The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20

father was 8 Keptuckiaa who neVe
gave u'terance to the miserable dscel
that the gentleman had put into hi
mouth. He would say to the venerable
gentleman that he forgave him for bid
ing behind the grave If his dead fatilel
to wound living son. (Great applause
on the Democratic sjde.)
Baker said the Kentucky mountain
had lsbored vsrV hard and brought
forth mouse. While the gentleman
was looking after the purity of the
ballot, he should be more EXERCISED
about that considerable region Of
country, where it was generally under
stood that the immense masses of the
American people were suppressed. Gre
publican appIauss.)
Mr.. Reed then proceeded to address
the House. He began with a general
discussion of the principles Of free trade
and protection, and said, refer ing to
the Presidents tariff message, tina: ;nci
dental protection was q sham, that
tariff for revenue only went down be-
fore the same arguments which were
used against protection. incidental pro =
lection was most inexcusable. 1t was
an incident which ought to be avoided,
like railway accidents. The Presi-
dent" be said, was the leader of the
democracy. He was also the dispenser
of the patronage, and as he was rapidly
shaking the dust of civil service reform
off his feet, be was assuming
control over his party. There was enc
free trade and the President was It's
prophet. Whoever fell III battle IN the
service of this new Allah and its prophet,
for him shall open the shining gates OF
the heaven of foreign missions and
Federal Offices" Reed said he did not
purpose to defend protection Its vast
growth within the last quarter of cen
fury defended it better even than elo-
quent orations. 1t was borI with the
Republicans. Il was the faith and
rrsciice Of every civilized nation under
the sun save one. Russia, the granary
of Europe, had abandoned free trade
with the striking result that, whereas,
in 1876, before the duties We're ra sed, ,
she bought 600 600 hundred weight of
British metals and paid therefor $3O.-
100000. She got the same quantity in
1884 and paid only SIT 900, 600
for it. Austria, Germany, Italy,
Mexico and thu Dominion of Canada,
that child of Britain herself, had all
joined in the array of protection. Con-
tnuing. Rsed said, "but if the revenue
reform orator on the monopoly is ter
rlble, there is a theme on which he
can take up the notes of the dying
swan. How we do love to hear him GU
the impoverished farmer. Then he is
not sublime, but he Is pathetic, great.
heard him first ten years ago. To
me, innocent and untraveled, it seemed
a. If the western farmer was the most
woebegone, downtrodden devil on the
face of the earth. The eastern vampire
had mortgaged his farm and thrown his
fences down and scattered his sub
stance to the four winds. In the
ful!ness of time, [ travelled west my
self. You may well imagine my
vino bad never seen
ten acres together in corn, to behold
fields of that great stIple stretching
away TO the horizons edge; to see
tracts of land which seemed 10 have no
boundaries visible, save the sky; land
so rich that if we had one acre of it in
Maine We could sell it by the bushel,
while on every side were great brick
houses, snchIas only the squires lived in
in cur villages. After some days Of
this, | became su)ky. l said, gentle
men, of course We have robbed you,
your Congressman would not lie about
trifles like that, but what disgusts me
is that We did not do it more thorough
ly." In conclusion. Reed spoke elo-
quently OF the growth and prosperity
of the country under the wise protective
laws.
REED finished at /. Is, and was greeted
with enthusiastic applause, in which
the audience IL the galleries loudly
Joined.
AS Speaker Carlisle rose to reply, a
storm of enthusiasm broke out. and it
was some moment before he could pro-
coed.
Carlisle began by replying to Reeds
charge of insincerity. He said that he
might retort that if protection was
sound doctrine, it should be carried to
its logical conclusion to totally pro-
hIbitive duties. In China, the doctrine
carried out produced its logical effects.
With every resource of national
wealth and a frugal, industrious
people, the arts and manufactures
were In their infancy. We want no
China here. ALI taxation was an evil
and we should endeaVor 10 make trade
as free IS possible with the lowest tax
that would afford the necessary reve-
nues. Reed had made no reference to
the actual situation which made it i'm
peratively necessary to reduce the
revenue. On the 1st of this month
there was $l36 100000 in the treasury
more than was required to meet all the
government liabilities. No monarchial
20 7ernmenG would dare extort such a
sum in excess of its needs. The effect
of this accumulation was to encourage
useless and extravagant expenditures,
without constitutional warrant. The
people. almost to man, were demand
ing its return to them. We still have a
large public debt outstanding, but it is
not sound policy to continue to raise
revenue to buy bonds at premium.
In one month the secretary had pur-
chased $13, 900 600 of bonds, for which
he had paid So 536 900 above the prin-
cipal and accrued interest. This unjust
process must go on, indefinitely, I'M
less Congress comes to its reilef and
reduces the taxation. He did not
mean that every interest should be
considered in a friendly spirit, but he
insisted that the interests of the many
should not be subordinsted to the in
terests of the few. lApplause). Taxa
ton should be distributed among the
people according totheir ability to pay.
Until that was done. we should always