The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-15
RICH AND RACZ.
AMUSING SPEECH EE REP
RESENTATIVE MCKENZIE
ON QUININE.

eSG6ruay, @uO IAc NcCok0 COHtoAAAAS
/ has been much inquired for today.
The protectionists and free traders
qually enjoyed it. After showing
rom the ruling rates that the price of
Iuinine was reduced by putting it on
he free list, and that the number of
has increased, he con-
,inued:
ask the honorable Chairman of the
on Ways and Means if, in
the literature of petitions that have
crowded his committee-room-that
audience chamber of sim
gle, solitary consumer of quinine, white
or black, male or female, including |
indians not taxed laughter], has ever |
asked that august body to restore one
cent of the duty on that drug? l
guarantee that there is not one, aud L
defy the gentleman from Pennsylva
mia to exhibit single instance where
any cry has ever come up for the re-
imposing of the tax on quinine, unless
it came from the jobber, manufacturer
or dealer in some form, who Is inter-
ested in keeping this tax on the people
In all this bad bill of one hundred
and forty pages, which is culumulative
in its wickedness and progressive in
its devilment, the proposition to re-
store the duty on quinine Is climaeter-
ic, and the ultima thule of its meanness.
TLaughter.] No bill has ever emanated
from that committee which compares
with this, either in its aggregated orr
segregated iniquity. Laughter and
applause. The ague-stricken people
of this country will call this Congress
accursed If the tax on this drug is re.
stored. They pronounced your party
unworthy of confidence last Novem-
ber. They demanded reform in our
tariff system, aud iI comes with ill
grace from you, after having been re-
pudiated at the polls, to reigstate tax
for which not single, solitary voter
in America has petitioned, except
those who have direct pecuniary in
terest in its imposition. You had as
we'll attempt to lay tax on air and
Gods sunlight, which 1 honestly be-
lieye you would Go if a single citizen
or firm in Philadelphia were engaged
in the manufacture of either. Laugh
ter.
L desire to ask this honorable Com
mittee on Ways and Means if they are
willing to go on recorS as champion
lag q bill which looks to the relieffrom
taxation of all proprietary medi-
cinee," preparations that have caused
more wry faces and more pained Wis
cera than all other preparations known
| to human ingenuity, in the matter OF
physical torturss and is still insisting
tupon the reimposition OF tax on Qui-
nine, which brings healing on its
wings' to every bed of sickness In the
land.
BY the way, I got a circular letter
this morning from Rosengarten d
Sous telling me of the outrageous in
| Justice being done to the industry they
are following. They threatened US In
1879 when the bill was passed taking
the tax off this truck, with the stop
page of their factory. But they are
running still, and two additional fac.
tories have started since the removal
Of the duty. Now, Mr.. Chairman the
ease before the House stands thus
Powers & Weightman against the sick
people of the United States: RossR-
Rarten & Sons against the fever hos
pitfalls. The majority of the Ways 4
Means Committee appear for the plain
tiff, and / desire, Mr.. Chairman, to
have my name entered as attorney for
the defense. Applause. realize
the numbers and ability arrayed
against nae, but, poor advocate as am
I feel that my cause is so just L can
plead it successfully before that great
iury to whom you last appealed, and
who brought in verdict of guilty
without the recommendation OF mercy
1ILaughter and applause. You may
| defeat this amendment here, you may
| fail to strike these two lines out of this
| Infamous bill but we will appeal it tC
| the American people, and l have nc
| sort of doubt as to the result. If you
re-enact this tax you lend yourselves
| to the spread of malarial fever, and
want every man, as he passes between
| the tellers here, who desires to pro-
mote the establishment of pest houses
and fever hospitals who wants to add
rack and pain to beds of sickness who
| wants to appear as the confederate OF
death, to record himself in favor of the
restoration of the duty on quinine.
| Laughter and applaus ;.
want to call the attention of the
| House to the fact that last year, as
members will possibly recollect, [ OBJ
jected to the delegation of the powers
of the Committee on Ways and Means
| to that association of middle aged and
highly unprejudiced specialists known
az the Tariff Commission. Laughter,
| did not then believe that the Tariff
Commission had any more ability to
revise our system of revenue. than had
the Committee on Ways and Means
But after reading the bill reported by
that committee, and comparing it with
the report of the Tariff Commission
and its recon lamentations, desire pub
licly to retract every utterance made
OH that occasion. Laughter.
Now, look at the free list OF this bill
it is full of goodness and wisdom ano
benevolence.
/ see here, thank God for it, that the
Committee on Ways and Means have
pat > blood" on the free list. Laugh
ter. Sir, if you were to levy d tax o
only one cent a gallon ou all the BLOOD
which you have extracted through tht
means of your Infamous tariff, from
the American people, you could pa!
the National debt N twenty months
and nav 9 large surplus in the FeGal
al Treasury. Considering the enor
nous amount you have heretofore ex
tracted. you need not levy any pro
hibitory duties OH it, nor need yo'
permit it to come In free. It is alread,
a drag in the market.
Then I find that the committee ha
put bone dust' on the free list. NJ,
God, gentlemen, you are manufactul
i. ing bone dust in pauper grave yard
whenever you propose to tax quinine
and you are making it very fast
Laughter You have put "musk
and "civit" on the free list. Now
when I come to contemplate this bill
!, looking at it in its altitude, and il
pulehatude its convexity and Its oil
, fiquity and it's ,iniquity, l feel lik
, exclaiming with old KING Lear, whe
contemplating the ingratitude of h
2 daughters. "Give me an ounce {
. ciyit, good apothecary, to sweeten m
imagination" [Laughter.] You hay
r exempted "ipeeac" from duty. All
7 gentlemen, you need not put that o
/. the free list to create nausea enoug
in the stomachs of the American PEI
pie to lead them to spew your part
out in 1884 [Laughter.l And yo
have put "lesches" on the free lis
# That, I suppose, is for the purpose
). exempting the protected g Raron'
and the Committee on Ways AZ
Means. Laughter. Then you hay
d put upon the free list an article calle
~ uDivi.di divi ~ and what that ia God A