The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-02
SEATTLE. FRIDAY. FER. :.
A SECTIONAL AND POFULfsT
TARIFF.

TARIFF
The house has passed the Wilson tariff
bill in the most extreme and odious form.
Coal, iron, lumber. wool and raw mate
rails generally. with sugars of all kinds,
are 20 be put upon the free list. the sugar
bounty IL TO be abolished July I. 1904. and
the reciprocity clauses of the Mckinley
ses, under which reciprocity treaties were
negotiated with various countries, are to
be specifically eliminated from the law;
an income tar is to be provided for. and
general scheme of al valorem duties sub
siitu.ed for specific taxes.
The Southern and radical Western men
were determined TO force an income tar.
They put refined sugar on the free list.
abolished the sugar bounty and refused 20
impose revenue tar on raw sugar. Upon
tho theory of a tariff for revenue only
sugar should of course have been one of
the articles upon which duty should be
levied. Upon the theory OF protection
sugar was properly fres. because the home
product was but one-tenth OF the con-
sumption, but under the Democratic
theory of . tariff for revenue only tea,
coffee and sugar should have been taxed.
The house was determined 10 strike down
all other sources Of revenue I'm order to
force the acceptance of an income tar.
The same purpose was evident in the re-
fnsaI 10 impose an additional tar on beer.
The southern men voted for the income
tax rider 10 the tariff bill, because II i'm.
posed burden that would be borne chiefly
by the North: the Western income tar
supporters are really nothing but Populist
wolves in Democratic sleeps clothing.
The tariff bill, as IL passed the house,
therefore, IL not drawn according to the
Chicago platform, but 10 q sectional meas
ure supported by Southern Bourbons aud
Western Popnlists Incorporating as Demo-
Gratis. The income tax Is Populistic
measure, not included i'm the Chicago
platform, but adopted from the Omaha
platform Of the Populists. The South was
almost solid for this income tar, ana the
South controls the present Democratic
house. The South knows that under the
old income tax, which was con-
tinned until 1870. its burden was
borne almost entirely by the North.
In the fiscal year is67. when all incomes
over 5000 were taxed though the limit
was raised to Si.0o0 near the close OF the
year-a single one of the thirty two collec-
tlon districts in New York state maid
S.. 100, 81 Income tax TO the national gov
eminent, while the eleven states of Viz
ginis, Texas, Tennessee. North Carolina.
South Carolina, Mississippi. Louisiana,
Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas aud Florida
paid less than half that amount. The
total income tar paid by New York state
to 1857 Was SO. io7, 5I7, while Louisiana.
the richest OF the Southern states. paid
s5ss. 2s7. and Florida only sI4. l9T. In lSa
the states OF New York, Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois
and California paid IS per cent. of the In
come tax collected by the government,
while they represented bat 80 per cent. of
the wealth and population OF the country.
tits not disputed that tho burden OF the
larger share OF tho proposed income tax
will fall upon the North in a ratio much
exceeding its wealth. This Is the reason
why In Texas and Tennessee this income
tax Is popular. New YORK will have TO
pay twice as much "a any other state he
cause Its wealth ~ accessible 10 the tax
collectors. In 1857 New Works population
was only two-thirds as great as that of
Pennsylvania and Ohio combined and
their relative weslth MAS about in the
same proportion, yet New York Was
obliged 20 Pas over so ca, 600 in income
taxes while Pennsylvania and Ohio Ia.
erther escaped with the payment of about
Sl3oNA0a Pennsylvania paying exactly
S>sS 90 and Ohio paying s.. sSi. sIi.
This explains the opposition Of IN.
New York Democratic congressman 70 the
Income tax, ami rs enactment would be
sure 81 make New York. Connections ami
New Jersey Republican. When the VII
son tariff bill created deficit az So epo ea
the house bad is choice between a Is. ~,
sugar or tax on incomes ta meet thi.
deiie!t The hease voted 70 / TO make
sugar free: is declined - pat an addition al
tar Of 81 a barrel on beer and insisted upon
the income tax. The Southern Ronr.
hons and the Democratic popall.,,
Of the house have thas made =
tariff which has killed the cane sugar IN.
dastry in Louisiana: stired the growing
beet sugar industry in California, Utah
and Nebraska, This tariff has treated
coal, Gre, wooi and lumber TIA the same
spirst Of industrial destrac,iveness. The
result Is tariff bal ~hich Was fairly de-
scsleed by rom Reed a. equally repaTa.a,
to the principles % revenue aad pro;ec.
ton. loaded dowa with Sn otsoas ineom.
tax. The senate will ind Il hard TO sceen;
80 reckless measure. bar the overshelm.
Ing vote in the house fer free sugar MAKE,
~ certain thai tie house will not reeess
from its demand ior an JmcoFne tar.
II is seetscnsl and a Popaliss measure
worthy - the cheap hgasns shat eontriYei
the Hawaiian policy 81 ihe president. The
president aud Prof Wilson wsrs pledged
TO make tara Eer revenue saly and tAsy