The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-20
MILLS BILL.
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which would seek to array the one against
the other for any purpose Is narrow, un.
worthy and unpatriotic. The Presidents
message is unhappily In that direction.
Tho discussion had on this floor has
taken that turn. Both have been calcu.
lated to create antagonisms where none
existed.
The farmer, the manufacturer, the Ia.
borer, the tradesman and the producer
and the consumer all have common
interest in the maintenance Of protect
i've tariff. All are alike and equally fa-
vored by the system which you seek to
overthrow. tis national system, broad
and universal in Its application; II 9TH
erwise it should be abandoned. II can
not be invoked for one section or one
interest to the exclusion OF others. 1t
must be general in Its application within
the contemplation OF the principle upon
which the system Is founded. We have
been living under it for twenty.seven
continuous years, and 1t can be asserted
with confidence that no country In the
world has, achieved such industrial ad-
vancement, and such marvellous progress
in art, science and civilization as ours.
lebJcu Dy ltS IS5ultb, IL Ihb TpdcStu MI
other revenue systems.
From 1880 to 1888, a period of ninety
nine years, there have been forty.seven
years when Democratic revenue tariff
policy has prevailed, and fifty-two years
under the protective policy, and it is a
noteworthy fact that the most progress.
i've and prosperous periods OF our history
in every department OF human effort and
material development were during the
fifty.two years when the protective party
was in control and protective tariffs were
maintained; and the most disastrous
years--years OF want and wretchedness,
ruin aud retrogression, eventuating in
insufficient revenues and shattered cred
its, individual and national-were dur.
ing the free.trade or revenue.tarif eras
OF our history. No man living who pass
ed through any OF the latter periods but
would dread their return, and would flee
from them as he would escape from fire
and pestilence and believe the party
which promotes their return will merit
and receive popular condemnation. What
is the trouble with our present condition.
No country can point to greater prosper.
ity or more enduring evidences of sub
stantial progress among all the people.
Too much money is being collected, 1t Is
said. We say stop 1t; not by indiscrim-
mate and vicious legislation, but by SIM
pie business methods. Do 1t on simple,
practical lines, and we will help you.
Buy up the bonds, Objectionable as 1t
may be, and pay the nations debt, If you
cannot reduce taxation. You could have
done this long ago. Nobody is chargea-
BILE for the failure and delay but our own
Administration. 81
Who is objecting to our protective sys-
tenn? From what quarter does the com.
plant come? Not from the enterprising
American citizen; not from the manu-.
facturer; not from the laborer, whose
wages it improves; not from the con-
sumer, for he is fully satisfied, because
under it he buys q cheaper and better
product than he did under the other
system; not from the farmer, for he
finds among the employees OF the pro.
tected industries his best and most reli.
able customers; not from the merchant
OF. the tradesman, for every hive of in
diistry increases the number OF his Gus
toners and enlarges the volume of hi
trade. Few, indeed, have been the pc
titi0ns presented to this House asking
for any reduction of duties upon imports
None, that have seen or heard of, anG
have watched with the deepest interest
the number and character of these peti
tions, that I might gather from them the
4 drift of public sentiment-I say have
seen none asking for the passage of thii
bill, or for any such departure from the
fiscal policy OF the government SO ioni
recognized and followed, while agains
this legislation there has been no limi
to petitions, memorials, prayers and pro
tests, from producer and consumer alike
NO PUBLIC DEMAND FOR SUCH A MEASURE
This measure is not called for by th'
people 1t is not an American measure
It is inspired by importers and foreigl
want to diminish our trade and increas
their own; who want to decrease ou
prosperity and augment theirs, and VIII
have no interest in this country excep
what they can make out of It. To thi
is added the influence OF the professor
in some Of our institutions Of learning
who teach the science contained in book
and not that OF practical business.
would rather have my political econom,
founded upon the everyday experienc
of the puddler or the potter than tn
learning of the professor, the farmer an
factory hand than the college faculty
Then there il another class who wan
protective tariffs overthrown. They ar
the men of independent wealth, wit
settled and steady incomes, who wan
every thing cheap but currency the va
ue OF everything clipped but coin-chea
labor but dear money. These are tn
element which are arrayed against us.
Men whose capital is invested in pre-
ductlve enterprises, who take the risk
OF business; men who expend their car
ital and energy in the development {
our resources, they are in favor of tn
maintenance of the protective system
The farmer, the rice-grower, the minel
the vast army of wage.earners from on
end of the country to the other, the chic
producers of wealth, men whose capits
is their brain and muscle; who aspire
better their condition and elevate them
selves and their fellows; the young ma
whose future is yet before him, an
which he must carve out with his han
and head, who Is without the aid OF fol
tune or long ancestral line, these ar
nur otaodfaat all;aa in this Uraat cOptas