The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-16

duty On qainine and sails ~
qulnlne the largest mannfac.
.urer q { q country mad been Obliged
20 SCI q a his stock abroad and en-
ploy ne D German labor and chear
NV ma risl By putting a dnf35
nl z go on tin the United States
q ID ucc 'eded in establishing mann
'scGo. les but by the mispIscemen,
OF co n na it has been held that
only d ity of 1 1 100. has been inn
posed, the effect OF this had bean r.
strike down this industry. The
sayent Secretary of the Treasury had
held that the word "highest" in the
last tariff law meant lowest, and nm
account OF that ruling wire rod
makers were importing wire RODS
pretty we'll made from tie ofhan
eide OF the water. q
Hewitt New York; supge led Pc
publican and not Democratic tor; =,
had done that. -
Kelly replied-If 20 per cent ~
the Democrats in last Congress had
united with Republicans, the fo-i ;+%
on wire rods would have been nIonad
at such rate as to enable A rne,ioo
to manufacture them. ''10A
HeWitt-Would you have auozo,
US to fix things in the con ,eren0o
committee 0'00ce
Keliy-Yes sir; no Demooro,
would serve on that Committee GO" al
Carlisle who served quietly in go 80
to observe what was done O0r
Hewett-rhe whole performance
was a Republican perfo ;msnoe
Kelly-The conference hsd =
deal with material you sent rs Az ~
there Republicans in this Honso
who propose to reduce the dufv ON
wire rods 25 per cent i? Who voted
for 1t to day, Republicans or Demo-
Gratis? DON'T let us talk about what
occurred year ago. Let US 90
back only two hours. (Laughter.I
Kelly then repeated the assertion
he had made that production had
outrun consumption. Every re.
duction of wages diminished the
power Of the masses to consume.
and magnified the evil from which
the people Of the whole industriaJ
world are now suffering. The south
OF Russia is now engaging America
to erect elevators, to build factories,
Tor American agricultural machinery
and to aid in the construction of
railroads to seapOrts, and IL the
.armers Of America did not care for
heir Interests, and did not strive by
proper legislation to diversity their
agricultural products their markets
you'd be gone, and in
comparison with the prices thew
low received for wheat, they would
'eceive price little more than
nominal. He could sea but two
means by which the market couI0
De increased With a third means
slimmering in the future. stop all
Of cheap labor, send
back to whatever country they come
rom men or women who had
signed contracts in foreign lands or
N ship board to work for lower
wages than American labor. (Ap.
'lauSe). Let not American women
'ecome degraded protect American
against the degradstion
f becoming drudges; protect men
q glasswOrks, iron furnaces and
olling mills, if necessary by dec,ara
ng eight hours as the longest period
q twenty-four hours that men VI
machinery may run; he advocated
he production Of sorghum in the
vest, and especially ia the south
rest, as means of diversifYing the
sbor of American laborers, and en-
the sale of his productions.
ct the country be isolated. It was
nike any other. It was not
lOnarchy or an empire, it was
zee republic, every human being
elon2ing to which was a citizen
it'll rights OF 3 freeman, and with
duty before him helping to
aintain government which could
lily live as long as virtue
and independence chars
,terized its citizens, and this it
'uld not do if it v as to begin the
1holy race for the "cbeap and
ssty," under the teaching OF the
smal science. applause on Re-
lblican side.) He described the
lancial condition of the country;
ated the estimated surplus revenue
Ter expenditures, and dwelt on the
,cessity of reducing taxation; to
il in reducing taxation and reliev%
2 the people would be fragrant
sregard of duty. The pending bill
light not be all the reform, but it
as an advance toward promise of
ore complete tariff reform. Such
form OF the tariff was not believed
be allowable at the present ses-
IN. 1t would create no surprise
at in opinion the minority OF the
avs and means committee were not
harmonious to secure
cir approval. They found 10 1t no
crit because 1t proposed all duties
he. A horizontal reduction might
t be best, but none other is now