Show THE REPORT REAB HER tariff bill submitted to the house ITS democratic phraseology the present law denounced and araus ments presented showing the beauties of the wilson bill washington dec 19 the majority report of the way ways and means committee on the tariff bill was submitted to the house a at t the opening today the report says the american people after a fall full and the most thoro thorough tho urh debate ever given by a keople people to their fiscal policy deliberately decided e e eded that the existing tariff Is wro wrong nagih in fri principle n ciplet a and grievously grievous r unjust in opera lion 10 T they bey have I 1 v decided deci dedas as free men must elways 1 ways dee decide I 1 de t that h at itoi the e power oftay of taxation exists exist for the hoi i lawful A fit or r constitutional it 11 dional purpose of providing revenue for the support of the government every departure from the principle is a deD departure arture from front the fundamental principles of free institutions and inevitably works out gross inequality nequa ty in it the citizenship of the country for more than thirty years we have levied the tile breist Jr eist art of our federal taxes I 1 in viola lion of this tilts vital truth until til we have reached the existing ih e extreme and voluminous class taxation to which history may be challenged to furnish a parallel so many private enterprises have ave be been taken into partnership with the government so many private interests now share in ahn rich prerogative of taxing of people people that any attempt to dissolve this ia illegal egal e union is necessarily encountered by the opposition that rallies behind the intolerance of monopoly the power of concentrated wealth the inertia affixed of fixed habits and the honest errors of a generation of false teaching the rhe bill on oil which the committee lias hns ex expended much tand anxious labor is not offered as a complete response to theland the mandate ate of the american people it no more professes to be purged of cfall all protection than to be free from all error in its complex and manifold details however we may deny the existence of any legislative pledge arof the fany adv angress Con Cn gres gress to make euch such pledge for the cotti continuance ti nuance of duties that carry with them more or less acknowledged protection we must recognize that great interests do exist whose existence and pro prosperity perit it is no part rt of codr our reform either to imperil T I 1 or c cartall or pa a i 1 we believe and have the warrant of our ow own n past a t experiences e fires for belle believing ing that re redaction of f butr duty U 7 wl will it no not t injure but give more inore anun daid life to our great manufacturing industries however much th they L may dread the tile change in dealing with the tariff question its with every other ton longstanding long standing abuse that ha has sinter interwoven w oven itself with our social or industrial system the tile legislator must always remember t that hn t in the hie beginning te temperate reform is the safest having in i itself tv elf the principle of growth A glance at the tariff legislation of conr own country ought to satisfy every intelligent student that protection I 1 has always 3 shown ho wt I 1 ita its ral falsity it as a system 1 of economy bv by its to produce healthy and stable prosperity to the manufacturers it teaches men to depend on artificial help on laws taxing their countrymen for the prosperity of their business busine rather than upon their own ski skill I 1 I 1 an and I 1 e effort a g rt it throws business out of its natural c channels into artificial channels in it which there must always be fluctuation and uncertainty and makes tho tile tariff system a foot ba half for party politics and the instability of th the larce elarce business interests a stake of ever every 7 popular ular election no one har has recognizer recognized tM this more fully than the wise men who have from lime time to time en ell gaga in III so called protected ind industries us tries tl the report then deals at length with witti the tile tariff history of the country show bowing 11 w when tho first proposed ro sed manufactories tag opposed it an and d desired ire pos to he be let alone once one a in a while lie however ever the protected industries asked for more and more protection tec tion finally came cattle the revulsion of 1848 1846 when tariff was reduced against tho the protests of the manufactories manu factories stating that it would ruin them and against the so solid lid vote of the representatives of the manufacturing states in congress the result was that the tile low tariff developed greet great vigor in the manufactures with 3 steady teady employment and arid increasing wages for lator A affet L t ter eleven years trial retire of those same states with practical voted for a further reduction of per cent and arid by a two thirds vote sustained a 25 per cent reduction under 1 he tariff of 1857 people jerewell we were well satisfied with it the report quotas from froni a number of I 1 etches fit congress Cou gresi against the morrill word I 1 bi bill sf 1 among then one by man we believe the sugar bounty system contrary to the spirit 01 our institutions institution sand and c can 11 conceive of no circumstance under w which bici we should have advocated or approved its introduction I 1 into nto ol 01 our I 1 r ia laws ws we have reported a provi provision bion for in iti repeal b by such sach stages as shall gradually obliterate ft ft from our law laws while permitting those who have invested large means under theer the ex pe citation g con nuance a reasonable jr I 1 a in which they prepare to take a a stand land with other of the country the duties upon the imported tobacco leaf suitable for cigar wrappers which I 1 were enormously advanced by the act of IM 1890 have been placed at sucu such figures as I 1 were deemed likely to produce tho the moat revenues to the treasury of staple agric agricultural alt ural arc products inducts including meats t and n provisions brov we are such large exporters and must continue to be that any dutie duties a upon p 0 n them are useless for protection and arid fr fruitless il for revenue for the producers prod lucere of or our grent great export staples which having fully supplied ligo the home market must ov overflow and seek larger purchasers elsewhere w the only effect of a protective tariff is to take away from front them one fourth to half of the products for which th they ey could exchange their surplus in n open pen market a upon larger sizes of plate 0 glass where th d rutial were even higher we have made made a reduction of about one third in t the he iron and steel ft cedala begian ine ing with free ore and a duty ot of 23 22 per cent on pig I 1 iron we have reported a scale of ditlea s considerably below those of tho tile existing law graduated according to the degree of f manufacture the duty upon steel rails lias lifts leen been put at 23 per cent it seems to be authentic the report that the pool of rail makers which under the shelter of the present duty of 1344 per ton has kept up prices to the american consumers far beyond the cost of production and legitimate profits profit has been beor teor canizer to continue the regulation of prices above the proper market rates As all shippers and find especially american shippers ere are vitally interested in cheapening the cost of transportation literates the rates of tile duty upon steel rails should tx 14 adjusted so as to protect them from front monopoly prices and monopoly combinations upon tin plate the duty has been gauged with reference to the reven revenue belt it w will I 1 bring ring into the treasury and arid the tile diri difference between this duty and arid that upon black plate ila has 3 been lessened with a view to discourage what mav may not lie ile called tho tile bogus industry of making tin plate b by mero more dipping in fit this country 1 of imported black plates farmers of the country we have given untaxed agricultural implements and bli idine twine and untaxed cotton ties for the additional reason in the latter case that cotton Is the largest export crop of tho the country and sold abroad in corn com I 1 petition with the cheap labor of india and lay p I 1 in ri t the tile schedule of spirits wines ins and beverages the alian changes made are a slight 1 and with a view to I 1 fe the production of increased n revenue from these very proper sources of revenue taxation the majority report is signed by the democratic members ot of the committee the republican publican Ke members will submit a minority report |