The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-04-05
THE WI Lso IN BILL.

Mckinley Calls It Marrow Sectional
Measu re. ..... 80
The Wilson bill is not like any of the
| early tariff measures. but is one in which
the changed condition of the country and
its marvellous growth and development
are utterly ignored and forgotten. Its pro-
moters forget that slay cry no longer ex-
lists. They do not recognize nor appreci-
| ate the independence nd dignity of labor
and cannot understand that the protective
policy under which we have had such
splendid prosperity is NOT to be determined
by geographical lines. The bill is mar
row, sectional and prov ncial measure, un-
| worthy the great party which proposes it
and wholly unsuited to the needs of the
country.
Finance Committees Action.
An examination Of tn B bill by the Demo-
cratic members of the finance committee
of the senate evidently convinces them
that Mr. Wilson's bill and his argument
in support of the same q ire alike based on
false principles. So coal goes back to the
tariff list, iron ore to the tariff list and
lead to the tariff list, leaving free wool
alone, the only product of agriculture, to
support the false theory of the house bill,
have looked with sorhe degree of care
through the bill. find nothing but irri-
tation and aggravation TO the great indus
tries of the country. No interest suffers
by it more severely than agriculture, and
labor of all kinds see ms to have been
singled out as its foremost victim.
But, doubtless, in com pensation for this
added burden of upward of $50, 000, 900, and
because of it, they lower ed the tariff ON
tobacco and have exte nded the bonded
period for the warehousihg of whisky and
giving to the distillers eight years in which
to pay the tax.
Anomalous Position ON Internal TaxsA
The present position and action of the
Democratic leaders on internal taxes is
peculiarly an anomalous one. They are SO
determined to break dow u the protective
system that they are willing to resort to
internal taxes, which have been opposed
not only by every Democratic national ad-
ministration preceding the present one
from Jackson's to chiEnan's, but also,
as matter of principle by every other ad-
ministration, Federal, Ar ti-federal, Wing
or Republican in our history. The only
excuse for the resort to such taxation has
been the financial exigencies of actual
war. Laws imposing internal taxes have
always UctI TOpCtlCl ITdplulJ SUN
exigencies disappeared and have never
before been seriously PROPOSED in times Of
peace. -
-..... As to Reciprocity.
To my mind another hurtful provision
of the Wilson bill, entirely unwarranted
by experience and unjustifable as mat
ter of wise international policy, is that
which repeats section 8 of the act of 1890,
commonly known as the reciprocity
clause" This, it will be remembered, was
enacted to secure reciprocal trade between
the United States and countries largely
producing sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and
hides, and under which this country has
opened up a foreign trade profitable toths
people and of the most promising proper
tions. .a -.-
AS the result of these commercial ar
rangements, and for the most part due to
them, our trade has shown gratifying in
crease. The total increase in the value-
of exports to all countries with which re-
ciprocal arrangements have been made
had been $50, 1921, which sum is chiefly
from wheat, -four, meat and dairy pro-
ducts, from lumber and the manufactures
of iron and steel. And yet the Dem
cratic leaders in congress seriously pro-
pose to shut the door Of this splendid OPP
portunity in the face of the American
farmer.
Not Discussing Tariff Rates.
am not here to discuss tariff rates or
schedules. These are subject to change
up or down, as new conditions require it;
but my insistence is that these changes
must ever be governed by the protective
principle, and within that principle rates
may be- should be and will be amended as
time, new processes of manufacture and
changed commercial conditions require;
but they must not fall below a rate which
will adequately measure the difference be-
tween the American scale of wages and
that of competing countries, and aaust
always be in favor Of the Labor OF ou1 OVID
country and the home market for our
people The principles upon which they
were made are not subject to amendment.
The tariff policy of this country must b,
| protective That is what we contend for
i that is what the American people mean to
| have.
! Mr., Mckinley then referred to the Har-
rison administration and showed that ne
left the presidency with surplus of slS4,-
1000 in the treasury, including the re:
! serve fund (which, under Republican pol
icy, had never been encroached upon.
A Difference of Tariff Schools. "a.
The advocates of tariff taxation are d.
vided into two schools. Beth schools be-
lieve in raising public money by tariff
and only differ as to the kind OF tarih 70
accomplish this purpose One school, the
| Democratic school, advocates q tariff for
revenue only the other, the Republican
| school, advocates tariff for revenue and
| also protection. A revenue tariff has no
other aim or purpose and disclaims every
/ other save revenue. Al protective tariff,
while raising all needed i'eyenue, is ever
mindful that the taxes imposed shall be
upon those foreign products which will
most encourage domestic production and
rest most lightly upon The consumer.
An Enemy to American Prosperity.
A revenue tariff Is arl enemy to the AM
erican sh0n. the American lUorkinRm8ns