St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-22

4uiiio thOlI dduIcSSeu ulIIlSelI 10 UuG
consideration of the free list. On that
list, he said. had been placed articles
amounting to S20,000.OO0. The largest
was wool, from which $500, 600 was
received. When the Democrats wished
to put wool upon the free list, they were
charged with breaking the middle link
OF the chain. The gentlemen who were
charging the Democratic side of the
mouse with bringing in a free trade
measure had taken the duty off cotton
ana put that article On the free list. Had
tney stricken out the middle link of the
chaln? When it was proposed to put
wool on the free list it was charged that
tne democrats were striking the COM
Dlnatlon which had made the protective
Iarl11, and they should not touch wool.
Inc hrst tariff ever framed In this cOun-
Try after the constitution was adopted
embraced in its title a declaration of
the principles of an announcement to
nome industries, and it proposed to en-
courage home industries by putting
wool on the free list [AppIause.l The
next largest item on the free list was tin
plate, from which duty of S37, ,OOO.OO
was received. Not pound of this tin
plate was made in the United States.
The industry did not give a man en-
ployment in this country, and the plac-
ing OF the article on the free list
WOULD NOT TAKE A DOLLAR
from any manufacturing establishment.
I'm plate could be found in the home
OF every poor man, and the committee
proposed to remove the duty and put
S5,OO0,000 back into the pockets of the
poor people of the country. If that was
Tree trade, make the most of it. The
next item was salt. Salt had first been
put on the free list by Thomas Jetfer-
son. God had made salt for man and
DeaSt, and it ought not to be taxed. but
because few people were interested
In the salt monopoly the committee was
branded before the people of the United
States as being free traders, because
they wanted to give back to the people
thlS bounty on an article which God
had prepared for them. The duty On
cotton ties, which were placed on the
free list amounted to S121,00O 1t was
charged that the bill was sectional, be-
cause it placed cotton ties on the free
list. Did gentlemen from the North
west ever think that when they
abolished this Sl21. 900 they enabled the
poor people of the South to buy more
OF their horses, their bacon and their
h0ur? just in proportion as the people
OF the Northwest overtaXed their
countrymen of the South they crippled
their own capacity to sell. In placing
Zante currants, which grew in but one
spot in the whole world, on the free
list the Democrats were charged with
being free traders. Gentleman on the
other side said 'you must tax people on
their clothes, on their food, on their
employment of labor. and if you want
anything free take
A DRINK OF FREE WHISKY.
Laughter and applauSe.l He defended
the repeal of the duty on lumber. 1t
was time the poor people should be con-
sidered in the reduction of taxation.
The taxes had been removed from in
comes, from manufacturers, from rail-
roads, from telephone and telegraph
companies and express companies, and
now the Democratic party came upon
the stand and said that it intended to
help the man in the log house on the
prairie and give him free lumber. The
duty on burlap was S799,0OO. Every
yard was made abroad and the duty
brought money into the country which
was not needed. 1t was better that the
people who used burlap should have the
money. The government did not need
it. 1t was injuring the prosperity of
the country, and the Democrats pro-
posed to place burlap on the free list.
For doing this they were charged with
being free traders. No reduction of the
tariff commended itself to the Judgment
of those who made the charge, unless it
was coupled with free whisky. IAp-
plause and laughter.] Hemp and jute
had been placed on the free list to the
amount of S1,700,000. Gentlemen on
the other side said that this would ruin
the flax and hemp industry of this coun-
try. For years an attempt had been
hot
but Notwithstanding all the milk
THAT WAS GIVEN THIS BABE,
it refused to prosper. The hemp busi-
ness was dying, it must soon disappear,
and therefore hemp had been placed
upon the free list. The duty on opium,
which amounted to S467, 900, had been
removed. NOtan ounce of it was grown
in the United States, but gentlemen on
the other side did not want opium
touched. 1t was the tax on whisky they
wanted reduced, and not On opium. No
industry would be nurt because cheap
medicine was given to the suffering and
dying. Ostrich feathers had been
placed on the free list. Ostriches were
the Northern forests. but our beautiful
females wanted ostrich feathers, and
they would want some when Grover
Cleveland was inaugurated on March 4
next. Laughter and applause.l Re-
ferring to the woolen schedule, Mr..
Mills said that the bill proposed to re-
duce the duties on woolen goods by
taking the taxation off the wool that
was not raised by skilled labor and
scarcely by any labor at all. 1t grew on
the sheep. The sheep produced it. He
had mad heard much sympathy ex-
pressed for the sheep. The Demo-
cratic party's sympathy was for men,
not sheep. Applause.] 1t proposed to
bring down the price of wooden cloth
ing so that the
POOR PEOPLE COULD GET IT
to in winter. The people to-day
were compelled to wear carpet
instead of woolen clothing, and
now the wool growers and wool
manufacturers came to an agreement
that the duty should be so high that no
wool and no woolen goods could be
brought in. He supposed that the peo-
pie could afford to go naked, but for
him and his party, he would say, "wear
good clothes and vote the Democratic
ticket" Wools had been put upon the
free list not only to cheaper the cloth
ing, but in order that our workingmen
might have the making of the S44. .O0O. 900
worth of woolen goods that were i'm
ported into this country. 1t was pro-
proposed to let all the wool the people
required come in free, and let our own
people make the wOolen goods. This
would increase the demand for labor.
and in this increase the demand for the
labor would increase the rate of wages,
The great central truth in this bill was
that it was bill to benefit the condition
and increase the wages of the laboring
people. We were the greatest manu-
featuring people in the world; the
greatest agricultural people; the most
Skilled people; the most intelligent and
smartest and best looking peo-
pie in the world [laughterL and
all ua wa antad was for nur pnvernment