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TARIFF DEBATE CLOSED.
MIR. Reed and Speaker Carlisle
Wind Up the Discussion.
Summary Of Their Sp. eohes On
the Great Question.

After several weeks of debate, during
which many speakers were heard on both
rides of the question, the discussion on the
Mills Tariff bill in the House of Representa-
tves has been closed. The last speakers
were MIR. Reed, Of Maine, the Republican
leader in the House, and Speaker Carlisle.
a digest Of their speeches is given below:
Mr.. Reeds Address.
Mr.. Reed spoke without notes, having
committed his speech to memory, III 1t oe
true,n he said, THAT by having their goods
United States, as a whole, will h'come
richer and more prosperous and enjoy more
of the comforts and Injuries OF life, then by
all means sink national prejudice, burss the
barriers Of provincial narrowness and with
one accord adopt not merely the present bill,
but such legislation as will triple the splndles
OF Europe and destroy our own. .,
''The revenue reform argument Is eltner .
false preteuce or covers the whole ground
Protection is either in its essence benefit or
q curse. You cannot dilute q curse and make
It a blessing Incidental protection Is
sham. Tariff for revenue only must 60
down before the same arguments which are
used against protection. If protection be q
tax for manufacturer benefit, it is the same
tax if 1t be the result OF even revenue tarln.
Incidental protection il OF all the most In
e1cusable"
Turning his attention to the Presidents
Message Mr.. Reed said: "f this message
from our ruler be true, every factory Is the
abode Of robber baron, more fell and sure
than ever swooped down European hili-
side to harry cavalcade OF honest mer-
chanta In every mine turks a more dread
full giant than ever before smelled the blood
- 1,.I~ Pt,fx hot n IN
of virtue propose to do with these
wicked peoples Sweep them out of ex,
istence with the strong hand Of justicea
The castles Of the marauders are still to
smoke upon the hill-tops, and the tall chin
neys are still to break the skyline OF this
unhappy country. They are to be allowed
to rob within per cent. OF what they rob
loose upon the markets Of the world, where,
according to the learned chairman, they will
reap larger wealth and pile up statelier mill
The speaker did not purpose to defend
protection. Its vast growth within the
last quarter of century defended it better
even than eloquent orations. 1t was born
with the Republic It was the faith and
practice Of every civilized nation under
all the half knowledge of learned men who
never had sense enough to Gransmute their
learning into wisdom. On the face Of the
earth to-day there are but two sets Of people
who believed in free trade, whether
pure and simple or disguised as revenue re-
form, and those two are the masked ma
jority of the Committee on Ways and Means
and their followers, and the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ire
land suppressed
Mr.. Reed asserted that if the principles of
free trade were true there must be direct
taxation He closed with bit Of ridicule at
the supposed dangers of trusts and monopolies
and some comment on the growth Of the
country, and especially Of the South, since