The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-21
sTRASGE MIXTURE or STRENGTH
AND WEAKNESS.

session Of August, 1894. was repiete with
sound finance; be stood By his guns te the
last, AID with the help Of the Republicans
ID the senate finally succeeded in securing
the repeal Of the silver purchase clause CT
the so-called Sherman act OF July, 1890.
HisIetter to Gov. Northen, OF Georgia; his
veto9message of the re-enactfnent Of the
Bland silver bill his firmness and prompt
ness In dong his duty In using the regular
army to restore order along the lines Of the
great transcantinenta railroads. have
made him many warm friends among the
Republicans and the patriotic Democrats.
q But President Cleveland has a weak side
TO his character He learned sound finance
from Daniel Manning. from Samuel j.
Tiiden, and ss long as Manning lived he
seemed to be Democratic protectiopist,
but since the death Of Manning all Cieve-
lands utterances concerning tariff reform
seem to begin and end with the sectional
or Walker tariff OF 1876; in ISs7 he was for
the Mills bill. which vas free lumber, free
wool and taxed sugar. and today he is for
an equally sectional measure. the Wilson
tariff bill, which stands for free coal. free
iron ore, free lumber and taxed sugar,
while Mills of Texas favors the idea OF an
income tax. which Is not q Democratic bat
d Populist idea.
His letter To Wilson, chairman of the
committee on ways andmeans. urging him
TO stand up firmly for free raw materials,
may be the letter of an honest man, bat 1t
= the letter Of an honest man who really
knows nothing about the tariff. There
are only two logical theories of the tariff
One is the present tariff, WHICH is protec-
ton ell around to both the producer of
raw materials and the manufacturer Of
finished goods, and the other Is tariff for
revenue only" which was promised by
the national Democratic convention.
The great evaEgehsts of the Democratic
theory of the tariff are Watterson, Of the
Louisville Courier-Journal and Dana, Of
the New York Sun. These able men insist
that q tariff for revenue only implies no
free list, can have no free list; they insist
that an impost of 80 70 s. per cent. should
be levied on all imports, whether raw
material or finished goods, sufficient TO
meet the expenses of the country. and
denounce the Mills bill Of 1887 aud the
Wilson dill of 1854 as a hybrid. as re-
pudiation of the Chicago platform, as
neither good Democratic fish. flesh, fowl
or red herring; as a recognition of the
protective prineiple for projections sake.
with the anti-Den1ocratlc Populist plank
Of an income tax attached. Mr.. Cleye-
land writes 60 Wilson like an honest man.
but In bis economic studies he has evil
IDENTIFY never got further than the sectional
Southern Walker tarI8 of 1916; the Sec
iional Southern Mills tariff of 1887: the
sectional Southern Wilson tariff bill of
1884,
lie charges The Democratic senate with
perfidy in los amendments To the Wilson
house tariff bill. 1t is true that the Wilson
tariff bill as amended By the senate does
not keep the pledge of the Chicago plat
form, but for that matter the Wilson tariff
bill as it passed the house was not "a
tariff for revenue only" as promised by
the Chicago platform. The Wilson tariff
bill as it passed the house was q sectional
tariff bin with the Popalist income tax
plank attached.
II is perfectly clear from President
Cleyeland's letter that, granting he is an
honest man, he does not understand the
tariff question at ali. for the Wilson tariff
bill as IL passed the house gave free raw
materials. fires wool, free coal and free
lumber aad continued protection to fin
ished goods. OF course, this is not full.
hllment Of the pledge OF the tariff tor reye-
nue. only Of the Democratic national plat
form at Chicago in ISa2 Ii is hybrid
tariff. IL Bobs the producer of ali protee-
tIon by making raw materials free, and
continues protection TO the manufacturer
The only effect Of Cieyelsnd's letter will
be 20 retard the enactment of the Wilson
tariff bilss IL may beat IL altogether
Mr. Cleveland offers no respectable ex-
PLANTATION for the adoption of the anti
Democratic, PopuliSt income tax: he
offers no explanation why beer was not
made subject 90 an increased tax that
would have realized at least $50, coo. co.,
Taken ell in ali the letter OF Mr. Cleve-
land is that OF very iII-Informed man on
the subject OF the tariff lie elings to the
hySFid Mills bin u lsS7; he elings to the
Wilson bln % 1854 which is an equally
sectional tariff with the o3ious. anti
Democratic. Pohulist income tar attached.
Altogether il is very lame letter for
weBanfgmed man 10 write. and its only
effect will be to delay the passage Of the
Wilson tariff blll. and perhaps defeat Il
altogether.
The senate smeadei the house bin by
giving the sugar trust AL they wanted. but
thew improved i in some respects by giving
degree OF protection 70 some industries.
as In the case Of COAL which they restored
20 she dotiabls list Ia the senate the
i, Wgisoe bal became ihc German bin.
and ncN she house and the president
seem ossesninea that the German oil
shall bscoms the Wilson bil, again.
Cleveland seems wiling. however, 10
swallow the iaiAm ous sugar schedule,
provided the house eonfeFees viii insist
upon freq coal, free wool and free iron ore.
IL she senate conterees abandon aIi pEotec-
ton excaps that for the sugar trust they
viii she's that the concessions OF the sea-
ate Gexe only c5aadsnce game. 10 which
TIE president and his secretary were .
party, - they were - the nomination of
Nan Alien sno the attachm eat Of the anti
nemoSrAtie Popa,ist income tar. The
Democratic New York Yeas, New YORK
Ereassg Eos; are decided on demanding
f-se sng<r While th- s,rasf;4eef i -at -