The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-19

growers of rice and growers OF fruit IN the
South He denounced the bill IS sec
tionaL Il places Northern fax on the
tree list while it protects Florida sponges
by duty Of 10 per cent. Virginia sunac
By duty Of 10 per cent; it protects Ala
hama and Tennessee iron and Tennessee
and Georgia marble: it places Northern
sandstone, freestone and limestone on the
free list. Commenting on these facts SEN
stor Sherman said:
What reason can be given for thafE
Marble manufacture Is IS per cent. IN
Tennessee; freestone manufacture - -
per cent in Ohio and the North: sugar IS
- per cent. with additions OF one-elghtn
and one-tsnth: while wool, the great
product upon which depends the labor OF
more people and Of more value, raw ana
manufactured. Is free. A great industry
which furnishes one of the uecessarles OF
life is free. while sugar has protective
duty of 40 per cent
Rice, 81 per cent; live animals. % per
cent. in the West and Northwest; gram
of ali kinds. - per cent; peanuts. IS per
cent. in the South: fiIberts, IS per cent,
in the North; ties for baiing cotton. Tree;
hoop iron for every other purpose, 81 per
cent ad yalorem."
Senator Sherman pointed out that
among the farm products which are trans
fsrred TO the free list By the Wilson bill
we're apples, bacon, hams, preserved meats.
fax straw, lax. hemp. lard, trees and ali
nursery stock, seeds of all kinds. tallow,
wool, wool waste and noils. rags and
focks, buckwheat, ETC., and then asked
the question: "How will our farmers be
-
bill? How can they compete with any
country in the world7 How can they
compete even with the South American
countries 2" Mr.. Sherman's list of farm
products that arg transferred to the free
list by the Wilson bill includes apples.
cabbages, cider, eggs. feathers, fax straw,
fax not hacked, hemp. hair. lard, milk,
green peas, trees aud all nursery stock.
all kinds OF seeds. straw, talow, teazles.
wool. wool waste and noiis, rags and
focks, buekwheat, corn, oats. rye, wheat
and broom corn.
Then Mr.. Sherman gave the following
list of twenty-one farm products upon
which the duties are reduced about so per
cent. and they are changed mainly from
specific to ad vaiorem duties: Horses and
mules, cattle. calves. hogs, sheep, lambs,
barley, butter, cheese. beans, hay, honey.
hops. Onions, potatoes. castor beans, fax
seed. vegetables. poultry (iive). poultry
tdresseds. beef mutton and pork.
Mr. Sherman recited these facts and
said:
''Why should these changes be made?
There is no complaint among the farmers
of the existing duty, and the only effect it
has had was that IL compelled the Cana
dians. who brought their articles OF this
kind in competition with those of our
farmers. to pay a reasonable rate of duty;
aud, as have said. the duty is reduced IN
almost all cases to 10 or 20 per cent.
The farmers in the states like that
which in part represent, which run along
the border with lake between them and
Canada, know that this kind of competi-
ton brought within their markets in
Cleveland, Detroit. Chicago and other
large cities all along the Northern belt.
would give the Canadian farmers an adj
vantage which they do not deserve, and
which the farmers of this country, in nay
judgment, will deeply resent"