Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-06
SENATOR MORRILL,.


An Effective speech Before the Liberal
Union Club of Boston.
The October meeting of the Liberal
Union club of Boston, was held at Young's
hotel, i'll that city, last Saturday evening.
Senator Justin s. Morrill, of Vermont and
Hon William ID. Kelley, member of Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, were guests of
the club. and made the principal speeches
of the evening. Hon. Mr.. Kelley was
first called upon, and made n very able
speech on free raw material as an element
of the protective system. He was followed
by Senator Morrill,, who was greeted with
prolonged applause. Senator Morrill, said
Mr.. President and gentlemen Il came
here 10 listen to my old friend from Penn
sylvania of thirty years standing, and
after his instructive speech ! think that
you must all be full and running over. |
believe that Judge Kelley may be said to
| have the habit of keeping tariff speeches
constantly on tap [laughteri, while only
try to do so when am at Washington. |
understand, gentlemen, that there are
| here Republicans and Democrats, protec-
/ tive tariff men and free trade men, and in
the classic language of the newspapers.
! mugWunpS. Ii am to say anything at all
! to you tonight must speak my honest
sentiments. | have been long suspected of
/ being somewhat in favor of protective
tariff and of being pretty staunch Repub-
| lican, and while it has been my effort
L
ii it should run contrary to some of your
views 1t may be useful in creating little
/ effervesence in your stomaChS not to be
regretted. | ought, perhaps, to say that
feel almost as much love and admiration
for Massachusetts as one to the manor
born, for near here found my wife, and
she claims Massachusetts as the State
of her birth, and here from 1924 to 1880
! found the great tariff authority was
Daniel Webster, the authority not only
in Massachusetts, where his name ought
to be immortal, but throughout the coun-
try. 1t may have been my misfortune
that | have not had the later guides and
philosophers of some of your learned in
stltutiOns, but must frankly confess that
while | have some respect for standard
English literature, have none ut all for
the standard English political economy.
[Applause.[ Let me say that free
trade economy may be good enough for
Great Britain, for England, but it don't do
anywhere else. 1t won't do even for Ire
land and certainly not for America 1t
, may be that some of your learned profess
SOrS, who are sometimes politicians, are
> greater men than We're Webster and
Choate, or than are our Hoar and Dawes
( but, beg your pardon, up in Vermont
. we don't think so. LApplause.l They
, say, however, that we must have revenue
reform. chi bono? For whose benefit
u For they assert that if we should reduce
the tariff good deal lower, we might col
i lect the same amount OF revenue. Sup
i pose that that were to be admitted, 1t i.
;, evident then that we should have to i'm
j. ipnnrcband,.n and also ehonld have IN mr.
nisb n ,,,orl,et Tor n In,Ich lass a CORES
y poudingly less amount of American pro
: ductions. 1t strikes me that the states
J, manship that only seeks to create
u a market for foreign productions il
II tha ndvocates az thot nolicv bov,
Io,,itimata claim unon The RritiSb pariia
l. mani fo, their services fI,nughtrr m
d Io,roIio tho Ambitions tLa I'nwrancns
IS 10 7 ,,n,ne and thn DiI,oIowa hI, ,,lnntin,
II ,non,ifnctnras on tha starila soil of Mass,
t rhueettsNand thev wore the conteun0r
y o,,;aS Of ouch MON ~ V-ahetnr Snd Chp,t
t anJ Of honest Iohn Doyisnnd of IVinthrn
e md fms develoninr and multinlvin
y the empIoyments Of Your people, giyin,
l. a,.orv NAN Of voI1r state an nnnnrtnnitv +
d do his best. have secured lis CROWN if
If nroenaritv and its renutntion the yvorl
aver Withuut this policy the farms g
Mnssacbusetts today wouid not bring on,
half of their present valuation. 1t !
n througb this noticv that The rich anIov
5 ments of yonrcollepes have taken Mace
Of is nv his nolicv that have esfahIshe
10 hroadcnst vdur common srhonls WitboI,
) If one. half more thon one hoIf Of the nm
lie nits of your churches and the church or
1t mo belis would today be silent viii
IA this DOllrV State IlV WOIl
m not hnye 1nr.f9nTth of the present magni
y tnda Of IFS nonnintion And vet som
$ Of these men if thev could carry ont thri
Il nalirv if they comli he sucresSfni i'm m
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t. JTntEimI, bnt tr,y,1, in Tho etraatg m
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y IFS henelicence touches the foot as we'll n
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l. head IFS exnmnle the evamnle =
Massachusetts may be AS safely TO
,e loved in tho SoutI os in thn NnTtb i
M Vir1inia and Georria as in pennsylvani
80, and in Zew York in the States hey0nd IN
u Wississinni os we'll ~ in Jllinois and ON,
er In fnrt nur Grent whent tieliS of th
lie Wost nnIess fhev con tind 81 Trenr an
r stanGfost home ,n3rEet vii soon tnJ IN,
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II mor,nt j. - viii ~ Tho WIN me oni
m s,rrn nron. Of onr Wastnrn tyhaot and cnr
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