Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-07-27
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IdCcdUG VH LIE Mfi<f<o DA1Hfs
The House Of Representatives on Sasur-
day last passed the Mills tariff bill BY q vote
If 1872 in the affirmative TO 149 in the mega
tive, When the hour Of 1880 A. M. arrived
Speaker Carlisle stated the regular order 70
he the further consideration Of the tariff
bill
Mr.. Mills then took the floor 10 close the
debate. The audience gave him respectful
attention. and as he proceeded with his
speech Mrs. Cleveland and her mother, Mrs.
Folsom, entered the chamber and took seats
in the front row of the executive gallery,
He proceeded to address. the House, pc
ginning by stating the condition Of the NJ
nances of the government, placing the sur
plus at one hundred and twenty. mil Il
lions dollars. This, he said, should arrest
the attention of the country II represented
unnecessary taxation drawn from the people
and piled up in the Treasury. II was taxa
ton levied upon the product Of labor. ~
was an iniquity. This enormous amountsof
of money was constantly lowering prices,
and piling an enormous load on labor and
increasing the benefits of privileged classes
How long would II be before stagnation
woud occur, and bankruptcy and ruin flock
together over the land The majority had
attempted to bring before the House bill
TO reduce this taxation and lessen the inflow
of money in the Treasury. BY amendments
made in committee Of the whole, the rela-
tive rate of duty has been placed at forty
two dollars and ninety-nine cents on the
hundred. This moderate bill had been met
by storm of denunciation and characte7-
| lied as free-trade measure Was @42.99
on the hundred Tree trader What State had
five per cent. rate Of taxaiionl In the ma
| jority II does not exceed one dollar on tly,
| hundred. The mrlff Of 1916 had been spoil
| OF as free.irade tariff
Mr.. Mills ficn took up the bill in de,5,
beginning with the chemical scheasste,,
/ where the rate OF duty had been reduced
from $32S7 to $28.17. On earthen and
crockery ware the reduction had been -
| in the hundred. They called that free trade.
| II $50 on the hundred was free trade, IN
| Gods name what was protection? Sugars
showed next TO the largest reduction in the
bill--arger than in hemp, iute, iron, ana ~
everything except wool Yet, the blu had
been called sectional measure. To get six
| millions of protection on sugar the govern
ment had to collect sos 100000 Of tariff du-
4 ties. In provisions the reduction was one
| dollar in a hundred More free trade II
| was less than one dollar in cotton goods.
| Was not that moderate? The duty still re.
naming at $3907 In woods and woolens
| the reduction was $40 on the hundred, and
| most of that had been caused by placing
wool on the free list The manufacturer
would get free wool and 40 per cent. pro-
| lection, or five per cent. more than he now
| got, and still they said the bill was free
| trade measure Articles amounting to $780,
100000 had been placed on the free list, and
| S6.390.O00 of that was wool. Cotton had
| been the chief product of this country, yet
| the Republican party had put 1t on the Tree
! list And they were right But when il
was proposed TO touch wool the combination
| that made the protective tariff was struck,
and they said: "You shall not touch II"
The next article on the free iss was tin
plate, $5,700,000. Not pound of II was
produced in this country The committee
proposed TO give this money 10 the coasum-
1 ers. vet their action was called free trade
/ II that was free trade make the most Of it.
Salt was the next. Because a few people
were Interested in its manufacture, the com
mittee was stigmatized as free traders fol
putting it on the free list.
Burlaps was not made in this country. L
had been placed on the free list.
Hemp and jute made up 81 ,700O 900 Of tlls
! free list. With all the milk that could be
given this baby industry, " had failed tc
grow. It was dying, and must disappear
| The Republicans had used the same argu
ment in favor Of striking down the sugal
| industry.
on the free ejst.
Cotton ties and bristles, the latter pro
| duced In Russia, had also been placed OF
/ the free list. A food product-.currants-
| thai concerned no laborer In this c0untry
| lhud been placed on the free list. Yet ths
4 committee had been tainted with being fret
] traders Their opponentssa = lf you sEsa44
| anything free, take free drink Of whiskey.'
| [Applanse.
Taxes on express companies, on telephone
companies, on all the wealth of the country
had been removed, but none of the taxes or
labor had been removed.
| Wool grew ON the sheep. There had beer
much sympathy expressed Tor sheep-tht
Democratic party sympathized with men
II wanted cheap clothing for the poor. The
| Republicans wanted the duties kept SO high
| that neither wool nor wooens could b.
| brought in.
With product of 300,000,000 pounds ant
a need For soc, 1000, 900 pounds, what Were We
| going TO do? The Democrats proposed to lei
| in wool free, and let our workmen make il
up into clothing. The bill was intended tc
benefit the condition and increase the wages
of the laboring people. Applause.1 The
government should not meddle with the
people; they could take care Of themselves.
They were the most intelligent and best
people in the world, and could give employ
ment to all Of the laborers if Congress would
but let them alone. Why should we not
have free raw material, and have the oppor
tunity TO contest on equal terms with for.
eign manufacturers? We would have u fair
field and an open fight. Applause.
The Democratic party intended to appea
to the virtue and intelligence of the country
Money was being poured into his district il
Texas To beat him for reelection To the
| Fifty first Congress, but he wanted the ooun
try tu know that the people of his district
were not for sale.
The committee had reduced the duty OF
steel rails from $17 to 11per ton, and it Wa:
charged that that was an effert to destroy al
infant industry.
In conclusion, he referred 10 the suit o
clothes produced by Mckinley during hi'
speech. He said that he had nothing to TAX,
back. He had inquired into 1t, and hat
found that that $40 suit of clothes had beer
protected to the amount Of $403. He hac
heard that that suit was to be photographed
and used In the campaign He wanted to pho
togragh in the brain of every voter the iac
that that $40 suit was protected to the
amount of $403.
AS MIR. Mills concluded, he was warmly
and loudly applauded by his fellow Demo
crats and the galleries, all of which were
by this time crowded, joined in the demon
| stration.
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