The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-02-01
sAUK CENTRE HERALD
THURSDAY. FensuAsr /. 1894.
THE TARIFF BILL IN THE HOUSE

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THE TARIFF BILL IN THE HOUSE.
So far as debate. amendment and
modification is concerned. the house of
representatives is through with the
Wilson bill for this session. save only as
it may be returned for concurrence in
senate amendment. 1t goes to a vote
to-day. That it should have been
scored, attacked and even deied in the
house gifts partisan friends and then be
brought to final action with such trfiing
changes. was not expected, and goes
to show how powerful is party organ,
ization. Denounced as protective
measure by free trade democratic con-
gresham from northern state which
last fall gave $4,000 majority for pro-
lection, it has been arraigned as an
ultra free trade measure by protectiys
democratic congressmenfrom southern
state which gave az large majority for
free trade only little more than year
ago. Free trade Alabama repudiates
it because the bill purposes free trade
and protective Ohio repudiates it,be-
cause it 10 protective-and yet these
very democrats whose arguments were
so carefully prepared and delivered with
such Vehe ments sincerity drown each
other voices in an unanimous AYE" in
rendering their votes for it, one Of the
most notable being the repeal of the
clause providing for the gradual extinc-
ton Of the bounty on raw American
sugar, wiping it out altogether at a
single bound. The result upon the
Louisiana cane plantation and the beet
growing Industry in Nebraska and one
or two other northern states in less
degree, will be most disastrous. And
vet the democratic representatives from
these states will shut their eyes and
swallow it with sickly gulp OF appar-
ent satisfaction. Free iron ore has no
terrors for the representative of the Yer
million and Mesaba iron ranges, for he
assumes to believe that their deyelop-
ment will be accelerated by flooding the
eastern furnaces with Spanish ore. Can,
it be that he has a deeper interest in
protecting the destructive policy of his
party than the national welfare of his
constituents Bourke Cochran OF New
York said the effect of the Wilson bill
will be to increase imports by $780,,
100000 the first year. That is that
the labor and capital heretofore en-
ployed in making the goods represented
by that enormous amount must lie idle
while foreign manufacturers supply us.
He votes for the bill.
There is great deal of talk about
free raw material as a democratic car
dinal principal-once admit raw ma
terial free and we can compete with the
world for its markets. The great bulk
Of the so-called raw material used in the
American manufactures is of American
production and in sufficient quantities.
Why do we need foreign iron, coal, wool
and lumber? We produce all, wool ex-
cepted, in quantities adequate for our
needs. To import them means to cur
tail the home supply-to destroy vast
enterprises engaged in producing them.
Said heavy iron miner, in response to
the question of what effect free ore
would han upon his business. Com
petition will be sharp, but can mine
iron as cheaply as it is done in Spain
when l get my labor as cheap as it is
there-less than one halt of the price
pay. With free ore my only alternative
is cheap labor or suspension of opera
tons" What is true ofiron is true of
all other raw material"
But this country was never SO pros
porous as under the Walker law tariff
Of 1916, the democrats tell US. In
1916 we had a war with Mexico, and
as is always the case it made great
activity; in 1s49-52 the great excite
ment over gold discovery in California
and its celebrating influences were felt;
Ill 1926 the Crimca war involving all
Europe stimulated the industries of the
world. Fortunate combination of
extraordinary influences these were,
and the Walker bill gets the benefit OF
them. how about the next three or
feur years-1S57 to 1861? Greater de-
preston in all lines o! business was
never felt in this country. That was
the era of cheapness. Everything was
cheaper labor cheapest of all. No
work, no money. No credit. no conf
dence, no stability. The outbreak of
the rebellion and the overthrow OF de-
mocracy awakened the country, and the
thirty years of republican rule since
have been thirty years of such pros
perity as no other nation on earth ever
enjoyed, and the democrats sre busily
engaged in turning back the record.
The good old democratic days of 1857
ARE what they want. Verify democracy