New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-15
helps the revenue rapidly, and to this, next 10
the change in sugar, is the heavy increase In
customs receipts mainly due.
VIEWPOINTS SAMPLE.

The speech Of Judge Van Wyck Mt the Jeffer'
son SO dinner was exhaustlvey advertised In
advance ms intended to furnish the programme
for the Democratic party In the next Presiden-
tal campaign. II anybody imaglnes that II
meets that expectation he has only to glance at
the careless and even reckless statements with
which the speech was filed Perhaps the sim
pest way Of illustrating its beauties is to quote
few sentences with n word or two OF fact by
way OF comment:
Our country Is now the greatest centre Of
industry and the chief producer OF exports on
the globe.
II was not, under the last Democratic Admin
lstration, but had to borrow money to meet its
current expenses.
Our steel rails. for instance. are being laid in
British India.
Yes, but there would not have been any man.
ufacture Of steel rails in this country except for
the protective tariff which Van Wyck de-
nounces as there was not of tinplates until the
Mckinley tariff made that industry possible
In the villages Of Arabia the American lamp
Is filled with American oil.
Owing to one of the trusts which Van Wyck
berates.
Japan is buying American built ships of war.
The manufacture of steel into shlpbuldng
forms Is In n peculiar degree the fruit Of pro
tective duties.
When monopoes suffered to lay their
hands on the throat OF individual enterprise.
Not one monopoly can be named which act
ually slIppresses or prevents individual cOmpe
t.ton. and not one so nearly approaches that
end as some, like the Standard Oil Company
imports.
Our iron, steel. coal and sugar trusts may be
taken as examples OF what the tariff has brought
TO pass.
Apparently the speaker does not know that
the iron and steel combinations were formed as
defence against the tremendous competition
which a protective tariff had caused, and which
the continuance of that tariff Is certain to Gre
ate in spite of any combination whatever. APP
parently he does not know that there Is no
tariff on anthracite coal. Apparently he does
not know that the Sugar Trust dictated the last
tariff enacted by the Democrats, and under the
present revenue duty receives far less favor
than II did under the tariff which preceded it.
shall challenge any Of it's supporters to name
a single considerable branch of industry over
which its so-called protection has been extended
which is not now controlled by a confederacy Of
conspirators against competition.
Begin with the cotton manufacture, in which
no combination exists, and take next the silk
manufacture. of which the same is true and
then the woollen manufacture. in which no COM
bnatlon exists embracing hundredth part Of
the works in the country, and then the lumber
industry, IN which no combination exists. and
finally, the largest Of all the industries the ag-
ricultural, is In no way controlled by comb-
nations.
In number many times fewer than those en-
gagged In similar business.
Evidently schools in New-York are more
needed than Mayor Van Wyck has supposed
for the education Of his own brother, If for no
other purpose
70 comment seriously upon a speech so care
less In statement, so regardless Of facts and so
destitute Of serious thought would be a waste
OF time. II this is the best the jefferson De
nocracy of the City Of New-York can do by
way of recommending itself to the party
throughout the country it has rather a poor
chance. Even Bryan can teach Judge Van
Wyck more than he Is likely to know II he lives
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