Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
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ice of this new Allah and its prophet, for
him shall open the shining gates of heaven
of foreign missions and federal offices. Reed
said he did not purpose to defend protection.
Its vast growth within the last quarter of a
century defended it better even than elo-
quent orations. 1t was born with the repub-
lie. 1t was the faith and practice
f Of s,,n every yeES one eivi1 Rnss,a. nation 4Ss nraDa under Of
Europe, had abandoned free trade, with the
striking result that whereas, in 1875, before
the duties were raised, she bought 5000, 900
hundred weight of British metals and paid
tity in 1884 and paid only | 100000 for it.
Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico and the
Dominion of Canada, that child Of Britain
herself, had all Joined in the army of pro-
lection.
Continuing Mr.. Reed said: 'But if the
revenue reform orator on the monopoly side
is in trouble there is a theme on which he can
take up the notes of the dying swan. How
we do love to hear him on the impoverished
farmer. Then he is not sublime, but he is
years age. To me-lnnocent, untraveled-it
seemed as if the western farmer was the most
oe-begone, down-trodden, luckless, unsuc-
~cessful, dispirited devil on the face of the
his farm and thrown his fences down and
scattered his substance wantonly to
the winds. In the ~fullness of time
I travelled west myself. You may well i'm
agine my establishment, who had never seen
ten acres together in corn, to behold fields of
that great staple stretching away out to the
horizons edge, to see tracts of land which
seemed to have no boundaries but the visible
sky; land so rich, that if we had an acre of 1t
in Maine we could have sold 1t by the bushel,
while on every side were great brick houses,
such as only the squire lived in, in our
villages. After some days of this / became
sulky. / said, Gentlemen, Of course, we
have robbed you; your congressman would
- l. ,In,, sasHAr tic that Dat Yha Z
gusts me is that we did not do it more
J~horoughly.'n
In conclusion Mr.. Reed spoke eloquently
of the growth and prosperity of the country
under wise protective laws.
Mr.. Reed finished his speech at II 30 and
was greeted with a round Of applause and
made to receive hearty congratulations from
his party colleagues. AS Speaker Carlisle
rose to reply he was loudly cheered. Mr..
Carlisle began by replying to Mr.. Reeds
rstort that if protection was a sound doctrine
it should be carried 10 its logical conclusion
totally prohibItive duties. He went on TO
say that all taxation was evil and that the
endeavor should be made to make trade as
free as possible with the lowest tax that
would afford the necessary revenues.
Continuing Mr.. Carlisle said Mr.. Reed had
made no reference TO the actual situation,
which made it imperatively necessary to re
duce the revenue. On the LIST of this month
there was Sl36, 600, 900 in the treasury more
than was required to meet all government
liabilities. II was a sun larger than the
total expenditures during the first two years
of the country's life. II had been taken when
sorely needed by the people and without JUS
LITIGATION. The effect of this accumulation
was to encourage needless and extravagant
expenditures without constitutional warrant.
The people, almost TO a man, were demanding
its return TO them. So long as this policy
largess and bounty for purely private pur-
poses would be demanded.
Brief mention was nae by the speaker of
the public debt and the buying Of bonds by
the government whereby in one month the
secretary had paid IS, 536, 600 above the prin-
ciple and accrued interest IN 3d. 900, 600 in
bonds which he had purchased. The speaker
said this unjust process must go on indeti-
nitely unless congress came 10 the relief of
the co untrY and reduced taxation, Taxation,
he said, should be distributed among all of
the people according TO their ability to pay.
Until THAI was done he should always be en-
barrassed in efforts 10 increase or reduce
taxes. If the present measure should fail
and disaster come upon our industries by
reason OF over taxation, the present vicious
system would be responsible for II. MIR. Car
Isle spoke OF the increase of manufactures
during the so-called free trade perlodh be-
tween 1850 and 1860, and said the people
were in favor of legislation that would bring
1t about again. He went on To say that
trusts and hard times were the outgrowth OF
the high tariff system.
Continuing MIR. Carlisle said "In view of
the fact that internal revenue taxes remain
only on ~iuxuries, it is q fact that any further