Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-29

applause.l You do not sit dow
and wait for the fatted calf. Yo
| put your feet on the best table and sa,
Pap, what we want is veal fGrea
/ laughter and applause But the people ar
getting tired Of that sort of thing, and mex
fall they are going to take the prodigal sol
| by the nape of bis neck and the seat of hi
| government and set him out among th
husks of a defeated Democracy laughter
and your great leader, your Moses, HI
Accidency, His One-termitiveness Grove
Cleveland, will be promoted TO the highes
office known to the world an American
citizen in private life. Applause
Mr. Chairman, this bill as it stands oUgb
not to pass. 1t is step backward Let m,
give you few samples of its consistency
Take the article of soap manufactured il
this country. They place that upon tht
tree-list. Thousands of men are employed
In the business here, and millions of capita
invested in small and large soap factories
There are eight or ten different chemical:
used in the manufacture of SOAP which
cannot be supplied here, which the soap
makers have to import and pay duty upon
The duties upon these chemicals are
not removed, and yet, SO far as the manu-.
facturers of soap are concerned, they are
the raw material. A man who mannfact
ures soap outside of this country paws nc
duty. If he shipped them to us in this
country he would have to pay duty, but
ii he manufactures them into some article
to compete with some American manufact-
ured article he can ship them in free.
" Consistency, thou art jewel" Take the
article of brushes. The manufacturers in
this country have to pay duty on the raw
material used. This bill proposes to re-
duce the duty and substantially puts
brushes upon the free list, and yet leaves
the American manufacturer to pay duty
upon the bristles-an invitation to the
brush factories of this country to move.
This bill is substantially the same in lutte
and flax and every part of it, so far as the
industries in my district are concerned. is
an invitation to those factories to go where
they can get labor and raw material cheaper
and import them free.
l have seen it charged that the Committee
OF Ways and Means have been running
around loose with representatives of the
English manufacturers.
l have seen it stated editorially, in re-
sponsible papers, that the agent of the
English manufacturers has wined and
dlned the majority end of our Ways and
Means COMMITTEES, and has in turn been
wined and dined by them, and that he has
had constant access to the committee One
paper offers to prove, if it is denied, that
this man is the agent OF the English manu-
facturers, and that he has materially as
sisted in forming the bill After that pub
lication l expected to hear it denied by
some member of the committee. l know
they had refused to hear American manu-
facturers on the bill in which they are so
deeply interested, and did not think the
committee would like to rest under the
imputation that they were allowing foreign
manufacturers privileges not allowed our
own citizens. That denial, so far as l can
learn, has not been made.
How far hat English influence has gone
do not know, but from some of the feat
ures l find in this bill | suspect an English
parentage. Renewed laughterl. And |
say to you gentlemen on that side Il repre-
sent district largely composed of working
people, that if one item of that bill is there
by the suggestion of representative of the
English manufacturers, the man who con-
sented to it is as mean and contemplate
traitor to the industrial interests of this
Government as his predecessors were
twenty-five years ago, when they tried to
destroy it. [Derisive laughter on the DEM
ocratic side.] 1t lacks what your fathers
had-the element of bravery. But the man
who refuses hearing to an American citi-
LCb, anu COloCillo W DC dOfloSu ny du LilR-
lish manufacturer in great measure of
public policy in this country, is a betrayer
of public trust, and is unfit to occupy a seat
in this House or in any other legislative
body, except it be the British Parliament
| am responsible for what l say, and, if my
language is not parliamentary, the gentle
man can make the most of it.
Why, Mr.. Chairman, if every man in the
State of New York was a millionaire this
country would be that much richer and
stronger for it. Illinois and Missouri
would be richer and stronger. There are
no State lines except upon the map and in
the heart of Democrat The wealth of
one State is the wealth of all, and when |
eat or drink or put on my coat or bay any
of the things that | have to buy, rather
than give one cent profit to any man in any
country but our own / would give one dol
lar profit to that man who stands with me
under the same flag, under the same gov
ernment, who is bound by the same laws,
who is bound to fight as | am for the de-
fense of the honor and integrity of our
common country.
am like the boy who hired his sister to
make his shirts. Some one said you
could have taken those shirts to the factory
and had them made and saved ST." Yes"
said the boy protectionist, "Sster Sally got
a pretty fair price. She always pays me
well for what do for her. That two dollar
hill is still under the same roof with me,
and if sickness or trouble or hard luck
comes to any of our family that money is
there in the house"
The free trade boy calls his sister a New
England tariff robber.
Every dollar of wealth in New England
is there 20 stand levy in times of peace or
war for our common good. But the aver
age Democratic orator holds her in no
closer bond than he does any foreign coun-
try. We are taunted daily by her growth
and wealth. She is great and strong.
thank God for it, for therein lies part of
the strength of our common country.
l hail not from New England, and can
speak without prejudice. The history of
our country has neither beginning nor end
with the history of New England left out.
Her great statesmen, soldiers and poets fill
the brightest pages of our history, and we
would prosper more if we spent less time
finding fault with her, and more time
in initiating her habits of industry and
frugslity.
The South finds fault because other Sec
tions of the country have taken advantage
of the tariff laws, while she has left her
natural resources undeveloped. And this
committee of Southern gentlemen seek by
this bill to protect every article of manu-
facture or agriculture produced in the
South, and if in the protection of the
South any Northern enterprise shall be ac-
cidentally protected we are welcome to it,
But the gentlemen say that am drawing
sectional lines. Mr.. Chairman, L am not.
draw attention only to the sectional lines
that they have already drawn. This bill
and every other bill coming from the ma
jority of the Ways and Means Committee
has been direct attempt on the part OF the
majority to protect the interests lying in
the South, regardless of the interests of the
North, the East, and the West; and when
go through my district and see laboring
men and manufacturers there and know
that under protection there is better prom
Use than even for the future, it grinds me to
know that their affairs and their business
are in the hands of such men. Laughter
and applause on the Republican side
am not drawing sectional lines; you
are drawing them. l am calling attention
to history.
This bill is standing manument to the
incapacity of the committee-a standing
menace to the best interests of this country.
And in conclusion, Mr.. Chairman, /
would say again, we believe that protection
protects the laboring man and | call upon
history to bear witness that every nation
under the sun has prospered Just in pro-
portion as they have reached down to the
struggling and laboring classes and lifted
them to higher and more dignified citi-
zenship. Applause on the Republican
side I