Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-18
THE TARIFF BILL.

ttttlCH ITOta them anu pcTulit 1oIclSu PIS
ducers to flood our markets, 1t would,
| though it maintained exciting duties on
coal and iron ore. close majority OF TIE
| bitiminus coa1 fields and ore banks which
| were now giving profitable employment TO
| hundreds of thousands or laoorers, not
| only IN northern states but IN the south,
| and turn them adrift without the prospect
OF other employment elsewhere, tbah III
| cotton and corn fields. But while pro
| Tossing to have abandoned their purpose 10
| put coal ore on the free list its trainers had
| ingeniously tried to make the importation
| OF both free by such measures OF lnolrec-
! ton as might enable them to saddle the
! treasury department or the Judiciary with
| the political consequences OF their oeuDer-
| ate terglverations.
| Passing on to the question of the duty
on sugar, Mr. Kelly said that the world
was indebted to the fostering care OF the
government for the bountlfui supply OF
sugar which enabled the humblest OF our
laboring classes to include 1t in the list OF
their daily necessities. President CleVe-
| land's free trade message, by its assump-
ton that the duty was always added TO the
cost, not only ofimported commodities but
to the price of like commodities produced
in this country, showed how profoundly
| Ignorant he was OF economic science.
To illustrate the puerile absurdlty OF
this assumption, he kelly invited
the presidents attention TO the tact
that though the duties imposed by our
government on sugar when reduced to at
valorem standards were never SO high as
| they now are, the price OF sugar was never
| so low in this country as 1t now Is. The
progress of sugar making in Louisiana
since 1851 might be cited as an illustration
of the yitaliZing influence OF protection
duties. In spite of the steady decline IN
the price of foreign sugar, the poverty of
hor and tba
plantations at the close of the war, Louis
lana, encouraged by protective duties, had
added materially to the worlds supply of
cane sugar
Coming to the subject of the surplus
Mr. 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 development of its nat
ural resources and the diversification of
its natural resources and the diversified
ton of its industries and thus diminish its
dependence on foreign importation upon
which duties are collected. / would de
rive the national revenues from custom
duties, SO adjusted as to stimulate and de-
fend home productions, while preventing
combinatinns, 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 now doni-
mated by the whisky trust as absolutely as
they were by slavery before the war, and
King alcohol is proving that he is an en-
envy to national development as King
Cotton ever was
He said that kentucky was the most
illustrious victim of the whisky trust"
and that IN the midst of almost un
parallelled wealth and general physical
advantages the mass of her people are
stepped in poverty and illiteracy.
In conclusion Mr. Kelly said: The pop
ulation of the internal taxes is the issue
presented to the American people by the
president in his free trade message and by
five southern gentlemen who have
dominated the councils of the
submitted this bill to the house for
consideration. For myself l will stand for
the protective system and the maintenance
of such rates of duties as will insure the
development of all the resources of the
country increase the number of indus
tries and perpetuate its national indepen-
dence, commercial and industrial as well
political This cannot be done if the in
ternational tax system is to be maintained
for the surplus in condition that cannot
be perpetuated with safety TO our repubh-
can institutions. The purity of the gov
ernment, the safety of business and the
morals of the public demand the
abatement of the surplus by repeal
of internal taxes from which it
flows. And if, in addition to the boarding
of what should be the current money OF
the realm in the treasury of the United
States, we maintain system of sureties
by which from SIS 900, 600 to 500, 600 600 of
what should be our current money shall
be applied solely to the use of the whisky
trust" in its war upon our national indus
tries and our national independence and
prosperity, referring to the surplus and it's
demOralizing influence will impute the
crime that perpetuated it and the conse-
Quences with which it is fraught to the
Fiftieth congress of the United States of
America.
He referred to his recent visit to Ken
lucky and to the earnest welcome bestowed
upon him by the large-framed, great
hearted and sturdy men who came from
all parts of the state to take counsel with
each other as TO how their own condition
and that of their fellow-citizens might be
improved. II he had said a word that
would wound the sensibility of any Ken
tuckian it has not been used with that in
intent, and he begged with the people of
this wonderfully endowed state to remem-
Der the scriptural maxim that faithful
are the wounds of a friend"
Mr. Kelly spoke for two hours, and when
he resumed his seat was loudly applauded
and received congratulations of his party
friends The committee then rose and the
house adjourned
1t is not expected that the debate on the
tariff will be continued tomorrow and the
day will be given up to the consideration
of bills reported by the committee on
labor.