The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-19

s&AG@AY AAteLGeA 70 20 gst~N%1sEr ~S3~a
are therefore Unconstitutional from the
Democratic point Of view Il Is not .
tariff for revenue, a. il would yield Va
&C. 90 less than the present scs from I'M
ports egual 20 these Of the fiscal year isss,
and IL deliberately throws away this large
revenue At sime when the treasury must
have IL and can get il only By direct tax.
The addition of Isl articles 20 the free hss
besides great number Of farm products.
would increase free importations By VS.
-. fa2 on the basis Of last yesr. and throw
away-a free donation 30 foreigners-sl2, :
Zs,a2i Of revenue.
1t Is . grossly sectional tariff. The clay
of New Jersey the bill makes free. but pro-
tects By duty Of - per ton the clay OF
Georgia Hoop iron on farmers bucket
Is taxed. but on the planters cotton bale
10 free. Washed wool - 8 raw material
and made free, bat washed clay Of the
south Is . finished product and made
dutiable. The wheat Of the Northern
farmer. who pays 81 per day for labor. 10
protected by only . % per GEN.. duty,
while the rice Of the Southern planter.
Who pays only IS cents per day for labor.
Is protected By duty of Il per cent
Mr.. Wilson, in support Of his tarin bill.
makes this stupid plea for "ehsap goods: :"
''At What time could taxes be lessened
with greater justice and greater humanity
than at . time when thousands are strug-
Cling for the bare necessariss Of lief"
The unemployed are looking for work
and cannot hnd it. They cannot find IL
because the threat Of Wilson's bill has
cut down wages; closed shops, mills and
mines. To destroy the industry by which
man earns his bread and then TO tell
him that things are selling cheap" by
virtue of the legislation which robbed you
of work and wages is about as insolent
and inane - IL would b for highway
man to rob his victim Of every cent and
then offer to point ont 70 him "a cheap
hotel" or store where the necessaries Of
life were sold cheap. The threat of the
Wilson bill has caused business depres-
sion. put ous the ere Of factories and fur
naces, added . million Of staiwart, honest,
willing workingnen 70 the army of tramps,
and yet Wilson says that ''cheap goods"
are full compensation to . vorkingman
for the ohliteration of his industry or the
cut down Of his wages.
Wilson howls about the disappearance of
the surplus. but does not pretend that his
own bill which cuts down the revenue will
make up the deficit. He is sorry that shop
girls cannot buy imported cioaks under
the existing tariff. bat has nothing to say
concerning the thousands of workingmen
who are un able TO earn their bread because
the threat of the Wilson tariff bill has
forced them into the ranks Of the unem-
pioyed. The consequence of the Wilson
tariff bill If enacted is that the manufact-
urer whose output Is menaced by cut in
the tariff. which brings foreign goods into
the American market At cheaper selling
price than he can make them here for, at
the present scale of American wages, will
be sure to restrict the work Of his mill OF
factory until the question is definitely set
tied by the adoption or rejection of the
pending tariff bill. In the meanwhile he
viii either close his factory. or work it at
or endeavor to reduce the scale of wages.
Under the Mckinley tariff the silk in
dustry has had free raw material, because
the production of the raw material is not
one of our competitive industries, but at
the same time We have had a protective
duty on silk manufacture. But last year.
with an average ad valorem duty of So per
cent, there was imported s37.sls, as OF
manufactured goods. Ia 1890 with a lower
rate of duty. larger quantity of silk
manufactures were imported.
The Philadelphia Press recites these facts
bill the following hard questions:
Now. If the manufacturer, with free
raw silk, cannot compete with the for
eigner in our domestic market. even with
high rate of duty on the manufactured
product how is he to compete with him in
the foreign trade, where he will have no
protection whatever? The same thing is
true of cotton. With the raw material
produced IN abundance right at the mill
doors there were imported last year $50
333, $50 of cotton manufactures, although
the average ad valorem duty was 81 per
cent. There could not possibly be q clear er
demonstration OF the absurdity of the
Democratic assertion that with free raw
material American manufacturers could
compete with those of Great Britain and
other countries in the foreign trade.
IF our manufactures cannot compete
with protective tariff in the home mar
ket IL requires no argument to show that
they could not do so In a market where
they would have no protection whatever.
But under the Wilson bill American manu-
facture. will be driven TO much larger
extent il not completely out of the home
market on the better class of goods, a.
duties are TO be greatly reduced. There is
only one way in which they can hold their
home market, and that is TO reduce wages
TO the level OF those raid abroad. That
will be done under the Wilson bill or elsa