The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-19

denunclations OF the whisky ring, abuse or
tho Eouth, Identification of the revenue re-
formers with the Confederate army, or any
other OF the skillful arts which
those interested in the maintenance of this
system have heretofore so successfully used,
can prevent some action which viii be the
beginning of a system which is based on
the great principle that all tariff legislation
should be for the public good and not for
private interest: but l venture TO affirm
that the gallant Federal soldier who, urged
only by a sense Of duty, in a time Of CREST
peril risked his lite in retrieving the
disaster impending at Sgiloh, will
hardly be satisfied when he
asks for cheaper clothing and cheaper luIn-
Der, to be told that be had fought at Shiloh
10 settle the question that the Eastern man
ufscturer had right TO compel the West
greed demanded and that any effort to
cheaper the necessities of life by removing
therefrom the present exactions would be
held to be recognition Of the Confed rate
constitution aud the wisdom Of that seces-
sion. The day has passed, when, under the
old flag and in the name Of loyalty, the
sweat of the farmer and laborer, coined
into hard money, can be taken without con-
sderat on under the pretense of tariff pro-
lection to American labor"
THE TARIFF COMBINE.
ticipated effect Of the pending bill upon the
industries which have been most promi-
nently named in its discussion, Mr.. Breck-
inridge said Several times since this de-
bate commenced, the true argument against
this bill, the only really effective
appeal has been uttered. 1t may be
condensed into: United we stand, divided
we fall 1t is the argument of a combina-
ton, of a threat Each protected syndicate
n all M or in 10 oil
American trusts, the tariff combine;'
we must stand together, four-squared, like
infantry In battle resisting a charge, for
revision anywhere is defeat every where
So the sole duty any one will
give up is that on sugar, because
they believe surrender of the sugar duty
will take from the Treasury so many
millions of dollars, that thereby all other
duties may be saved. The promise to give
bounties is as purely lllusory as were the
offers made on the mount of temptation.
The boast has been made on this floor that
the chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means in the Forty -eighth and
Forty-ninth Congress-that gallant and
pure gentleman, brave of heart, clean of
life, loyal t. friend, frank to foe, with
conscience void of offense and a love for the
truth that nothing could daunt-has been
stricken down because he opposed this com
bine.' Greatly as / deplore his defeat and
as much as | miss his presence, it may be
that his defeat, compassed as it was, will
be of greater benefit than his presence.
His very absence arrests the attention
Of the republic, and all the people
ask are such elections necessary to the
maintenance Of this systeml Gentlemen
protectionistS, | warn you that the vacant
seat of Mr.. Morrison cries louder than the
virtues of Duncan against the deep damna-
ton of his taking off"
A BIT OF WORD PAINTING.
In conclusion be said: IF one, standing
here in this hall to-day, and looking into
the future, could be able 10 see what years
would bring us under a system where the
untramneled activities Of a free Christian
people find fT'uitiOn, under climate
so salubrious and with a soil so fertile, all
burdens to progress thrown aside, all the
passions of the past removed, and every one
engaged in generous and unselfish rivalry
to make for and out of the opportunities to
which he is called all that is possible, no
hand could paint and no orator picture
what would be the result Then
we, the children Of exiles and emf
grants, could welcome our kinsmen of
all lands to cast their lot with us, for willing
hands would find waiting work to Weld
a livelihood. The silence Of rivers now
broken only by an occasional boat would be
turned into the sweet hum of profitable
commerce. The secret lodges of anxious
and Disconnected operatives would become
open assemblies of happy and contented
families, from whose hearthstone the
shadow of want had given place
to the mild radiance of perma-
nent comfort The husbandman, no longer
sowing in tears, would yet reap in Joy
that joy fwhi& springs from content and
is founded on the certainty of an assured
market at remunerative prices. The legis-
lation of the country, having for its object
public good, and freed from the domination
of private greed, would successfully grapple
with the problems which progress will
represented by free Representatives, neither
owned, seduced, nor terrified by
organized interests iSlowly will this flu
ture come. We have had our backs to it;
to-day let us turn our faces to its rising sun
IL we can do no more, we can lift our eyes
toward this East of new hopes and resolve
that from this hour our steps shall be in
that direction"
ENTHUSIASM OVER MORRISON.
Mr.. Breckenridge's reference to Mr. Nor
rison was greeted with most tumultous lap
plause on the Democratic side, hands and
arms were wildly waved and books tossed
into tho air.
Turning toward Mr. Randall's seat. Mr..
Breckinridge expressed his high apprecia-
tion Of Mr. Randall's past services and to
his present ability, but added that it had
panied him to hear the gentleman close his
speech by a reference to slavery; it CON
trasted with the manly opening of the gen
tleman from Ohio (Mr. Mckinley, when he
put the past behind him and looked to the
present and future.
The applause which had been literally
interspersed throughout Mr.. Breckinridge's
speech grew into a storm when that gentle
man concluded and took his seat. Cheer
followed cheer, the ladies in the galleries
waving their nandkerchiefs and Mr.. Brock
inridge's colleagues rushed forward en-
Enthusiastically to grasp his hand.
The committee then rose, and the House
at 4:45 o'clock took a recess until 8 o'clock,
the evening session to be for the considera-
ton OF pension bills.
John Jarrett was in the gallery of the
House to-day, and so got the full effect Of
Mr.. Breckenridge's scathing attack upon
him, and the tin plate association which
provides him with means to deceive and
corrupt the voters. Nothing that MFR.
Breckenridge said was more vigorously
applauded than his eloquent tribute to Mr.
Morrison, coupled with his eloquent de-
nunciation of Mr.. Jarrett an d his hackers.
DILEMMA OF THE REPUBLICANS.