Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-05-07
Washington Letter.
r[From our Regular Correspondent.]

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WASHINGTON, May, 3rd, 1884.
On Tuesday hen the eloouent OHIO
Member, Hon. Frank Hurd, was maxi
ing his Tariff speech, that has been
called the event Of the session, the adj
voca,es of protection felt that their
cause was receiving telling blows,
while The friends of the Morrison bill
thought their hour Of victory bad
dawned. The echoes OF this speech
will be heard all through the pending
campaign and it will take permanent
place in tariff literature. In the lam
puage of an enthusiastic free trader
Passages from it will be acclaimed BY
the school boys Of generations thai
will enjoy tie blessings of free trade"
The orator Was preceded by Representa-
tive Hiscock, who made long pro-
lection speech, dealing mainly with
statistics, and exciting but little inter-
est. Mr.. Hurd had not spoken two
minutes before be bad the undivided
attention of every person on the floor,
and in the galleries, which he held IN
Ill the close. His auditors yielded to
the influence Of power based chiefly on
the orators sincere belief in the right
eousness of the doctrines that he
preached. In his own language be
spoke in the interests Of the toiling
poor, pleading the cause Of wage
workers of the United States. He
held that the Tariff ls ultimately paid
By the consumer and that the Govern
N ent allows isdividuals 10 exercise the
taxing power. If a nan could make
better contract with a Freedman, a
Mexican, Canadian, or an Eoglish-
nan than With an American he had
right to do 1t. When a man earned In
one day dollar. 1t expressed all that
day 10 him. 1t represented bis hopes
mis- fears, his toll and his anxieties.-
With that dollar he went 10 purchase
what he wanted from a Frenchman,
but the Governme MT STEPPED ia and said,
You mnst buy from an American.
He went to the American who said, II
charge two dollars for that article"
SO the man must 60 back 10 his toll
aud another day must go out Of his
life 10 get that additional dollar. By
the power of law, said Mr.. Hurd, the
man 10 compelled 10 work one day
against bis will for the American manu-.
facturrrs.
Monday of this week was a DAY
set apart for Compress 10 con-
to consider demands in behalf OF
the Nations ward-the District of
Columbia. A free bridge was asked
for across the Potomac aud a half mill
lion dollars TO perfect the sewerage
system OF Washington was also requeso
ted. After protracttd filibustering op.
position by several Members, the
sewerage bill was on the point Of pass
age, when the action was defeated by
the objection that no qdorum was
~ esent. la relation 10 this bill. Repre-.
sentative Bland said, when a liberal APP
preparation vas wanted, Members we're
10 the habit Of referring to the idle sur
plus revenue 10 the Treasury, aud in-
sisling that II ought 10 be let out for
the use OF the people. This he pro
nouuced dishonest and debauching
No Government had A
surplus revenue that had over one and
a half billion dollars OF Indebtedness TO
meet more than It's revenue. When
the two hundred millio MS due TO day
on the public debt wss paid there would
be DO surplus left for anybody. There