The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-12

The conference committee according to
with the two tariff bills, the measure that
the House passed and that the Senate
amended and the amended measure that
passed the upper branch and was rejected
by the House The result OF the confer
enoe may be confidently expected to be
the most generally satisfactory measure
that has yet been placed upon the statute
books. IL will no the combined product
Of the experts of the House. headed by
Congressman Dingley and the tariff
sharps OF the Senate, headed by the leader
who is recognized as the very highest
authority, Aldruh OF Rhode Island In
both branches, TO be sure, aud notably in
the Senate amendments and concessions
to what are called local interests have
been made, but this OF itself is not TO be
regarded as necessarily an evil. The ad-
mitted fact that, in a measure, revenue
or protective tariff must inevitably be u
"local issue" in this country of vast and
varied area and unparalleled diversity
of industry and products, Is not 10 be
taken TO mean that il is any the less a
national issue. Plainly no tariff measu re
could be of permanent advantage to the
country rs whole that brought disaster
on any part of IL or any number of its
| PEOPLE All interests must be considered
and the whole then adjusted harmoni-
ously The East cannot successfully pre-
scribe for the West the North for the
South. The manufacturer must consider
the farmer and the latter, in turn, the
interests of the industrial sections where
the opportunities of nature are displaced
| by the furnace the better TO conserve the
universal economy of nations strength
| and development.
1t is to be said that never has tariff
measure had the consideration of, and
for, so many interests and so many sec
tions IS the country as will be evidenced
in the bill that comes from the conference
committee for final adoption in concur.
renee. The whole people have had hear
ing that has been not the less free and
open because the great work has been
pushed with such remarkable and crafty
ing speed The leaders in the grand plan
of the tariff campaign have kept con-
stantly in Wow the imperative demand
of government for revenue sufficient TO
cover its running expenses. for this is a
bill according To title and fact for Gin
creasing the revenues" whilo, as will be
recalled, tho Mckinley measure was
drafted to reduce the revenues" which
had been making such pace Us TO pile up
an embarrassing surplus that the Clevo-
land administration SO quickly dissipated
substituting for ID new national debt.
With the support of tho government thus
in view rs prime essential, and a
majority tn Congress that differed only as
20 the degree of protection necessary TO
existing business conditions, the new
statute may be confidently relied upon TO
take care of the deficit left by the last adj
ministratiun, IN To keep the books of the
present administration balanced and TO
furnish To our dobilitatcd industries,
trade and commerce that encourage
ment to proceed with their re-
siectiye occupations now for three
years so disatrously Stacked up or aban-
doned altogether, while the abundant crops
of the Western land will find their
market awaiting them with thousands
of workingmen again employed. some
thing in pocket and tLe prospect bright
for shortly regaining the enviablo station
to which successive administrations of
government by the Republican party have
contributed so materially and which as is
now To be demonstrated, 1t is powerful TO
restore.