The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-10

Washington, June 9.-In the course
of his speech on the tariff bill last
Monday, Senator -Rawlins spoke with
much terseness upon exempting from
duty free raw material, declaring that
If duties were to be levied for raising
revenue they should be adjusted so
as to operate equally and without dis
elimination. He referred TO the plank
of the Chicago platform on this ques-
ton (of which. by the way, he is au-
thor in the following words:
Then the question which confronts
the Deople-those of US who plead that
this government ought TO be economi-
cany administered. but that the people
should bear their just share OF taxa
tion. which is necessary for its preser-
walton and maintenance-is how TO 90
il upon the terms of equality. 50
the Democratic convention at Chicago
set itself right upon this and other
fauacies into which it temporarily fell
in Difference to an accident in adora-
ton of a fetch, by declaring fer the
imposition of duties for the purpose OF
revenue, such duties to be so adjusted
as to operate equally throughout the
country, and not to discriminate De
tween class or section"
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.
Then Mr.. Rawlins said further: If
YOU tax wooden goods. which shelter
The peopIe from the inclement weather,
there is no reason why you should not
tax the materials which enter into the
composition of these goods. If you tax
for one section you must dlstrloute
the burden by taxing for other sec
lions if you can. 1t is impossible TO
form an equitable basis of taxation
upon the protective theory, operating
and falling alike heavily upon all our
people We must. in the nature of
things under existing conditions, keep
uniformity and equality as an ideal 10
which the nearest possible approach
should be made
REFERENCE BY VEST.
Referring to Senator Rawlins re-
marks. Senator Vest said yesterday
that new evangel OF Democratic
doctrine was being proclaimed by Ger
tain Democratic senators, who seemed /
to think a duty should be placed on |
raw material.
Today Mr.. RaWlins replied to this I
reference made by Mr.. Vest to show /
that the Chicago platform as construed /
by the remarks made by himself and !
opher senators is in strict accordance !
With the teachings OF the Democratic !
party He called attention first TO the I
platform Of 1896. declaring that duties
shall be levied to operate equally
throughout the country. He then re-
ferred TO various declarations Of Dem
ocratic principles made since 1882 to
show that all declared for a revenue
equal in its operation. In conclusion
he says:
Mr. President. in 1884 and again in
1888, and il was repeated in 1892 at the
suggestion. believe, of the factory and
mill owners. to large extent, OF New
England. as a sop TO the people whose
support in that direction was sought
by the Democratic party, that the ira
dtiOns of the party should be so far
departed from as To exempt from duty.
for the benefit of one section of the
country largely, all the product or a
large part of it, of the greater proper
ton of the country. l said il was taken
up in Difference to that sentiment. and
that il was as vicious in principle as
it was unequal in operation. II
WHERE DEMOCRATS STAND
.'As a result Of that, the Democratic
party came TO disaster. No Democrat
can stand in the west or the south or
in any Of the great producing regions
OF this country as justifying a monop- {
oily to the eastern or northern maniac |
turers. their political enemies, saying
that the burden of taxation should not |
be imposed upon them to the degree ,
that is possible in a just and equitable ,
distribution of tariff burdens Then
this declaration in the Chicago plat !,
form, excluding. as it does, the idea /,
of free raw material is not a new .
evangel. il is not an evil genius. il is : !
not vile reptile, or a rattlesnake.
There is no need for any senator. in !.
order that he may be protected from q,
it, TO make any solemn and dramatic
invocation to the Almighty in agony q
and despair 10 ask God 10 help him. 1t :
comes TO US fresh and pure and unde-
fled from the very source and fountain
Of Democratic faith, and so far as anv '
vote that l cast is concerned. il will be Y
IN accordance with the declaration of I
principles of my party a