Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-13
FIfEieeh Congress.
THE SENATE.

WILMINGTON, April 12-Auong the
,ms reported from committees and
rI.ced en- the calendar were the follow
ing:
nav Of army chaplsins. Indefinitely
postponed.
Senate bill authorizing the Little Rock
and Alexandra Railway Company TO
huild bridge across Bayou Terre Bonnie,
Louisiana.
Imltiou to refer the Presidents annual
massage IVES then taken up and Nj. Coke
rroc-eded to address the Senate. He
hogan By speaking f the surplus of $40,
600 600 IN the Treasury snd said that the
csu.es which took that money
needlessly from the POCKETS of the
neople and the channels Of trade
we're continuing, aud produced more ag-
grsysted results each successive year. Il
VAS easy to see that uHless the causes
we're removed or greatly modified, IL was
oply question of time when calamity
fatally Involving sill industrial interests
of the country must fJllow. In view of
this emergency, so fill of evil portent 10
the country, the President had, in q wise
and bold message, urgently recommend
ed such revision Of the tariff and Ieduc-
ton OF the duties on imports as would
reduce the revenues to limit required
for tue support Of the government. Ia
thst the President was simply yoicing the
demcnd that came from The
people OF the whole country.
soeskiug of internal revenue
MIR. Coke said that distilled spirits, malt
uduors and TobScco were Injuries, not
uecessaries; that the revenues collected
from them went directly into the treasury
Ness s small per cents ga for cost Of col
lecliou) and that the inleroal revenue tax
Ess to that extent clear gain to the
treasury. Il added nothing 10 the cost
Of food, clothing, shelter, or other Items
Of living, while II operated So meas ure
Of repression upon excessive and in
furious use Of the article. Consumers
aid not complain Of that and II
WAS not strange that the Presi-
dent should recommend It's retention IN
diminished and that necessary reduction
Of the revenue be made by cutting down
tsriR taxes. II 8 reduction should be
made in This way IS Of tribute paid by the
people TO the manufacturers would be Gu.
Of for every dollar cut OF frOM he rev.
eRue. The tariff ouE OF which these re-
suits grew was the most monstrous sys-
TEN OF taxation this or any other country
had ever known. This higr tariff prCtec-
ton YVES universally dtf;nded on the
ground of the necessity Of protecting
American labor against Europ 3en psuper
competition. This was all there WAS Of
the protection Argument, and no
eGort WAS made to place 1t
on any other ground, but q
more false, heartless and groundless text
had ney'r been invented to justify or
cover u pis great wrong. A clearer case
Of "steaing the livery Of heaven to serve
the devil in" was not to be fOund in his
tory. The capitslisf, manufacturer, the
man who hired aud employed labor, real
lied through the tariff from one and q
hSlt to hVs times as much as the laborer
received. They became rich while the
la5Orer remStued poor. Reduction Of
tariff TO strictly revenue standard would
cheSpen the cost Il manufactured pro
ducts aud to that ex ent diminish the
cos! OF living. II would put the markets
Of the world open to the American m nu-
tscturers and American labor would
IN common with the whole people, have
their benefit thereof. But Ii was on the
farmers Of ths country wno lived harder,
VINO wore palmer clothing, practiced
more rigid eclRomy and had fewer Of the
lGxnries Of life tnsn any other class, that
the protective tariff fell with the most
Crushing weight. As to the Presidents |
recommendation, tnat wool be p aced on |
the free list, Coke stated wool ought to |
m Ia fraa Iilr
manufacture and oil machinery u>sd IA !
manufacturing should. But when wool
was placed on tue Tree list it ought TO be |
done II ths interest Of the consumer. not |
Of the manufacturer. A duty of 81 per |
cent. would pay back TO the N snufsc .urer
the difsrence between the English ard |
American wages IN WOODEN manufactures
Guy. o. 20 per cent. would be highly |
protective Of the manufacturer who used |
Qnt.Ied wool. But to allow the maou-
hcturer OF free, uuEkxsd wool 80 or 40 or |
ov per cent. Tor the manufactured article |
would be an Outrage. as he did not eX.
peeI tue passage Of i bill that would meet
MS views, and SO meant to accept what
ne could get in the way of tariff reduc-
uon (aoWeVer far 1t might fall short of
What ne desired). ne might BIS compelled
70 vote Tor the oil containing such an in
justice, but II 30 1t would bs against
MS most earnest protest. and siIer his
oeSt Efforts to reform It; aud SO with
reference to sugar. He regarded sugar
Is the best revenue paying item on the
revenue list, AMI as one carrying along
WIN itmore burden than any other, and
.nougat it would therefore be wise to
teASe the duty on sugar as 1t was. But
We would accept aud support any reduce
uon OF duty st might be found neces.
sAfy 10 the success OF bill to reducs the
Atlr. The attention Of the people could
not De diverted from the real question
AZ issue, BY the sectional
bloody shirt CANVASS already
commenced by the republican party
sao 20 Pc vigorously prosecuted for the
express purpose of binding the people
20 MCKNIGHT lot see how and by whom
me! were being plundered. His faith in
1e intelligence Of the people and in ;heir
s,Acament to honest CONSTITUTIONS gov
t stsa@tnt drove from his mind al fear Of
a. Al the close of Coke's speech the Ssn-
Nv ~ resumed consideration Of the bill to
SSrU.ae Tor tM admission Of the state Of
"Vath Dskota.
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