The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-04-25

InconnectiSn with the duty on coal and
iron the speaker said Ru, willie pro-
Tossing TO hare abandoned their purpose
% put coal aud ore on the free list lis
framers have ingeniously contrived TO
make the importation Of both free. Coal
is mineral substance and iron ore metal
in . crude state and rnwrought. II this
be SO. lines 80 and Isl Of the free list
embrace themas mineral substance in .
crude state and metals unwrought nnt
not specially enumerated and provided
for
After enumeFating the disastrous Effects
the bill would have upon the mining and
manufacturing industries Of the country,
Mr.. Kelly entered upon adiscussion ofthe
bill in is relation 10 the agricultural in
terests Of the nation, and said II offered
the farming interests Of the nation, and
said it offered the farming interests Of
the North and South as special o. jscts of
destruction, and gave extended extracts
from the Official reports Of the Depart
mens Of Agricultural showing how large
and diversified this indGstry Is and the
bansful effects the passage Of the bill
would have upon it. Those figures prov
Ell tlat the wheat and corn lands Of the
States are losing in fertility, FOR while
the acreage has increased forty per cent
during THAI period, the yield has only in
creased seven per cent. and farmers are
seeking new avenuesas adiuncts TO manu-
fictures to make their industry pr, fit.,ble-
This bill would destroy the iuIe auI
ramie plants now being started IN vari-
Gus sections Of the country, strikea with
ering blow at the sugar interest, all grades
Of which he reviewed at great length,
and seriously cripple every other branch
ofazricnlture.
Entering the matter Of the surplus. be
illustrated the manner in which the bill
under discussion would increase rather
than reduce the aneunt in the Treasury.
while driving American workmen out of
the lieid Of competition.
In summing up the matter of the sur-
Plus and how it should be reduced. the
speaker said
/ wouid SO legislate ON the question
of the surplus and the sources whence it
flows a. to increase the wealth, power
anu dignity Of the country by promoting
the Development Of the natural resources
and the diversi6cation Of is industries,
and thus diminish It's dependence upon
foreign impoFtations upon which duties
are collected. womb derive the ua-
tonal revenues from customs duties 50
adjusted to remunerative prices for COM
modities as to stimulate and defend home
productions, while preventing combina-
tions, trust and monopolies Of any kinds
from plunderiDg consumers BY demand
ing fictitious prices.
The politics Of this country coutin-
ned the speaker. ~are nOw domina-
ted By the whisky trus; as absolutely
as they we're by slavery before the
war, and King Alcohol IS proving that
he is as hostile to national development
a King Cotton ever was"
He then made review Of the si;ua-
ton in Kentucky. the richest State in
natural resources in the Union. where
the poverty Of the people + 50 great that
about one half the counties Of the State
are unable TO pay the expense Of local
and are known as pauper
counties, whose local expenses have 10
be paid by the State. and read copious
extracts from the Coa-ier-Jo,a,gl. show
ing the retrogFade movement made by
Kentucky since It had ceased 10 be q
manufacturing and mineral producing
commonwealth TO become a whisky man
uiaeturing center.
In conclusion the speaker said .'Thc
purity Of the government. the safety Of
business and the morals of the public
demand the abatement Of the surplus by
the repeal OF the internal taxes from
which it flows. And If, in addition to the
boarding Of what should be the current
money Of the realm Of the treasury Of
the United States. we maintain a system
Of sureties BY which from sereuiy-iive
millions to one hundred millions Of What
should be our current money should be
applied solely to the use Of the whisky
trust in lis war upon ouf national in
dusiries AMI our national independence.
p0steriiy, referring 10 the surpius and ~
demoraliziug influence, viii impute the
crime that perpetuate,i it AMI the conse-
guenees with which it IS fraught 10 the
Fiftieih Congress Of the United states Of
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