The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-14
| 10 CLARION.
THE TARIFF.
Senator Germans Plain Talk to His
Brother Democrats.
,ngressional Record Feb. 15hI

questions, strictly within tho Democrat |
ic rule Of a tariff for revenue. There is
not Democrat on this floor who has not
voted for the highest possible protection
within the revenue standard for the in
terest of his State and tho lowest posi-
bic duty upon every article that his peo-
pie consume and do not either raise or
manufacture.
Mr. Harris beg tho Senator from
Maryland not TO mako hisasSertion quito
80 broad. ! understood him TO say that
there was not Democrat on this floor
who had not so voted. can assure him
that there are Democrats on this door
who have voted exactly alike in respect
to the interests of their own State as
they have in respect TO tho interests OF
every other. claim to be one OF that
character myself, and / refer to the
record
Mr. Mlxey. The Senator from Mary
lanl will allow me TO say that happen
10 be one who has not varied tho shadow
of hairs breadth in my vote in respect
TO the interest of wool, which Is imp0r-
tant in Texas, in favor Of that or any
other interest. have voted for regu-
lar revenue tariff, and didyote for prop
osition to reduce tho duty on wooden
goods and wool.
Mr. German. understand tho views
of the Senator from Texas as we'll as the
Senator from Tennessee; and ! believe
that il there be an exception, it is the
Senator from Tennessee. The location
of his State is such that there ia scarcely
any special interest in that State con-
nected with this tariff which affects his
people or the interests Of that State.
1t has an immense iron interest," but il is
safe because Of tho cost Of transportation
GU the foreign product from tho seaports
to his State. But there is scarcely q
Southern man here or q Democrat who
has not voted rs | have stated. All
voted to reduce the rates on cottQn.ticS.
Mr.. Maxey. ! deny that the vote
upon the cotton-tie was vote for reduc-
ton. II was a vote 70 leave it precisely
where the law now stands, as ii was con
strucd by the Supreme Court; and it is
not lowered one solitary farthing
Mr.. Morgan. We all voted against
putting il on the frce-list.
Mr.. German. You may vote against
placing it on the free-list but l state
the fact, and think the record will bear
me out, that there isscarcely an interest
in any State from Maine TO Texas, or
from Maryland to California, or any sec
ton where your States and your interests
were affected, but each Senator repre-
Eenting that State has voted for it. |
think 1t was right and proper to do 60.
| do not complain of it; ii is the Dom
ocratic doctrine--reycnue tariff with tho
natural incidental protection. That ii
all | contend for. When / ask you to
apply that Democratic rule to Mary
land, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
coal interests, why oppose 1t? Why do
you impeach our motives, deny TO us
that which you have secured for your
States2
Mr. Morgan. Will The Senator point
out any such vote that l have given
in this Senate?
Mr.. German. Yes, Mr.. President,
one of the best speeches the Senator
from Alabama has over made, one Of
the strongest appeals ever made in this
country in favor OF the poor women OF
the South, was his speech for protect
ing the women who were spinning the
web from tho cocoon. No stronger ap
peal has ever been made for protec
tion than was made in that speech.
Mr.. Morgan. The Senator will bear
me out in this that started my re
marks on that with the assertion which
no man has denied or can deny, that
silk can be grown as we'll in Michigan
or California, or New Jersey as it can
in Alabama.
Mr.. German, Tho policy exists all
the way through from Texas to Maine
You will find my friend from Texas
voting for duty upon cattle to proven,
them coming in from Mexico in compe,
tition with the cattle Of Texas. lie
would not put them upon tho frce-list
the very staff Of life. He would not put
on the free-list wheat, corn, or cattle
and my friend from Alabama would joir
HMM thatvot,. My distinguished frienC
from North Carolina, Mr.. Vance, who
has fought nearly every section Of this
bill and has become as near q free-tradel
as any gentleman l have ever listened
to, is in favor of taxing rice, and is in
favor OF keeping tax upon turpentine.
lie even himself proposed to take from
the free-list the wooden pipe the poor
man smokes and place 1t on the taxable
list
Mr.. Cameron, Of Wisconsin. And he
is also in favor Of putting a tax on pea
nuts. Laughter.l
Mr.. Vance. AS the Senator has re-
ferred to mo by name, / hopo no will
yield to me for moment.
Mr.. German. Certainly.
Mr.. Vance. He cannot put his fin.
ger upon a single solitary word in which
| have advocated protection on anything
produced in my State mot one word,
sir, nor any vote that have given,
have said not ono word about tho duty
on rice. The committee fixed that with
out consulting mo. There is no duty
upon anything else in my State except
peanuts and turpentinc that / know Of
and that wasfixCd by the committee, and
] said nothing about it. voted to re
duee the duty on cotton goods, and there
Is more cotton spun III North Carolina
than there Is in the State OF Maryland
! voted to reduce the duty on iron. and
there is more iron ore in my State Than
there is in Maryland. So on throurh
the whole list. say, sir, that tho SEN
ator cannot find one single solitary word
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