Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25


An happy in the daytime an happy in YOU
dreams!
Sing song O. happy days climbin' up the
hills;
Singin' in the breezes an ripplin' in the r1lis
Happy on the housetops, an happy on the
sod,
An the happy world a-rollin to the happ,
gates o. God!
Republican Senators Eating Their Owl
Words.
1t is a remarkable incident of the
tariff contest in the Senate that the
Senator who opened the argument
against the Wilson bill was Mr. Allison
of Iowa.
The first feature of the Wilson bill il
its placing of wool on the free list ano
it's substantial reduction of the present
duties ON wooden goods. Senator
Voorhees,, in his speech presenting the
bill to the Senate, laid the greatest
stress upon this. Of the total $50, 600,
600 of tariff taxation taken off by the
bill, nearly one-third is made up OF re
auctions in the Mckinley rates Oh
wooden manufactures. Besides this
reduction on imported wooden goods in
finished state, all raw woods are
transferred to the free list. The tota
amount of tariff taxes collected on raw
woods in 1892 was over So, 200, GOO. Alto
gether, therefore, the wool schedules
of the Wilson bill represent a remission
of taxation on leading article OF com
mon necessity-clothing made from
wool is certainly one of the universal
necessities OF the people-amountine
to about $32,0O0,000. Applying the
established rule that every dollar OF
tariff tax collected by the government
represents five dollars collected by the
protected interests from the consumers,
and it will be seen that if the Wilson
bill had no other clauses in it than
those which relate to wool and wooden
goods it would leave at least $15O,OOO,-
600 in the pockets OF the American PEG
pie, which, under the Mckinley regime,
has been and still is being taken out OF
them every year.
Now, the singular thing about Sena-
tor Allison's opening speech in oppo-
sition to the pending bill is that he
absolutely avoids all reference to this
enormous reduction of the tariff bur-
den on raw woods and manufactured
woolens. Mr. Wilson, the author OF
the bill, has repeatedly spoken of this
as the central and commanding reform
of the whole measure. Mr.. VOORHEES,
Justly said that the wool and wooden
goods duties constitute 1.-The very
Gibraltar of high protection" and that
if this fortress of greed and gain" is
overthrown, 1.-The whole system OF
tariff protection will receive its death
blow and totter to its early fall" And
vet Senator Allison, standing forward
as the first spokesman for the protec
ton system. had nothing to say about
the reductions of the wooden schedule
which are the vital and all-importan1
features of the bill.
Why did Senator Allison talk at such
length on the question of ad valoren
or specific rates, and have so much tt
say about the railways, the pig-iror
industry and cotton manufactures, ano
make no assault at all, and scarcely
any reference, to the placing OF WOO
on the free list and the very considera
BILE lowering of the duties on wooleI
manufactures The answer to tina
question is doubtless found in the fac
that Senator Allison has a record OF
this question of free wool and lowe
duties on woolens. If he were to speal
and vote consistently with that record
he would not be against but for thl
main feature of the democratic tariff
reform bill.
Senator Allison, speaking on Marcl
"a. 1870. said Il will say, with regart
to the duty ON wool and woolens, tina
| regard it not as an intentional fraud
but as operating as though it were
fraud, upon the great body of the PEG
pie of the United States. l allude t.
the wool tariff, law the effect o
which has been to materially injur
the sheep husbandry of this country.
Yet Mr.. Allison steps to the front a
the first speaker against bill who's
foremost purpose is tC correct thi
fraud upon the great body of the PEG
ple,n which he denounced as sucl
twenty-four years ago. Is the fraud
any less fraud because it is nearly
quarter of century older now thai
when Mr. Allison first called it by it
right name?
Nor is the Iowa statesman alone il
his strangely inconsistent position
Senator John Sherman said in 1888
sin 1867 the price of wool was 81 cents
in 1870, 46 cents; in 1875 which was al
abnormal year, 40 cents per pound
this was the result of the policy OF pro
tecting the wool grower" And Ion.
before that, in 1872, the Ohio Senate
declared that the rates at that tim
levied not on wool and wooden good
alone, but generally, were "eXcessiv
protection "If,n he said, 1.-The pres
ent 0S72) rates of duty were higl
enough during and since the war
when home industry was burdenec
with heavy internal taxes, = thel
surely they are now too high, when al
these taxes are removed" The tarif
rates which Mr.. Sherman, like Mr.. ALI
son, declared to be too high a quartz
of century ago have been raiset
twice since that time, and still we hav
both these distinguished statesmen a
in the Senate to bill which conserva
lively cuts them down, and which
moreover, cuts them down chiefly OF
the very schedules on which they for
merly insisted the reductions ought t,
be made.
AS one republican Senator afte
another takes the floor it will be inter
esting. as an object-lesson in the ia
cility with which these high-tar
statesmen are able to eat and com
fortably digest their own opinions 0
former years, to see how they avoi.
altogether or lightly trip around tn
cardinal provision of the democratic
tariff bill-its great reduction of tn
wooden duties. For the time was whel
not only Senators Allison and SheI
man, but nearly every republican
statesman of the front rank, insiste'
that these duties were extravaganza,
high and ought to come downfall
San.
The solideSt man in Texas,
The wickedest man on earth,
The solemn saint in Chicago,
And the dearest Fair Maid of PERTH
Will poor their issues when ever it come
To getting their moneys worth.
And they are wise. Scrofula, BroI
chitis, Liver Ailments, Consumption
Dyspepsia, and weak kidneys put on
entirely out of the humor of foolin
along, wasting health and wealth o.
humbugs, when a reasonable sum e2
pended for DR.. Pierce's Golden Medica
Discovery would restore their bodie
and put money in their purses"