The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-19

to national interests, and in the in
tereSt OF free trade twice threatened
war. 1t was in the interest of free
trade that war was threatened in sup
port Of the doctrine of notification,
and it was in the interest of free
trade that the country was involved
for more than four years in fratricidal
for future guidance the bill was an ana
chronism and was illustrative Of sys-
TENS of ethics and economical philoso-
phey against which history had written
In blood decree, and that were final
and accumulate. None of its provis-
ions were in harmony with the spirit Of
the age. Its first effect would be to
arrest the magnificent developments
Of mineral wealth, of manufacturing
powers and the deversiications of
agriculture now taking place
lyZe the organized industries of the
north. BY the transfer of these and
other products of coal and iron ore to
the free list and by reducing the duties
on steel rails, structural iron and
many other forms of iron and steel
sufficiently to withdraw protection
from them and permit foreign pro-
ducers to flood our markets. Il would,
though it maintained existing duties
Oh OOdl anu nun O4OS CAO6O d
majority of the bituminous coal
FIELDS and ore banks which were
now giving profitable employment
to hundreds of thousands of labOrers.
not only in northern states but in the
south, and turn them adrift without
prospects of other employment else
where than in cotton and corn fields.
While protesting to have abandoned
their purpose to put coal on the free
list its trainers had ingeniOusly con-
trlved to make the importation of both
free.
Passing on to the question of the
duty on sugar, Mr.. Kelly said that the
world was indebted to the fostering
care of this government for the boun-
tlful supply of sugar which enabled
the humbIest of our laboring classes
to include it in the list of their daily
necessities. President Cleveland's
free trade message by its assump-
ton that the duty was always
added to the cost, not only of import
ant commodities, but to the price of
country, showed how profoundly
ignorant he was of economic science.
To illustrate the puerile absurdity of
this assumption he kelly invited the
presidents attention to the fact that
though the duties imposed by our gov
ment on sugar when reduced to ad-
valorem standards, were never
so high as they now are,
the price of surgar was never
The progress of sugar making in
Louisiana since 1867, might be cited as
an illustration of the vitaliZing in
fiuence of protection duties. In spite
of the steady decline in the price of
foreign sugar, the poverty of her people
and the decentralization of her planta-
lions at the close of the war, Louisiana,
encouraged by protective duties, had
added materially to the worlds supply
of cane sugar. Coming TO the subject
of the surplus Kelly said: ]
would SO legislate on the question of
surplus and sources whence it flows as to
increase the wealth, power and dignity
of the country by promoting the devel-
opements of its natural resources and
the diversification of its industries and
thus diminish its dependence upon
| foreign importations upon which du-
| ties are collected. would derive the
national revenues from custom
! duties so adjusted as to slim
ulate and defend home produc-
tions while preventing combinations
| trusts and monOpolies of any kind
| The reduction of taxation should be
| effected Immediately by the abolition
/ of sources of income the receipts from
/ which may be computed month by
month, if not absolutely day by day
| The politics of this country are nov
dominated by the whisky trust as alb
solutely as they were by slavery be
proving that he is as hostile
to national development as king
cotton ever was. He said thai
/ Kentucky was the most illustriou.
victim of the whisky trust" ant
that in the midst of almost unparal
leled wealth and general physical ad
vantages the wars of her people ar
stepped in poverty and illiteracy. Il
concluding Kelly said: The perpetual
ton of the internal taxes is the issu'
presented to the American people b,
the president in his free trade message
and by five southern gentlemen VIII
have dominat ed the councils OF tn
committee on ways and means an,
submitted this bill to the house 70
1 consideration. For myself l vii
stand for the protective system an
| the maintenance of such rates of du
ties as will insure the development o
all the resources of the country, IN
crease the number of industries an
| perpetuate its national independence
commercial and industrial, as well a
political. This cannot be don
if the internal tax system is t
be maintained, for the Surplu
| is in such condition that it cannot b
perpetuated with safety to any republ
can institution The purity c
the government, the safety {
business and the merits of the pull
lie demands the abatement of the SUI
| plus by repeal of the internal taXesfrol
which it flows; and if in addition to til
boarding of what should be the curreI
money of the realm in the treasury of tt
, United States, we maintain system {
sureties by which from S75, 600 600
500, OOO, 900 of what should be OIL
current money shall be applied
the use of the whisky trust" in i
war upon our national industries ar
i our national independence, posterii
referring to the surplus and its d
| moraliZing influence Will impute tt
] crime that perpetuated it, and the CO.
Z sequences with which it is fraught.
I the Fiftieth congress of the Uni
{ ed States of America. Z
referred to his recent visit to Ke
9 lucky, and to the earnest WELDON
/, bestowed upon him by the larg
! framed, great-hearted and sturdy ms
: who came from all parts of the sta
1 | to take council with each other as
q how their own condition and that
' their suffering fellow citizens mig
: be improved. If he had sa
t word that could wound Il
E sensibility of any Kentuckian it h
e not been used with that intent. al
\ he begged the people of this wonde
+ fully endowed state to remember t
v scriptural maxim: THAT faithful a
: the wounds of friend.''
d Kelly spoke for two hours, and VIII
n he resumed his seat was loudly a
plauded and received the congratul
q tions Of his party friends. The CO..
e mittee then rose and the house q
l. journed.
"a ADeP0t Blown Up.
II WABASH, Ind, April 1S.-The del
!. of the Cincinngti, Wabash s. Michig
II Railroad company at this place v
m blown up with dynamite early vest
r day morning, presumably by cltize