Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-12
Scott OF Pennsylvania Portrays the Beau
ties of Free Trade.

ties of Free Trade.
lCopyTig, 1885, by the California associated Pres!
WASHINGTON, May l1th.-The speech
delivered by Scott in the House to-day is
generally looked upon by all as the utter
ance of Cleveland on the tariff. In fact, a
Democrat who is credited with the conf
dence of the President told your corre-
spandent tonight that Scott's speech had
been submitted to the inspection and had
received the approval of the President.
This statement is given additional strength
by the fact that Mrs. Cleveland and Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland came early and
took seats in the Executive gallery, where
they remained until Speaker Carlisle es-
corted them to his private seats in the
Members gallery, on the Democratic side,
and much nearer to Scott.
Speaker Carlisle took a seat on the floor
of the House, almost directly in front of
Scott, and remained to the close and
listened to all that was said. There was
an unusual attendance of Democratic men,
bers, while the party whip was cracking.
Many of Scott's statements were received
with amusement by the Republicans, COM
ing as they did from man who has all his
life been identified with monopolies and
capitalists. When he attacked the trusts
with vigor and vehemence, there was a
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opposite side of the chamber. As one
Republican put it: " 1t seems so funny to
hear Bill Scott attacking trusts and monop-
olies and posing as a champion of labor,
when he has within the past six months.
been engaged in bitter fight in his own
district with organized labor"
Taken altogether, Mr.. Scott's effort was
the most outspoken championship of free
trade yet delivered on the floor of the
House. In one part of his speech he
asked whether this great people, 60 600, 900
strong, with inventive genius, with labor
more skilled than any other people on the
globe, should be afraid to compete for su-
premacy in the marts of mankind and con-
tinue forever TO trade among ourselves
under the insane delusion that we were
growing rich by the process.
He next devoted himself to the Randall
bill, and criticised severely the assertion
that those who had given it their approval
could not possibly have understood its pro-
visions. He said the measure, from what
ever point it was looked at, was mis-
begotten, ill-shaped, portentious monster,
with no excuse for existence, and no pur-
pose in its existence but TO obstruct the
Democratic party and to delay that Justice
which the country demanded. He de-
clared the placing of wool on the free list
as being not only in the interest of the
wooden manufacturer, but in that of sheep
husbandry itself
In conclusion he said: 1--WE are here, sir
we, the majority of the Ways and Means
Committee of this House-in defense of
American industry. We alone offer it
protection. We seek alone the independ-
ence and aggrandizement of domestic la
Dor, by liberating it from unnatural re-
straints, and allowing it the undisturbed
possession and complete enjoyment of its
own earnings. The other side offer it
what? A monopolized market in which
to buy the necessaries of life on the one
hand, and on the other labor market SUBJ
ject to the caprice of trusts"