Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1893, Page 9

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Full business course, day or night, $25 a year. Bookkeeping. arithmetic. spelling,” grammat, iet- fer writing, penmanship. typewriting, shorthand. Diplomas and positions for graduates.” Central lo cation. Experienced teachers. Send for announce- meats 8. We FL A — a. -M., Principal. nm MISS C. MATILDA MINKE, 3) DELAWARE AVE, ne., graduate of the New Music, Boston, Orzu Eng. Conservatory of of Piduo and Har * UILLER, TEACHER OF orgaa, vocal music and ‘harmony; espe- nily attentive to beginners as well as to pupils advaned. G11 I st. nw. MI ALCH'S CIVIL SERVICE INSTITUTE AND Business College, 1207 10th n.w. Pupils prepared civil service, departmental and jons. Stenography taught. se2-tr LADY JUST FROM_ENGLAND WISHES TO GIVE ate lessons in French (acquired in Paris),paiat- gr ing». SSP. nist and Experienced ip oil, Water colors, crayon and pencil Address EE.BARTON,¥1u 20th u.w.al4-7w' PROTECTION’S SIDE The Report of the Minority of. the Ways and Means Committee. ANALYZING THE WILSON BILL Inconsistencies of the Proposed Legislation and Party Pledges. COAL AND RAW MATERIAL Before the adjournment of the House yes- terday afternoon Mr. Reed presented the report of the minority of the ways and means committee on the Wilson tariff bill. ‘rhe report, which was long, made a caustic review of the Wilson bill and of the demo- cratic policy as expressed in the bill, and also presentea vigorously the republican side of the tariff question. ‘The report said “The most surprising thing about this bill is the fact that this proposition to raise revenue will lower the revenue of this coun- try $74,000,000 below the revenue of 1893, which was only $2,00U,0U0 above our ex- penses, “xiad the committee, In making what the chairman on the floor of the House has called a political bill, followed the plain, uncompromising declaration of the party which they represent, and abolish protec- tion, giving us a tariff for revenue only, our task in commenting upon the result of the committee's efforts would have been much more simple. ‘The bill would then have been a straightforward, manly attempt to carry out pledges, and would have placed in issue two great principles, and have led to a clear ana comprehensible @iscussion. “so far, however, have the committee de- parted from the demands of their national convention that we should have been much tempted to borrow a phrase from their own Platform and designate the bill as a ‘cow- ardly makeshift’ were it not that the results have been already too se- rious for mere epithets. Such a phrase, even thus sanctioned, would be out of place in a discussion which involves so much of importance to all classes of citizens. It still, however, remains a fact that the bill presented can in no way be justified by peo- ple who claim to have obtained possession of all branches of the government upon a distinct promise which they now as dis- lnctly repudiate. Breaking of Pledges. “If it shoula be said that these pledges solemnly made on a yea-and-nay vote after full discussion were not intended for action, then the breaking of the pledges has the additional disadvantage. of premeditation. if subsequent events—and they have been numerous enough and weighty enough to startle the country—have convinced the as utterly wrong and indefensible as history will know it to be, then it is‘a great mis- fortune to this country that the committee did not have the courage to openly abandon the false doctrine and leave the country un- disturbed, so that it might convalesce from the shock of ite great mistake. “But the committee, instead of proceeding in its great work of abolishing protection and preserving the people from the load of taxation which they have always averred was the result of protection, has presented a bill which is only another tariff-tink: ing bill, the like of which has disturbed the conditions of business so many times the last thirty years. lt is a great misfortune that such is the case, for had the bill been for revenue only, in the only sense possible for that term, the people of this country might have seen at one glance whether they destred the one policy or the other, and the question might have been settled once for all, and the country might have attain- ed that repose, stability and certainty which our business prosperity so much needs. “That, however, has not been made the issue, but instead of that a newer and fresn- er plan has been devised, which those who stand by principle and the Chicago platform may still designate and do still designate as a plan to foster and coddle American industries, to maintain classes, and to per- petuate taxation for other purposes than for revenue only. Some Questions. “As to this new plan, the very first ques- tion one Is disposed to ask is, Why disturb existing business relations if there is to be no change in principle’ if we are still to have protection,why take this time to cause a readjustment when the business condi- tions are of such a character that the greatest amount of