Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-27
DISCUSSING THE TARIFF.
The Wool Paragraphs Give Rise
to a Lively Debate in
the House,.
Messrs. Cultivate Of Ohio, La Toilette
Of Wisconsin, and Others Air
Their Views.
Washington telegram. !

The wool paragraphs OF the Mills tariff bill were
discussed by the House Saturday in committee
of the whole.
:. Mr.. Cultivate Of Ohio ridiculed the assertion
that the effect of the tariff had been to increase
the number OF sheep i'll this country He thought
that the natural fecundity of the hocks had
something to do with the increase. There had
been an increase in the number Of COWS. Possi-
bly, seine protectionist would claim hat this was
because cheese and butter had been protected.
The number OF horses had increased possibly on
account OF the tariff on curled hair. Swine had
increased i'll numbers The tariff on bristles
might account for this. But mules, upon which
there was no protective tariff, had also in
crensed How did the gentlemen account for
that?
srease was attributable to the demand for mules
n Indiana.
Mr.: Cultivate proceeded to urge that the high
tariff had no influence upon the price of wool,
which was regulated by the low of supply and
demand: He quoted STATISTICS to show that
under high tariff tho price Of wool he'd steadily
attributable to the tariff but to the increased
supply OF wool. He quoted u remark made to
him by sheep-grower in Ohio, to the effect that
rived from his clip on account of o protective,
thrift for the privilege Of buying one pair of
| taxed pants He contended that the wooden
manufacturers had nothing to fear from the
WOODEN schedule. The bill presented fair prop!
| osition-a proposition to mako a reduction on
WOODEN goods equal to the reduction which,
would result from putting wool on the freelist.
MIR. La Folette Of Wisconsin, criticised Mr.
Carlisles speech upon the bill, especially that
portion in which the Speaker endeavored to:
| show the prosperity of the country during the
low tariff decade from 1850 to 1860. To Go this
said Mr.. Ln Folette, Mr. Carlisle had recourse to
centage argument was that manufacture might
| be so small that any increase would make u per-
centage showing The gentleman in selecting,
| the rticles upon which to show the percentages,
OF increase had taken care to select those ar,
| ticles which, with exception, were not,
touched to- or only slightly, by the act Of 1886.
IA hnd Soy1 f1,ot@ 80
had been 80 beneficial that in 1857 every rep,
| resentative from New England who voted at
all had voted for bill making an almost
among them Justice S. Morrill,. He chal-
| lenged the gentleman to mention q single re-,
| duction on any important article OF man ufacture
which was made in the bill of 1857 as it first
| passed the House, when Mr.. Morrill, and the
| other New England representatives voted for it.
Inc settlement en-, Of the gentleman was either in.
excusable laundering or the ncanest sort of
political pettifogging Nothing escaped his net ::
| he claimed everything for the low tariff He had
time. He trifed with the facts when he SAID
that this country recovered from tho depressioni
| OF 1851 in few months. AT the conclusion Of
his speech Mr. La Toilette was heartily congra.u-.
lated by his Republican colleagues.
| MIR. Scott, of Pennsylvania, referred to the re-
cent speech of Mr.. Kelley, giving an account Of
| in the committee.oom Mr.. Scott pronounced
the statement made by Mr.. Kelley to be tissue
of misrepres entation from beginning to end and
Mr.. Grosvenor told how he with other
Ohio members, had called upon the Ways
and Means Committee. when the Morrison
| bill pcndipg before the stur-chumber
| process of incubatins tariff bills was in
| vented General Warner q Democratic
member from Ohio, had protested stoutly
against any re iuction Of the wool tariff, and no
| dissenting voice was heard That was two
| years ago. The Democrats from Ohio ure now
| taking u dish of crow in silence-Gll except b 8
| colleague from the central district who now
| coolly asserted that he always liked crow. Mr..
| Grosvenor referred to the decrease of the wool
industry in Ohio and the great falling-o.f in the
| price of the wool crop, and sal twas all due
| to the monaco of the Mills bill Would any
SAN man strike down this great industry for the
sake of reducing the revenue by few million
dollars?
Mr. Ford of Michigan said that it was for the
| country to choose between cheap whisky and
| cheap clothing. The wool tariff was burden
some. There was scarcely breeze when the
| iron and copper schedules We're passed upon.
But now, backed by q subsidized press, the Re-
| the front and bounce the wool schedule He
didn't believe that the effect of the bill would be
| to decrease the price of American wool. Put
| all of the protective tariff you please on wool
| and you could not produce oil of the needed
| varieties of wool. But it taxed the manufac-
| turer end thereby hurt tho farmers best GUS
| TONER. The manufacturers of the country
| asked the farmers to work and stint and pinch
| while they took their ease. This was the feast
| that the farmers of the country were invited to
| partake of by the Republican party, b t he pre-
| dicted that they would reject it in November.
[Applause on Democratic side.]