Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1890 — THE TARIFF HEARING. [ARTICLE]

THE TARIFF HEARING.

A number of gentlemen appeared before tho ways and means committee Tuesday morning to urge a high protective duty on raw silk. Oue thought aboutl,ooo percent, on the finished product would encourage silk culture. Chief Walker of the silk bureau thoughtsl per pouud on raw silk would make this country" produce all it needed. Then the sugar question was brought up and ex-Gov. Warmoth ol' Louisiana said that it made him tired to hear the protected interests of the North howling for a ‘“free breakfast table,’ which does not mean free pork to us, The effect of a bounty,” said Mr. Warmouth, “after a year’s experiment would be tho destruction of the sugar industry for the reason that the country can see that a bounty is a tariff, and if we are sing'ed out for the receipt of a bounty, a demand will arise for its tion that cannot be resisted.” Congressman Peters of Kansas wanted the sugar tariff kept up so Kansas could produce sorghum sugar. He was opposed to bounty for about the same reasons as a Gov. Warmoth. He said that there was feeling of unrest among the farmers of his State, which, if not allayed, might result in making Kansas, with its 82,000 Republi can majority, a Democratic State. He thought Kansas farmers would feel better if they could be assured of a retention of the duty ou cane. Prof. Wiley said the sorghum sugar experiment in Kansas had been highly successful. He thought Kan sas stood in its o wn light in not permitting the manufacture of alcohol, of which a good quality can be made from cane.