The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-09

seems 10 De laDorlng TO make the eA-
port Of gold expeditions, the easiest
way would be 10 place it all where the
exporter could reach it the most ex-
peditiously. This would accord with
Mr. Cleveland's idea of maintaining
our credit in foreign countries up TO
the top notch.
Tie Philadelphia American, in this
connection calls attention TO the fact
that for the second time since the pass
age Of the Wilson-Gorman tariff, the
treasury department, by putting off
disbursements has been Nable TO figure
out an excess of receipts over expen-
ditures in the monthly statements. The
treasury statement for September
shows slight excess of receipts over
expenditures, cutting down the deficit
that accumulated in July and August
than S10O00,000f or the first three
months of the present fiscal year. This
has given rise TO the roSeate predlc-
ton of the free trade and gold press,
a UGH oidhh
into by their desire Of seeing the Will
son tariff law unchanged, that the pres
ept tariff will provide sufficiency of
revenue for the fiscal year 1S96-a
hopeful prediction they one and all
follow up with a gratuitous warning to
the Republican party against making
any changes in the tariff, thus expos
ing the motive for their unwarranted
cheerfulness over the outlook.
With a probable deficit of over 500
100000 when congress meets, the Ques-
ton of revenue is bound to receive at
tention, and in spite of those editors
imbued with free trade and gold mono
metallism, who assure US our revenue
will be ample, even if backed by Mr..
Cleveland, who has proven himself not
averse to borrow to meet the expenses
of Government, there can be no doubt
that congress will feel called upon to
pass such legislation as will ensure to
thy government a revenue equal TO eX-
peAditures.
The Question for the Republican ma
jority in Kansas TO decide is how to
raise such revenue? Over the deci-
sion to this question there should be
no hesitation. The duty of Republi-
cans is to present to the president a
tariff that will not only provide ample
revenue, but protect both consumer
and producer.
As protectionists, Republicans have
held that it is the duty of the govern
ment TO aid in the development of our
natural resources by imposing import
duties on such articles as we can pro-
duce with the same or less sacrifice of
labor and energy at home than they
can be produced in foreign countries,
and to protect the producer against an
unequal struggle with foreign and we'll
established manufacturers command
ing unlimited resources and bent on
destroying new competition even at
temporary loss, knowing they can re-
coup themselves by charging monopoly
prices for their goods when they have
destroyed competition.
With our own resources undeveloped
we would with proper protection be
independent of foreign manufacturers.
BY building up a market at home, a
protective tariff protects our farmers
as producers against the necessity of
transporting their produce TO Europe
st their own expense and then being
forced to beg for a market, and pro-
tects him as consumer by the build
ing up of domestic competition with
foreign manufacturers, thus making it
impossible for foreign monopolist man
ufacturers to dictate terms to him as a
purchaser.
That the farmer is still at the mercy
of English traders who fix the prices
of his products is no fault of the pro-
tectiye tariff, but is due 10 the apprec-
iation of gold which destroys the very
home markets protection is designed to
create, and placing all producers at the
mercy of the owners of money, de-
strOyS the very benefits that we should
derive from protection by making it
possible for those who command
money now so valuable and scarce. TO
depreSS prices and constitute them
selves the only buyers for the products
of labor Protection tends to bring
consumer and producer together and
makes interchange of commodities
easy and profitable, but the scarcity of
gold. and the resulting concentration in
financial centers, forces the seller TO
seek the buyer and thus destroys the
benefits protection would otherwise
confer.
Thus protective tariff not only con-
serves two ends-first, of making us
independent of foreign markets and
producers, and thus placing us beyond
the power of foreign monopolists; and,
second, of providing revenue, but it
taxes our consumers, not to the full
extent OF the revenue collected, as
must be the case with duties levied on
products we cannot produce at home.
for in endavoring TO undersell Us.
large part of the protective tariff taxes
are paid by the foreign monopoliSts.
In treating the question of revenue,
let Republicans remember this.