| Show nrFAMY OF THENEW TARIFF In an interview with The Herald Washington correspondent Senator Cannon says he does not believe that the new tariff bill will produce enough revenue He also says he does not think it can afford any substantial and permanent per-manent relief to the country If he is right in his first conjecture he certainly is in his second one If the new revenue bill fails to furnish enough revenue to supply the government govern-ment needs it will be a most sorry affair af-fair and will assuredly lead to the overthrow of the Republican party The new rates are so high that they will most likely diminish imports and the increased rates will hardly compensate com-pensate for the diminished imports To raise revenue by means of a tariff there myst be imports and that means that money or its equivalent must be sent abroad to purchase goods and that these goods shall come in competition with domestic manufactures What ten becomes of the home market Is It not surrendered to foreigners Senator Cannon says the new tariff measure will in his opinion afford no substantial and permanent relief He must mean this even though the new tariff bill shall furnish ample revenue Why he so thinks is fain The bill does not go to tho real root of thp trouble it is financial No provision is made for repairing the damage donp to the financial and commercial interests inter-ests by the demonetization of silver Those who believe in free silver will never believe there can be any substantial substan-tial or permanent Improvement until silver is restored to its proper place in i our monetary system All else is mere makeshift The worst charge the senator bring against the bill is that in which ilP declares jt was prepared in the interest and largely at the dictation of the trusts and the monopolies of the United Unit-ed States Thatis a most serious matter mat-ter I simply means that the taxing power of the government is prostituted to the use and benefits of the moneyed interests it means that the people are considered by the congress of the United States the legitimate prey of those whose whole aim in life is money and who stop at nothing to procure it I means that this government is fast becoming honeycombed with corruption corrup-tion and if I continues and there is i no reform the day will come when another an-other Jugurtha may arise and say A country for sale if anyone has the I money with which to buy i |
