The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-10-26
SHERMAN.
"A GRAND SPEECH
BY THE GREAT
FINANGlER.
How The Laboring People and
The Farmer Have Been
Wronged.
How The Laboring People and

SENATOR JOnn sherman In a
speech at Akron, Ohio, on the
18th inst. said, referring to the
new tariff law:
| wish now to point out some
of the salient provisions of this
law, for. though it is upon the
statute book, tits not beyond your
reach. You have the final vote
upon it, and without your con-
sent it will not stand long as the
law Of the land. The most mark,
ed feature of this tariff law is its
intense sectionalism. Every
leading production of the South
is protected by high protective
duties. 1t was revised almost
exclusively by Senators from
the Southern States. The Sena-
tors from Tennessee, Missouri,
Arkansas, and Texas had the
bill in charge. They are avowed
free traders, but were very care
full that the principles of free
trade should not be applied to
the productions of their section,
while they were willing to sacri-
flee the great interests that have
have been developed in theNorth-
ern States to their theories of
free trade. Theduty on import
ed rice is II cents per pound.
This is 80 cents for a bushel of
rice weighing go pounds. On
oranges the duty is $3.50 per
1000 in bulk. The duty on sugar
lis 40 cents ad valorem, and ON all
sugars above 16 Dutch standard
an additional duty of ! cent ard
lilo cent upon sugar which las
received a bounty from the coun-
try from which it is exported.
Imported articles used almost
exclusively in the South are
made free of duty, while similar
articles in the North are subject
to duty. Bagging for cotton is
free and so are cotton ties made
of iron and steel, while all other
forms of iron and steel used
principally in the North are sub
iected to duty. Every little in
terest of the South, such as pea
nuts. sumac, mica and many
other productions are protected
by duties, and usually by specific
duties which can not be evaded,
while nearly all the great agri-
cultural productions of the North
are subject to low ad valorem
duties which can be and are east
ly evaded by under valuation.
The duty on wheat, corn, beans,
rye and all the great cereal pro-
ducts of the North is 20 per cent
ad valorem. When we consider
the low price of the articles and
the sharp competition in them
with our neighbors in Canada; it
is a very low duty compared with
the duties on rice, sugar and
other agricultural products of
the South.
But the great wrong and in
justice of this bill is in placing
wool on the free list. Wool is
one of the most valuable pro.
ducts of our country, essential TO
its independence as a nation.
Ever since 1916 it has been pro-
tected and fostered by reasona-
BILE duties. Our farmers are
compelled to compete with Aus
tralia. Argentina, and all other
new countries in the production
of this important staple. The
pretext for this is that wool is a
raw material, and yet tits the re.
suit Of one years labor and care
Iby more than i, 1000, 600 farmers.
Iron ore and coal are carefully
protected and chiefly because
they have recently been found
and mined in some of the South.
ern States. This was the reason
given by Southern Senators for
refusing to put these raw materi-
ais upon the free list, but they
resolutely refused to give any
protection 10 wool, chiefly a pro-
Iduction Of the Northern States.
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