Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-06
POtk!S GAIN.
Dcaefts to the People Through Tariff
Reduction.

POtN IGtN-I-
U1aefts to the People through EarfN
Production.
Western democrats have told where
in the tariff bill is disappointment.
The great American privilege OF LEI
ting men who DO not act on the square
know what we think OF them has been
| exercised against those who spoiled
the house bill in the senate.
There is the difference between dem
ocrats and republicans The Mckinley
bill was privately denounced By
Blaine Senator Plumb voted against
it But the voice of protest was IN
stantly silenced by party machine. and
the western repu blicans, who had been
forced by the trust-bought managers
to eat their words and abandon their
interests. have either said nothing
since or have sworn by all that was
sacred that the Mckinley act was the
best tariff law ever passed or proposed
Repu blicans have learned how TO
give up the right of free speech for
the sake of party. Democrats never
have learned and never will learn to
surrender single manhood right for
the sake OF party and politicians
We have spoken our opinion of the
senate bills shortcomings We have
also an opinion to the effect that our
representatives and senators collect
lively have. at the cost of unstinted la
Dor and in the face OF unnuInbered diff
fculties. passed bill which is SO much
a relief that II is a revolution.
The influences which withheld much
.oI Ill
would have bestowed We're protection
influences. They constituted the re-
naming strength of a long pampered
aggregation of interests which the
democratic majority in the senate was
not large enough TO dislodge-
The merits are the democratic part
and they are many. The democratic
heroes in both houses deserve the
highest Communications: for every re-
duction was a battle with desperate
aDd well-armed partisans of protec-
ton
Fifty per cent. of Mckinley taxes
have been taken from most of the ar
ticIes of common consumption. Wool
en- manufacture. which has languished
in spite of almost unlimited protec-
ton. Will be expanded through access
20 the worlds wool markets We shall
have cheaper and better clothing and
blankets-and we can at last get pure
woolens of American manufacture.
Steel and iron will preserve healthy
level Of prices, instead of being the
plaything of alternate scarcity and
oTerproduction. Cotton ties and bag
Cing will not be monopolized whenever
there is a good crop of cotton. Tin
plate duties are fifty per cent less
In woolens and knit fabrics the re-
duction is from one hundred per cent
to an average of thirty-five per cent
This is of great significance, not only
because it will cheaper these abso-
luteiy necessary articles to the con-
sumner. but because it will stimulate
trade with Germany, Belgium, France
and England where the demand for
our meats. -four and grain is the
largest The protectionist may ask
how foreign trade can be stimulated
and home wooden manufacture en-
larged at the same time. The answer
is that consumption will increase with
great rapidity. Among three-fourths
of our people far less of good wooden
clothing, carpets and blankets is used
than the users would like and would
have if they could pay for more. En-
large their export markets and they
will enlarge the home market
Our new tariff will have a good eff
feet on business and production.
Southern and western democratic
members have done their best, and
have . great public good to show for
their years labor.
Send to Washington a larger major
ity. Confer upon the democratic par
ty power TO change specific to ad va
loren duties, 50 that the inventions
which cheaper goods everywhere may
so to the benefit of the people. The
only tariff which does not require
tinkering every session is an ad va
loren revenue tariff which adjusts
itself to the needs of government and
the conditions of production. We want
no specific duties. which put low grades
OF goods under the same charges as
high grades, and which keep the same
tax in force for years even if invention
reduces the natural cost of an article
to one-tenth. The next two objects of
tariff reform are free raw materials
and ad valorem rates The people
have but one avenue TO the reform
the election of democrats-St. Louis
Republic