The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-03
DEMocRACY's DETERMINATION

congress and the country. The agitation
would not cease until something was ac-
c5omplished; The people would not
brook further suspense. The lines
were being drawn If Demo
crat feared the protective tariff, let bim
go into the camp of the enemy; if Re
publican favored tariff reduction, let him
come into the army of reform. He Ian
baml was for the bill, with some amend
mentS. If they could not be had, he would
take the bill as it was, and give it his earn
est support. His principal objection to it
was that it was too protective. He would
vote for free wool without fear of injuring
the people of his district or retarding the
well-being and prosperity of his State.
A FANCY SKETCH.
Mr.. Allen, of Massachusetts,, wished he
could take the members of the house to the
heights opposite Lowell, where would be
seen miles of cotton mills filed from base
ment to roof with a throbbing army of
skillful workingmen and women. Bells
rang out, gates few open, and from them
issued thousands of workingmen and women,
well clothed, well fed, well housed,
pleasant to look upon, happy and contented,
moving quietly to their own homes. They
were the ideal wage-earners of a NeW
England manufacturing city. These people
were watching the result Of the delibera-
tions upon this bill, and were anxious to
know whether, with the picture of their
progress and prosperity before the House,
its members would in the slightest degree
turn from the principle of the policy which
had done so much to make the country
great and powerful. [Applause.l
SLAVERY ARGUMENTS REVIVED.
Mr.. Caruth, of Kentucky, said that it was
claimed by the protectionists that ruin and
destruction would follow the enactment of
a revenue reform law. He had thought, as
he listened to the glowing tribute to the new
South by Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, few
days ago, of that time, within the memory
of many gentlemen on this floor, when it
had been contended by representatives of
the South in Congress that the abolition
of slavery would mean the deStruc-
ton of their wealth, ruin of their
homes, abandonment of their fields, no
argument could convince them of their
error. 1t took a horrible war to abolish
slavery. Not quarter Of a century had
passed, and what was the result? The elo-
quent peroration of the gentleman from
Michigan would answer that question The
entire people of the South thanked God that
slavery had been abolished. As the South
had contended that without slavery it could
not exist, so now the North contended that
protection was its only safety.
WILL BE PROVEN A FALLACY,
AS the South had found that the liberia
tion of its slaves was the commencement of
its greatness, so the North would find that
the adoption of the revenue tariff would
awaken her energies, add new impulse to
her enterprise and lend to every power
double power To reach the desired end,
there could not, and would not, be recourse
to arms The industrial revolution of the
North would be brought about, not by a
Of txhn NOT n
against those who We're, but by wise
counsel, by fair compromise, and by
gradual emancipation of the American
people from their slavery to monopoly.
[Applause.J
The committee then rose and the House
took a recess until 8 O'clock, the evening
session to be for tariff discussion.
SPEECH BY Mr.. STEWART.
The half dozen members who attended
the evening session listened to good speech
from Mr.. Stewart, of Georgia, from the
anti-protection standpoint He discussed at
length the effect of protection upon the
price of wages, and from the difference in
wages paid in the same industries and va
rious portions OF the country, he drew the
conclusion that the supply and demand, and
density of population, and not the tariff,
regulated tue price Of labor. He read a
table which he had prepared, estimating
that a family of SIX persons living on
farm were taxed by the present tariff
duties 1886 year, and that the passage of
the Mills bill wonld result in reducing
those taxes s9G. The placing of hoop iron
upon the free list and the reduction of the
duty on baggng wo1ld alone save the peo-
pie of the Southern States 81, 400, 900 yearly
in preparing cotton for market. Referring
to trusts and pools he declared that the pas
sage of the bill would paralyze the power
which held the industries of the country
in its hands, and that was the reason
| there was so much stubborn and unyielding
! opposition to a measure SO much IN the in
terest of the people. He took occasion, in
talking of internal revenue taxation, tc
make a strong plea against reducing tho
taxes on whisky, which he denounced as the
cause of ignorance and crime If it meant
| his political grave, he would vote for cheap
necessaries of life and let whisky stay un
der the ban, as it was to-day.
Mr.. Davis of Massachusetts, followed ir
a pronounced protection speech, and the
House at 9:45 o'clock adjourned.