The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03

Brewer, OF Michigan, gladly vel
coined the issue presented by the pend
ing measure. In times past the demo
cratic party had sought to evade the
issue. In its platform of 1884 it had
declared for protection, for free trade
for incidental protection, for tariff fol
revenue only, and for tariff for rev.
enue, so that the voter could construe
the platform to suit his own convic.
tons. In Kentucky the plat
form meant free trade; in
Pennsylvania. New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey, the gentleman
from Tennessee. Randall was able to
make the voters believe it meant pro-
lection. By reason of the fraud and
intimidation practiced in one section
of the country, and by means of de-
ception practiced by the democratic
leaders in another section, the demo
crat candidate for the presidency had
been elected. For the three years of
the democratic administration, the
democratic party in the house had
played fast and loose ON the great tariff
question until the necessities of
the government had compelled
the administration to take
some decided position and he
IOuOIOu IUO 1O1 nav
ing forced his party to stop Its double
dealing and define its attitude. He
then advocated the protective system
as one which tended to increase the
wages of labor, and in support of his
proposition he cited VarioU statistics
prepared by Commissioner Wright to
show that the rates of wages in this
country largely exceeded those of the
workingmen OF England. He was es-
pecially earnest in his opposition to
the free wool clause, which he
said would ruin an industry which was
national in its Importance. 1t was true
that that there was danger in large
surplus, but not SO great a danger as
the president seems to suppose. The
republican party had disposed of its
surplus by paying OF government
bonds, the democratic party boarded
| their surplus il the treasury. He con-
trasted the condition of the country
| under free trade and projections: the
former, he said, had brought the
government to state of bankruptcy
while the latter had rendered the
country prosperous and glorious. 1t
! was between those two systems that
the representatives of the people were
here to choose, and for one he welcomed
| the issue.
Ford, of Michigan, said that the
question presented now was of tariff
reduction not abolition. Congress had
no right to take the part of a few man
ufacturers against the great body of
consumers. But that was just what
has been done. Our war tariff de-
clared for high prices for the producer
of iron, low prices for the producer of
corn, high prices for the producer of
glass, low prices for the producer OF
| wheat. He ridiculed the position tax
en- by the protectionistS that high
tariff increased the wages OF American
| workmen. No industries, he said,
showed more poverty, more restitution
and more strikes among thelI
W )rkingmen than those social
not hod-carrier in the
United States. but who earned more
wages than the average person en-
ploYed in the industries benefited by
the war tariff. Referring to the claim
| that the home market was the best
market, Mr.. Ford said the result OF
this home market swindle is that the
| farmer is most beautifully deluded
The high tariff party gets his vote
the trusts and manopolists get his
money, and the farmer gets the hot
end of the poker. He attributed the
existence of pools to the continuance
of high tariff, and in conclusion saiC
the trusts and combines have got &
monopoly Of the market; they have goi
such grip on the pockets OF the peo
pie under the guise of protection II
Americans that it is difficult task tt
force them to relax it. But believe
the time has now come when the PEG
pie, and particularly the farmers of tht
of this issue, and that they will sooI
speak in tones not to be misunder
stood, and demand that congress pa
some heed to the great body OF con
sumers of this nation and pass meas
ure relieving them of portion of the
taxes which the war tariff now com
pels them to pay for the benefit of ;
few manufacturers.
Golf, of West Virginia, spoke in OPP
position to the bill, a reduction OF TIL
tariff, he said, should be made by Tia
friends of the protective system, ant
not by its avowed enemies. The MILL
bill was conceived by means impreg
mated with economic, and its pasSag
would be the death-knell of protection
and while it was not all that its friend
hoped for, it was in the line of legisla
ton they long had sought and mOurnet
because they found it not. If the,
succeeded now they proposed mex
year to take another step and grad
ually, but surely the people were to b
marched into the camp of thos
who contended for tariff fo
revenue only. That system, as far a
labor was involved and industry con
cerned, was as bad as free trade
George Washington, the first presiden
was grandly right when he suggeSte
and approved the first tariff provision
/ Grover Cleveland who he hoped woul
be our last free trade president) wa
/ ahanonfs11Iu NUhnn HI
suggested and used the powe
, of his great Office to secure til
destruction of the protective system
) The people had been deceived in tn
? last presidential campaign by the deC
: Iaration that Cleveland was a protet
r zionist. The hand of Esau would b
offered again, but the people woul
D not be again deceived. The peopl
) mad at last found out the demOcrati
party. He did not believe in free ra'
, material in the sense in which it wa
: used in this discussion. Coal, III
/ mined, was raw material. bu
: when it was mined it wa
f the miners finished produc
! and entitled to protection. Iron OF
: was not raw material, but the resu
: of the labor of the mines. it was &
' much entitled to protection as til
: rich fields of the south, and the sugS
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Wool clipped from the sheep was not
: raw material, it was the farmer
/ finished labor, and the farmers ha
O made up their minds that it had to /
r protected. The duty of 1887, would /
O restored and an industry s
r essential to our prosperity as Peep
i and our independence as a natio
8 should be stimulated. In conclusio
he said that the protective system ha
enabled the government to perfect
system of finance which was the ma
r vel of the age. 1t has fostered our il
a dustries, built up our manufactures AT
opened up our wilderness. 1t b;
|, dignified our labor and educated OF
q people. 1t has made our valleys
9 laugh in gladness. 1t has caused Il
. water of commercial prosperity to POI
. all over our land. It has made Il
e flag of our country testify all that W
O great in human action. all that w
q great in human thought, and God on
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