The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-03

now officially ascertained and paid I'M
der existing laws, on the wants, neces-
sites and daily consumption of the Ia
boring men, women and children of
the United States have been reduced
more than seventy-six millions per an
mum.
The Reductions Made.
These reductions are as follows:
On chemicals, S1,000000; on pottery,
$1,000, 600; on glass. 81, 100000; on metals,
$12, 100000; on wood, $500, 600; on tobacco,
SS,500,000; on agricultural products, 3d.
300,GG0; on spirits wines, etc, $1,000, 600;
on cotton manufactures, So, 100000; on
fax, hemp and jute manufactures, $6,-
CO.., 900; on wooden manufactures, $23,-
100000; on silk manufactures, $500, 600;
on paper and pulp, 100000; on sundries,
s2,450,000; transferred to the free list,
$12.170,0 900. Total, $50, 600.
To this must be added the further
imposing fact that the bill provides for
a full and ample revenue, largely in
excess of present supplies, with which
to meet all the requirements of the
public credit. Such a contamination as
this, so full of relief to the people and
of strength, safety and honor to the
government, may well atone for the inn
PROJECTIONS and shortcomings alleged
against the pending measure and will
constitute the rock on which the temple
! of tariff reform will be built, and
against which. in the ameliorated fu-
ture, the gates of fraud shall not pre-
vail. With such a beneficient and stu
pendous result now plainly within the
reach of the American people and al
most ready for their eager enjoyment.
/ envy not the fate of the party, nor
the man, nor the set Of men, who shall
constitute themselves a hindrance and
an obstruction to its speedy fulfillment.
Perfection Not Claimed.
Faults and imperfections can, of
course, be alleged and pointed out; con-
cessions are apparent which have been
unwillingly made in order to secure its
passage; articles on the free list, as
they came from the House have been
made dutiable under the duress of a
small majority here, yet, deeply as
regret the necessity for these changes,
/ l do not hesitate to say that the bill,
taken as a whole as it now stands,
with its combination of lower taxes on
! the necessarieS of life and at the same
time increased revenues for the gov
eminent, will be hailed as a substantial
measure of reform and relief by the
great producing masses of the American
people. Manufacturing interests which
years ago were indeed and in fact in
their infancy and were foStered while
yet in the cradle of their birth, are now
! the colossal task, commanding tribute
from every days labor beneath the sun,
haughtily striding the corridors OF TINS
capitol, and issuing their edicts in the
tones of directors for or against the
enactment of pending measures in the
halls of Congress- Those who own and
represent these swollen and arrogant
Interests do not hesitate to declare In
what terms a bill vitality affecting 10
600 900 people will be permitted to be-
come law and in default OF what pro-
visions for financial profits to them
selves they will insure its defeat. In
the hard working days OF an employed
tariff reform they are yet everywhere
and. as a rule, bear themselves as faV-
orites Of power do.
Mckinley Bill a Crime.
The enactment of the Mckinley bin
was a, gigantic crime, not only against
every working man and working
woman in the United States, but also
against every individual manufacturer
and against all manufacturing inter
eSts. 1t was not so designed by us
authors but such was its real and in
evitable character. 1t declared pol
icy so flagitious in principle, so rotten
in morality and so ravenous in its eX-
actions on the absolute wants Of life
that its possible duration was only a
question of time when the next cleo
ton by the people should occur, and
vet the vast manufacturing interests
of the country were tempted and Sc
duced into accepting its delusive
brides, and into an eager adjustment
of themselves to it's alluring though
eVanescent and short lived provisions
If the reward of labor had ever been
increased as an incident or conse-
quence of increased duties on foreign
imports, nothing would be easier OF
/ ,aiO advocates
beneficiaries of protection than to show
that fact. The very reverse, however
is true. 1t can never be forgotten that
the enactment of the Mckinley law in
October, 1890, was followed almost i'm
mediately by a reduction of the wages
of all workers in iron and steel, begin
ming at Homestead, in Pennsylvania
under Carnegie, resulting in bloodshed
and wholesale murder, and extending
to all parts of the country and to al
most every interest of manufacturing
industry.
Mr.. VOORHEES, defended the ad val
orem system as fairer, honester and
more easily understood than specific
duties.
Sugar Schedule Analysed.
On the subject of the sugar schedule
he said:
Absolute free trade in sugar is an at.
tractive theme, but no such thing has
ever existed for single hour since the
organization of the government a
moderate duty has always been i'm
posed on sugar, and it has always been
staunch revenue support of the gov
eminent. In that great model of a
Democratic revenue tariff only-the
tariff OF 1S46-it was declared in short
and simple phrase that sugar of al
kinds, and syrup of THE sugar. were
subject to duty laid tax of 80 per cent
ad valorem. The fact that the duty
tax on sugar has Injured more TO the
benefit of the revenues of the govern
nent and less to the profits of nriyate
parties than any other tax known te
the tariff legislation. may be stated as
the main reason why the Democratic
party has never made an issue against
1t. Every dollar collected from a tariff
tax on sugar and paid into the treas.
uTy relieves some other article of ever
hlgher necessity in the economy of life
from the imposition of tariff taxation
During the present fiscal wear end
ing June 80, there will be paid bv The
treasury S12,300,000 as bounty To III,
producers of sugar, and every dollal
OF this vast sum is for taxes collected
from those who plant corn, raise
wheat and engage in all the yariou.
pursuits of labor. Nearly $50, 600, 900 O.
bounty money has been handed Owe
TO the sugar makers OF the countr,
since the law went into operation. anc
each year the sum is rapidly increas
ing. ii was thought when the Law
was under discussion the bounty woulC
not exceed $S000.00O per year but thu
stimulating influence of such an enor
nous bounty was moderated. If tn,
law is to remain unrepealed the tim,
is at hand when it viii confer as :
mere gratuity more than $4,000 900 pc
wear on a small fraction OF our nnnmla