Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-02

committee was branded before the people
OF the United States as being free traders
because they wanted to give back to the
people this bounty on an article which God
had prepared for them.
The duty on cotton ties, which We're
placed on the free list, amounted to S121,-
ooo 1t was charged that the bill was sec
tlonal because it placed cotton ties on the
Tree list Did gentlemen from the North
west ever think that when they abolished
this 1921 900 they enabled the poor people
OF the South to buy more of their horses,
their bacon and their flour. just in pro-
portion 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 be-
ing free traders. Gentlemen on the other
side said: You must tax the people on their
clothes, on their food, on their employments
OF labor, and if you want any thing free
take drink of free whisky. Laughter
and applause. He discussed and defend
ed the repeal of the duty on lumber It
was time that the poor people should be
considered in the reduction of taxation
The taxes had been removed from incomes,
from manufactures, from railroads, from
from express companies, and now the
Democratic party came upon the stand and
said 1t intended to help the man in the log
house on the prairie and give him free lum-
Der. The duty on burlaps was S979,OOO.
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 burlaps should have the money.
The Government did not need it. 1t was
injuring the prosperity of the country and
the Democrats proposed to place burlaps
on the free list. For doing this they were
charged with being free traders. No re-
duction of the tariff commended itself to
the Judgment of those who made the
charge unless it was coupled with free
whisky. tApplause and laughter.l
Hemp and jute has been placed on the
free list to the amount of 81, zoo, 600. Gen.
tlemen on the other side said that this
would ruin the flax and hemp industry of
this country. For years an attempt had
been made to establish that industry here,
but Notwithstanding all the milk that was
given this babe it refused to prosper. The
hemp business was dying. 1t soon must dis
appear and therefore hemp must be placed
on the free list The duty on opium which
amounted to s467, 200, had been removed.
Not an ounce of it was grown in the United
States, but gentlemen on the other side
IL
tax on whisky they wanted reduced, and
not on opium. No industry would be hurt
because cheap medicine was given to the
suffering and dying.
Ostrich feathers have been placed on the
free list. OstricheS were not found on the
Western prairie or in the Northern for
ests, but our beautiful females wanted o.
trich feathers. and they would want some
when Grover Cleveland was inaugurated
March next Laughter and applause.l
Returning to the wooden schedule Mr..
Mills said that the bill proposed to reduce
the duties on wooden goods by taking tax
alton off the wool thai was not raised by
skilled labor and scarcely by any labor at
all. 1t grew on the sheep The sheep pro-
duced it. He had heard much sympathy
expressed for the sheep. The Democratic
party's sympathy was for men not sheep.
Applause. 1t proposed to bring down
the price of wooden clothing so that the
poor people could get it to wear in winter
The people to-day were compelled to wear
carpet instead of clothing WOOL and now
the wool growers and wool manufacturers
came to an agreement that the duty should
be so high that no wool and no wooden
goods should be brought in. He supposed
that the people could afford to go naked,
but for him and his party he would say:
"Wear good clothes and vote the Demo-
cratic ticket" Wool had been put upon
the free list not only to cheaper the cloth
ing, but in order that our workmen might
have the making of the S44, OOO, 900 worth Of
wooden goods that were imported into this
country. 1t was proposed to let all the
wool the people required come in free and
let our own people make the wooden goods.
This would increase the demand for labor,
and in thus increasing demand for labor in
crease 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 peo-
pie. We were the greatest manufacturing
people in the world, the most skilled peo-
pie, the most intelligent and smartest, and
best-looking people in the world [laughterl,
and all we wanted was for our Govern
ment to take it's meddling hand out Of our
business. All the people wanted was to
have the Government tell them how much
it needed for its support and then let their
business alone. Let the people have free
raw material in order that they might re-
duce the cost of the product, for the
cost of the product was to determine
the standing of the market. If the
people of the United States could pro-
duce product cheaper than any other
people they would capture the markets.
The manufacturers of this country should
have the raw material free and thus
be placed on the same basis as manu-
facturers OF other countries. The Ameri-
can manufacturer should have a free field
and open fight The Democrats were 60
ing to give it to him without trying to fry
the fat out of anybody. They did not pro-
pose to debauch the American people in
order to buy their judgment at the polls.
They appealed to the intelligence Of the
people. They intended to go before the
country and appeal to the Judgment, and
intelligence, and virtue of the people, and
they would appeal in the confident reliance
that the people would speak as they had
always spoken for the welfare and pros
perity of the country.
Abiding to attempts to defeat his re-
election he stated that money was being
brought into the Ninth Congressional dis
trict of Texas for the purpose of accom-
plishing that object but he wanted to say
once for all that the people of that district
were not for sale.
He wanted to refer to that celebrated
suit of clothes. When he opened the de-
bate April II he made the statement that il
a suit of clothes could be bought for five
days labor, and the tariff on that suit was
100 per cent, it would increase the cost of
the clothes to ten days labor. The gentle
man from Ohio (McKinley) had produced
a suit of clothes and said: ''Here is suit
of clothes bought for SO in Boston" He
(Mills) had taken pains to trace that suit of
clothes up. Its exact cost was les. 1t
weighed four pounds and four ounces; the
labor co st was 81. 65. 1t required seventeen
pounds of wool to make that suit of clothes,
which at duty of 10 cents per pound
amounted to 81. 20, which, subtracted from
Sc IS, gave S49S as the cost of that so suit.
He was told that that suit was to be photo
graphed for use in the campaign. He