disaster will be the re- sult? Were it proposed to make a radical change and cause the business of the coun- try to be conducted on a new basis, there might be possibly arguments adduced and Plans presented which would be justifiable and satisfactory, but if protection be the object, why choose this time of all others to substitute for a system of protection which has proved reasonably satisfactory one of which we know nothing and with the principle of which the revisers are not in accord? “This other and fresher plan has all the faults which the framers of this bill charg- ed upon the old, and very few of its virtues. it 18 open to all the derisive and harsh epithets with which the present system used to be overwhelmed. It taxes the peo- ple with tariff taxes. it creates, or, rather, Proposes to maintain, what they used to call the privileged classes, and is defended by its authors by arguments and expres- sions strangely like those which they used so hotly to denounce. A manufacturer is told that the duty will protect him, and his claims are listened to on that basis, and are argued with him on that basis, just as in the brave days of old. “The new democratic district attorney of the northern district of New York comes down, as he had a right to, and declares that, from a protection standpoint, barley and malt cannot go together under the same ad valorem, and promptly the com- mittee raises the tariff taxes from 25 per cent to 30 to protect the manufacturer, thoush it must lessen the revea:te. “So also some one has »resented per- Suasively the cause of boards, planed, tongued and grooved, to the committee, and although the lumber passes in the same plant from the saws to the planers, the work of the men who manage the saws ret hcg tg — the work of the men who run the planes is shield aa tive tariff taxes. pation “These are but instances of corrections made where the ear of the committee could be had and are keys to the notions on which the bill was formed. Free Raw Materials. “The new plan also involves a new | method of encouraging manufacturers by | giving them what are called ‘free raw ma- terials,’ so that what goes ‘nto the mill Pays no taxes, and what goes into con- sumption pays all the taxes. The manu- facturers pay no taxes on what they buy, and the people the equivalent of taxes on all they purchase. “It unfortunately happens also that ‘free raw niaterial’ is an elastic term, and what is one man’s free raw material ts another mzan’s finished product. The manufacturer in Massachusetts is told that he is to be encouraged by having free !umber'to build asmuch as that every lumber thus made free is the Maine manufacturer's finished product, no wonder the democrats of Ban- gor, the mills on the Penobscot being un- able to move a saw, denounce class legis- lation with a new appreciation of what class legislation really means. And with the dwellers on the Penobscot syrapathize the lumbermen in Wisconsin and Michigan, the Pacific slope, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. So also the miners in Michigan, struggling this very moment with starva- tion, realize that the most odious class legislation there can possibly be is the committee that the democratic platform is’ his factory and to pack his goods, but in- | The E. B. Barnum & Co. Sale. Coocooce © =it’ll be just like throwing away 50 Cents = Dollar Of the clothes you buy for yourself and the Lionas The Umbrella and Cane Sale. Umbre COSS SSSSSS SESOEOSSOOOSCOSESS OQ Of course it was a big load for us to O saddle on to our already large stock--the Q entire lot of AMASA LYON & CO.’S © LADIES’ and MEN’S: UMBRELLAS and KS AND “ei coocoeceosseso It’ nity like this Holday SILK ROBES at the special prices have been O go b ve chert a But marek no time ‘ease mau: dwindling down until there are only a few 0 to “hem and haw.” It’s over tomorrow left--Tomorrow’s first comers ‘ll get the night. If you don’t take advantage of it § “SiDEwMEARE™ § last of em. Open until late boys after Saturday night. And don’t put and ee ere ——— it off ’til too late in the dayeither. Eve It’s just the best possible solution of hour counts now. y "y Tomorrow what to give the men folks--and see what | night. you save! Special Special Special Special 9 Special Bpectal Bpecial | SAKS’. mae | ae | Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday FANCY ‘Holiday KID Woon, SUSPEN- Mactx- RE Mil N D E RS siauT- yep ‘ ° Sieatacies SLIPPERS. Gtoves. | cLovzs. DERS. TOSHES, | momes, a We engravethe Canes free. Whatever we can, we box |9 GOLD-HEADED and NOVELTY WALK- free. i --and perfect oO ng. You see ours--and you see the © ING STICKS--but we don’t believe there'll type of the fashion. We cut them with © be one left tomorrow night. They make an expert’s hand--they’re tailored by ex- Q popular gifts--Lyon’s reputation as. a | ‘= "yygue™™s § perts--and if there’s a tailor CAN dupli- maker brands them as the finest the cate them under double our price-= 0 market affords--and our offer of them at oe crave. ¥ don’t! Biue and Black Kersey--single and oO C t on D 1X¢ BAGS. double-breasted--with nothing spared to 8 50 Cents & Dollar |__| make ‘em etegant garments O d Is an unexpected opportunity. Don’t §$ S$ 8 overlook ’em. . . " 2. 