The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-08-04

N G. R ESS.
SATURDAY, July 18, 1916.
IN SENATE.

were presented and appropriately confer
red:
BY Mr.. CAMERON: From the mi
ners and others of Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, asking that the duty OIL coal
may not be reduced.
Also, three several memorials from cit
izens Of the same county, asking that the
tariff may not be disturbed.
Also, the proceedings of meeting of
Democratic citizens of Pennsylvania, ex
pressing their opposition to the bill for
reducing the duties on imports, and re-
questing the Senators from that State to
use all honorable means to defeat its pas
sage.
In presenting the latter document, Mr..
Cameron said that the panic OF which
honorable Senators spoke the other day
had commenced, and was spreading into
every part of that Commonwealth. But
this was no Whig panic. 1t was DEM
ocratic panic. The county in which this
meeting was held is Democratic coun-
ty. 1t gives about $500 votes, and ma
iority to the Democratic party, in great
contests, of near 1900. Northampton
county, another decided Democratic coun-
ty, was here protesting against the pas
sage of the tariff bill. These people,
these Democrats, feared that its passage
would destroy their business, PROSTATE
the Democratic party, and beggar their
famiIies. Such fears might cause pam
ic with the honest and best. Good "old
Berks" is here also by representation
of her sons. That county is the strong
hold of Democracy. Of her 10000 votes,
she gives often Democratic majority of
1000. Her citizens are steady industr-
Gus people who are not easily excited
They are generally agrlculturists, who
are content with their peaceful employ
ment, and whose industry and frugality
have made them rich. No common dam
ger would alarm her; but, situated as she
is on the virge of the great coal field of
Pennsylvania, she has daily evidences Of
the comfort and happiness its mines dis
pense among the laborers and mechanics
of the country round about, and of the
wealth which it has sent among them in
exchange for the products Of their farms.
No one can charge them with aiding in a
"Whig panic" Their democracy is un-
doubted and beyond reproach. 1t is known
throughout the Union, and thrice has it
saved the Democratic party of the Union.
Her sons come here not to create panic,
but TO speak with Democrats in the Senate;
and in other high places, as Democrats
may speak to those whom by their votes
they have elevated. To tell them how
this new principle in legislation will affect
their interests, and TO get Democrats here
to pause before they ruin our great State,
and take from our laboring people, who
cannot come here, their employment, and
from their families their bread. Such a
panic as the passage of the bill will cre-
ate would, he repeated, be no "Whig pam
ic." He said that he had heard, in re-
cent discussion, remarks in favor of the
claims of Tennessee for money due her
citizens. The claims Of Massachu-
sets had also been spoken of,
and claims due Georgia and New Hamp-
shire had been urged, and some of them
paid. Pennsylvania he was proud to say,
had no claims upon the Treasury Of the
Union; she asked for no help from the
Treasury; she was willing to work for
her living, and asked only to be let alone;
to be left to the enjoyment of her own
rights and of her own industry. He de-
sired that the proceedings might be read,
so that the democratic members of that
body might hear what Democratic Penn
sylvania had to say upon this subject.
The following is the main purport of
the proceedings:
The annual message of President Polk
to Congress was read with chagrin and as
tonishment. 1t avowed doctrines in di-
rect opposition to those published in his
letter to Mr.. Kane. 1t counseIed a pol
icy which, if carried out by Congress,
would strike down home industry and
take away all protection from our domes-
tic products. Itwas still hoped, howev-
er, that the practical wisdom of Congress
would triumph over the untried theory of
the President; but the passage of Mr.. NJ
Kay's bill through the House of Repre-
sentatives has well nigh extinguished this
last hope: its faint ray rests upon the Sem
ate. To the Senate, then. in the exercise
of the right of democratic freemen, we SOL
emnly protest against the passage of this
iniquitous and destructive bill There
fore,
Resolved, That the tariff bill which
has recently passed through the House Of
Representatives Of Congress abalaQas the