Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-27
Cleveiand's Policy and the Mills Bill
Mean Free Trade.

Policy and the Mills Bill
Mean Free Trade
It is all hypocrisy and cant, for hypocrisy
and cant, like injustice and oppression, find
coDgenial shelter under this robber flag of
Protection. But, my friends, we are adj
vaneing rapidly In the XLVIIIth Congress
a tariff bill was introduced by the chair
man Of the Committee of WAYS and Means,
and on the 9Th day of May, 1854, after it had
been in Committee Of the Whole for awhile.
the enacting clause was stricken out. Cen
tlemen would not even wait for the perfect
ing of the bill under the iye-minute rule
but voted to strike out the enacting clause
Again, in the XLIXth Congress. they voted
against going into Committee Of the Whole
to even consider tariff bill. But row We
have not only got tariff bill under discus
sion, but there j. a fair prospect Of It's pass
ing the House. Moderate and conservative
as it il, ii will give some relief. II viii
pass. and when il comes 10 the final vote
every Democrat on this side of the House
will vote for it William II. Hatch, Dem
Missouri, House Debate, May IA.
Alarmed by the detection in their ranks
caused By the Mill. bill aud the subseryi-
eney Of the President 10 the British man
afacturers and importers, the Democratic
newspapers are making strong denial-
that the Democracy i now committed 10
Free Trade They might a. well have
denied in 1860 or lsGl that State Rights
and Secession meant rebellion and civil
war, a. the Democratic leaders and news
paper- of that time did. We're it not the
Republican majority in the Senate that no~
blocks the way. the government would
to-day be a. completely in the hands
of the Free Traders a. it was in the
hand- Of the Secession Democracy
during the last year OF Buchanan :
administration The Y. Y. Tribune justly
remarks that if the Democratic majority
in the lower House had not been reduced
in lssi. and if the senate had not re-
manned Republican, this progress in the
direction Of Free Trade would have been
more rapid. still, it has been steady
march, without a retrOgade movement.
rhe Morrison bills were defeated, because
Mr.. Randall WAS able to muster suifi-
cient force Of Democratic ProtectiOnlst'
to obstruct their progress. The party has
now been whipped in by the President tc
the support of the Mill bill. only three
Democrats venture to vote against free
wool, which Is the core of the measure
Mr. Chairman, W. have glorious epocf
opening aud dawning upon us We have :
campaign that is to be conducted for the
right and for the people by the great Demo
cratic party. That campaign will be con
Quoted upon the principles of tariff reduc
ton and Il vigorous fight against Protection
William II Martin, Dem, Texas, liOus,
Debate May sth
No sensible, candid reader of this plail
language of the Texas representative caI
misunderstood its meaning. 1t l. very
noticeable in all the congressional discus
sion on this subject that the southern
Democrats speak with more boldne-s an,
| II l. Just a. obvious now ~ before TIN
war that the South dictates the policy o
the Democratic party and knows now Il
/ we'll ~ then how to apply the party lash
/ Was it not our incorporate zeal for Ere
| Trade that lead 10 notification, and was it no
a. much To enjoy Free Trade as to protec
/ slavery that South Carolina seeded in 1850
~ Representative George d. Tillman, Dem.
| South Carolina