The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-07
RUSH THE TARIFF BILL!
The one thing neodful TO the country

a tariff act TO displace the infamous
Wilson German hodge podge.
From the larger centers of BUSINESS and
| commerce we hear reports, on the best Of
authority, of turn in the tide. Here
in Providence, we take it. our business
men still feel the hard times In all their
Democratic severity. To be sure we were
later being overtaken by the hard times,
In that New York for instance.
realized the effect of the Democratic ad-
mlnistration's tariff propositions some
months before Providence and we shall
probably be a little later in catching on
20 the good times when they come But
that they are assuredly coming, there is
no question. There is already AN appre-
oiably better feeling throughout the coun.
try. 1t Is bound to roach us soon.
Ihis more favorable tendency is. of
coarse, based on the certainty OF the
passage of the Aldrich. Dingley measure
substantially las TO the major part 0f the
schedules as these are now quite generally
understood. But to give practical foice to
this feeling, 90 actually release capital
and employ labor the passage Of the
new tariff bill with all speed is abso-
ultely necessary. The prospect of Its
passage even tho certainty of IL, which
has already made favorable impression
on the business worlf, is yet not suffi-
cient To prevent the collapse of the
good feeling and the postponement with
further disaster of the improved condi-
tions now confidently banked upon so
far as may be the Wilson tariff must he
swept off the statute Io)k and the new
tariff substituted for it quickly.
That is the one and all the need OF the
country today, ana it is critical juno
ture. The currency question has nothing to
do with tho immediate situation. The tar
IN is the sole issue. IL Is still unsettled
and all business and prosperity wait
upon its settlement, do facto The gov
ernment needs revenue and the ind eustrlal
world needs chance to begin it's opera
tions The election of Mckinley ana a
Republican Congress could only give the
assurance. New schedules are as neces-
sary as they were one year ago for the
fulfllment That is all there is tc the
matter, but it is highly important
"al."
With the work that the Republican
administration was primarily elected TO
perform still undone, business must halt,
although the preliminary upward steps
may be taken, We cannot fool ourselves
that tho iniquitous Wilson schedules are
not still in operation--that indeed the
conditions prevail today as they did in
'95'96, and further back in 1850, when
with the low tariff OF 1857 In operation
President Buchanan said "With unsur-
passed plenty in all tho productions and
all the elements OF natural wealth our
manufacturers have suspended; our public
works arc retarded; our private enter
prses of different kinds are abandoned;
and thousands of useful laborers are
thrown out of employment and reduced
to want. +"
The Industrial invasion OF our markets
under the Wilson German tariff still goes
on, still continues To paralyze the oppor-
Tunities for labor, Industry and bust.
moss still wait Thousands of work
men are out of employment or on short
hours or reduced wages and the prospects
for tho immediate future are jeopardized
by the importation of immense quantities
of foreign goods. The passage of the
tariff bin is imperative. 1t may not be
perfect but the general scheme as il
stands is suliicient-surcly anything is
better than "A longer continuance under
the Wilson abomination.