5 O to 45 00. as Special Holiday SHIRTS, &c. Pennsylvania Ave. and 7th St. OOVOO000000000000 The Smoking Jacket Sale. The announcement was enough. Those ENGLISH SMOKING JACKETS and BATH oo oO Oo OCOSOCOOes One lot of PLAIN JAPANESE JACKETS, worth 94.50 and 85, for... - One lot of EMBROIDERED JAPANESE JACKETS, worth 85.50 and $6.00, for... ee - One lot of ENGLISH CHECK SMOKERS, worth $5.00, 86.00 and $8.00, for.... a seeeee ees One lot of TURKISH TOWELING BATH ROBES, worth 85. $3-50 9 $4.50 8 $3.50 $3-50 ight afalalalalalalala) | lias and A “Full-Back.” That’s style--long and big backed. But you see some that look as if they had the wrong back inthem. That’s bad tailor- COMPAN DODOSSSEOOO SCOSOHOOCOOSSOS OOOOOOOOSOSSSS9 o} fo) ° ° ° S ° fe) fo} f=} fo) ° fo) ° fo) ° s ° (=) io} ° fo} fo) fo} f=) ° ° io) 8 io} 3 >} io} ° ° 3 : io} : legislation which protects labor in the mill and leaves it in the mines to the charity of the great cities. “These so-called ‘free raw materials,” free wool, free coal, and free iron, are not put on the free list with any reference, direct or indirect, to raising revenue. They are placed there to encourage manufactur- ers who are to be compensated for any loss in this market by the markets of the world, where they will have the chance to struggle with the cheaper labor of the old world with whatever energy they may have left after the struggle at home with that same cheap lubor let into our mar- kets by a lower tariff which does not give us the compensation even of a larger reve- nue. “These delusive advantages are to be given the manufacturers at the expense of the miners, who dig out the ores and mine the coul; at the expense of the farm- ers, who raise the wool, and the railroads, which transport all these products. With these advantages, thus obtained at the expense of other citizens, the manufactur- :r#, forced by the lowering of the tariff to tight for their markets at home, are to enjoy the unlimited foreign trade. How they can obtain a foothold in foreizn lands, when this very bill is drafted upon the supposition that they cannot keep their own markets without protection, seems beyond the domain of logic. “If the woolens of America need, as this very bill assumes, 30 and 40 per cent to enable them to have a fair chance in our own markets, where is the unlimited for- eign trade which awaits them in countries where they are stripped of 30 and 4) per cent protection and obliged to pay freight and all other charges and ‘ight business connections existing for scores of years? “All the objections so often urged by the dominant party against the existing system, we repeat, lie against this bill. ‘he differ- ence is only one of degree. Jf the present system be robbery, as these men have iter- ated and reiterated, the proposed system is precisely the same. Still to Pay Tribute. “It is true fhat the consumer will no longer pay tribute to the western farmer for the wool of the sheep, but the New England and other manufacturers are still authorized to lay tribute upon the citizens jof the United States, who must pay, £0 | these men have always said, 30, 40 and 45 per cent to the manufacturers on every yard of woolens and worsteds, while the country will only receive, by way of reve- nue, a lessened sum, unless incr2ased im- porcations signalize the decay of American production. “at a8 true that the coal miners of West Virginia and the ore producers of Michigan will be stripped of their so-called robber gains entirely, and the railroads must lose transportations of millions of tons of freight; but the manufacturers are thereby stimulated and aided so that they can, as the committee asseverate, still continue their profitable business here and reach across the ocean for the business of other, countries ‘and foreign trade without limit.’ “The doctrine of the democratic platform that protection is robbery and should be abolished is comprehensible and sturdy. The new movement on behalf of mitigated and sporadic robbery is contrary alike to good morals and public faith. All false pretenses are unwise, contrary to sound policy and sound statesmanship. Hence many of us who are sure that the demo- cratic platform is utterly untrue admitted its straightforwardness and _ directness. This bill, framed by those who represent the platform, cannot receive that kind of praise. It pretends to be a revenue tariff, and does not raise revenue. It pretends to give protection, but destroys it in every in- direct way A Country's Well-Being. “The moral and social well-being of a nation does not depend so much upon its absolute wealth as upon the yearly distri- |pution of the yearly gain. Whatever can {be said of the people of the United States, nothing can be more truly said than that the distribution of the proceeds of united labor and capital has been among them more even and fair than anywhere else upon earth. There have been great accu- mulations of capital necessary for the world’s development all over the universe, but in