New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-02
THE UILSON ELL PASSED by THE HooSE'

THE JTILSON ELL PASSED BY TIE HOUSE.
The House has passed the Wilson Tarlff DILL
,c if in contcmpt for the votes of Northern con-
c,ituonccs the Democrats in the House have
east nearly their full strength for the bill, even
i'm its present peculiarly odOus form. ms ACT
fixes the responsibility of the Democratic parry
for = measure which is almost incredibly I'M
notriotic and un-Amcrican in hostility to nome
ministries as it is hostile 10 the spirit, II not
thc letter. Of the Constitution in its communiSuc
t,v Of the few for the benefit of the many. NO
matter what my be done in the Senate Whcre
the Democratic majority is small, the passage
of This bin with the almost unanimous support
If the Democrats in the House fastcns upon
that party complete and full responsibility Tor
The measure in all its parts and with all It's
natural consequences.
This Tariff bill was deliberately framed with
two improper and unpatriotic motlvcS-to pr"ak
down industries which had been cstahnShcd
and grandly developed by Republican ir"'cc-
,iou and 10 create so great Il deficiency that
,hc income tax which the communism OF the
Wost and South demanded would seem neccS-
sorv. Holding these two evil purposes steadiN
in view. the Democrats have turned aside only
whore coll1pt Jobs or shameless scctlohailSh
promised riches or Il seat in Congress- anu ii''''c
members deaf to all else Naturally thc p'r'!
WAS BETRAYED for selfish interest often ny ilch
who were all the time bctrayinG the interests
Of their country for the sake Of party.
In The entire history of the Government there
has never been attempted another cilaiigc oi
tariff as radical and destructive as hi>. No'
| many people realize this fact. When Andrew
| jackson placed his heel on the Free raue
notification of South Carolina he dealt WIN
| men who had never asked from the Govern
| mcnt a change as radical as the WILSON, "iIi
wonld make The tariff Of 1893. which they
sunportcd did indeed reduce the average OF
dutins ON all imports from about 10 per cent 10
! ,.ss than Is Der cent in 1912. but the rcduc-
tion was gradual and spread over ten years.
I The general reduction under the horizontal
| Walker tariff was less than , per cent on all
imports. and the further reduction In $780,
which preceded the panic Of that year, was put
A, Nor cent But the Wilson bill would take off
in a single year fully IS per cent of the duties
now paid and while adding important articles
| TO the free list, would reduce the duties on
large classes of manufactures and farm PROD
ucts from onchalf 10 90 per cent
The intense partisanship which has forced
this bill through the House, in spite of the great
hostility shown to it b. the people, VIII not De
a surprise 10 readers Of The Tribune. lh"y
| have been advised from the first that there was
| very little hope Of Il more reasonable decision
by the Democrats of the House. II is well Tor
! them 10 face the fact also that in the Senate the
same narrow Southern prcjudiccs, and the same
strong leaning toward the theories of PopullStS,
will sway Il majority Of the Democrats. VIII
control the Democratic caucus, and thus VIII
/ dictate the votes Of members who profess to
be determined never to support measure so
| unjust to their constituents. 1t would not DE
strange if the bill should be passed without any
really essential modification by the Democrats
Of the Senate in obedience to the same South
crn dctatiOn which has more than once enacted
tariffs destructive TO Northern industries.