Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-24
BEWARE OF THE BRIT0N.
SENATOR FRYE ON BRITISH lNDoRsE-
MENT OF CLEvELANo'S MESSAGE.

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WASHINGTON CITY, Jan, "a "A large por-
ton of the session OF the senate Monday was
taken up By Frye in the delivery OF an ex-
tended speech on the tariff, the text thereof
being the motion TO refer the president
message to the finance committee. Frye said
the president had clearly thrown down the
gauntlet of free trade There was an at
tempt at disguise; bnt 80 feeble that 1t ought
not deceive any one. That message had
been received with unboundei joy in Great
| Britain, and why mott England had been
seeking the American market for years WI tll
persistency which never tagged, a courage
which never failed, faith never hopeless,
although for quarter Of a century she had
constantly been met by strong defeuces,
But now the president of the United States
declared that these defences were to be-
razed. The British press had at once pro-
ceeded to self-congratulatlons, anl to strip
| Off mercilessly the presidents disguise
These congratulations would have continued,
If a voice of warning had not been heard.
The warning was that such English express
sion Of opinion had to be curbed, or the full
| fruition OF English hopes never would be en-
joyed.
The whole history of Great Britain, Frye
said might be hunted from the beginning,
and there would not be found one single in
stance where England had ever permitted
the rights of any nJeion to impede or hinder
her magnificent career in commerce and in
manufactures England had never in one
single instance evinced any sympathy for the
United States, and she never had permitted
an opportunity to injure this country to pass
unimproved He declared that the counsel,
no al virn tho frianJSbir, pf t,rppt HritnIn tn
any nation in commercial matters had in.
variably and inevitably resulted ia injury to
the nation which had accepted 1t. Ireland
was an instance of that. Ia this connection
he quoted from a speech made by Thomas
Francis Meagher in Dublin, in 81 And
yet Great Britain hoped, and the Democratic
party expe ted, the Irish votes next fall for
Mr. Cleveland as the Democratic candidate
for the presidency
Gaze of the leading free trade speakers in
England had declared years ago that the
greatest triumph of Great Britain would be
the subjugatiou of the markets OF the United
States. In the promise OF the presidents
message they could see that subjugation nigh
at hand. G'eat Britain to-day haI her mar
kets open to the world, while other countries
had their markets partially closed to her.
She found now within her own borders the
fercest kind of competition, and her indus
tries were falling off. Her cotton manu-
factories were crippled. Germany and Bel
GUM were seiZlng her iron and steel indus
tries, and were already controlling one-half
of her foreign trade in that line. Her aErl-
cultural lands were decreasing in value, and
from one -turd to one-half of her agri-
cultural 'oborers were out Of employ
ment, while those who had employment
only earned from shilling to ono aud six
ppt hao ri ba
dent of the United States declare in his an
nual message that the tariff Che only Oh
stacle to English possession of the American
markeu was vicious, illogical, inequitable;
AMI what wonder that the English people
deafened American ears with their cries of
"Hear. hear" They saw him adopt as the
slogan of the Democratic party for the Presi-
dental battle of 1883 the old fundamental
doctrine of free trade, that duty is "A tax
paid by the consumer" What wonder that
they hailed Mr. Cleveland as their champion.
They saw him promise to open to them par
ticipation in the American market; and they
knew that participation would start their
halting looms and feed their hungry unem-
ployed men and women. What wonder that
the approval of the presidents message went
ringing over the world
-But the attitude of the Democratic party
Of this country was of more Importance,
practically, than that Of Great Britain
Would the Democratic party OF the United
States indurse their new cheff He was
strongly inclined to think that it would. He
knew that members of that party had been
masquerading for years as reformers, favorng
tariff for revenue only, with incidental pro-
lection" or a "tariR for revenue exclusive
ly," and that in manufacturing districts in
New Jersey and elsewhere they masque-
dad n lb,.
Democratic party of the country really shared
in the presidents convictions, and really be-
ieved that the tariff was vicious illogical,
and inequitable and that duty was a tax
paid by the consumer.
And why should not the party so thinkl
The controlling element of the Democratic
party had been always in the south; and the
southern wing of the Democratic party con-
trolled it to-day as powerfully and completely
as 1t did before the rebellion, when it com
PEELED the party into the chaI. bionshp of
slavery. There was not the slightest doubt
as TO the attitude of the south on this ques
ton. The distinguished speaker of the
house, in his devotion to the principles of
free trade, had dared, in the last congress- to
arrogate to himself almost despotic powers,
and to declare, from his high place, that he
would recognize no member of the house to
make any motion to cut down the surplus
unless it was first submitted to Democratic
caucus The Democratic secretary of the
treasury had also joined in the choral song
of the free traders, apparently
with all his heart. In fine, Frye
was satisfied that all the Dem
ocratic leaders agreed with the presi-
dent, except that they had not the presidents
boldness or honesty. If however, by cheat.
ing the people in the next election as to their
~, .
and obtain control of the United States sen.
ate, then the people might bid farewell to
every principle of protection. The Repuh-
licans, said Frye, took up the presidents
gauntlet of free trade with great pleasure
and Joined issue with the Democrats and de-
clared that, instead of the tariff being
vicious, illogical and negotiable, it increased
marvelously the prosperity Of this country, !
and that instead of duty being tax paid
by the consumer, no instance could be found
In which the duty had not decreased to the
consumer the cost of the article consumed.
As to the surplus, Frye said, it was Demo-
cratic incapacity which caused it; and now
the country had to look out to see that the
same Democratic incapacity, in administer
ing medicine, did not give poison and kill
the patient He was as much against the
surplus as the president was, but he was not
frightened at l. He would rather have a
surplus than a deficit If there was any hon
est purpose to get rid of the surplus it could |
be done without any difficulty. In the first
place, some of it ought to be expended wisely .
in coast defences, i'll increasing the navy, in
building up the merchant marine, and in ed
ucating the people as proposed by Blairs bill.
When Frye concluded his speech there was
"a great deal of applause from the spectators
n the well-filled galleries, and the senator
was congratulated by number of senator's
IN the floor.
THE CASE WENT AGAINST THOBE.
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