the United States all this has been accomplished by the nearest approach to general distribution that the world has ever seen. This has not been all owing to the tariff, but the tariff has been the founda- gol Re r organizations have played a t and useful part in this distribution. Men in general who employ labor are no more nat- urally disposed to pay high wages tariff than those who exploit the laboring man under free trade, but the tariff, by giving steady employment under the in- fluence of a sure market, by establishing the organization of industry under the factory system, has given to organized la- bor the material to work upon, the fund of which it has demanded distribution—a fund So great that it could never have been equaled or even been approached in the comparatively isolated life which the un- Protected industries, taken alone, would have given us as a people. Unes of Protection. “Protection has established the clusters of great manufacturing and working cen- ters, which have given railroads the possi- bility of existence, which no scattered pop- ulation could ever have created. The rail- roads which these great manufacturing towns and their need of transportation of freight have built are sources of enjoyable wealth which are not confined to the pro- tected industries, but are spread through all the business of the United States and inure to the comfort and happiness of ail the people. ““hake one example from this very bill. Bitumimous coal is one of the great indus- tries which are developing tne state of West Virginia; upon jt ine welfare of that state largely depen so its democratic governor testifies, and many of its most re- spectable citizens, including an ex-Senator of honored name. Is that development con- fined to that state alone? By no means. With the addition of the coal fields of old Virginia the Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio obtain from these mines a very valuable freight in transport- ing coal to the seaboard. From other bi- tuminous coal fields the Baltimore and Ohio and even the great Pennsylvania road ob- tain no inconsiderable part of their freight. “If the coal be made free there will be fierce competition with the coal of Nova Scotia, and not only will the mines of West Virginia, of old Virginia and Pennsylvania suffer, but the great railroads will suffer se- verely also. To be sure, these are corpora- tions without souls, but the stocks and bonds are owned by people with souls, un- less modern political infidelity should de- termine otherwise. “Whether Nova Scotia coal would offer any relief to New England man if it were a separate measure Is a matter much in dispute, but that it would give them any relief adequate to the damage this. bill will do them is not in dispute at al 1. Vithout being guilty of that attempt to press the question into a nutshell, which is the bane of economic discussion, it may be belefiv std that every product which goes ta market must meet every lke product on ‘equal terms. If in the United States there are higher wages and a higher cost of cap- ital there must be such harriers against goods from abroad as will equalize these hieher costs, or the nroducts of the United States cannot be sold except at a loss. Sales at a loss cannot long continue. Reduction of Revenues. The report then proceeds to discuss ques- tions of wages and consumption, urges the objections made to ad valorem duties, holds that the bill reported will act as an injury to the government by reducing revenues, as well as to the producer. Speaking of the bill as a revenue raiser, the report says: “It decreases the revenue according to the calculations usually made by the Treasury Department, as compared with 1893, about $74,000,000. This large deficit, coming as it does upon a depleted treasury, is rather ap- palling in a bill for revenue only. How this great hole in our resources, as a nation, is to be filled no one knows. At this date not even the committee knows itself, unless the President, anticipating in his message to Congress the report of the committee cn ways and means, shall afford to the com- mittee itself its wished-for clew. “Against the consideration of such a bill, creating such a deficit and leaving it un- accounted for, the minority vainly protested when the bill was laid before the comm! : eturers | Who would dare, if of sound and statesman- | England, if our tariff like mind, to create a deficit of $74,00u,0u0, and blindly vote it with no plan in sight whereby the government could meet its ex- penditures? That same protest we make to the House and to the country. “The bill ought not to be reported without the internal revenue bill, which is to make up the deficiency. Are we to pags this. bill and be then coerced into the other? Who knows, if they were presented together, that we might not prefer to stay where we are? ‘The progress of this attempt at what has been called reform has already created such feeling that the country is stirred all over. When the scheme of raising taxes by meth- ods used in the time of wars is presented, in addition to those now imposed, there may