The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-16
SENATOR CONES SPEECH,

IS duction OF Clstom duties to
- stIictly revenue sta1dard. By facss'
figures Pnd ID putable logic
a the honorable gentleman showed
that the present ta:T is ulconstitr
tiona', unjust nd oppressive, ID should
: not be tolerated by a zee aud ell'gLi
elei people That the commerce of nc
country IL the world shorldered such 4
burden eld was SO hampered and
shacBled for the benefit of a favored
few as that of this country. That d
: ts,lf Tor revenue is necessary and con
, stitufionsI, eud that the protecic I that
Z follows IS merely an jnc dent, a1d that
the present 10 + ng9 adopted to meet
] the =. .geEcies of stupcIdous war,
aud .. ! never des led 70 be permanent.
In reply to MIR. Morrill, lie said
that, " 'le s,me protection may have
been nece=saI. :. to 'a2t days of the
repuh..c ahe POI. Is OF that period are
not app cable to the cor-.t.g at present
" til It's boz rd'ess Itsuu. ces. In reply
to Nj NJ. ", who lad attributed orr
prospe - to tie policy Of protec on, he
showed that o. the 5.947 ports
for the last + seal year. sac ),0l6 were
a. cl.turT' products raised by raImers
eld that those producers sutTer rom the
present t. Z 1lr. Coke said he lnew
no pc jtica pay in tbs county that
advocates e trade. that the dN sion IA
not between ? -ce trade ouj protection,
but between a ia 4 III ee Il lde as
an incident, and protective ia. Il with
revenue as an incident # our manu-
! factr ers, lie added, had been Injured to
/ the task of taking care of themselves,
/ the iucidentel protection afforded by
a revenue tariff would have been ali they
would have needed in the cris.s of 1873.
/ After explaining the p. .ee ade policy
of Great Brita' ,, he quoted statistics in
regard to the decline Of the carry ;ng
trade of the Ur ted States, and declared
that the farmers, who furnish almost
all our exports f-e y.ta1'y interested !
building upGAmei. .cpu shipping, and in
not beng tr~Aed over to the tender
mere IS Of foreign ship oW lers. He ex-
piaiued at iens, ,L iutenIa,-o -ona' trade,
and asserted that the Ame. can people,
by high tt Il taxation, are elfectually
excluded r~om its benefit He net
stated that Great b .s;1 is our be-
consumer of cottor bread str, etc,
having paid US L . for u, bales
Of cotton, wLi'e l,.y5.:Hi ba}es were
cons Imed il the United States, and
hence IS W close our ports agaiust her
meuu5acto.. .es, she stirar ates East India,
Brazl, Egypt and her other custom
ers to produce our products so
rs to exchange Y III her. In rep Vito Mr. |
MorrIll's assel ion that agricultuI ass are |
compensated for what they pay under
the tar by the home market created |
for their products, he coutended that the |
manufacturing states grow as much II /
value as they consume, and hence leave |
the purely AL icnltUral states out IN the |
cold. SpeaLi1g of the great number of |
rai roads built since i - he said that .
the cost of every m Of these was in
creased 33 per cent. by the operation of .
the present Il T. He declared that
If the south and west would take I
the advice Of Senator Mor..l and
60 to mG II actr ing, zee trade
VII follow because the present manu-
facturers would prefer to compete with
Europe, rather than have general home
competitors he said that southern peo-
pie ought to n: Iu'actr e their own
products, build mp ~ ther own locali-
ties population to consume ineir agri-
cultuTG products, and Thus establish
prosper -ty WI 'ch no competition under
free trade cG tFle from them The
speech of the senator throughout was
one of marked sire lctr. and was, as
Justly SAID by the co. respondent OF the
Rlc lmond, Va, Dispatch, the ablest
delivered on the tariff since the war
His appeal for the interests OF the
lrmers OF Texas should meet with
the ho .rty appreciation, and they
should encourage him in Tie work that
viii rebound to The good Of them and
.he r pos;erity. That our export trade
consists chiefly in the products Of agri-
cultural labor Is ttUe, and - ; equs ly
's true that the tara is Al incubus that
hey cary. The Morrii CONN sa.on bill
5 mply scheme TO delay action on
he Il = question j as such meets
With the hearty d'saYproyal and deter
Dined opposition Of the big-brained
statesman from Tez2:, and while ther
ire few interests probably in
looking to III. rev;s;on
# the t. Tihe picat mass Of tine ne,,Ia