The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-03
THE NEW TARIFF.
The Hon. Willis m L. Wilson Shows Where

THE NEW TARIFF.
Mckinley Taxes ere Reduced.
Just before leaving for Europe the
Hon. William L. Wilson addressed a
letter to the New York World explana-
tory of some features In the new tariff
law. From it We extract the follow.
Ing:
"Let US low consider, IL some detail
the most helpful reductions made In
the bill as it finally became law, be-
ginning with those articles altogether
released from taxation by both House
and Senate bills.
"In the chemical schedule Si12,0CO
worth Of articles of the importatlons
of 1893 are transferred to the free list,
the most important of which are sui
phuric acid and sulpbate of sods, which
lie at the basis of many chemical man.
ufactures.
In the metal schedule the amount
similarly made free Of duty was 81 ,1OO,-
600 in value, including cotton ties, cop
per ores and pig and cid copper tit only
for remanufacture.
I'm agricultural products and pro
visions duties are abolished on $780,
600 of the imports Of 1893, including
cabbage, fresh fish and salt.
I'm the flax, hemp and jute schedules
the value of free imports on the same
:mporJations is 81, 100000 including IN.
dressed fax and hemp and binding
tWine.
In the wooden schedule the value of
the fibres transferred to the free list on
the same basis Is Sl8, 500 coo.
Free paintings and statuary IN.
crease the free list over $1,000, ,OOO, while
the abolition of retaliatory duties un-
der the so-caIled rect iprocity clause of
the Mckinley law releases from taxa.
ton articles valued at 81, 400, 900, to wit,
coffee, raw goat skins and hides.
"In fine the total amount of the i'm
poruations of 1893 transferred to the
free list by the House bill, and included
in the bill as passed, was S4l ,390 OOO
These freed articles, it will be seen, are
of great Importance, embracing free
wool, fax and hemp or free hoers to
American manufacturers, and free
works of art of American scholars and
the people generally.
"In addition to the above the Senate
added to the free list by Its amend
ments dressed lumber, burlaps, grain
bags made from burlaas, and cotton
oagging. OF the articles placed by the
House on the free list, over forty 10
number were restored to the dutiaole
list by the Senate-generally, however,
With reduced rates-the most import
art O.. which are torax, refined cauphor
and sulphur, clays, granite and Ire
stone, unmanufatured; nickel, mica
quicksilver. molasses and sugar, coal
and iron ore and meat products.
at will thus appear that very sub
stantial and important parts OF tie
House bill were saved, and that with
free lumber, free copper, free WoI KS OF
art, free wool aud other 6bres, untaXed
cotton ties and bagging for both cotton
and grain, our chef export crops,
pretty large hole has been made In the
Mckinley bill and in the protective
system generally, and that the Presi-
dent was fully justified in assuring the
people that with the first effort OF the
Democratic party the era OF mad pro-
lection in this country was over. Much
higher rates were finally kept in the
woollen and carpet schedule than can
be justified on the basis OF free WOOL,
but it is great achievement, added
to that of securing free wool, to geh rld
of the fraudulent compound duties un-
der which the Wearers of Wollen goods
have been so mercilessly taxed IN this
country.
"The cotton schedule said to have pro-
ceeded from the Fall River manufac-
turers, was accepted in the Senate with
the exception of reducing its rates IN
conference, but the final and successful
standtaken by the Senate against any
changes in its amendments forced its
adoption as made by its original fra
mers.
"In conclusion let me add that there
is much to satisfy and far more to en-
courage tariff reformers In the new Dill:
The people will feel the Tightening OF
their burdens, the release OF their In
dustrieS and the qulcAenlng Oh tueli
home and foreign commerce resulting
from its passage, and there need be no
fear that they will ever return to NC
Ktnleyism, or again submit to the Grip
ping aud asphyxlation of American
Industry at the command of a comol.
nation of tax-gatherers. More than all
they will steadily march on to the goal
of commercial freedom.
ut Is a aomentous victory to have
turned our faces once again and firmly
toward that goal and, as the extreme
injustice of the monopoly tariff OF lo9O
was iCs own overthrow, it may well
happen that the Sugar Trust and other
monopolies which have bean able to
thwart our efforts to get better reve-
nue. bill have been builded better than
they know"