Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-28
Fiftieth Congress..First Session.
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WAbH1HGTOhs AUTH Sts HoUG.-The House went into committed on the tariff bill. MT. Brown, of Michigan, advocated the protective system as one which tended to increase the wages of labor, and in support of his proposition he cited various statistics prepared by Commissioner Wright to show that the rates of wages in this country largely exceeded those of the workingmen of England. He wanted to see that system continued which had made this land grow and prosper beyond all others. Protection had built up varied industries and had enabled the United States to retain the balance of trade in her favor.
 MT. Ford, of Michigan, spoke in support of the bill.
 MT. Golf, of West Virginia, spoke in oppo- proteetionist. He believed in the system of high protective tariff. He was in favor of legislating for the benefit of his country, her industries and institutions, first, last and all the time. He believed in the old biblical saying: He that provideth not for his own household is worse than an infdel." :" He thought that the first Congress was right in inaugurating the tariff, that the fftieth Congress was wrong in seeking to destroy it. George Washington, the first president, was grandly right whea he suggested and ap- proved the first tariff provision. Grover Cleveland (whom he hoped would be our last free trade president) was shamefully wrong WAGA uo 5u&&0St6Q ALQ H69O LQ6 pOW6I OI his great office to secure the destruction of the protective system. The people had been deceived in the last presidential campaign by the declaration that Cleveland was pro- tectionist. The hand of Esau would be offered again, but the people would not again be deceived. The people had at last found out the once said: "A political party may fool part of the people all the time and all the people part of the time, but no. political party can fool all the people all the time.". In eulogiz- ing the protective system MT. Golf said that he did not want to tear down the walls of protection. He would rather build them up. He did not want to open our ports to the poorly paid labor of the world, but he did want to open our manufacturing establish ments to all of our own labor. He was op- posed 10 importing under contract the pauper and demoral1zed labor of the old world, and he was opposed to importing under like con- tract the manufactured products of that labor. He would not increase the surplus by reducing import duties, he would rather re- duce it by repeating internal revenue taxes and increasing import duties. He did not be- lieve. in free raw material. There was no such thing as raw material in the sense in which it was used in this connection. Coal unmined was raw material, but when it was mined it was the miners finished product
 
 a raw material, but the result of the labor of the miner. It was as much entitled to pros lection as the rice fields of the South and the sugar plantations of the Mississippi valley. Wool clipped from the sheep was not raw material; it was the farmers labor and the farmers had made up their minds that it had to be protected. The duty of 1867 should be restored. and an industry so essential to our prosperity as people and our independence as a na- tion should be stimulated. In conclusion he said the protection system had enabled the government to perfect system of finance which was the marvel of the age. It had fostered our industries, built up our manufac lures and opened our wildernesses. It had digni6ed our labor and educated our people It has made our valleys to laugh in gladness. It had caused the waters of commercial pros perity to pour all over the land. It had made the flag of the country typify all that was grand in humanity and Gcd only knows what it would not do for our land if the Democratic party would let it alone. (Ap- plause(
 MT. Landes, of Illinois, argued in support of the bill and in opposition to the protective theory. While heartily advocating the bill he regretted that it touched the whiskey and tobacco taxes, which instead of being reduced should be, he thought, increased. He hoped that the bill would pass and that every mem Der who voted against it for the purpose of continuing the granting of enormous bounties to manufacturers would meet with political death and would be buried under the ballot in November next below the resurrection line.
 The committee then rose and the House at 5 o'clock took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private bills.
 The House this evening passed seventeen pension bills and at 1Q:30 adjourned.