be such further revulsion of feeling as will accomplish the work of defeating this bill. “While as party men we might rejoice at its passage, as citizens of the United States we think the exigencies of the present time are superior to even the most desired politi- cal advantage, and advise that the bill do not pass.” Great Interests Involved. After discussing various items in the bill, the report goes on: “Contemplated legislation which imperils over $800,000,000 of capital invested in a par- ticular industry, and involves the fortunes or the occupations of hundreds of thousands of its citizens, demands special provisions to render such a transition as safe, gradual and easy as possible. This bill proposes to compel our wool manufacturers to accom- plish the transformation in one month— that being the brief interval allowed, after wool becomes free, before the duties com- pensatory for the wool duties are removed from woolen goods. These manufacturers are expected to accomplish in one month what their foreign competitors have heen generations in learning. That transforma- tion involves the complete readjustment of the prices of raw materials. No man can know when he buys his wool, this legislation, what that wool, or the goods made from it, are to be worth when they finally reach the market. To meet such a situation one entire season of six months is the shortest interval that can be of practical avail to adjust the manufacture to the con- ditions existing abroad. “The time allowed by this bill is of no more service than no interval at ail. The manufacturer must lose an entire season, for if he manufactures his loss will be greater than though he kept his milis closed. The terms of the bill are equivalent to an edict from the committee command- ing every woolen manufacturer to shut down and keep shut down until the bill be- comes a law, and turning thousands of op- eratives into the streets, Bituminous Coal. “One of the most amazing propositions of duties be stricken a less cost than the coals of Virginia, West Virginia,and the Femoter southern states. B : i H i ihe ty, to operate Canadian — products in the New if F ih to supply our northwestern states. portation by way of the foreign coal easy entry to the valley. Foreign vessels ballast to New Orleans other ports even now compete with the Pennsylvania and West Virginia. “There are extensive Mexican coal 7 of the difference betwee! and our own. The consumer from the would be slight in loss to American il | : i 8 f i minuteness, Paget tells of Capt. W! occurred while the scout was list. He says: 8 if iat the bill is that bituminous coal shall be put upon the free Jigt, and the million dollars per annum (almost) that we receive from its importation by way of revenue absolutely -hrown away. Coal has little value save as it gets it from labor. Except for a short period, it has always borne a duty. Under the revenue tariff of 1846 it bore a duty of W per cent ad valorem. No change has been made in the duty on it since 1872. The Mills ill provided the same rate as the present law—75 cents per ton. Now it is proposed to make it free. It is difficult to imagine why. It is the most uni: iy prevalent of all the subjects of American industry. There are few states or territor- ies that an interference with it will not af- fee “The working of these immense coal fields gives employment directly to nearly a quar- ter of million of men at American wage rates, and furnishes opportunities for labor to another army of men in addition at like wage rates. It furnishes freight for our railways and waterways from one end of the land to the other. In 1892 we mined 113,000,000 tons. Thirty-one states con- tributed to the grand aggregate—New England states, middle states, southern states, western states, and those on the Pacific coast. Those lying next the sea and those lying inland; those bordering on the great lakes and in the Mis- sissippi valley, all are interested in this magnificent American industry. “The products of the coal deposits of Nova Scotia, immense in extent and richness of possible output, can be marketed in New j i H returned except the bolted down the natives’ line. The captain escaped, but met another party. Great efforts were made to find Williams or learn of his fate, Paget says, but a days later was the truth ascer- wounded Matabele who was brought continues . that ran ahead into the open. There he stopped and waved his hat at his pursuers, invit- ing them to come on. He emptied his re- peater, killing two Matabeles, and then used his revolver until he was shot in the forehead.” The Capt. Williams referred to was Capt. Gwynvod Williams, whose death was re- ported in The Star several days ago. He was leading a pursuing column northward from Buluwayo, when the fight mentioned by Paget took place. The winners at New Orleans yesterday were: Senate,Josie D, Jim Lee, Linola and Coronet. ma) At East St. Louis! Hazel, Pebble Rock, My Partner, Censor and Townsend won. At Madison Dr. Wilcox, Somerset, Out- look, Pigeon and Johnny Weber won. At San Fracisco Grafton,Oakland, Ractmg Servitor and Glee Boy won,