The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-01-12
THE WILSON BILL.


equitable tariff measure ever
framed in these United States.
The democratic members of the
ways and means committee hail
from small southern towns where
little or no manufacturing is done
and seem unfamiliar with the
workings of the Mckinley bill, un-
der which the country proved so
prosperous. The purpose Of the
administration in placing such
men on so important a committee
is plainly apparent. Cleveland
and his little syndicate, consisting
of Whitney, Lamont, ct al, are the
owners of large coal, iron and
lumber interests in Canada and
Nova Scotia. and their selfishness
demand tariff framed in their in
terests, and then, as far as they are
concerned, the balance Of the
country can go to the devil. The
result is, the Wilson bill admits
these commodities duty free. This
same syndicate of robbers are
largely interested in the manufac-
ture of wood pulp throughout the
eastern states, so duty is placed
on this article of commerce in Or
der to give them a monopoly. If
democratic tariff reform means
legislation in the sole interests OF
few millionalres, especially when
these few are part and parcel of
the administration, it is high time
the country was made aware of it.
During the last presidential cam
paign a lot of democratic dema-
gogues were bowling all over the
country that the republican party
were robbing the poor laboring
men. The laboring men believed
them and voted against the party
that had always considered the in
terests of the laborer paramount
to all others. Through this de-
ception the democrats gained con-
troll of all branches of the govern
ment and as a result the laborers
of the east and the producers of
the west are at their mercy.
Should the tariff bill now pend
ing in congress become a law the
Oregon wool grower is bankrupt
and one of the largest Industries
of the state paralyzed. Wool is
to be admitted free. The Aus
tralian article, while inferior to
the Oregon product, can be laid
down in Boston for less than
seven cents, and will cause an in
creased use of the foreign article
in the manufacture of woolen fab
RIGS and loss both in price and
consumption of our domestic
woods. Another feature of this
bill is tbe~substitution of ad-yal-
Drum duties for the specific duties
of the present law. Thatf the
former encourages undervaluation
has been proven by our own ex-
perience, as well as that of many
other countries which haye since
adopted the latter plan of tariff
taxation. This feature will be ap-
proved by the American imposter
and the foreign manufacturers; in
fact, the whole bill seems to have
been framed in the interests ofI
the world and the chart used by
The ways and means committee
while framing the measure was
the one used by Co.
lumbus prior to the discovery of
Cleveland and the
democratic party seem imbued
with the idea that this is an Eng
lish province and whatever Eng
land wants should not be with
held. Free trade from a humani-
tartan standpoint might be all
right, but these Altrurian ideas
should be allowed to exist in con-
temptation of mind only. The
ways and means committee should |
have inscribed on their banner
the motto "America for Ameri- |
cans" and not America for Eng
lishmen.