The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-08-02

The next largest item on the free list was
tin plate, from which a duty Of &. 700 600
was received. Not pound OF this tin
plate was made in the United States
The industry did not give man employ
mcnt i'm this country. and the placing OF
the article on the free list would not take
dollar from any manufacturing establish.
ment. Tin plate could be found In the
home OF every poor man. and the commit
tee proposed To remove the duty and put
5000 90 back into the pockets Of the poor
people Of the country. II that was free
trade make the most OF il. The next item
was salt. Salt had first been put on the
free list by Thomas jefferson. God had
made salt for man and beast and it ought
not TO be taxed. But because few people
were interested in the salt monopoly the
committee was branded before the people
Of the United States as being free traders
because they wanted to give back TO the
people this bounty on an article which God
had prepared for them.
The duty on cotton ties. which wcre
placed on the free list, amounted to $751;
OO0 II was charged that the bill was sec
tional because it placed cotton ties on the
free list Did gentlemen from the North
west ever think that when they abolished
this sl2l, 900 they enabled the poor people
Of the South to buy more Of their horses,
their bacon and their flour just in pro-
portion as the people Of the Northwest
oyertaxcd their countrymen Of the South
they crippled their own capacity to sell.
In placing Zante currants. which grew III
but one spot in the whole world. on the free
list, the Democrats were charged with be-
ing free traders Gentlemen on the other
side said You must tax the people on their
Of labor, and il you want any thing free
take il drink of free whisky. Laughter
and applause He discussed and defend
cd the repeal of the duty on lumber. 1t
was time that the poor people should BIO
considered in the reduction of taxation.
The taxes had been removed from incomes,
from manufactures, from railroads, from
telephone and telegraph companies. and
from express companies, and now the
Democratic party came upon the stand and
said it intended to help the man in the To-,
house on the prairie and give him free fum-
Der. The duty on burlaps was s9a9,00O
Every yard was made abroad and the duty
brought money into the country which was
not needed II was better that the PEOPLE
who used burlaps should have the money.
The Government did not need 1t. 1t was
iniuring the prosperity Of the country and
the Democrats proposed to place burlaps
on the free list. For doing this they were
charged with being free traders. No re-
duction of the tariff commended itself TO
the Judgment Of those who made the
charge unless it was coupled with free
whisky. Applause and laughter.
Hemp and jute has been placed on the
free list to the amount of 81, 10000. Gen
tlemcn on the other side said that this
would ruin the flax and hemp industry OF
this country. For years an attempt had
been made to establish that industry here,
but Notwithstanding all the milk that was
given this babe it refused TO prosper. The
hemp business was dying. Itsoon must dis
appear and therefore hemp must be placed
on the free list The duty on opium, which
amounted to s46s,0oO, had been removed.
Not an ounce of it was grown in the United
States, but gentlemen on the other side
did not want opium touched. 1t was the
tax on whisky they wanted reduced and
not on opium. No industry would be hurt
because cheap medicine was given to the
suffering and dying.
Ostrich feathers have been placed on tho
free list. Ostrichcs were not found on the
Western prairie or in the Northern for
ests, but our beautiful females wanted os-
trich feathers. and they would want some
when Grover Cleveland was inaugurated
March next Laughter and applause.
Return ng to the wooden schedule Mr..
Mills said that the bill proposed to reduce
the duties on WOODEN goods by taking tax
alton off the wool that was not raised by
skilled labor and scarcely by any labor at
all. ii grew en- tho sheep The sheep pro-
daced it. He had hearl much sympathy
expressed for the sheep. The Democratic
party's sympathy was for men not sheep.
Applause II proposed to bring down
the price of wooden clothing so that the
poor people could get it to wear in winter.
The people oday were compelled TO wear
carpet instead Of clothing wool and now
the wool growers and wool manufacturers
came to an agreement that the duty should
he SO high that no wool and no wooden
goods should be brought in He supposed
that the people could afford to go naked,
but for him and his party he would say:
"Wcar good clothes and vote the Demo-
cratic ticket" WOOL had been put upon
the free LIST not only to cheaper the cloth
ing. but in order that our workmen might
have the making of the Si4.HN, 600 worth of
wooden goods that were imported into this
country Ii was proposed TO let all tho
wool the people required come in free and
let our own people make the wooden goods.
This would increase the demand for labor,
and IN thus increasing demand for labor ill.,
crease the rate of wages.
The gre I central truth in this bill WAS
that il was bill to benefit the condition
aud increase the wages of the laboring pco-
pie. We were the greatest manufacturing
people in the world, the most skilled peo-
pie. the most intelligent. and sE,artest, and
best-looking people in the world liaughterl
and all we wanted was for our Govern
ment to take its meddling hand out of our
business. All the people wanted was to
have the Government tell them how much
II needed for its support and then let their
business alone. Let the people have fres
raw material in order that they might re-
duce the cost of the product, for tho
cost of the product was to deter mir o
the standing of the market Ii tho
people Of the United States could Iro-
dnce "a roduct cheaper than any otner
people they would capture the markets..
The manufacturers of this country saould
have the raw material free and titus
be placed on the same basis rs manu-
facturer, Of other countries. Tho Ameri-
can manufacturer should have free field
and open fight The Democrats were 60
ing to give it to him without trying to fry
the lat out OF any Douy. lney ala not pro-
pose TO dcbauch the American people in
order to buy their judgment at the polls.
They appealed to the intelligence of the
people. They intended to 20 before tho
couStry and appeal to the judgment, and
intelligence, and virtue of the people, and
they would appeal in the confident reliance
that the people would speak as they had
always spoken for the welfare and pros
uneIty of the country
Abiding 10 attempts to defeat his re-
election he stated that money was being
brought into the Ninth Congressional dis
trict of Texas for the purpose of accom-
plishing that object, bat he wanted to say
once for all that the people of that district
were not for sale.
He wanted to refer to that celebrated
suit of clothes When he opened the de-
bate April II he made the statement that il
a suit of clothes could be bought for i've
days. labor. and the tariff on that suit was
100 per cent, it would increase the cost OF
the clothes to ten days labor. The gentle
man from Ohio tMckinley) had produced
a suit of clothes and said: Here is suit