The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-01-06

tiDn run mad. who are going up and
down the land denouncing the Wilson
bill as free trade mraspfe which
must, II passed Prove the precursor Of
general disaster to American indus
tries, show a lamentable lack of plain
every day business sense.
The Baltimore Sun. on this subject,
has the sensible remarks that follow:
The Wilson bill is not a free trade
measure. But it is free raw mater.
ial measure. American Industries
have nothing to lose and everything
to gain from free raw materials 1t
will not ruin, but revive them to adj
NIT wool, coal, iron ore and lumber
free Of duty. Taxes on raw materials
are burdens on every Industry of which
they are the basis. To tax raw wool
is to hamper, not help our wooden
factories. The taxing of coal has
shut up hundreds Of factories in New
England on the one side of the conti-
nent and in California on the other.
The taxing Of iron ore has paralysed
the iron working Industries Of every
State that Is not near to the iron de-
posits Of this country. The taxing Of
lumber, the raw material Of homes
and furniture, is wickedly oppressive
tribute levied on the plain people Of
the country, especially of the West.
And it does not promote, but discour-
ages the prosperity OF the manufac-
lures based on wood by making the
stock which Is used therein dearer
We often find ourselves wondering
if the new republican leaders, who are
nowadays declaiming with such fran
tic zeal against the freeing of raw ma
terials. as II IT were blow at manu-
features instead of a blessing to them,
are aware that in its earlier days, be-
fore it had become mere high tariff
tender to the train of the monopolies
and trusts, the republican party was
not Of Its present opinion. Do they
forget that Mr.. Blaine, whom they
hailed as their foremost statesman, at
least until the Mckinley high protec-
ton eclipse Of 1890, Indignantly de-
nounced the idea of taxing lumber.
He did exactly that in 1868. We had,
Mr.. Blaine said, never taxed lumber
even in the worst pinch of our war
necessities, and he protested in behalf
of the Western frontiersmah, who, as
he said, "needs lumber for his fence,
lumber for his wagon or cart, lumber
for his pillow, lumber for almost every
purpose in his daily life" that no tar
If on that important raw material
should ever be levied.
President Grant is on record also for
the policy of free raw materials-the
policy of the Wilson bill. In 1874 he
wrote to Congress and said. "Those
articles which enter into Our manufac-
lures and are not produced at home,
it seems to me- should be entered
free. / will instance fine woods, dyes,
&C." And President Grant clinched
his testimony in favor of the leading
feature Of the Wilson bill, which is
free raw materials, by declaring that
1.-THE introduction, free of duty, of
such woods as we do not produce would
stimulate the manufacture of goods
requiring the use of those we do pro-
duce, ahd, therefore, would be bene-
fit to home production. In the Nc
Kinleyized republican party there
would be no room for either Blaine or
Grant to-day. Indeed, there was once
a William Mckinley, Of Ohio, who
was not sound ON the high tariff doc
trine of levying toll ON raw materials.
In 1882, only eleven years ago, Mr.
Mckinley said: s'The free list might
be enlarged without affecting injur-
iously single American interest,"
President Arthur, too, appears to.
have come very near OUTLYING his
right to be considered republican.
In 1882 he called upon Congress to re-
form the tariff on exactly the lines of
the pending Wilson bill and declared
himself as follows; II recommend an
enlargement of the free list
simplification of the complex and in
consistent schedule of duties upon GER
tain manufactures, particularly those
of cotton, iron and steel, and sub
stantial reduction Of the duties upon
those articles and upon sugar, molas-
SEES, silk, wool and wooden goods"
Mr.. Reed and his colleagues on the
republican side of Congress, in oppos-
ing the Wilson bin and fighting
against free raw materials, are mock
ing all their great predecessors in the
leadership of their party. Hon. John
Sherman declared in 1872 that ssthe
Chem present duties" were far too
high. How does he propose, when
the pending bill reaches the Senate, to
defend the Mckinley rates, which are
very much higher than those of 1872?
Free raw materials is the true
American policy. 1t is not partisan
policy, or, rather, it was not until
Mckinley, Reed & Co. made it so. 1t
was, until quite lately, the policy APP
proved and recommended by the 'front.'
rank statesmen of both parties. 1t is
emphatically the policy of hope and
encouragement to American manufac-
lures. 1t means lower cost of produc-
ton, hence larger chance of success
fully entering foreign markets as well
as supplying the home market at low
er prices. That means more employ
ment for labor without cutting wages
and cheapening. of the cost of living
all along the line.
Prendergast to Hang.
The trial of the william and murder
er of Carter Harrison, Patrick Eugene
Prendergast, was concluded at Chica-
go Friday. The jury was out but one
| hour, returning a verdict of guilty of