The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-06
WOODBURY., OF NEVADA
Bitterly DenOuAces the Mills
Bill Policy
AND PROTECTS PROTECTION.
He Explains What the Golden Club
Is-li;ade Against Free
Traie-Etc.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The House
went into committee of t lie whole OIL
the tariff bill.
Bland, of Missouri, bitterly opposed
the protective system. He denied thai
it was the cause of the progress of the
country, and inveighed against pools
and trusts, which he denounced asevils
directly traceable to the hign tariff.
Woodburn. of Nevada, controverted
the claims of the Democrats that their
party was the friend of the laboring
man, and cited the fact that the Demo
Gratis had ineugurated their entry into
power by cutting down the
salaries of government employees +;
that their Secretary of the
Treasury had reduced the pay of
labo 'ers at the San Francisco custom
house, and that their Secretary of the
Navy had seen Mt to pare down the
wages of the hired carriers at the Mare
Island navy yard. He proceeded to
make a speech bitterly deaunciatory of
the policy which, he said. was outlined
by the Mills bill, of surrendering the
American markets and American labor
bO NAO AACS VI dOO4o vi N4Oob DAASoAAs
Turning his attention to the Golden
club, Woodburn said it was an associa-
ton of British manufacturers, for the
Rvowed purpose of destroying the pro-
tective tariff Saystem of America
and to facilitate the sale of
British goods in the American
markets 1t had established agencies
in New York and Chicago, for the dis
tribution of British free-trade docu-
ments in the political canVasses of this
country. On the roll of membership
appeared the names OF dukes and earls,
marquises and lords, peers and counts
and princes. He held In his hand a
list of tie numbers of the Golden Club.
on Janu Try 1st, 1888, and on tie back
of the b )ok of record was the motto of
the club: Free Trade; good will
amoog nations" and God save the
Qusen." He proce 5ded TO read the list
OF members, and caused much amuse-
ment by ssndWiching the names of the
untitled American members between
those of the earls and dukes. The es-
seutial qualifications of membership
was, he said, that the applicant for ad-
mission should be either a manu-
facturer or a nobleman. On the
list of members be found
the names of Senators Beck
and Vance. William Endicott, Jr., of
Boston, cabinet officer of this repub-
lie. was admitted in 1877. This ought
to create 10 surprise, for if common
rumor reported him Alright, he per
mitted no visi tor to escape without
iniictlng on him an essay on the an
tieuity of his Anglo-Saxon ancestry
and the ayistocratic color of his puri-
tanical bloc /. Thomas f. Bayard was
on the roll OF Am arican noblemen re-
Gently. When Chamberlain, in a
speech IN England mentioned the
name of Bayard the cheers of the null
titude drowned the voice of the orator.
From his (Baysrd's) acts and utter
anoes, stranger, unacquainted with
our forms of government would be
justified in concluding that he was
acting in the dual capacity of Ameri-
can Secretary OF State and British
envoy extraordinary. William r.
club. Was it wonder that
he was continually tinkering at tariff
revision in the interest of Great Britain,
that resulted always in stagnation of
bushes that engendered strikes, begat
violence and deprived him of his seat in
COngressP Last, but not least, on q
Cob len Club roll of member5h was
that able and i'm partial parliamentariau,
who possess d apI almost God-like power
Of shaping the legislation of this
country, stne pres mt Speaker of this
this House-John Griffin Car
isle who was a comparatively
young member, having been elected in
1888. These were q few of the names
Oh the members who had combined to
conquer and subdae American energy
aud enterprise. They shone out on the
British Golden Club list like apples of
gold in pictures OF silver.
Bynum inquired whether Garfield had
not been q member of the club.
Woodbu-n replied in the negative.
friend of Senator Sherman, a memt
OF it,?
Woodburn (holding up the Ist)-
There is not a Republican to-day in
public life on the roll of membership of
the Cooden Club. (Appla1se
Bynum denied that the list was a
true one.
Woodtu replied that it was a true
list, the last one published.
Bynum-Then those names have been
removed.
Farquahar, of New York-By what
authorit you make that statement2
Bynum- HaIstead is a member, be-
cause l have it from "a me- nber OF the
club.
Woodburn-Here is the record. Con-
tinuing, Woodburn said it was strange
that the roll of American noblemen did
not contain the name of the Demo-
cratic Secretary OF the Treasury. who,
by a stroke of his pen, had permitted
the Canadian Railway to be subsidized
by foreign government, to the extent
of $500, 600 600, to carry freight and pas
sengers across American territory, and
to compete with American lines thereby
Gripping their ability to pay their
debts to the government. He was
agreeably disappointed at not finding
among the names OF the American
noblemen the distinguished gentleman
from New York-Hon. Tin Campbell.
That gentleman had once been a zeal
Gus protectioDist, and, in trying mo-
ments, when the morrison bill came up
for consideration had voted tWica