The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-02-13
original high tariff unnecessary.
Revision Downward.

I'm the new tariff there are G54 de
creases, 220 increases and 1.l5O items
unchanged. but this did not represent
fair proportion to most OF the re-
ductions and increases, because the
duties were decreased on articles haV-
ing d consumption value of nearly
$4,000, 100000, while they were in.
creased on articles having consump-
ton value of less than Sl,0o0,000,090
OF the increases, the consumption
value OF those affected, which are
Injuries, to-wit: silks, wines, liquors
perfumes, pomades and like articles
amounted to nearly 5000, 100000, while
the increase not on luxury affected
but about $300,000,090 as against de-.
creases on about $5,050000,000 of
consumption. repeat, this was
downward revision; not downward
with reference to silks, liquors and
high priced cottons, but downward in
respect to nearly all other articles eE-
cept woolens, which were not affected
at all
Needed Revenue.
Certainly it was not promised that
the rates on Injuries would be re
duced The revenues were falling off
there deficit was promised, and 4
was essential that the revenues be
increased. 1t was no violation of the
promise to increase revenues by In
creasing the tax on luXuries, procided
there was a downward revision on all
other articles. The one substantial
defect in compliance with the plat
forms promise was the failure to re
duce woolens. Does that defect sc
color the action of the Republican
party as to make it breach of faitt
leading to its condemnation? / don't
think so. Parties are like men. Re.
visions are the work or men-they
are not perfect. The change this
tariff affected was a marked change
downward in the rate of duties,
recognition by the party that the time
has come when instead of increasing
duties they must be decreased, when
the party recognized that the proper
measure of protection was the differ
ence of cost in the production here
and abroad, including fari profit
to the manufacturer. There was a
dispute as to what that difference is
and whether it was recognized in the
change of all duties downward. Par.
ticularly was this the case on paper.
materials and paper itself. The re-
ducton on print paper was $6 to
1915.
THE difference of opinion on
whether the new duty correctly meas
ured the difference in cost of produc-
ton of print paper abroad and here
invited the attention of newspaper
proprietors, who associated together,
like other interests, for the purpose
of securing a reduction of the tariff.
The failure to make a larger reduc-
ton showed itself editorially in
great number of newspapers. The
amount of misrepresentation to which
the tariff bill as downward revision
bill was ubiected has never been ex-
ceeded in this country.
1T will take several years TO show
the country exactly what the legisla
ton and its affects are.
"It is early to institute the fairest
comparisons between the Payne-Al
'drich bill and the bill which preceded
it, but figures are at hand wherefron
we make reasonable differences where
lit is revised downward, and as to its
capacity for producing revenue.
During the first six months oper,
alton of the Payne law the average
duty paid on all dutiable imports was
i21o9 per cent adj valorem. The aver.
| age rate on all imports in the same
| six months for the four preceding
years under the Dingley law was
l24.03. This hows o reduction in the
, Payne law of 2.9i per cent of goods