The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-04-10
The Democratic Tariff Bill.

Soon after the opening of Congress
troduced. That bill makes a large
number of slashing reductions in
present duties. Many Of the reduc-
tions on manufactured products are
so great that it is almost certain that
the manufacturing enterprises affect
ed by them will be forced to close
down, and this means not only thous-
ands of silent smoke stacks and tens
upon tens Of thousands of idle work
men marching the streets looking for
work and begging for bread, as we
saw under the Cleveland administra-
tion, but it means that our people
will be forced to buy a large part of
such manufactured articles from for
eign countries.
Such a bill will be a Godsend to
the pauper laborers and manufacture
ers of foreign countries. The foreign
manufacturers will have a great field
open to them in America, for the sale
of their products, providing the
Americans are able to buy them, but
how are idle laborers going to be
able to buy such products or even the
necessaries of life.
A Hard Lick to the Farmer and
Wealth Producer.
The bill not only gives hard lick
to the manufacturing interests and
the laborers in their factories, but it
gives a still harder lick to the farmer
and wealth producer. In their case,
duties are not only reduced, but as to
a number of important industries and
products they are absolutely wiped
out. For instance, lumber, wool,
meats, fish, breadstuffs, -four, lard.
hogs, dairy products, potatoes, vege-
tables, citrus fruits, poultry, grain,
hay, cattle, and all of the fruits are
placed on the free list.
Thus the farmer is forced to face
the cheap pauper labor of the world.
Under this condition, while the things
that we buy will be some cheaper, the
all important question now is, will we
be able to buy them, no matter at
what price they are offered. There
never was a time in the history OF this
country, since the war, when things
were cheaper than under the Cleve-
land administration, but it is we'll
known that under that administra-
tion our people were not able to buy
ANYTHING, no matter how cheap 1t
was.
In this connection it is interest
ing to note that the committee. in its
reuort in support of this bill, uses the
following significant statement the
future growth of our great Industries
lies beyond the seas" This seems TO
he a wonderfully frank and cruel con-
fessioa. It seems clear that one thing
ia certain and that is that our pros
uerity will be transferred to lands be-
yond the seas. II such bill IS pass
ed. all doubt about the next President
and the next Congress will be re-
moved.
The Income Tax Provision.
One of the significant provisions OF
this bill is an income tax, which II Is
figured will raise revenue amounting
TO one hundred and fifty million dol
lars and it is admitted that 1t will De
necessary to raise this much revenue
from the income tax, to meet the de-
felt caused by throwing the country
practically on a free trade foreign
basis.
The Democratic position was as
far as any one has been able to under
stand it, for reducing the tarln TO
simply a revenue basis, now they pro-
nose to cut it to point one hundred
and fifty million dollars below tnat