The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-30

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It, and that this bill should be considered
as to its effect on the people at large and
nat on particular classes But how has it
in fact been considered in this debate?
One eloquent gentleman after another has
told of the special needs of his district, and
has protested solemnly against some pro-
posed interference with the vested rights
of his constituents in the present tariff.
The upper part of the city of New York
is mainly residence district. The majority
of the people who live there live on fixed
incomes paid them as salaries or wages
every month, or by the proceeds of profes-
sional employment in which their incomes
are limited, Some of them are architects,
artists, clergymen, clerks in banks, insur-
ance and law offices, journalists, musicians,
lawyers, physicians, teachers, bookkeepers,
railroad employees, drivers, conductors, po-
licemen, frem en-, telegraph and telephone
operators, statesmen, mechanical engineers,
civil engineers, stenographers, printers, and
skilled mechanics of all sorts not employed
in industries which have protection under
the present tariff.
In that district lives, too, an army of des-
erving women who earn their living by un-
protected labor, and often that of others
dependent upon them. There is perhaps
necessity within the course of this
long debate that somebody should say
word for these people The farmer has
his eloquent advocate trained in the coun-
ty and State fairs, who is in arms to de-
fend every product of his ground. The
workmen in factories and the manufactur-
ers have their special advocates, who lie
awake at night to study their interests and
and whose voices have been heard here
every day since the beginning of this ses-
sion, asking for one measure or another
for their protection, Almost every class
has had its advocates here, except perhaps
the millionaires, whom nobody will own to
represent, and who have no friends in this
House.
Suppose, as examples of the class of
people to whom refer in the city of New
York, we take the policeman, who guards
our houses; the fireman, who will risk his
life for our children; the reporter and the
printer, who spend the night in preparing
our morning papers; the carrier, who brings
it through all kinds of weather, and the
locomotive engineer on the elevated rail
road, who takes us up and down town.
These classes of workmen have no direct
protection They are not overpaid, nor is
their life more luxurious than it ought to
be. The money which they draw at the
end of every month is not more than they
need, and they are often sorely pinched to
buy even the taxed doll to fill the taxed
Christmas stocking or to pay for the taxed
medicine necessary for any member of the
family.
Perhaps an impartial examination may
show that these people are as intelligent, as
patriotic, aud as deserving of consideration
in the matter now before the House as are
the Rhode Island mill operators or the
Kansas farmers Their wishes and views
may be even as important to the Republi-
can party. If you are to get any Repub-
lican votes in New York City you must
get them from these people. These classes
gave you under the wise management of
Arthur votes enough to keep down the
Democratic majority in the city so that a
Republican President was elected by the
vote of the State of New York, They
gave in my district Republican an cleo
ton to Congress, largely because his Dem
ooratic opponent refused to support any
measure of tariff reform, and voted against
the consideration of the Morrison bill
You can hardly afford to pass these
voters over in you desire to conciliate the
factory operatives and the farmers, unless,
indeed, you have decided to elect your
candidate without the vote of New York
State. | have had it explained to me
that this can easily be done, 1t is a favor
lite theory apparently Of the same gentle
men who have decided that the city work
ingmen who gave the most outspoken and
determined free-trader in this country, Mr.
Henry George, 5000 votes at an election
when we could only get 10000 for so good
a candidate as Theodore Roosevelt, are wild
with enthusiasm for the absolute mainten-
ance of the present tariff; and of those
other wise leaders Of the party whose de-
clared policy is to ALLEVIATE the German
voters who are still true to the Republican
party, in ordes to please the Prohibitionists,
who laugh at their concessions and have al
ways sought and always will seek the down.
fall of that party.
for one ana not Willing to accept such
theories OF acknowledge such leadership,
In the interest Of the Republican party,
aud in the interest Of common fairness, |
propose to ask gentlemen on this side of
the House to consider for moment how
the present tariff, which we have promised
to revise, now effects the people whom I
have described, and to consider what they
pay taxes on in the general distribution of
the customs taxes now in force.
They pay upon everything; Look for a
moment at what they cat, There is tariff
duty on beef, on pork, hams and bacon,
butter, lard, cheese, molasses, grapes, wheat
-four, oats corn meal. rye, barley, potatoes,
raisins, vinegar, honey, rice and rice meal,
sugar, extract of meat, pickles, currants,
apples, salt, and condensed milk. The
list is substantially an inventory Of the stock
of the grocery store at which they buy.
There is duty on the coal which warns
them, on their cooking and household
utensils, on their entire clothing from
their hats to their stockings, on the medi-
cines given them when they are sick, and
on the roofs over their heads What the pro-
fessioual men object to pay is shown by a
letter which | will ask to have printed as a
part of my remarks:
MEM YORK, Nay Is, 1883.
| To Hon. ASHnEL p. FITCHE, NJ c.:
| beg to address you as a member interested in
the revision of the tariff My plea Is in behalf OF in
struments used in scientific medicine. which is the
same saying that they contribute the exact in
formation of the profession at large and without
money profit to the possessor.
! can make you understand me by citi ng my own
case.
For six years have been pathologist to the New
York Founding Asylum. making post-mortem ex-
aminations for purposes of study upon the children
that die, and recording the findings in detail.
have contributed te the professional stock Of exact
records nearly 500 cases These are available for
all time to the profession for reference.
complete case for purposes Of study consists in a
carefully recorded clinical history with postHlorte
| findings and microscope examination OF the struct-
ural charges in the tissues of the organs,
Now, IL Is the expert work of the pathologist to
make the examinations both gross and microscopic,
of the rayages of disease and 1t is upon this kind OF
work that tmedicine 10 advance to the dignity Of
| exact science