The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-18

ment to hundreds of thousands of laborers,
not only in the Northern States, but in
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama
and turn them adrift without the prospect
of other employment elsewhere than in the
cotton and corn fields.
CHARGED WITH EVASION.
But while processing to have abandoned
their purpose to put coal and ore on the
free list its trainers had ingeniously con
trived to make importation of both free by
such measures of indirection as might enable
them TO saddle the Treasury Department
or judiciary with the political consequences
OF the deliberate tergiversations. They
would not put coal or ore Squarely and
frankly on the free list Tley had, how
ever, as effectually provided for the repeal
of the duties that now protect them as
could have been done by naming them in
that list. They were not specially
enumerated or provided for and CON
on these articles was specifically provided for
in lines two and three of section II, the
last paragraph of the bill, the language of
which is that: "All laws and parts of laws
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. ="
This language applied to and repealed the
provisions of the law which now authorizes
the collection of duties on those mineral
substances in a sude state and metals un-
wrought, known to commerce as bituminous
coai and iron ore. 1t was claimed for the
comlnitteo's bill that it would open foreign
markets to our productions, and in connec-
tlon with this preposterOus claim it might
not be inappropriate to say that the corn
consumed in the glucose industry, Of which
little is known to the farmers of the coun-
try at large, equaled more than one-third of
our total annual export of corn, and is
about one-half the quantity consumed by
our diStilleries, whose interests are protected
by the existing tariff and by the monopoly
created and vested in the whisky trust"
by internal taxes on distilled spirits, both
of which methods of protection a majority
of the Committee on Ways and Means
seemed to regard as vested rights of trust"
which no legislation may repeal or modify.
He DEFINES HIS POLICY.
Mr.. Kelley said it would be mistake to
suppose from the drift of his remarks that
he was opposed to a reduction of the sur
plus. He defined his policy i'll these words:
II would so legislate on the question of the
surplus and the sources whence it flows as
to increase the wealth, power and dignity
of the country by promoting tne develop
ment of its natural resources and diversif-
cation of its industries, and thus diminish
its dependence upon foreign importations
upon which duties are collected. | would
derive the national revenues from customs
duties so ad juSted to remunerative prices
for commodities as to stimulate and defend
home productions, while preventing combi-
nations, trusts and monopolies of any
kind from plundering consumers
by demanding fictitious prices. In
pursuance of this policy | would promote
by adequate duties the growth of iute,
ramie, flax, hemp and other fibrous plants,
and fbnir TpanufQpfIlra into fhranA cord
age and fabrics, and would maintain the
existing duties on sugar. | would also inn
pose such duties on tin plate as would
quicken the mining of tin, and invite the
location of such smelling works,
furnaces, forgeS, and rolling mills
for plate and sheets in close
proximity to the miners as would
crown the Black Hills of Dakota with in
dustries of which the nation would be
proud, and the benehcence of which all its
people would soon feel and appreciate. But
these processes of reducing the revenue,
though certain, will be gradual and as the
President has truly said, 1T is a condition
which confronts us-not theory
AN IMMEDIATE REDUCTION.
"a reduction should be effected 1mmedi-
ately by the abolition of the sources of in
come the receipts from which may be com
puted month by mouth, if not absolutely
day by day. The politics of this country
are now dominated by the whisky trust as
absolutely as they were by slavery before
the war, and King Alcohol IS proving
that be is as hostile to national
development as King Cotton over was.
Mr. Chairman, having devoted years of my
vigorous manhood to the overthrow of the
political influence of the slave oligarchy,
intend to devote my declining years TO
the emancipation of its politics from
the fatal embrace of the most
fruitful source of poverty, ignorance, vice.
crime, disease, insanity and ignominious
death, known to the civilization of the
nineteenth century, and whose subtle and
insidious power is arrayed alike against the
mining and manufacturing interests of the
country and diversiflcation of its agricul-
ture. In conclusion, | submit that ii was
by the provisions Of the law imposing taxes
on distilled spirits that the "whisky trust
was called into existence and enabled to
accomplish revival of the despotism which
pervaded the Southern States before the
war, ana that the power of this trust"
and combinations of Democratic politicians
and the banking influence of Kentucky can
be broken only by the repeal of the internal
taxes, the perpetuation of which is the issue
presented to the American people by the
President in his free trade message, and by
the five Southern gentlemen who have
dominated the councils of the Committee
on Ways and Means, and submitted this
bill to the House for consideration.
For myself | will stand for the
protective system and tho maintenance
of such rates Of duties as will insure the de-
velopment of all tho resources of the coun-
try, increase the number of its industries,
and perpetuate its national independence,
commercial and industrial, as well a. politi-
cal This cannot be done if tho internal tax
system is to be maintained, for the surplus
is condition that cannot he perpetuated
with safety to our republican Institutions
DEMANDED FOR MANY REASONS.
"The purity OF the government, safety of
business, and the morals Of the public de-
mand Abatement of the surplus by the
repeal Of the taxes from which ii flows, and
if, in addition TO the boarding of what
should be the current money of the realm
in the treasury Of the United States we
maintain system of sureties by which
from s75, 100000 10 S100,0J0,000 Of what
should be our current money shall
be applied solely TO the use
of the whisky trust in its war upon our
national industries and our national indie
pendeace, posterlty, referring TO the surplus
and its demoralizng influence, will impute
the crime that perpetuated it and the con
sequences with which it is fraught 10 the
Fiftieth Congress Of the United States Of
America" He referred to his recent visit
10 kentucky, and TO the earnest welcome
bestowed upon him by the large-framed,
gr at-hearted and sturdy men who