Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-21
KELLEY. THE ANAoHRoNrsM.


Kelley, OF Pennsylvania, next took th,
floor in opposition TO the bill. Hesaid ths
enactment Of the bill would paralyze thu
enterprise and energy Of the people, over
throw our manufacturing supremacy and
reduce our commanding commercial posi-
ton to q Colonial one. It was studiously
designed to produce thesedirect results and
nicely adapted FORTS purpose. 1t was con-
fessedly a partisan measureand wasframed
in the interest of the party whose
leaders appeared to be oblivious to
the overwhelming socissl and economic
changes wrought by the abolition OF sla-
very. The g~entlemen who framed this bin
and could brook neither modification nor
discussion of its provisions by their associ-
ates In committee were with but two ex-
captions the representatives, of what was
slave territory. The bill was an anachron-
ism. 1t had no relation to this era. It
belonged to the saddes5 epoch in our
national history. During that period
SLAVERY DOMINATED
our national councils and guided the ad-
ministration OF national affairs in hostility
to national interests, and in the interest of
free trade twice threatened war. By putting
0u ullt II66 lt6U tU0 I'LL WOulU aDQllEH
the sheep husbandry, destroy the immense
capital embarked therein and impoverish
more than a million men who own fiocks or
are employed in their care, and by working
this ruin it would diminish the supply OF
cheap and healthful animal food now fur
by the woolgrowers and manufac-
turing iaborers Of the country. 1t would
also render production of American tin
plates and cotton ties impossible by placing
these articles on the free list with wool. By
the transfer Of those and other products OF
coal and iron ore to the free list and by re-
the duties on steel rails, structural
iron and mary other forms OF iron and
seee., ~ .wou.u nougn y naineaineo tne
OF the bltuminous coal fields and ore lands
which are now giving profitable en-
ployment to hundreds OF thousands OF
laborers, not only in the Northern States, !
but in the Southern. But while processing
TO have abandoned their purpose to put
coal and ore on the free list. the trainers
had in%geniously continued to CHECK their
by such measures Of ildirec-
ion as might enable them to saddle the
Treasury Department or the judiciary
HlOu Idt pOutiCdl OI iGQ6IE |
deliberate tergiversations. To illustrate the
absurdity of President Cleveland's
assumption that the duty was always
added to the cost not only OF imported
but to the price OF like eom-
nodities produced here. Kelley invited the
Presidents attention to the fact that
the duties on sugar when reduced
an ad valorem standard were never so
Ugh as now, the price of sugar was nsver
% 10" IN ohis country as now. q prof.
1857 might be cited as an illustrator of
he vitalizing influence OF protection duties.
joming 20 tne
SUBJECT OF sURPLUs
Kelley said he would SO lepislate ON the o,es-
ion of surnlus ard sonrces wbe,co Il adws
..aa.. !. -oe1tI
W m.feaee 'ne Meai'h' power anu w
NY une country py promoting the de-
elopment OF its national resources and the
iversification OF it's natural industries and
hus diminish its dependence upon foreign
upon which duties are DOL
scted. He would derive national revenues
rom customs duties go adjusted as to
Emulate and defend home production
'hile preventing combinations, trusts
monopolies OF any kind.
seductlon.of taxation should be effected M
lediately by the abolition OF the souees
I income receipts, which may be computed
lonth by month, it not absolutely dayby
ay. The politics OF this country are now
omlnated by the Whlskey trust as ALSO
lteiy as they were by slavery before the
ar, and king alcohol is proving he is as
ostile to national development as king
otton ever was. In conclusion Kelley
lid: The perpetuatlOn OF /,