The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-23
Especial Correspondence

land, tariff duties were nearly doubled.
There was great cutlery at this, and
in 1916 congress repealed the act of
1919 and passed another tariff law i'm
posing much lower rates of duty.
But the lower rates of the law of 1916
were not satisfactory to the merchants
of New York, and in 1917 they asked
congress to increase the rates again.
Hard times caused general discomfort.
and the demand from New York was
backed so strongly everywhere that in
1918 congress amended the law so as to
make dutiable some articles which were
on the free list. The law thus amended
remained in force until 1924.
In 1924 President Monroe recon-
mended that congress give additional
protection to those articles which we
are prepared to manufacture. " The pro-
posed increase was fought bitterly, but
congress followed Monroe's recommen-
dation and made general increase in
duties. -Four years later (182S) another
advance in rates was made
Following the passage of the act of
1928 came protests from the south
against the tariff system. An attempt
was made to bring about radical
changes in 1882, but only slight amend
ments to the law of 1928 We're made.
In the year following, however, there
was change in the control of congress,
and q complete revision of the tariff
was made. The new law provided that
by sliding scale of one-tenth biennally
all duties in excess of 90 per cent should
be abolished within ten years.
In 1842 the Wings came into power
again, and they passed high protective
tariff. President Tyler vetoed it, and
congress passed it over his veto.
This tariff lasted only four years.
Under Polk in 1916 it was repealed, and
low tariff policy was readopted. The
law was revised again i'll 1857, and con-
gress once more lowered the rates of
duty.
In 1861 the Republic ans got control
of the government and passed the ia
nous war tariff law known as the Nor
rill law. Its author, now the senior SEN
ator from Vermont, has had hand in
the making of every tariff bill from
1861 TO the present day.
In 1867 the law of 1861 was amended
so as to increase the rate of duty on
wool, and in 1870 high rate of duty
was put on steel rails. The duty ON
wool was reduced in 1888, and the duty
on steel rails was increased. There were
other minor amendments of the law,
but no complete revision was attempted
until 1890, when what is known as the
Mckinley law was passed. Almost i'm
mediately there came a change of ad-
ADMINISTRATION, and under President Cleve-
land was passed i'll 1894 the Wilson
law, which is the law of the land to-
day. The country repudiated the Nc
Kinley law before it went into effect
No one knows just what it would have
done in the matter of raising revenue.
A tariff bill is always lottery, because
under protective duty imports of some
articles may be cut off entirely, and in
that case You get no revenue from them.
Colonel MorrisOn's View.
was surprised not long ago when
Colonel W. r. Morrison, once chairman
of the house ways and means commit
tee, told me that he thought we could
not escape from the tariff as a means of
raising revenue. He was and is a strong
advocate of the income tax. But, while
he thinks it would have been better for
the country if it had begun under an
other system, he believes that, with the
enormous expense under which the gov