Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
BOTH SIDES.
Another Days Lively Tariff Debate in
in The House.


in The House.
WASHINGTON, April 27th.-When the de-
bate en- the tariff bill was reached to-day
Brewer of Michigan said he gladly wei
coined the issue presented by the pending
measure. In times past the Democratic
party had sought to evade the issue. In its
platform of 1884 it had declared for protec-
tion, free trade, incidental protection, for a
tariff for revenue only and for tariff only
for revenue; so that the voter could con-
strue the platform TO suit his own convic-
tions. In Kentucky the platform meant
free trade. In Pennsylvania, New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (RandalD was able to
make voters believe it meant protection
By reason of fraud and intimidation prac-
ticed in one section of the country, and by
the means OF deception practiced by Demo-
cratic leaders in another section, the DEM
ocratic candidate for the Presidency had
been elected For three years of Demo
cratic administration the Democratic party
in the House had played fast and lose on
the great tariff question, until the pecessi-
ties of the Government had compelled the
Administration to take some decided posi-
ton, and he honored the President for
having forced his party to stop its double
dealing and define its attitude.
He then advocated the protective system
as one which tended to increase the wages
of labor, and IN support of his proposition
he cited various statistics prepared by Com
missioner Wright. He was especially
earnest in his opposition to the free wool
clause, which he said would ruin an indus
try which was national in its Importance
He contrasted the condition of the country
under free trade and protection. The for
mer, he said, had brought the Government
to state of bankruptcy, while the latter
had rendered the country prosperous and
glorious.
FORD OF MICHIGAN
Said the question presented now was one
OF tariff reduction, not abolition. Lon-
gress had to take the part of the few manu-
facturers against the great body of con-
sumers. But that was just what had been
done. The war tariff declared for high
| prices for the producer of iron, low prices
| for the producer of cern, high prices for
the producer of glass, and low prices for
producers OF wheat. He ridiculed the
position taken by the protectionists-that
| a high tariff increased the wages of Ameri-
can workingmen. No Industries, he said,
| showed more poverty, more Gestitution
and more strikes among their workipgmen
| than those so-called protected ones. There
was not Il hod-carrier in the United States
but who earned more wages than the aver
age person employed in the industries
benefited by the war tariff. Referring to
| the claim that home market was the best
market, ne said the result of this home
market swindle is that the farmer was
most beautifully deluded. The high tariff
party gets his vote, high trusts and
| monopolists get his money, and the farm er
| ge,s the hoi end of the poker.
| GoFF OF WEST VIRGINIA
Said the action of the tarifl should be made
| by the friends of the protective system, and
not by its avowed cGemics. President
| CleveaDd's cold-blooded Indifference to the
| benefits of the people was entitled to prece-
dence over all emanations from the Execu-
| tive Mansion in all our history. From
such spirit as President Cleveland exhib-
tied, dominating almost with a single i'm
pulse the Democratic side of the House, be
| (Goff) would save our industries and our
| homes The Mills bill was conceived by
minds impregnated with economic vicious.
ness. Its passage would be the death knell
of protection. If they succeeded now, they
! proposed next year to take another step
! and gradually, but surely, the people were
| to be marched into the camp of those who
contended for tariff for revenue only
That system, as far as labor was involved
| and industries concerned, was as bad as
free trade. George Washington was erandly
| right when he suggested and approved the
first tariff provisions. Grover Cleveland
who, he hoped, would be our last free trade
President-was shamefully wrong when ht
suggested and used the power of his great
office TO secure the destruction of the pro
tectiye system. The people had never beer
deceived in the last Presidential campaign
by the declaration that Cleveland was ;
prOtectionist. The hand of ESau would b,
otfeied again, but the people would no
sgail be deceived. He did not believe il
free raw material.
WHAT is RAW MATERIAL?
There was no such thing as raw material
in the sense in which it was used in tai
discussion. Coal unmined was raw mate
rial, but when il was mined il was tn
miners finished product, and entitled I
protection the same as iron ore. 1t was a
much emitted to protection as the rice field
of the South and the sugar plantations {
the Mississippi valley, Wool, clipped fror