St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-11

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for the reason that the Republican law
makers favored the sugar bounty which
a Democratic congress has swept from
the statute books. If the new tariff law
had no other merit, this provision alone
would entitle 1t to your warmest COM
mendatiOn.
Mr.. Stevenson then went into detail
on the the provisions of the new bill
placing raw materials OH the free list,
especially indOrsing the free wool
clause.
He attacked the sugar trust. saying 1t
had been tOstered by the Mckinley
law. He said ii it had been the intention
under the Mckinley law to give free
sugar to the people. why tax of one
half cent per pound OIL that ready for
domestic use? Why not. as in the bill
which has just passed the Democratic
house, admit all sugars free.
The Mckinley law levied a tax Of one
half cent pound upon refined sugar,
and In addition to that, 1t levied tax
OF One-tenth of one cent pound upon
sugars coming from countries that paid
sugar bounty. Thus you will see
that the net protection given the trust
by the Mckinley law was virtually six.
tenthS OF cent pound, and that, too,
after giving free law sugar for con-
sumption in its refineries.
The Trust ScOtched.
According to the best estimates that
can be obtained. the total raw sugars
imported free OF duty into the United
States while the Mckinley law was in
force exceeded $4,000, 100000 pounds.
Thus you see that the Mckinley law,
with its duty of siX-tenths of cent per
pound on refined sugar protected the
sugar trust more than S75.O0O,O00. The
new law takes from the trust twO-fifths
almost one.half-the benefits it re-
ceived upder the Mckinley law. Under
the new law the bounty is abolished,
and by careful estimate of the secretary
of the treasury, under the new schedule
the revenues coming into the treasury
will, for the current fiscal year, amount
to S43. 100000.
NoN. fellow citizens, you have before
you something of what a Democratic
congress has mplIshed-someth
of the manner i'll which it has kept faith
with the people. Tariff reform has
achieved no easy victory. Since the re-
peal of the corn laws of England. by
which the people were permitted to eat
untaxed bread, the world has witnessed
no such parliamentary struggle against
monopoly and privilege. 1t is your
battle that has been fought. and you are
the beneficiaries of the victory which
has been achieved 1t has literally been
a struggle of the people against the mo-
nopoly and greed fOstered and made
powerful by more than thirty years of
Republican legislation.
The new tariff law is now upon the
statute book. He who runs may read,
that business conditions are even now
more favorable; the fires have been
lighted in our workshops; the wage
Garner is no longer in enforced idleness,
and light is breaking upon our CONNER
clal pathway. Under the beneticent
operations of low tariff, the evils fustered
by McKinleyism will disappear. and
our country enter upon career OF un-
exampled prosperity. The practical
question for your determination is, shall
this law be administered by its enemies
or by its friends? If you believe that
for the first time in third of century
you have been taken into the account in
the preparation of tariff bill. and that
your interests lie along the plane of the
low taxation | have indicated, then l
need hardly remind you of the impera-
tive necessity of holding up the arms
and Strengthening the hands of those
who have wrought out this great re-
form. History will but repeat itself,
and the pros perity that followed the
passage of the Walker tariff-the low
tariff of 1S46-will as surely follow that
whi ch has just been enacted.
Benefits of the New Law.
In word, what benefits will follow
the passage of the new tari fl law? Let
me repeat. 1t has cheapened to every
householder the cost Of many of the
necessares of life, thereby adding to
the sum of human comfort and of hu-
man happiness. 1t has added to the
value of the daily earnings of every
wage worker in the land. 1t has less
ened to every family the cost of every
kind of cotton and woOlen clothing,
shawlS, hats, pocket and table knives,
china and glassware-in fact, nearly ali
of the completed goods. the use of
which is SO large a part of civilized
life" 1t has given to the tlller of the
soil untaxed implements of industry,
and to all untaxed lumber and salt. 1t
has removed thirty millions of dollars
of annual taxation from the nece ssaries
of life and added 1t to the earnings of
wealth. 1t has secured ample revenue
TOR the government, and rendered
wholly unnecessary the further issue of
bonds and the constant increase of the
national debt. 1t has been truly said sit
will itself be continuing object lesson
to the American people, teaching them
that the imposition of needless taxes
can never benefit the people as whole,
but that every removal OF them is ma
tlonal boom" In the words of Its dis
tinguished author, this bill means"freer
and larger commerce to those nations
that buy our farm products, and conse-
quently larger and betteramarkets for
the American farmer" But more i'm
portant than all, the passage of this bill
marks the turning point in the history
of tariff legislation. For third of a
century each tariff enactment has been
more burdensOme to the people than
that which preceded it. The Mckinley
law was the elimination. "W HON the
gods would destroy, they first make
mad" The present law is long step
in the right direction. This great re-
form will know no backward steps. l
fully indorse the words of President
Cleveland when he says of this law, ut
will certainly lighten many tariff bur-
dens that now rest heavily upon the
people," L share with him the belief
that 1t will prove "the barrier against
the return of mad protection" From
the hill of vantage we now occupy, our
eyes can look out upon the pathway
that leads to commercial emancipation.
Gallinger as a Guesser.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1O.-Senator CAL