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The New Tariff Bill

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
December
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The tariff act passed at the last session of the congress neecis important amendmenis if it is to be exeouted eiïuctively and witli certainty. In addition to such necissary amendments as will not change rates of duty 1 am stil! yery decidedly iu favor of putting coal and iron upon the free list. So far as the sugar schedule is coQcerned, 1 WüUid be glau, unuer txisting aggravations, to see every partiële of diiferential duty in favor of reimeci sug.tr trienen out of the tariff la ■ . If with all the favor now accorded ihe gngar refluiug interest in our tariff laws il still lanquishes to thu uXDent of closing refineriesand thousandsuf discharged workïnen, it would seein to present a hopeless case for reasonable legislativo aid. Whatrver else is done or oinitted, I earnestly repeat here the recoinmenriation I have made in not .e: ortion o. this communica ion that toe additional duty ot oue-tenth of a cent per pound laid upon sug ' r impo led Ironi countrie payiug a bounty on it, export i e abrogated It j seBin to me that exeeeuingly important cousiderations point to thj proprwty of th s j amenüment. With the advent of a new tarifl i ohcy, not only aleul ited to relieve t.ie oonsumer, of oui1 nd iu the cost of their daily lile but invite a better development ot Amerion lh' ift and eieateforus closer and more pro atablo camme ial re;at ons with the rest ot thj ! .vorld. it iollows as a logical and im1 erat ve ne e sity that we should at o::ce remove the chiof if not the only obsta' cl? whicn has so long prevented our participauoa úi the toreigu carrying trade of the sea. A tan ff Lraiit upon the theovy that it is well to chec-k importo, and that u. honiu market should bouud tne induetry and effort of American producers, was ntly sup, lemented by a refusal to allow American registry to vessels built abroad though owned and navigated by our people, thus exhibiting a wulingness to abandon all routest for the advantages of American trans-oceanic carriage. Our new tariif policy, built upou the theory that it is -vil to eneourage sueh importatious as our people need and that our producís and manufactures should flud markets in every part of the habitable globe, is consistent ly s.ipplemeutedly the greatest possibl liberty to our citizens in the ownership and navigation of ships i which our products and manufae ture may beu-ansportu.i. The millions now pad t for.igners for carrying American passengers and products ae ross the sea shou.d be turned into American hands. Snip buil 'ing, which hasbe. protected to strangulation. shoiild be revived by the prospec t p otitable. employmout ior shius when built, and the Ameri.-aa sailor should be raurrected aud agaiu tuke his place- a slurdy and induatr!oTl3 citizen In time of poareanfla patn oticand safe deiender of American inte resta in the da y of conflict. e anclen t provisión oi our Uwdenyin t American registry to hipa built abroad and owue i by Americana appears in the ight f present conditlon not only to be u fallare tor o 1 at every point, but to be i ;árer relie of b ir arlam than anytbing that exi-ste ander the pernxisdlon of a stat ate of the United Staten. 1 earnestly reoómménd its prompt n yeal.

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