The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-05-11
NOV PASS THE TARIFF BILL.


the Senate by the Democratic portion
of the finance committee are quite vol
luminous, and they are very largely
in the line of increased protection to
oar dome. tic industries. 1t is quite
possible that in some instances the tar
if duties are higher than is reasonable,
but as liberal concessions were neces-
sary to unite the Democratic vote Of
the Senate there is lite res son to COM
plain of that fea ure in the amended
bill. The only specially Objectionable
feature that remains in it is the odious
income tax. That must be menace to
The permanency Of any tariff policy of
which it is an integral plrt, but if it
shall be necessity to retain this OBJ
] 'ctionable feature in order to secure
the passage of the measure, it is best to
accept it and trust to the next Congress
to repeal it.
The increase of protective du les is a
matter OF comparatively little moment
when the vital feature Of ia if reform
is retained in the new tariff bill. With
free raw materials our American man.
ut .cturers can take possession of their
own markets as we'll as many of the
markets of the world, and excessive
protective duties on their products will
count for just nothing as competition
will regulate the price to consumers.
With free wool and largely cheapened
dye stuffs and chemicals there is no
reason why our wooden manufacturers
should not, in very few years, manu-
facture every piece of wollen worn by
American c.tizens. Oar present tariff
simply protects English mills and
English labor, and compsIs Americans
to wear foreign woolens unless they are
content to consume very inferior quail
ty Of cloohing, aud with free raw ma
USlidlo tLC. WOo'eu luuuStIISS u buiS
country should not only be speedily
revived, but they should be largely in
creased to supply the American mar
ket We have the capita', skill, ma
chinery and everything indeed to make
as good wooIens as the world can pro-
duce, and we want to see the entire
American market Supplied by Amen
can WOODEN manufacturers and by Amer
lean labor.
There are many imperfec:ions in the
new bill even as amenl led, bnt they are
of little moment compared with the
great principle thAt is about 20 be IN
augurated by tariff reform. Coal
should be entirely free for the benefit
of our coal producers. Free coal would
not only benefit New England manu-
facturers by getting cheaper Nova
Scotia coal than they now obtain, but
il would enable American cal pr Jduc-
ers to sell quadrup'e the amount of
Nova Scotia coal used in New England
to the people of Canada domestic
purposes, but few Senators, the coal
Of whose States is now sold in foreign
markets, are trembling over the ques-
ton of free coal and they cerce a tariff
on coal that should be entirely free =
But these are minor details compared
with the Importance of the great prin-
ciple that is asserted by the new tariff
bill, and now that liberal concessions
have been made to obtain practically
united Democratic vote in the Senate,
the measure should be pressed from
day to day and the bill passed within
the next month. The country is wait
ing for this action of Congress, and the
day that the new bill shall 60 from the
Capitol to the President will date a
general revival of industry throughout
the entire country, and the beginning
of an era Of substantial prosperity
Philadelphia Times