Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-29

tariff acts that had BEEN formulated under
the different administrations, and continu.
| ing he said; "The Wilson bill 10 not like
any Of the early tariff measures. but 10 one
In which the changed conditions of the
country and its marvellous growth and de-
velopment are utterly ignored and forgot
ten. Its promoters forget that slavery no
longer exists. They do not recognize NOR
appreciates the Independence and dignity of
labor and cannot understand that the pro-
tective policy under which we have had
such splendid prosperity Is not 10 be de-
tsrmined by geographical lines. The bill
is . narrow, sectional and provincial
measure, unworthy the great party which
proposes IL and wholly unsuited to the
needs Of the county,
"The Wilson bill turns to the past; away
from the present It is for the plantation,
not for the farm and the factory. As Ii
passed the house It had for Its foundation
principle free raw material. Its authors
argued that with free coal, free iron ore,
free lead and free wool the manufacturers
of the United States would be placed on
an equality with the manufacturers of free
trade countries, and we therefore could not
only retain our own markets but control
1.-THE markets of the world."s Based upon
this argument, which bsiieve to be false.
they declared that with these great primary
products free we would have steady en-
ployment for all the workingmen of the
country at good wages. And 60 IN this
form the bill passed the democratic house
of representatives and IL now the dread
subject of angry contention in the demo-
cratic senate.
Gan examination of the bill by the demo-
cratic members of the finance committee
of the senate evidently convinces them
that NJ Wi1aox,y. II Ii H.,
support of the same are alike based upon
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.
II have looked with some degree of care
through the bill. I fnd nothing but irrit-
alton and sggravstion to the great indus
tries of the country. No interest suffers
by 1t more severely than agriculture, and
labor of all kinds seems to have been sin
gled out as its foremost victim. I have
examined 1t carefully to find some section,
paragraph, clause or line removing great
burden of tariff taxes from the shoulders
of the people about which we have heard
SO much for 80 many years from the dem
ocratic orators, and have read 80 frequent
ly In democratic newspapers and plat
forms, but I have been unsuccsssfol in
finding any such provision. 1t is true that
sugar, an article of prime necessity to every
and which the law of 1880 made
free to the people, has been fairfield at
from to 10 cents per pound, every
cent of which will be paid by the consum-
era of the United States. But, doubtless,
for this added burden of upward of $50
600 900 and because of it,they lowered the
tariff on tobacco and have extended the
bonded period for the warehousing of
whisky and given to the distillers eight
years In which to pay the tax.
"To my mind, another hurtful provision
of the Wilson bill. entirely unwsrranted
by experience and unjusti6sble as a matter
of wise international policy, is that which
repeats section 5 of the act of 1890, COM
monty known as the Reciprocity CLAUSE
This, it will be remembered, was enacted
to. secure reciprocal trade between the
United States and countries largely pro.
ducing sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and
hides, and under which this country has
opened up foreign trade profitable to the
people and of the most promising proper
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