Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-01-04

OF what they buy in the home
market. Recognizing that the
American. farmer has been through
many years the patient victim OF
the protective system /; that BY inn
mense present sacrifice he was buy
ing for himself home market, and
that this promised home market il
farther from him to-day than ever
before, we have aimed to secure
for him such relaxation Of burdens
as will permit him to enjoy more Of
the fruits of his own hard aud faith
full labor. To the farmers OF the
country we have given untaxed
agricultural implements and bind
ing twines, and hntaxed cotton ties
for the additional reason, in the
latter case, that cotton is the largest
export crop of the country sold
abroad in competition with the
cheap labor of India and of Egypt,
believing that it was Sufficient for
tie private tax gatherer to follow
the farmer in the markets Of his
own country, and not to pursue
him into all the markets of the
world. As cotton-bagging can be
used but once we have thought it
but just to extend the drawback
system to such bagging made of
jute butts when used upon our ex-
ported cotton. q privilege which the
exporter of wheat can already now
enjoy, coupled with the further adj
vantage that the same bags may be
used for successive expectation of
grain. In the schedule of spirits.
wine and other beverages the
changes made are slight. and with
the view to production OF increased
revenue from these very proper
sources of revenue taxation. The
duty upon spurious liquors is put
| at double the internal revenue tax
upon the same, while the duty of
so cents gallon on still wines i'm
ported IN casks is retained with a
proviso limiting the duty on such
wines to 100 per cent.
TEXTILE FIBRE.
In cotton, flax. hemp and jute
schedules reductions have been
made in accordance with the gen.
eral scheme of the bill as heretofore
explained, but they are not believed
to be of such a marked character as
to call for any special explanation.
The placing of wool upon the free
list has justified a very substantial
reduction of the duties on WOODEN
goods. OF the WOODEN tariff it may
be said, as was truly said of the
WOODEN tariff of 1928, ssthat it is
the masterpiece of ultra restriction
lists and exhibits all the worst fea-
tures Of the system"
Although the imports of 1892
show an average duty of 95. 81 per
cent, in the wooden schedule. it
cannot be said that WOODEN manu-
facture has been fiourishing in
dustry in this country. or that the
American wool grower has secured
remunerative prices for his wool.
With free wool We anticipate great
benefits to the consumer of wooden
goods, revival of the WOODEN in
dustry such as that which followed
the tariff of 1857. and steadier
and better market for the Ameri-
can wool-grower. The present
tariff is not only cruelty exorbitant.
but is so adjusted as to bear most
heavily upon the poorer people.
FREE Wool.
Illustrations of these inequalities
are given and the report proceeds !:
The long exclusion of our woolen
manufactures from two-thirds of
the wool of the world has prevent
ed this great industry from attain
ing that vigorous life and independ-
ence it might otherwise have reach
ed. and recognizing the duties
which we would place at present
upon competing foreign fabrics
must be somewhat higher than a
permanent schedule ought to be. we
have provided for this general de-
crease, hoping that in few years
our manufacturers will assert their
skill and ability to manufacture
from the worlds wool. In the car
pet schedule We have not felt it
necessary to adopt this sliding scale
because that branch of our textile
Industry has long been one of the
most flourishing of all our manu-
features, has asserted its full con.
troll of the home market and recent