Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-31
WILSON on THE NEW TARIFF
-'''''" o' inc Past Year and Prediction
as to the Future.
Washington. August %.

"O.iU Aiholy invites me % sup
p'ement the telling exhibit which it
makes In to-day's issue Of the mrs.
years operation Of the new Tariff BIN.
with some suggestions as to- its probable
future working. especially as to revenue.
u the opening vista Of higher wages.
oheapened necessarles of life. larger
consumption at home aud expanding
markets abroad under lower duties had
but a single years exper.erce to rest
utOI 1 should be very cautious in proph-
ecying us 20 the future.
bll when 10 is remembered that like
results followed The law Of 1886 in this
country ana crowded on the heels of tar
an reduction in England. it is no. claim
-nS 100 much 90 say that a few months
experience has already justified the ar
Gumenis that predictions OF the tarin
retormers and laid. it is 10 be hoped
forever, the spectre of ruin and imp0v-
eriShment with which The pr9tectiOnis,s
SO long frightened the American people
INDUSTRY NO LONGER FETTERED
The country is beginning 10 see to-day
thar there is no way 70 protect American
industry except by relieving &c from
burdens upon The materials with which
- works, no way 10 insure good wages
ana steady employment 10 home labor
except by freeing iJ from the shackles
which have confined &c 30 q glut,ed home
market and prevented il from seeking its
customers all over -he world.
l- is first or an gratifying. therefore,
20 see the progress already made by our
manufacturers In reaching out for the
world markets. With temporarily d.
unfinished exports, chiefly ia food pro-
CuctS-in no way due % recent tariff
legislation-we behold in a single year
en- increasing volume OF manufactured
products sent abroad.
This already appears in our exports
az agricultural machinery. building
hardware, locomotive engines and iron
and steel goods generally. also 10 leather
and manufactures OF leather. in pianos
and organs, paper manufactures and
many other items OF the Treasury state
mclt Issued az the close OF the fiscal
year.
WAGES AND MARKETS BOTH
GROWING.
To an OF these industries the wages
OF labor have been increased. As the
daily pay OF tLe American artisan was
already muCa greater than Jhap Of any
competing la0orev Ga any other coun-
Try. this growing foreign market for our
manufactures is especially significant.
There is no doubt that the iron and
steel industry of The world IS soon %
find It's chief centre q the United States.
We are constantly strengthened in the
belief thar our supply of ores of all
Kinds Is more eXhaustless, more cheaply
mined. more che1piy transported and
more cbeaply wrought into finished pro-
ducts that the supply OF any other no
ton. and THIS must eventually carry
wiki &C. the manufacturing supremacy ot
the world
This menls untold benefits 20 an our
industries. Years ago it was truly SAID
f0y q Republican Secretary of the Treas
ury that IL AN our manufacturing PLANS
ran SIX months 40 their full capacity
they would glut our home market For
-ha next half of the year there would
necessarily be- slackened work or even
idluess. with sllckened employment and
-1IC-T,t.G V1scs Tor Labor
The conquest of foreign markets now
Implies the ability 10 hold our own mar
ket against all competing from without
To means n broader and more stable
basis for manufacturers, which. IN 'urn,
carries with 10 more work and more
wages for the operative and more homo
consumers for the farmer, who rs also
relieved from the burden Of maintaining
industries 90 buy from him.
Ina word. the more self-supporung IN
dusJries We have the greater and more
dlnused is our general prosperity; the
more uon-self-suppor,ing industries We
have-fed and maintained by taxation
the smaller and more lOp-s.ded be-
comes that prosperity.
WILSON BILL FOUNDATION.
The House tariff bill aimed 10 In
crease largely the number OF industries
that could stand without bOuntieS. It's
foundation was q large tree list Of raw
materials. Fortunately the most I'M
nortant of these remain In the tafin
lin as finally enacted. such as copper
ores. salt flax. hemp ana WOOL 10 Wnlcn
ina more advanced STAGE. may De added
sulDhuric acid. the basis OF so many
industrial cotton ties sawed lumber,
binding Irvine, etc.
AS TO revenue the operation OF the
new tariff bin ought 20 be satisfactory
TO IT'S promoters. The customs revenue
under the Mckinley bill fell from 239
millions I'm 1890. to- 13l millions In 1894.
Trra the last year was one OF wide
spread depression, and great allowance
nnst De made for that fact i'm any COM
parison.
The new bin began under The shad-
our of that depression Only OF recent
months has there been O. feeling OF nm
anclal security I'm the country az large
hut rhe close of The isc9. year saw an
Improvement of more than % millions
in our customs receipts, and the reve-
nucs FOR July and August promise
stH larger increase for the present
year .,..,-,.-. .-,r,
REVENUE WILL BE ADEQUATE
Indeed. the temporary nsphciency
OF revenue for present current eNpenul-
lures rs 90 De found i'm the receipts irom
internal revenue and not I'm those from
ire tariff And YET the law of August
1asf while removing and greatly re-
duclnr tariff taxes. increased internal
revenue taxes.
Tho shrinkage in internal revenue
recoiD+s. Notwithstanding the aooltion
Of twenty cents a gallon on whisky. is
believed by Treasury officials 70 be a
thing OF the past. and they confidently
predict the rapid and permanent recoV-
erv of this item Of our national income.
AS soon as that occurs there VIII De no
trouble about Treasury receipts and
II for awhile they enforce rigid econo-
NV IN public expenditures, so much the
better for the taxpayers and for the