The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-15
Tarih, ms Revenue and tine
Revival.

Revival.
Ar LAST the silence of the Republican,
oreans is broken, and the New YORK
press, comes to the front with an e
pianationa OF the deficit. There is noth-
ing new about it, but, even as a reitera-
ton Of a worn-out sophistry, it is OF M
terest. 1t shows that there is no rea-
SCRABBLE defence of the present tariif pos
sibie, and the organs are compelleo 70
iolly the people along with absurdities-
me Pres explanation is simply
that the advance importations under the
wilson tariff nave cut off demand ior
foreign goods for the present. and there
fore there is no revenue from customs
duties. The only wonder, the Press !,
saws. is that there is any revenue al
all. as
The absurdity of this CLAIM is perhaps
best shown by the fact that the month
of July showed a heavy deficit also. me
amount, speaking roughly. was ABOUT
s12. ooo. 600. 1t is further worthy OF atten-
ton that he Republican Congress, II 1t
was working for revenue and not for
protection-as it ~strenuously asserted
could and would have avoided all the
a~nticipatory imports by p~ostponing the
tariff question as a whole and passing
a simple act modifying the duties on
sugar and tea and perhaps the internal
revenue tax on beer and whiskey. me
Republican party has 40 right to expect
even the slightest degree of tolerance
from the public for its failure to wipe
out the deficit, having once made that
act the leading feature of its policy. All
thai has happened was expected before
hand and was understood and expatiated
upon at every stage of the tariff discus
sion. There is no surprise about it. The
Dinsiey gang accepted the situation in
cold blood and with their eyes open
why they did SO is obvious, The
wanted to get a protection tariff and not
q revenue enc. They wanted protection
in particular for the manufacturing class.
Therefore. they were more than willing
that the a~nticipatory importations should
be made, in order that the profits Of
their pets and allies should be all the
higher.
And In connection with this aspect OF
the situation, the Press proves alto
gether too much. It shows, in particu-
lar, that the importations of raw wool
amounted to sss, 900, 900. as against an aver
age of 49, Oo, 600. Here indeed we have a
pretty revelation of how Messrs. Dingley
and Aldrich played into the hands of the
textile men and duped and tricked the
dear Western sheep farmers. The Press"
further shows that the importation of
other staple raw materials has been en-
ormous-hemp and hides and other SINH
lar articles. This, it seems to us, is a
very strange admission in a paper which
is claiming that the present prosperity
is the result of the high tariff. 1t would
seem to US that the more figures the
G. o. P. organs advance the more prob
able becomes the theory which we have
often. advanced that the present prosper
ity is the result of the pIenteous impor-
tation of cheap raw materials in the last
days of the Wilson tariff.
IT annually costs the Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania a pretty sum to enable the
worst blood-suckers in the world to keep
their grip on the Iaborers of the State.
Just at present there is a whole brigade
of troops in the field, cavalry, infantry
and artillery, generals n colonies and
captains and all. There are. we believe,
some five or six thousand men in the
49, p -, ~ rF