Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-17
AMERICA A DUMPING GROUND
Foreigners Place Their Pauper Made Goods
In the Market to the Detriment of the
American Laborer, and at a Rate That
was Impossible Under the Provisions
of the Mckinley Law.


American Laborer, and at Rate That
was Impossible Under the Provisions
of the Mckinley Law.
Secretary Carlisle has had prepared for
himself tabulated statement of the re-
ceipts of the government for twelve months
each under the old law and under the pres
ent law. The month of August marked
the end of the first year of the new tariff,
and comparisons are now possible. The
tables are given below 1t will be seen that
the revenues from customs under the new
law exceed those under the Mckinley law
by over s35, ,0O0, 600, and thaS there is not q
month when the customs mnder the new
law did not exceed those for the CORE
spending month under the old law. That
means, OF course, that the foreign manu-
facturers, recognizing the advantages Of
fered to them by the new tariff, have been
dumping their pauper made goods on the
American market to the detriment of the
American laborer at q rate that was i'm
possible under the provisions of the Nc
Kinley law
The comparison between the receipts
from internal revenue tells a different
story, for the revenues under the new law
fall nearly $50, 900, 900 below those under
the Mckinley law. Not a single month
under the new law did the receipts from
internal revenue approach the receipts for
the corresponding month under the old
law. This great decrease of revenue is as
cribed at the bureau of internal revenue
to dropping off of the whisky revenues. 1t
will be remembered that while the tariff
bill was before the senate Senator Voorhees,,
chairman of the finance committee, was
the principal advocate of an increase of
twenty cents per gallon on whisky, and it
was his constant argument that every cent
the tax on whisky was increased would
bring an annual increase OF a million dol
lars. The results have not borne out Mr.
Voorhees, roseate prediction. The reve-
nues from internal revenue taxes, instead
Of being increased by $50, ,OOO, 900, are short
nearly S., 900, 900, 80 that Mr.. Voorhees, is
about $40, 900, 900 wrong on his forecast. No
explanation is given at the internal reve-
nue. bureau for the remarkable falling off
Of the whisky revenues, 1t was known
that vast quantities of whisky had been
taken out of bond just before the new law
went into effect, which accounts for the
enormous revenues received during the
last two months under the Mckinley law;
but it was the confident expectation of the
internal revenue officers that after the first
six months the results Of the increased
whisky tax would begin to show The
failure OF the revenues to increase led at
first to the suspicion that the increased
tax had resulted in an increase Of Illicit
distilling, but the reports from the dis
tricts where "moonshining" is the princi-
pal industry failed to verify this theory.
The receipts from whisky are expected by
the internal officers to amount to $500, 900
or more day hereafter, but other officers
of the treasury predict that this figure will
not be realized, and that it will be six
months or more before the whisky receipts
return to normal figures
The tables.