The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-20
PRINCIPLES.
some SOUTHERN SENSE ON THE
QUESTION NOW AT ISSUE.

Prospective Effects Of the Wilson Tarin
Measure-.sThe Thing to DO Is to Defeat
the BILL"
The tariff question in its essence is a
simple one.
Some $3.50. 900, 900 of money is required
for the expenditures of the national gov
erpment. Of this about $50, 900 900 IS
raised by internal revenue taxes, leaving
e3OO. OOO. 900 70 be raised by custom du-
ties.
The tariff question is simply, How
shall the duties required to raise this
sum be distributed
The Republican theory is that they
shall be so laid as to give the best pro-
lection or and to American labor and
American capital.
Hence III Mckinley law laid heavy
duties on articles which God has gwen
us the natural facilities to make cheaply
and in abundance and on articles of luz.
ury or vice, and low duties or none uE
articles Of necessity or Of general use,
and which va cannot produce, or OF
which we produce only a small part OF
our consumption.
Hence. TO illustrate, high duties on
iron. and free coffee, tea and sugar.
The Democratic contention is that it's
unconstitutional to lay any duty on i'm
ports with a view TO protection of home
Industries. and that all duties must be
Aaid with a view TO revenue only.
Hence, to illustrate again, they would
place such "A duty on iron as to induce
the largest importation and bring the
largest amount ~ revenue, n should
tax coffee. tea and sugar.
The Wilson bill follows neither theory,
but IS a bill without principle-a mon
grel-seeking a seeming compliance with
the Chicago platform on one hand and
to catch or save votes on the other.
1t Is an un-American bill, and IN all it,
departures from the Mckinley bill il dis.
eliminates against the American wage
Garner and in favor of the foreign man
ufacturer.
The bare proposal Of its passage has been
the prime factor in the terrible demon
~alizatiJn Of business now prevalliu.
throughout the country, and its passa-.
will deepen and intensity the universe
distress.
The passage Of tie bill will in a larg.
measure change the ec5Ea--. condition.
of the country. destroy old aaa iarZ" IN
dustr1al ceu.ars III the ATTEMPT ITO Greats
new ones. disturb and render ulcr. -al
existing valu-, and produce great au'
calamitous paraiy-isot business.
It will be the eateria- wedge Of d rad
ical departure from the policy If en-
enlargement to homs manufactures, a
fold as the constitution and sanctioned b.
Washington.
The great boon of protection to homl
manufactures Is the giving them tn
home Market market of 10000
people, who consume more than an,
other 100. OOO, 900 people on the globe.
The proposal Of the Wilson bill Is {
divide this market with foreigners. Wit
a reduced output by our manufacturer
comes increased cost of production, whic
can only be met by reduced wages I
labor, and hence. a. always. the burde
falls on the backs of the wage earners G
the country. Then with reduced earn
ings Of the great body of the wage earn
srs comes lessened purchasing power, an
the injury is reflected on all classes {
our people.
a fair days wages Fer a fair day
work" is a demand founded in reaso
and justice, and the should pa
for his goods a price that, under goo
natural conditions, will allow the LAHORE
tins just reward.
God and labor only create wealth, an
they york together and in harmony.
Cod has given us an empire with
richness of natural resources unequale
in the worlds history, and with a huma
energy and skill to match.
What these combined resources an
skill can do is illustrated in the fact thu
mig iron has been selling this yearin All
bama and Tennessee at less than Il
duty-$6. 72 per ton-in fiat ~contradictio
to the Democratic claim that the duty
NO much added to the cost of the artic
to the consumer.
Thea, admitting virtue in the WilsC
bill. we will get NJ benefit from 1T, b
Gauss of the lack of faith in the stabili'
of the new policy which it begins, 4
everybody will wait to see how the pc
nile vote next fall. If, as is likely. &
people vote next fall as they did last ia
and return a protection congress, capt.
vfn again wait for a return to the pr
siple Of the Mckinley Law.
90 the conclusion is that the wise thu
"a do is to defeat the Wilson bill n
Aaave the Mckinley law to be amend
~ its friends a. circumstances may {
nd. WILLARD WA0kk
Chattanooga.