The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-07-24
A STABLE TARIFF.
Protection Has Become nm EJtab-
lished Principle.

lished Principle.
There never was a thing by the wit
of man so well devised but that in
course of time change therein became
needful; and. il this generalization be
true of the liturgy of a church, as is
avowed in the stately preface to the
English Book of Common Prayer
much more is it true of a thing so full
Of detail, and dealing with commodities
OF such varying value and demand, as a
commercial tariff. Yet withal it is not
only desirable, but possible, so to frame
tariff law that, while its details may
be changed from time to time, its policy
shall be permanent. And this result,
we make bold to say, is likely to be
achieved by the passage of the measure
now in committee of conference be-
tween the two branches of congress.
The new tariff bill will be closely
akin to the Dingley bill. as it left the
house, and the Dingley bill was as
close an approach to the Mckinley bill
as the altered conditions of trade and
for revenue derived from duties so
levied upon imports as to give ample
protection to the products of the mines,
soil, factories, mills and foundries of
the United States. Under the McKin-
ley bill the nation prospered exceeding
ly, indeed, unprecedentedly. Under
the Dingley bill the nation is likely to
prosper exceedingly so soon as the vast
quantity of imports that have been
brought into the country and ware
housed in anticipation of the higher
duties of the new law are dispersed
through the regular channels of trade.
Analysis of the rates by which the
various clauses of the bill were passed
through the senate shows that the
democratic party no longer is a unit
for free trade, or for its alias, tariff for
revenue only a majority in both |
houses, and majority not made |
up of adherents of one party. has pro-
that the true fiscal policy of |
the nation is that which conduces to |
the use of American products by the
American people. 1t were idle to re-
assert the self-evident truth that, with,
1T most, three or four exceptions, there
s not an article necessary to the we'll
being or comfort of the American peo-
pie that is not or that cannot bemade
,r produced by the cooperation of
american capital and labor. 1t would
De equally idle to reaffirm the
equally self-evident corollary that it
S an impoverishing policy that tends to
Encourage the purchase from foreign
rs of goods and produce that can be
fought as cheaply, and of as good
Iuality, from our own citizens. Fac
ion itself has reccded from the alb
urdity of disputing these axioms.
This, then, is the clear gain of the
asst political campaign, that tariff has
ecome fixity. The rates of duty on
his or that article may, and will, be
ubject to change from time to time,
ut all future tariffs will be built on
be line of protection to home indus
ries. Protection is now as much of a
xed fact as is the emancipation of the
egro or the inyiolability of the union
I states in federal republic. And all
hese doctrines have been affirmed
lccessfully contended for and firmly +.
established by the republican party,
lded by strong minority of loyal and
aggressive democrats.-Chicago Inter l
cean. Er