Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-27

tive. and expressed MS Denet ID Ireeootn
in all things : and he called attention to
the fact that high protecaonists had
never attempted to protect the labor OF
the country from tie importation Of the
so-called pauper labor Of Europe. In
arguing against high tariff he said that
according 10 the theory OF Protectionists
nothing in the heavens above, or the earth
beneath, or the waters under the earth 40
satisfied the cravings OF the soul and body
of the hungry laboringman rs to see his
employer luxuriating in money gathered
from long suffering and patient people
under pretence that it Was for the benefit
of the laborer. He contrasted the
periods between 1850 and 1860, and be-
tween 1870 and 1880, to show that in the
low-tariff era the wealth OF the farmers
ofthe country had increased 100 per cent.
while in the high-tariff era it had only
increased per cent In further support
OF his position that high tariff was in
furious 20 the industries Of the country
he cited statistics showing that IN 1906
OF our total foreign commerce American
vessels carried 70 per cent, while IN
1887 they carried only 13 per cent. OF
such commerce. In few years, he said,
under the existing laws, the United
States would present TO the world the
humiliating spectacle of great and
proud nation unable to carry / cents
worth OF her foreign commerce., amount
ing annually to S1,OO,0O0. Human
ingenuity, he said in conclusion, could
not conceive a system more unjust, more
unreasonable, unfair, and moro I'M
righteous than the protective system. He
earnestly appealed to every gentleman
who had tho faintest conception OF
Justice to lend his aid to the pending
bill, which sought in some measure at
least to lift from the touchdown necks
of the people OF the country the bur-
den that had been laid upon them.
He was contending for the inalienable
right of a citizen to buy in that
market where his money would pur-
chase most chesply the necessaries OF
lite, and he must be withered mp specl-
men of humanity whose soul did not go
out in sympathy to the people making
one more strenuous effort to secure this
right of every free man. Even the pro
tected pets of the Government might
support the bill when they heard the
piteous cry of the people Tor fair and
even chance in the race of life. 1t
would be sufficient epitsph or eulogy
for him II, when the trials and tribuls-
tons of life were over when ltstriumphs
and failures were ended, when earth s
work was done, it could be truly SAID OF
him that so long as God gave him
strength he had conteuded for the liberty
OF the people against the tyranny OF their
unjust oppressors. Applause.
Mr.. Osborn, of Pennsylvania, sub
mitted an argument against the bill,
which be characterized as blow at the
dignity of American labor. BE protested
in the name of the great State Of Penn
sylyania against the passage Of the bill,
which would destroy its industries, I'M
poverish its farmers, and degrade its Ia
borers
Mr.. Hudd, of Wisconsin. said that
the Republican party WAS committed to
the abolition OF the internal revenue
taxation, ana resisted every attack on the
tariff, because any change in import du-
ties would interfere with It's pets, who
with Oliver Twist simplicity were asking
for more protection. That party would
take the tax off whiskey and tobacco be-
cause by SO doing it expected to prevent
such a revision of the tariff as WAS DOW
demanded by the great mass Of the tax
PAYERS Of the country. The Democratic
party had placed its shoulders against
the car of tariff reform and would pro-
pei it to the end of the journey.
When MIR. Hudd had concluded the
committee rose and the House took O
recess until O'Clock. the evening session
to be for tariff debate.