Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-04-26


greet that be seems to have made an effort
himself to create different impression by
his rather FREQ commentary upon the same
financial policy as that established in the
first year of Washngtons administration
for the protection and encouragement of
manufactures with its 'infamy' endur-
ing and prospering for hundred years un-
suspected, and now, hope reluctantly, dis
closed, though awfully denounced IT, how
ever, the long-bow and revolutionary pro-
nunciamento against invisible "milionaire
manufacturer" should be thought by
more advanced colleagues as lacking in ade-
quate Juror and reverbation let it be noted
that it was not the fault of the distinguished
chairman but of the epithetical insufflciency
of the English vocabulary to meet the gray
| ity of the case, and it will be conceded that
| it might have been more appropriate to
have borrowed the sonorous and deeper
toned language by which the bull against
| the comet was promulgated. After all, the
| jurors of the country, SO far as recently
heard from, do not seem in mood to con
| sign all American manufacturers as Grim
| inals, robbers, and monsters to the peniten
| tiary, nor even to permit any reasonably
protective tariff to long
| Remain in Democratic Purgatory.
|
ucts from 81, 600, 600, 900 in 1880 to So 000,
| 000 600 in 1890 eclipses any progressive
growth of this or any other country in oil
the worlds history, supplemented by the
further facts that both the amount of CAPT
| tai and the number of employees were more
| than doubled, and while the average of
wages paid increased 80 per cent, the aver
age prices of manufactures diminished 90
per centum. In 1890 under republican
regime, the four and one-half millions OF
employees, with many more millions of their
dependents, were happy, and over six thous-
and millions of capital appeared safe and
prosperous In 1894 the half-born demo-
cratic tariff BILL now in the Senate, like
Millions
| Tawny lion, paving tn get free
| His hinder parts.
threatens to main and cripple the whole of
our vastly extended manufactures, and
much of them to absolutely destroy. by an
intentional and vicious surrender to foreign
ers of the American market. This impend-
ing hostility has for many months been
multiplying great army of the unemploy-
ed Steam engines have had rest Divi-
dends have been cut in twain or have wholly
ceased. Bankruptcies only seem to flourish.
And now. as if to fatten out all hope for
the future, not only are the rates of duties
) to be stubbornly docked, but the specific is
to be recklessly superseded by the exploded
J ad valorem system, under which duties
largely depend upon the integrity, or the
frequent want of integrity, in the foreign
valuation set forth iii the invoice.
, The proposed general abandonment OF
specific tariff duties for the obsolete ad
valorem system i'll defiance of the Judge
ment of the foremost statemen throughout
a | : ha arly
secretaries of the treasury, indicates the de
2 cadence somewhere of enlightened states
manship, and of all the lessons of ripe ex
8 perience in handling great national revenue
l measures. The Walker experiment of near
= ly 80 years ago, fabricated by the marvel
t GUS California output of gold. also by on
3 lavish expenditures in the Mexican war
= and by a foreign famine, creating tenn
C porary demand for everything We had t.
o SELL had its Objectionable character glosse
over by unrelated prosperity only for
brief time but ended
In all Respects in a Deplorable Failure.
n Ad valorem tariff duties are scolnful
i summed by English free traders as well a
n by European continental protectionists
d They do not secure a stable revenue. The
J require a very large increase of custol
e house forces. They plunge the government
= into multitudinous and expensive litigatio
y with many importers. They open marke
e to every description of goods of the loves
# and poorest character, rather than Of tn
t, best and offer the widest opportunities fo
It fraud and universal differentiation to thos
II who do not regard cheating custom hous
J. officers as NAHUM in Sc.
" The tariff portion of this bill makes il
" destructive purpose prominent by an assau
upon each and every production of the fan
e mer. 1t cuts the jugular of sheep HUSBAND
/, ry by consigning wool to the free list and t
Is the tender mercy Of free trade. America
ID wool-growing in competition with the chea
u labor and cheap pasturage of Australia
r Africa and South America must perish
lie Even the long-wool sheep for mutton al
le likely to be mainly supplied by Canadl
ID With the removal of 10 cents duty pc
be pound on clothing woods the flocks upon OF
| thousand hills will disappear. The goo
10 shepherds TkS have Invested more than ii,
lie hundred millions 4 capital to uphold tn
industry ard to gain n modest support wi
Id find themselves caught in a tariff thicket,
e- be offered up as a sacrifice to democrat
n theory only.
IN The fact that in wool, under protection fro
he 1892 to 1893, there was an increase in OF
,r- year of 81, 100000 pounds, conclusive
nd proves that il is entitled to continued favo
IL The further fact is that from well ground,
d, fear of the hostile legislation now impen
! ing here, the decline in the total value
be sheep from January !, 1893 to January
So 1894, was from 1925, 800, 264 to $50, 1St
,rt 10, or showing a shrinkage, according
the department Of agriculture of $37, 00t
ill 600. This is, however, only foretaste
ed the final fate of wool. even in the COUNT
m where the annual product now stands t
u.s. third largest of the world. The large
zee mand for foreign wool to supply the hor
IS. deficiency will create peremptory deman
ger for gold to balance the increased fore
he account.
cir Wool is not only about to be slaughtere
ps, but it seems fore-ordained by the Sangra
nd democratic leaders that no interest or pl
sti- duct Of the farmer shall escape being bl
ore by the bill reported. Grain of all kline
re- cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, lard, butt
cheese, milk, flax, hemp, hay, straw, eg
and poultry, are all to have something
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