The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-28
D JULY 2s, 1899.
This paper is Democratic in principles
oad is Independent in its vieses on all local
questions.



The operations Of the DingIey protection
and debt paying combination as a boom
erang continue to provide innocent amuse-
ment for all who observe them. The new
fiscal year has set in with a ten million
dollar deficiency month, and the best es-
Inmates that can be formed promise a
dehcit for the year of probably $50,ooo,o oo-
The figures for July to date are as fol-
lows
Customs receipts reported from Wash
ington, SIPS. 443; internal revenue receipts'
$685., 0S1, miscellaneous receipts, $500 ! 10
tai receipts, 81, 773, 22S; expenditures, $l,oSO.-
COO. Receipts for month to date, $3.50. W.
expenditures, $50, 454, 600; excess OIL expen-
ditures, SIC, OF, 298.
With the growing expenses of u army
and navy it is to be expected that the
drain on the Treasury will become greater
month after month. The payment of
brides to Filipinos. under General Otis
recent proclamations, is likely to be ex-
pensive. We shall probably have to pur-
chase all the old worn out rifles in the
world at $50 apiece, unless the liberal dis
armament offer of our great Sirdar is
speedily withdrawn. Besides. We are on
the brink of a new imperialistic move in
the direction of San Domingo, and the
prospect of another rebellion to quell
in the ex-Negro Republic is not encour-
aging from the financial point of view.
THE above, however, shows only one
side of D~ingleyism. The other aspect is
the much yaunted protection" feature,
which, ssby excluding foreign goods" de-
velops and fosters our own Industries.
Most inopportunely, the Treasury De-
partment published, yesterday, its sta
tistics Of trade for the fiscal year ending
on Tune 30. The figures turn the idea of
sprotection'' or exclusion into a scream
ing farce. Here is the statement of inn
ports as prepared by the Associated Press
from the Treasury record
Imports. 1898. 1898.
Articles of food and
live animals .-.... .s1s1, 2O5, 84 s211, 1863. s10
Articles in a crude
condition which en-
ter into the vari-
GUS processes of do
nestle Industry. 2Ol, 42S,3I5 221, $685. BIT
Articles. wholly or
partially
tured for use as ma
terfal In the manu-
features and me-
chanic arts-........ 5S,5S4, $50 SO, 712, 51S
Articles Manufacture
ed ready for con-
Articles Of voluntary
use, luxuries, etc.. n, AS,472 SO, 914, 635
Total imports ssls, o4s, s5a sss7, III; ga
1t certainly is impressive to see the
needs of the country thus asserting them
selves in the face of the absurd fal1acies
OF Republicanism and protection and the
food of foreign goods pouring into our
ports in spite of the barrier which igno-
rance and narrow provincialism strives to
raise against it.
The pretence that our industries are
protected" by a tariff which does not
exclude is too grotesque ever for tom"
Reed to assert. The pretence that the
volume of imports is directly governed
by the tariff is equally preposterous. The
truth is that In good times the necessary
goods OF foreign production viii come in,
despite any effort we make to keep them
out. In bad times they will not come in
in the same volume, because people can
not buy them.
The effect of the tariff is simply to In
crease not only their cost but also tho
cost of domestic products. 1t imposes a
monstrous tax upon the people, only a
small fraction of which goes into the cot.
fers Of the Government, while the rest
helps to build up trusts and enrich
~monopolies.
D~ingleyism is having one good result.
1t is proving that no government can up
set natural laws, and that the people suf-
fer in proportion as government inter.
feres with their operation.
The Naval Reserve Ill Used.
The Naval Reserve of New Jersey has