The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-01

Mr.. Rayner replied that he would follow
his great party on this great issue. He had
no right to look to any industry in his dis
trict when the quest on before the country
was whether systematic plan Of robbery
and plumber should be continued.
Mr.. Nutting said that he represented
district in which there was large glass
interest and every employe engaged therein
had sent him petitions against the Mills
bill.
Mr.. Rayuer said that the glass working
employees in his district had sent him sim
liar petitions.
Mr.. Nutting inquired whether the gem
tleman had not needed them.
Mr.. Rayner replied that the gentleman
from New York had come here solely for
the purpose of protecting the glass indus
try, probably in order to insure his re-elec-
ton, and was willing to let every other
industry go.
IN GLASS HOUSES.
He Rayner) was here as representative
of the people and of no particular industry.
He thought that the gentleman from New
York and himself could stand on the same
ground in regard to glass Both lived in a
glass house. [Laugbter.1 The time had
come when the employees In the glass fac
tories of Baltimore would be found voting
for President Cleveland and the Democratic
DdIl1st mI. hdNuoT on Dt cooSA hliilSSll tbs
being willing to subordinate everything else
to the paramount issue of the hour, whether
the people, day after day, should DO plum
dered in the interest of monopoly, and
whether the lobby should throttle the appeal
which came from the bosom of the land,
! demanding relief from the most oppressive
system of taxation that was TO be found in
any country. Let the
Democratic party stand by its colors and
by its traditions.
TEST OF DEMOCRACY.
Mr.. Rayner denied that any man on the
floor could be Democrat and remain in
favor of the protective system. In few
months the Democratic party would go be-
fore the people; what did it propose to say
in its convention2 what account did it pro
pose to render of its stewardshipsl
He made no claims to political prophecy,
but he believed that if the pressure of local
interest was regarded now, the party was
| doomed. and doomed it deserved to be; for
the party did not deserve to live that had
not the moral courage of its convictions.
| [Applausel The splendid record Grover
Cleveland had made would not be able to
save the party. The issues of omission
would be too heavy a burden for any one
man to carry, and what would the gentle
man on the other side say7 That che Demo
| cratic party had nailed lie upon its ban
| ner, UnaC III nad gone tnrOugh every town,
| village and hamlet of this broad land
| and shouted revenue reform, and pledged
itself to relieve the over burdened Treas
ury Of it's plunder, hut when the time came
and the roll was called, it had taken refuge
in the suffers camp. and sold its birthright
for a mass Of pig iron. [Applause.l
THE FREE TRADE CRY.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, said that the
President had thrown the gauntlet at the
| feet of protection and stood boldly up as
the champion of free trade AS an illustra-
ton of the manner in which the Pres dents
sentiments were received in Europe, he
| quoted from a personal letter of
| a friend of his abroad in which he says that
| everybody there is friendly to the views ex
pressed by President Cleveland, and looks
| forward with joy to the day when the manu-
| factured products of Europe can be placed
| upon our market.
Mr.. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, said
that the pending struggle was one between
| England and America. and he characterized
the bill as a wicked assault upon the in
dustries of New England
At the conclusion. of Mr.. Gallingers
speech the committee rose and the House
adjourned