The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-01-20

en- goods was go. IL per cent. Under
the Law of 1890 the average tax was
9s.55 per cent, an increase of 80 per
cent. on the 800 worth of wooden
goods consumed in this country.
1t was charged and never denied in
the debate on the bill of 1883 that the
cotton schedule was made by a New
England manufacturer and an expert
appraiser in the customhouse in New
York. The manufacturers received
what they asked for. But under the
Mckinley biz there was a taxation of
81 per cent. ST. more on the 500 up
on the cotton goods worn by the peo-
pie of this country.
| A great ironmaster, Mr.. Oliver, OF
Pittsburg, was prominent member
of the tariff commission, and so the
tariff of 1883 was perfectly satisfactory
to the iron and steel manufacturers of
this country. But while they were
thus content-whila they were allow
ed to make their own rates, which in
the year before the Mckinley bill aver
aged 35 per cent. on SI00-the system
adopted in the Mckinley bill averaged
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increase of taxation upon the Ameri-
can people of s27 on every 800 worth
of iron and steel goods consumed by
them.
| ILLUSTRATION OF HIGH TAXATION.
The tariff OF 1890 represented not
only high and liberal protection, but
it represented all that greed and sell
tishness and rapacity dared to demand
Of the American people. Applause
on the democratic side. To illustrate,
Mr.. Wilson showed a piece of cloth
worth about 81 cents yard on which
the act OF 1890 placed tax of 1903 per
cent, SO tar an 81 worth of goods So
that the poor woman In New York or
anywhere else in this country who by
earning so cents day at her labor is
able to buy one dollars worth of this
material, must work six days longer to
make the Mckinley taxes to take it
out of the eustom-house Applause
ON the democratic side. To-day, not
withstanding the high rate intention
ally left in this bill there had been a
call for the wooden manufacturers Of
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Wednesday next to protest against a
bill which leaves them 40 per cent.
tax on their products.
The English landlord, who, when
famine was Staying its tens of thous-
ands in Ireland, made protest against
relieving food from taxation are the
prototypes of the gentlemen who will
meet in New York the day after to-
morrow. Applause on the democrat
ic side.
Now when disease and discomfort,
when consumption and pneumonia
and grip are stalking abroad in all the
land, when there are millions Of men,
women and children mourning daily
risk of death and daily risk of disease
and permanent loss of their productive
energies, when thousands and tens of
thousands are fighting the cold in their
nightly slumber because there is no
heat in the tax put on blankets, these
gentlemen who made the law of 1888
and of 1890 are to meet in New York
city to protest against your doing any
thing for the relief of the American
people from this cruel, inhuman sys-
tenn of taxation Applause on the
democratic side.
BENEFIT OF FREE WOOL,
Twice in recent Congresses the bat
tie over free wool had been fought and
twice it had been gained in this House.
All the reasons for it, all the reasons
against it, had been presented to the
American people. 1t had become, at
least during two or three past cam
paigns, an acknowledged part of the
democratic scheme of reform wherever
they undertook to reform the tariff.
If ever protective tariff had full
opportunity to display its beneficent
workings, if it has any, the tariff up
on wooden goods and upon wool has
had that opportunity From 1867
down to the present time the wool
grower on one hand and the producer
of wooden goods upon the other have
in union and in accord made their own
tariffs, irrespective of the interests of
all the other people of this country.
From the time that they met in New
York, in 1867, and adjusted their
tariff taxes upon wool and their COM
pensating taxes upon wooden goods
down to the present time, if Baal
could send the fire of prosperity they
have called upon him and have had
free opportunity to test his power
And yet he would be a hardy man
who would rise in this House and
say that the wool-grower had prosper
ed-that the production of wool in
this country had prospered under all
the favoritism and all the protection.
He would be hardy man who would |
rise in this House and say that even
the Mckinley bill, with its increase
of taxes on wooden goods and its pro-
hibitory taxes upon everything that |
it was thought could interfere with |
the use of wool in this country, had |
been of any benefit whatever to the |
American woolgrower.
He did not hesitate to say that even |
if by protection upon wool the price
of that product could be raised, the
right to raise it did not exist at the
expense of seventy million wearers of |
wooden goods in this country Ap-
plause on the democratic side.
In 1857 large part of the wool i'm
ported into this country was put upon |
the free list. A very slight tariff was
left upon the more expensive wool,
costing over twenty cents pound |
abroad, and suddenly there was such
a revival and such growing prosperi-
ty of wooden manufacturing in this
country that the price of domestic
wool went up higher than it had been
for years before. He did not doubt
that the gentleman from Michigan.
(Mr. Burrows,) with his usual elo-
quence of lamentation, would dwell on
the destruction that is just ahead for
the wool-growers of this country if we
release the people from the taxes upon
the wool that goes into their gar
ments.
THE RAISING OF SHEEP.
Any one who follows the production
and the history of wool-growing in
this country would find that. like the
star of empire, it has steadily moved
westward. There are, perhaps, not
one-half as many sheep east of the
Mississippi river to-day as there have
been at previous times in the history
of this country.
Very few men, indeed. on the tilla-
BILE inhabited lands east of the Miss
issippi river now raise sheep for wool
at all. Sheep are raised for the NUT
ton, for the carcass, and not for the
wool, in all sections of the country to-
day where agriculture has become
profitable and were the population has
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