Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-19

with other nations. What had this country
TO exchange but agricultural produce? The
mineral resources of the land were to be sur
rendered, and this was to be a country of
farmers and nothing else. The country un-
derstood that TO be the policy of the next ad-
mlnlstration, expecting that this issue Was to
be prerented to the people. The country
heard notes from Pittsburg of the failure of
the great iron industry. The news came
from New York of the insolvency of banking
institutions. He had no hesitation in declar-
ing that before this Congress adjourned, from
other manufacturing and business centres
would come announcements of distress and
sailure, all precIpitsted by the agitation that
was threatened the country on the part of the
next administration.
Referring to the pending treaties, he asked
his colleague (Dorsheimer) what the United
States would have to sell provided they were
were ratified. The United States had moth
ing to take to sell in the markets of South
America. unless it could compete with Eng
land, and to do so it must reduce the price
OF labor. Did his colleague propose to de-
grade labor down to that point that it could
not compete with foreign labor?
Mr.. Cox of New York contended that the
democratic party was misrepresented by his
colleague (Hiscock) when he said the incom-
ing administration was in favor of making
the country purely an agricultural country.
Mr.. Cox denied that the distress which
prevails was attributable to the democratic
success. The republican party is responsible
for that sort of hot bed growth which gave
the country surplus production, and said it
was the very man that did most to cook up
our last tariff (Mr. Oliver that was the first
to fall beneath the vicious legislation. Who
had authorized his colleague to speak for
Grover Cleveland? All the gentleman could
find out about the future policy of the DEM
ooratic party was written in its platform.
Mr. Reed of Maine wondered that the gen.
tleman from New York (Dorsheimer) did not
consider what would be the sole result of the
action which he advocated. 1t certainly
could not be possible that he was ignorant
that today the United States had the most
perfect access to all the markets of the world
The difficulty was that it could not sell goods
in the markets of the world because it could
not produce them as cheaply as other
nations. This was because the United States
for every dollar that competing nations paid
for labor, paid SLIGO. The United States
could only compete by taking the 60 cents
from the laboring man Did the gentleman
from New York dare to avow that that was
his purpose? In no other way could the
markets of the world be open to any greater
extent than they now were.
Mr.. Dorsheimer strongly controverted the
statement that manufacturing establishments
were closing their doors because of the appre-
tensions of the effects of democratic admin
istration. 1t was perfectly clear what the
reason of the present disasters was. 1t was
the result of republican administration, which
had iaken one hundred million dollars year
more than was necessary out of the pockets
of the people.
Mr.. Hi,cock asserted that the agitation
thrust upon the country by the House was the
sole cause Of the distress of the past wear,
and looking forward to democratic admins
tration there was nothing but financial disas-
ter in the future. He believed that the only
hope of this country for the next four years
was found in certain democrats on the other
side, who wonld be found still standing by
the industries of the nation.
The committee then rose and the bill was
passed.
Mr.. Willis of Kentucky reported the river
and harbor appropriation bill ordered print
ed and recommitted.
Adjourned