The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-14
WHAT TEE wIIsox TAxHTF WILL


Everybody knows that the Wilson tariff
bill - i. passed the house. piaesd vooi.
coal. iron ore and lumber on the free list.
Let Is consider what eiss is does-
Let us consider the farmer. rnder
the Mckinley &C. the duty on barley
sas pat AZ 20 cents q bushel. under he
Wilson bill the duty on barley Is bot y
per cent. sd vsioren. In isss. when the
duty wss higher than II will be under the
Wilson bill. nearly i2.o0.0Do bushels Of
barley were imported from Canada. besides
80. l9i bushels Of malt In 1870, Only ]. 3D.
sos bushels Of barley and 3 SIS bushels Of
matt ware imported from Canada
Allowing for the yearly increase in inn
portations befors tbs Mckinley oct took
effect. the American farmers last rear
found IN additional market. as the result
Of the Mckinley act. for Il, ooo. 600 bushels
OF barley and were thus several million
dollars better OF.
Ia 1889 the average price Of United
States barley In the Eastern markets was
AZ cents. while the price Of Canada barley
in Toronto. Of q similar grade, was a
cents. and the best grade was several cents
higher. In January of this year Canada
barley sold in Toronto At 42 cents for the
best quality. while American barley Was
selling At Chicago at 81 cents, and at
higher price in Eastern markets
Hence the price of American barley hsd
increased cents bushei ct least, while
the price of barley in Canada had de-
creased several cents for the best quality.
Here was clear gain Of several cents in
price for the American farmers, While they
sold Is, 10000 bushels more.
The Wilson bill deprives the American
farmers Of this great advantage, Tor it
fxes the tariff on barley only in the inter-
est Of the Westsrn brewers The Wilson
bill takes from the farmers Of this country
Ia the loss on their wool ~, 000. 900 and
other millions on farm products. Putting
iron ore on the free list practically wipes
out $50. ooO. 900 Of invested capital in this
country, and the nominal rate on pig iron,
IL 10 estimated. will wipe on, as much
more. The Wilson bill fixes the duty on
pig iron at 20 per cent. and Mr.. Bynum,
Democratic member Of the ways and
means committee. frankly confessed IN his
speech before the house that the reduction
Of the duty from . per cent. 10 % per cent.
gave ian advantage of from g to IS q
ton" 81 MI Of the Atlantic and Gulf ports
TO the foreign producers over those Of the
United States, while tho advantage on
the Pacific coast he put a. high ~ e.35
ton.
Mr.. Bynum also stated that the duty on
steel rails would give an advantage to the
foreign produceE-of several dollars ton at
the Gulf ports and on the Pacific slope.
A Pennsylvania pig iron furnace nan
testifies that in Glasgow, Scotland. they
can put good foundry iron on ships At
Is per ton. freight to any Of our ports
not over IS cents per ton. and most Of it
comes over IN ballast at 20 cents ton
The Glasgow manufacturer can deliver
in our markets at little over $40 ton
under the Wilson bill, while the Pennsyl-
vania manufacturer cannot deliver 1t In
the market less than s14. The foreigner
can therefore undersell the furnace men
of Pennsylvania. Ohio. Virginia. Alsbams
and Tennessee. The pig iron manufact-
urers have this to say Of the effect Of the
proposed tariff
1.-THE placing Of iron ore upon the free
list gives the pig iron manufacturer an ap-
parent advantage in duties OF about 81 IS
per ton, but the proposed reduction on pig
iron amounts TO over IS , ton, the result of
which Is TO make absolutely of no avail
the pretended benefits of free ores. whilst
at the same time IL simply throws away
revenues to the extent of over $500, 900
which would otherwise accrue under the
present duty OF IS cents per ton on ores.
What effect the proposed tariff would
have on the pig iron business may be de-
termned when IL is considered that under
said duty foreign pig can be laid down on
almost any of the Atlantic seaboard ports,
including duty and ocean freight, at from
| $40 to $io.5J per ton. Ii means the clos
| ing down OF the blast furnaces east of the
| Aiieghenics as well a. also OF all In the
| Southern section"
The Mckinley bill made no discrimina.
ton and gave precisely the same proper
tion of protection to the lead producers as
| IL did 20 the finished product. white lead.
| On the other hand. the Wilson committee
| gives over three times as much protection
TO the lead trust as Ii gives to the pro.
uuCcEs Oh itah even III tue latttr can De SAID
TO have any protection whatever. ina,much
| as lead coming in with silver ore is adj
| mitted free.
Mr.. Rawlings. Democrat from Utah, in
| debate said that the committee put an ad
vaiorem duty of Is per cent upon lead ore
| aud silyer-lead ores In the interes, of the
lead trust but on the product OF the lead
trust itself it put a specific duty of II,
cents pound. which amounts, Mr.. Raw
lings stated. TO al sd valorem equivalent
| of 70 per cent There is Is per cent. pro-
lection for the producers of lead ore, al.
though lead ore when mixed as silver
comes in free. aud 30 per cent protection
/ for the lead trust. which produces an
article consumed by the people in general.
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Guilford L. Molesworth, a representative
from India to the recent b..me,allie confer.
| enee. has an article IN the current number
of the Annals of the American AGA.
denny" in which he contends that Great
| Britain and India cannot live comfortably