The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-23
and the prosperity of our people rise tc
the standard of 1885,
THE LAST FOUR YEARS

tuition has come high. but no people
ever learned so much in so brief a
| time Hereafter theories, preached IN
however captivating language, will
have to give way to the teachings Oh
experience.
1t has been the favorite assumption
of some theorists that revenue and
protection in the same tariff schedule
are impossible, but we have had IN
the past seven years in the contrasted
working for the protective wool ana
wooden schedule of the tariff of 1890
and of tbs similar non-protective
schedule of the tariff of 1894 a most
striking demonstration otherwise.
The importation of clothing WOOL III
1893, under the tariff of $780, was about
"a, 100000 pounds, and the manufactur-
ers of wool about $36,000,000 (mainly
things worn by the well-to-do, VINO
think it the thing to wear foreign
made cloth and willing TO pay the du-
ties imposed upon it. From these i'm
portations of wool and woolens in
1888, the government derived rev.
enue of about 44,500,00O
The importations of clothing wool in
in the fiscal year 1896 exceeded 121 ,OoO,-
600 pounds-three times as much as in
1S93-and of manufactures of wool
more than twice as many pounds in
1886 as in 1893; and yet the revenue de-
rived by the government from this en-
ormous increase in the imports OF wool
and woolens in the fiscal year 1896 was
only $22, 900 0O0-a loss of 81 10000
from that received in 1898.
LOSS OF $50 900, 900.
In other words, by placing wool on
the free list and reducing the duties
on manufactures of wool, the treas
ury lost $21 OO0, 900 of revenue, our
60,
pounds of wool which they raised in
1892 in excess of what they raised in
1869, as well as rearly 10 cents per
pound in price, involving a loss to
them of nearly S3O,OO0,000 per annum
already on this one farm product, and
our manufacturers and their working
men lost a market not only for the
goods which increased foreign imports
had supplanted, but also the market
for goods which the farmers and mass
es of the people were able to purchase
in 1893, but which they could not buy
in 1896, because of a loss of employ
ment and purchasing power.
Beyond this, it has been demon
trated that by placing wool on the free
list to the injury of the farmers and
manufacturer, we have not been there
by enabled to increase our exports of
manufactures of wool Gas it was
have greatly increased the use of
shoddy by diminishing the purchasing
power of the masses and thus COM
pelling them to seek the cheapest
clothes.
If it be claimed that this has reduced
the cost of clothing TO the people, the
reply is obvious that it has done so
only in appearance, because, in point
of fact, the masses, deprived of work
ri crizr
foreign manufacturers the making of
so large part of our goods, have found
1t harder to buy their clothing than
they did before.
GENEROUS SOULS.
Profting by this experience, the
ways and means committee, in franz
ing the pending bill have taken wool
from the free list where it was so un-
justly placed by the present tariff and
have restored it to the dutiable list at
the same rates as it bore in the tariff
of 1880; and have also restored the
same compensatory duties on manu-
features of wool as provided by that !
act in order to place the manufacturer
of wool on the same basis as to his |
material as to his competitor as was
given by the latter act-as is always |
necessary in order to provide a market |
for our domestic wool. To this has |,
been added. in partly specific form. |
duties practically equivalent to the ad |
valorem duties imposed by both the |
tariff of 1890 and 1894 as a protection |
to the wool manufacturer.
This, it is believed. will greatly aid |
the wool grower stop the further de- |
lection of our flocks and presently re-
gain what we have lost in the past !
four years and ultimately result in the
nome production of nearly all the
clothing wool manufacturing industries
which have suffered so severely under
the tariff of 1894. AT the same time.
we will ultimately increase the rev.
enue from duties on wool and woolens
lot less than S25,G00.0 900 per annum.
ABOUT SUGAR.
The duty on sugar has also been in
,reased, both for purposes of revenue
and also to encourage the production
If sugar in the United States, and
hereby give to our farmers a new and
crop. We now pay the
oreign countries about $S4,00O,OOO for
sugar, Notwithstanding the
lbnormally low price, and this sum will
oon be increased to 500, COG, GOO. The
success which has attended the grow
ng of sugar beets and the production Of
)eet sugar in California has in the past
i've years, not to mention the progress
II the pEOuuctlOn OF cane sugar IN I
Louisiana, made the problem of the
production of our own sugar no longer
doubtful, and now that we must have
he increased revenue from sugar for
he present, a favorable opportunity
las presented itself of giving this boon
o our agriculture. The duty on sugar
proposed is specific according to polar
scopic test of the degree of saccharine
natter commencing at cent per pound
or sugar polarizing not more than rs
degrees and increasing the duty three
ne-hundredthS of a cent for each ad-
itional degree. This would make the
uty on raw sugar of the same polar
5cOpic test as refined sugar 600 de-
rees) ~ cents. To this is added one
ighth of / cent for such sugar above
lumber 16 Dutch standard in color Gre
ned sugar., making the duty one cent
nd eighty-seven and a half hun
redths.
FLAX AND HEMP.
An increase has been made on flax
nd hemp, as we'll as jute and manu-
actures thereof, to practically the ]
anne as that borne by cotton goods,
18th the idea to both increase the rev. (
nue. for the time being and ultimately
} develop the linen manufacture here.
rom the evidence before the commit
&c we are persuaded that the time
as come for a gradual development of
9th flax culture and flax manu-
acture in this country, which
as been possible only to a limited ex-
ent on coarse articles under lower
uties. Specimens of goods made from j.,
Minnesota flax are exhibited which
Gem to give an assurance of a new
evelopment in this direction. :
For the most part otherwise the in =