Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-05-09

the people would not again be deceived. The
people had at last found out the Democratic
party. In conclusion he said the protective
system had enabled the government to per-
| feet system Of finances which was the mar
vel OF the age. 1t had fostered our in
dustries, built up our manufacturers
and opened up our wildernesses. It had dig
nified our labor and educated our people. 1t
had made the flag Of our country typify all
that was great In human action, all that was
grand In human thought, and God only knew
what 1t would do for our land If the Demo
cratic party would let it alone.
Mr.. Landes, Of Illinois, submitted an srgu-
ment In support of the bill in opposition to
the protective theory. While heartily advo-
eating the bill he regretted that 1t touched
whisky and tobacco taxes, which, instead Of
being reduced, should be increased.
The committee then rose and the house
took recess until y. M, the evening SEES
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
WASHINGTON, April 23-Many representa-
tives went to Philadelphia today to witness
the launch Of the Yorktown, and there were
but thirty-f1ve members present when the
house met and Immediately went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the tariff.
| Mr.. Kerr, of Iowa, approved the reduction
Of revenues by the abolition of the internal
revenue tax. The time had come he thought,
| In the history Of the American government
for the nation to declare that henceforth II
would take no share In the profits Of the sale
| of alcoholic liquors.
Mr.. Tarsney, of Michigan. said he and the
gentleman on this side Of the house were not
free traders; they were fair traders. They
wanted to place the duty highest on the lux.
uries of life and lowest on life's necessaries,
to equalize the burden of taxation.
The discussion then took colloquial turn
and the nsubjeets of free trade, protection,
wages of laboring men, fisheries, ship build.
ing, etc., were touched upon, and at times
the questions and answers caused great mer.
riment among the few members present.
A remark by Mr.. Russell, Of Massachusetts,
referring to the condition Of the protected
state of Pennsylvania, and saying that affairs
in the coal regions Of that state were scan-
dal to human civilization, called forth re-
tort from Mr.. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, that
the wages paid for labor in the county Of Al
legheny alone were annually more than the
entire wages paid In all the states represented
by the southern contingent on the ways and
means committee.
Mr.. Breckenridge, Of Kentucky, said the
\ concrete representation Of the protective sys.
tenn was guard OF Pinkerton detectives al
the Edgar Thomson steel works for the pur.
pose Of enabling Hungarian immigrants te
work, while American Workmen are kept out
at the point Of a gun.
Mr.. Bayne declared that that was mis-.
take. The detectives were there, but the
men they sought to protect were not Hungar
ians.
Mr.. Breckenridge said the average wages Of
Pinkerton detectives was IS day They re
ceived that rate of wages to prevent breach
of the peace by men who received s. a day.
i A long discussion then ensued between Mr.
Reed, of Maine, and Mr.. Breckenridge, the
former saying that the Kentucky member had
i pictured Braddock affair as the final result
of protection, when it was only an incident
in the great dispute which went on eithel
under protection or free trade. Such methods
of arguing the question of free trade were
petty.
Mr.. Breckenridge denied that it was an in
cidence and asserted that 1t was q necessary
consequence of an unnatural system Of taxa
ton, under which an organized body of armed
detectives was used in guarding convict labor
to undersell American labor. After consid
cradle desultory talk on the labor problem
the committee rose and the house then ad
journed.
WASHINGTON, April 80.-The house went
into committee Of the whole on the tariff bill
and was addressed by Grosvenor, Of Ohio.
1t was strange, Mr. Grosvenor said, thai
the Democratic party, led by that amateur
statesman, the president Of the United States
suddenly had become the champion Of the
internal revenue system. For twenty years
the gentlemen representing the southern
states had not only denounced the general
system Of internal revenue, but had opposed
all efforts Of the government to enforce the
law, and had so thoroughly educated the peo
pie of the south into the belief that the system
was tyrannous that they had builded up 8
great sentiment in the south that to defeat
violate and destroy that system by fraud, VIC
lence, bloodshed and murder was but the as
sertion of God-given right of rebellion
against the tyrannous enactment Of tyran-
nous government Now the democratic party,
directed by the message of the president, or
dained that the most sacred monument OF
taxation in this country was now and must
be in the future the internal revenue system.
Discussing briefly the speech Of the gentle
man from Minnesota (Nelson) he said that
when the gentleman undertook to pu. the
republicans who favored the repeal of the
internal revenue law into the category Of be-
ing In favor of free whisky and free tobacco,
he made great mistake. The proposition to
repeal the tax on whisky was made to remi.
the power of taxation to the states and to
permit the states to take the place Of the gen.
eral government.