The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-23
BUTTERwORTH AT HIS BEST.
A Strong Speech by the Cincinnati Con-
gresham Against the Mills Bill.
TWashington telegram.1

The House went into committee OF the whole
(Mr. Springer, Of Illinois. in the chair on the
tariff bill, and wa1 addressed by Mr.. Butter
worth, OF Ohio. He said the passage of the
law would be direct condemn alton Of the pro-
tective policy. It indicated to the country that
cratic party was not a ils ms trument to perfect
it. The mission OF the protective tariff was to
place the people OF our own country on an
The protective tariff dealt with conditions and
not with boundary lines. From those nations,
against which the United States held the coign
Of vantage. no odds were asked. but whore the
strike down our industries and the
rate OF wages of our workingmen,
there they erected the wall Of protective
tariff. In skill and cunning the American
workmen asked odds The capital, the
plants an the skill were here. but the starvs-
ton wages were not here and never would DO
20 long as the Republican party wrote the laws
OF the country. Capital had the advantage OF
labor. Capital could wait longer for its diyt
dends than labor could Tor its breakfast. In
T. rope hero was no redress for the workmen
but revolution. Here thank God, every work
man was part and parcel OF the Government,
and helped TO shape the laws which controlled
the conditions under which he worked He
made comparisons between Ohio, where pro-
lection prevailed, and the states whore the
free trade philosophy existed, greatly to the
advantage OF his own State, which, he do
clared, was Enthusiastically reserved and
modest. He asserted that the North and West
invented and manufactured everything ths
and argued that il woald be unwise to intrust
the industries of the country TO the hands OF
men who had shown neither the
ability nor the disposition to have in
dustries of their own He summed up tho
difference between the two parties on the wool
question by the declaration that the free trade
philosophy created an active concern for the
sheep, while the Republican philosophy Gre
ated an active concern for tho shepherd. In
foreign Countries the sheep wore the coats and
the shepherds the rags; in this country the
tOuuer
we'll with him IL would be we'll with his flock.
He congratulated his colleague Foranl, al
though he had not been sustained by his Dem.
ocratic constituents, for standing in defense Of
their hearthstones even against their protest.
He could not understand how any lrish-Ameri-
can could stand here the closest and most
earnest ally OF England which was attempting
to do to this country what she had done To the
Irish homes across the sea. He created a good
deal OF laughter by reading an extract from the
London Times declaring that the only time En-
gl-nd has any use for an Irisbman is when he
enIit rates To America and votes for free trade,
which he almost invariably does.
In conclusion, he said that the issue had been
fairly made up between the two parties. Let
there be no juggling. Let the resolutions in the
national platforms so fairly present the issue
that they would attest that they were drawn
huckstering politicians do not claim. he said,
TO stand n step in advance OF my honorable
friends on the other side. Your policy has led
You along ono highway; ours along another.
We only protest that until you can show evil
dence that you can have industries Of your own
you shall not take charge OF ours. In spite OF
your endeavors the protective system has
reached its arms down into Alabama, Nor h
Carolina and Virginia. and is blessing the peo-
pie in spite OF YOU. Let us hope that may
see the wiser and better way and, standing
together. fence out all influences that will oper-
ate aga INST any part OF our people. BY seeking
and finding that wiser and better way We shall
reach that rich and prosperous condition which
Calhoun predicted and the fathers prayed for.
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