Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-21
REEDS ARGUMENT,
Some Telling Points on the Side of
American Protection.

Hihcitcdh IEotectIOns
Tom Reed of Maine got the floor after
Baker had sat down. He began speaking
and quiet was soon restored. Reed started
out by saying that he proposed to tell the
House what were the principles underlying
the two systems under debate. The srs,
tenn indicated by the bill brought in by the
Ways and Means Committee was claimed
to be the policy for the poor man. and
through 1t he was to have all the benefits
which are generally supposed to come IN
people IN Arcadia. The President. he said
was tbs leader of the Democratic party. and
perhaps Ii was Pathology to remark that he
was also the dispenser of patronage. Since
nc bad shaken OFT from his feet the shackles
OF civil service reform, he had been gather
ing his party about him. If it is a fact, as
the PRESIDENT asserts, that every dollar of
outy is taken out OF the pockets of the con-
sumer, and goes into the pockets of the
manufacturer, then the whole system of
protection was wrong. Protection. Incl
dental or accidental, is either a great wrong
or great truth. The friends of virtue on
the other side tell us that il is robbery r.
that is SO, their proposition is nothing more
nor less tnan a proposition to continue the
robbery under Limitation. They propose
instead of giving to these robber manufact,
urers $47 out OF every 500. to give only
$40. Does that not mean that thew hon
estly think the principle all right? think
SO.
Reed then began systematic attack on
the Mills bill, pointing out its many incon-
sisteDcies. His points were telling ones. and
while he was not interrupted often by ap-
plause, 1t was owing to the fact that he
mace no attempt to speak to the gallery,
but confined himself to an argument that
must have been convincing 10 ali those con-
versant with tariff reform.
A LABoRER WITHOUT MONEY OR POCKETS.
Reed asked the gentlemen on the other
side to consider the proposition of his
lheed's) IN opposition to the proposition
made by Mr.. Heard of Missouri. Heard
spoke OF the laboring man after free trade
was 1naugurated buying goods in Rhode
Island for the same figure they could be
purchased in Liverpool. Now |, said Mr..
Reed, want to ask you to suppose a case
the other way. Suppose the laboring man
was Journeying to Rhode Island TO buy an
article without any money in his pockets or
any pockets in his trousers [laughter1.
and he found that he could buy an article
for the same price as he could in Liver
pool, what would be the benefit to him ?.
Only, think, the intellectual enjoyment
perhaps the gentlemen on the other side
intend to give him.
Now it has been said by Mills, the gen.
ileman from Texas chosen to lead this bill,
that of 81 IS paid for yard of cashmere,
so cents goes into the pocket of the robber
baron merchant. Now this is not so. as the
ddty on the article is So cents ad valorem.
Then there Is the gentleman from Massa-
chUsetts, Mir. Russell, who is the happy
possessor OF so many unknown sheep. He
pictured TO US the merchants of our coun-
try as bankrupts if protection is not throt-
tied, while Mr.. Mills tells US that they are
and will be rolling in wealth Still don't
know whether to admire the lucid imagin-
alton OF the Texan or the vigorous accu-
racy of the Yankee. [Laughter.l