Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-18
The SectionaIism Of the Mills Bill

That the Democratic majority now in
power in Westinghouse strongly sectional.
il very plainly evinced by notorious facts
and indications. The disgraceful fiiibus-
tering outrage just perpetrated in the
House Of Representatives by sixty Of it,
members under the lead OF the confederate
brigadier=. forcing the party TO yield to its
domination. and the conduct Of the
WAYS and Means Committee on the tariff,
are a. unmi-r4kabIy sectional and dishon-
est as the policy and proceedings of the
pro-Slayery democracy before the war.
The Mills tariff bill strikes the strongest
possible blow at the producers of wool,
the products OF the farm, the forest. and
the mine of the North and West, while it
carefully shields the rice fields Of the south
and but slightly reduces the enormou,
revenues raised on sugar. Rice is an
article Of general consumption, much
uscd by people Of small incomes, aud
sugar Is the necessity Of all families and
homes. Grover Cleveland il a. deep in
these sectional schemes ~ Mills or any Of
the Bourbon leaders. 1t Is he whose
message Ia December last started the
crusade against the products of the
Northern farmers. 1t j. he who j. deeply
con-piring with the Bourbon Representa-
tives IN Congress for the passage of the
Mills bill. which keeps the tax on sugar
aud heavy protection on rice. Ii il he
Who Wa- largely instrumental in causing
his party to yield to the confederate fiii-
busters who 10 desperate measures
to defeat the righteous bill which pro-
v.de- for the rcfundiug to the loyal States
the Si7 900, 900 which the National Cow
eminent justly owes them. We publish
to-day In another column valuable
communication on thu rice production and
the duties on the same, prepared by a
gentleman thoroughly informed on the
subject. 1t viii repay Il careful reading.
Nothing more clearly indicates the
uufairncss, the sectional selii>hneSs, the
shameless audacity and hypocrisy of
Cleveland. Mills, aud the entire ring of
Bourbon con-pirator-, than the general
make up aud spirit Of the Mill. bill, " hich
in the name of Free Trade and Tariff Re
form Is being pushed through the House of
Representative. by The pressure of party
drill, Of official patronage, and the un-
scrupulou- and desperate means which
Cleveland and his partilan associates so
well known how to u-c. All these high
handed proceedings are taking place just
at the time when james Russell Lowell in
his opostacy finds no body to ceusure
severely in Washington except those Re
puhlicans who protest with emphasis
against the auarchctl and wicked pro-
cccding- OF the ilibu-tcring and sectional
faction which has with the bitter pre-
JUDGES OF the rebellion era, assumed to de
prive the States of the North aud West of
their just rights and their honest dues.
senator Frye, in his very able speech in
the Senate on the lariA, has the following
testimony from a we'll known former eth
zen of thi, State. which Democrats would
do well to read and digest. These facts
were learned by Mr. kimhall while serving
as Consul in Stuttgart, Wittcm5crg,
South Germany.
AT an important manufacturing point
there is au immense corset factory and the
wages actually paid were not one third of
those in Ike concern in the United States.
The entire product was shipped to this coun-
try aud ipvoiced at Ouc-half of its market
price. Honorable Charles i. kimball for
mcrly Democratic candidate for Governor of
Maine, received the appointment from MIR.
Cleveland To the Consul>hip at this city.
Three months after his arrival he wrote me
I came here Free Trader; am now a
High Prutectouist Our party should be
looking to an increase rather than a decrease
in duties Mr.. kmball paid a trst-cass
coachman forty-cight cents day and he
boarded himself.
OF course Mr.. tleyelanG's administra-
ton had hut little use thereafter for Con
sui kimhlll~ services.