Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-01-19

Senators get as badly mixed up i'll
considering tariff tangles as does the
Cumberland Neaos.
Senator German the other day said,
in effect, that, to obtain revenue suf-
ficient to pay the ordinary expenses of
government, the current tariff is too
low.
Senator Allison agreed with this
statement and declared that the tariff
should be raised
Then Senator German turned right
around and pored by official figures
that under the Mckinley Act, the
highest tariff law ever known, tile rere-
me steadily fell off!
Lastly, Mr.. Vest insisted that under
the current Act the revenue was grad
ually but surely increasing. and that
by April it would be large enough
to meet all ordinary demands.
High protectionists know-at least
fear-that low tariff lets in foreign,
pauper-made goods, yet admit that so
many of such goods, sufficiently high
fairfield, must come in to provide gov
ernmental expenses.
That is to say, that, Notwithstanding
the cardinal allegiance we owe to our
home industries, we must give them
the shake" sufficiently to raise the
means to carry on the government.
Protection, therefore. must permit
enough foreign robbery OF home in
dustry to enable government to live.
How much foreign robbery?
All, there's the rub.
Mr.. German shows that the McKin-
ley Act taxed the foreign goods so high
they more and more declined to
come in.
And Mr.. Allison's idea seems 20 be
that, although enough must come in,
the tax which produces not enough
should be re-establshed
Now, between giving home indus
dustries all our patronage aud foreign
pauperage enough to make sufficient
basis for tariff income is deep sea for
the high protection statesman to tioun-
der in. If he taxes foreign goods out,
he destroys revenue; il he lets them
in, he destroys the home market.
Which, therefore, does he value the
O., g.. &c Al
or the full possession of the home
market!
The latter, of course, for right here
IN this county convention, called to
nominate a sheriff and other county
officers, tackled the great national
question with gloves off and decided
al captanaum that 1--WE must stand by
our home industries!' 1t was not the
puzzle to our county statesman that it
is to Mr.. Allison.
Yet, gentlemen, you have built up
in the minds of the people an object
which now divides allegiance with gov
nment--moreover, a rival which de-
mands so much of your tribute that
the government is compelled to 90
begging for subsistence. For under
the blaze of recent and current ex-
perience it is plain that the more you
stand by home industries" the less
you will be able to stand by" your
government.
The facts leading to this conclusion
and the conclusion itself, alike incon-
testable, prove also the welcome truth
of the time.hOnored dictum that pro-
lection should be incidental-not
special, and that government and in
dustry should march hand in hand in
synchronal advancement under the
aegis of the peoples loyalty and the
peoples support.
Whatever superior concern, how
ever, there may be felt aud shown as
between the two, government should
be the invariable beneficiary. For
protected industry under an unpro-
tected government is solecism in
terms, an anachronism in arrangement
aud an anomaly in political economy.
The Hog-Pen should Go.