The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-10
CoNGREs SION AL.
DEFERRED DEBATE.
HousE OF RsPREsEsrAryEs, July /, 1876.
TIiE TARIFF.
NICK, addressing the COMMITTEE, said.

with view 10 discuss the subject before the COM
mittee the tariff, argumentatlyey. Such a task, at
this late hOur--only one day before we proceed TO
vote upon The subject--woud be boOtless. Besides
this, the task would tax my physical powers be-
yond their capacity TO pay. For more than week
| have been suffering under an attack OF Potomac
chill and fever; and il my endorsement Of the per
fiction of the article lie needful, am ready 10 GER
ty that here at Washington, on the Atlantic coast,
they raise taller specimen OF that staple than can
be made TO grow in the great valley IN which re-
side.
Mr. MILroN BRowE, Here is another will en-
dorse.
Mr. Wick. presume that, owing TO my feeble
health, | should not have obtruded myself upon the
attention of the committee, were II not that one
honorable member from the West, Mr.. TBBATTs,
Of Kentlcky,l in addressing the committee a few
days ago, made an advocacy Of that principle, falsely
called protection, and IN 50 doing, gave II 10 be UNI
derstood that such opinions prevailed, TO good
extent, among the western democracy, and that on
yesterday an honorable member from Ohio, Mr.
BRMKERHoFF,l speaking prolessedly as the organ
OF the democratic portion of the Ohio delegation,
pronounced las they say in MexlcO) against the
views of the great Of the democratic party on
this floor, in a short speech, very particularly adj
puneiB, and uttered with the characteristic energy
usually indicative of the badness Of the cause Of
speaker. Honesty and truth need no blusler.
SIR, in that part of the West in which live and move
and have my being, the doctrines here promuged by
the hon. member from Kentucky Mr.. TBBATrsl
have many warm and able advocates. But they
are not democrats. They are wings. With us
IN central Indiana, and | believe throughout the
State, our system of opinions the subject Of the
tariff is extremely simple. In one word with us
"ths tariff Is taxation" The honorable member
from Kentucky Mr.. TIaBArrsl recognises the
idea OF making the tariff anelllary TO manufactures
by extending the ratio Of taxation beyond the figure
necessary to produce revenue, thereby enabling GER
tain branches Of business TO be probably prosecu
ted, which without such legal protection las he calls
III would not exist.
Sir, this is the wing doctrine in my western range
The democracy Of my district, and, believe, of la
diana, call this taxing not for the purpose of reye-
nue., but 10 support monopoly which cannot stand
alone. They call taxing the many for the benefit
of The ew-legslatng for the benefit Of classes; and
when they are just little excited by political con-
Toversy, they will call it swndling according 10
law. And 30 il is.
And, sir, to-day, an honorable member from the
State Of Pennsylvania, (she must drop the proud
cognomen OF Commonwealth I'LL she abandons her
notion OF egislating to support interests and classes
and asks legislation alone for the common weal(- ~
mean Mr.. THoMPSoS-has come forward with his
announcement and extension Of this doctrine Of the
honorable member from Kentucky, Mr.. TIBBArTs
He has shown the fact, which all admit, that since
the operation Of the tariff of 1892 the prices of axes
and some other articles Of ironmongeTy have fallen.
or chief operating cause affecting the enhancement
or reduction of price. | have heard it, and been
compelled TO Keep on hearing It ever since 1928.
have heard honest, grave gentlemen expound the
tariff til one would fancy they imagined that the
sun, moon, and stars rise revolye and set in this
same tariff and that man, the puny creature, is ca
pabe OF modifying by his legislation the laws Of the
Most High. read, or heard, many years ago, that
Humhug was prince, and that he never lacked SUBJ
jects; and the truth of the saying has constantly
since been undergoing the illustration which fact
gives TO theory.
The honorable member mir. THoMPsosl says
that Indiana has nothing to protect He nufes
Hoosierdom by single sentence. The honorable
member Is IN error. The hard-handed poughmen
and axemen of Indiana do demand protection.
demand it in their name. | demand of the ltgisla-
tive power of the nation that they be protected
against any and all measure of taxation for the ben.
eh of classes. To support the government prudent
iy and economically administered, to carry on the
present, or any other Just war any Just and pro-
Il able national enterprise, and my democratic COL
leagues are ready to yield to any fair and equal
taxatsn. But TO drag the hard earnings from the
pockets OF our constituents to enable the lords of the
shuttle, the loom, the jenny, the furnace or the
foundry TO follow occupations which without such
exsctions must be thrftless. is asking what we are
not instructed to grant. Nor do we believe the
story that Pennsylvanians cannot make pig metal
and manufacture it into iron without fleeing us in
the way Of taxed poughshares, kettles, pots, mill
irons, &c We understand our Pennsylvania friends
about thus five will so arrange the tariff as that
we shall pay them such prices for ironmungery as
that a Pennsylvania can buy or build furnace ;,
and from the profits pay for it in two years. and in
five or ten years more make a fortune sell out and
retire from business, we suppose you would call il
about far. Well, 1t may be fair for you; but for
us 1t Is foul The manufacturers of cotton and
woollen goods have sucked our blood in past times
and now we are asked to submit to the infection till
me ironmonger shall fill his nav from veins.
II we submit TO ii, 1t will be with no good will.
In Indiana protection as it is falsely called has
Its advocates. Let me tell the honorable member
from Pennsylvania Mr.. THoMPsoNl how we man
age them We appoint political meetings as near
them as we can find place free for democratic
gathering. We take up the doctrines of these gen.
tlemen, and handle them without mittens answer
ing the sereotyped ad cap.anda which we know
they utter In the ears of the dweers in the vicinity
and expose the selhshness of their objects. They
get so angry at us, and abuse us so soundy (afisr
zee are gone generality that the people begin to see
how the land lies. They will threaten. They will
even turn off hands who talk of voting for demo-
Gratis The wolf, stripped of his lambskin, walks
forth IN his hairy hide, and all see his fiery eye
long worus and his felon leer. He throws off The
mask, ceases TO beat and bowls as his lupine na-
tnre dictates.
Let the talented democracy ofPennsylavania d ,
so likewise. The result would be the same. |
Sir, am native of Pennsylvania love her
people Her hills are the Joy Of my memory. She
has been faithful in many things. But she has
gone whorlng after false gods--gods not of silver
or gold, but of iron. Her democracy must redeem
itself from ldolatry, and divorce itself from an adul
ferrous connexion with the lords of the furnace
and the rolling mill, and look to the tiers OF the
soil for voices and votes, she will soon cease to
be the keystone Of the democratic arch. |
Mr.. Chairman, was sent here by my constitu-
ens to think great deal and speak little. wa,
instructed to complete the annexation of Texas, to
second the administration in making good our claim
10 oregon, and TO repeal the tariff Of l642 or modify
the same in accordance with principle. The first
object Is achieved, The "lone starr has been trans
TERED TERED to the American galaxy. Texas is State
Her voice is heard in this hail. as well as in that at
the other end of the Capitol.
Sir am not addicted to the melting mood. | |
am called phlegmatic Yet, when saw the dele |
gate from Texas, who first arrived in this hail. at the
clerks desk taking the oath to support the constitu-
ton of the Union, bowed my head upon my desk
ana wept my thankfuness to the p evidence
which watches over the destinies Of the individuals
ana communities of his rational CREATION and whose
workings, reference n Texnn pconIe have