duty was 81 ,lOO,-
900 in value, including cotton ties, cop
per ores snd pig and old copper fit only
for remanufscture.
"In agricultural products and pro
visions duties are abolished on $780,
600 of the imports Of 1888, including
cabbage, fresh fish and salt.
In the fax. hemp and jute schedules
the value Of free imports on the same
importstions is S1,70OO0O including IN.
dressed fax and hemp and binding
tWine.
In the wooden schedule the value of
the fbres transferred to the free list on
the same basis is SIS, 800 900.
Free paintings and statuary IN.
crease the free list over 100000, while
the abolition of retsliatory duties un-
der the so-called reciprocity clause of
the Mckinley law releases from taxa.
tion articles valued at 81 ,4OO,OOO, to VIII,
coffee, raw goat skins and hides.
"In fine the total amount OF the I'M
porrations of 1893 transferred to the
free list by the House bill, and included
10 the bill as passed, was S41 1893, 600
These freed articles, it will be seen, are
of great Importance, embracing free
wool, fax and hemp or free hbers to
American manufacturers, and free
works of art of American scholars and
the people generally.
"In addition to the above the Senate
added to the free list by its amend
ments dressed lumber, burlsps, grain
bags made from burlaPs, and cotton
bagging. OF the articles placed by the
House on the free list, over forty In
number were restored to the dltiaole
list by the Senate-generally, however,
with reduced rates-the most import
ant of which are borax, refined camphor
and sulphur, clays, granite and hre-
stone, unmanufatured; nickel, mica
quicksilver, molasses and sugar, coal
and iron ore and meat products.
"It will thus appear that very sub.
stantial and important parts OF tie
House bill were saved, and that with
free lumber, free copper, free works OF
art, free wool and other tibres, untaxed
cotton ties and bagging for both cotton
and grain, our cheif export crops,
pretty large hole has been made IN the
Mckinley bill and in the protective
system generally, and that the Presi-
dent was fully Justified in assuring the
people that with the first effort or the
Democratic party the era of mad pro-
lection in this country was over. Much
higher rates were finally kept in the
woollen and carpet schedule than can
be justified on the basis OF free WOOL,
but it is a great achievement, added
to that of securing free wool, to geh RID
of the fraudulent compound duties un'
der which the Wearers of Wollen goods
have been go mercilessly taxed in this
country.
"The cotton schedule said to have pro-
ceeded from the Fall River manufac-
turers, was accepted in the Senate with
the ex xception of reducing its rates ID
conference. but the fioal and successful
stand taken by the Senate against any
changes In its amendments forced us
adoption as made by its original ira
merS.
an conclusion let me add that there
is much to satisfy and far more to en-
courage tariff reformers in the new bill.
The people will feel the Tightening OF
their burdens, the release of their In
dustrtes aud the quickening OF their
home and foreign commerce resulting
from its passage, and there need be no
fear that they will ever return to Nc
Ktnleyism, or again submit to the Grip
ping and asphyxiation of American
industry at the command of a combi.
nation of tax-gatherers. More than all
they will steadily march on to the goal
of commercial freedom.
"It Is momentous victory to have
turned our faces once again and firmly
toward that goal and, as the extreme
injustice of the monopoly tariff of lo9O
was It's own overthrow, IL may well
happen that the Sugar Trust and other
monopol,es which have been able to
tn wart our efforts to get better reVe-
nue bill have been bullded better than
they know"