The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-11
a sI,nmeful Documcnt.

The report of the republican minority @
the committee on ways and means on tn
Mills tariff bin is a sorry compound o
demagogisn, balderdash, and fals2hood
1t is well calculated to make an intelligen
man tired, and an honest one mad. 1t
without the first essential OF good, o.
even a passable argument. Its assumP
tons are false, its logic is vile, its conclu
siOns transparently erroneous. 1t is nos
even a clever piece of special pleading
1t is simply blind, stupid, senseless
pointless TRADE against measure who's
extreme moderation and careful consider
alton for the interest of the mouopolies
whom the makers Of this report represent
are at once its distinguishing features ana
its browning defects.
A few samples OF the wild assertions o.
this remarkable document viii illustrat
its general tone and character. ''The far
| mer's Investments and products are disas-
trously dealt with" The bill reduces thI
tax on many articles which the farmer
uses; gives him salt, lumber and a few
other important commodities duty free
puts wool on the free list-a producl
which not one farmer in hundred raises,
! and which has, as d rule, commanded bet
ter prices under low tariff than under
| protection. This is how it deals with the
| farmer "disastrously." ~4-
THE wages of the workmen OF the
1 country are at stake" How? The re
port does not say. How can it affect tn
/ workman's wages to give him free salt
lumber, wool, etc, and cheaper clothing
shelter, tools, and medicine? The work
men employed in the salt and lumber in
dustries and in wool-growing are to-day
paid as little as will sustain life. Vii
they be paid less under any tariff, or NJ
| tariff? r..
''The bill is radical reversal of th,
tariff policy OF the country Which, foi
the most part, has prevailed since
the foundation OF the govern
ment." The bill is nothing of tn,
kind. 1t leaves an excessive and uncon
scionable amount OF protection on almos
every article produced by American capi
tai and skill. Take the metal schedules
for instance The bill az it stands leave
every article in the schedules With iron
Is to 75 per cent protection, the javerag,
being above 80 per cent. The like is true o
all the other schedules. The articles trans
fcrred to the free list are important ray
materials in the production OF wtlic
skilled labor is not employed, and. whicl
are now controlled by m0nopolies. Tn
Mills bill, so far from being radical, j
conservative in the extreme, and provide
for higher protection than ALEYANDE
HAMILrox or HENRY CLAY or even HoR.AC
GREELEY ever advocated. ~ .r-1 ..,'
"The bill will deprive our people OF EN-
ploymcnt and the opportunity TO ear
money with which to feed and cloth
themselves and their families and educat
their children" Messrs. REED, BRowSl
KELLEY and McKINLEY know that this
false They are not idiots, and any on
above the grade of an idiot knows tia
:. such results could not possibly follow.
| measure for a slight reduction intakes @
a few OF the necessities of life. The
: make this statement presumlng upon Tn
ignorance and credulity of the massc
The minority report was prepared
knaves for the consumption OF fools.
THE Jot1qoi, with Characteristic trio
cry, attempts to pervert somethin: II
SENTINEL said touching the damage sui
brought by Mr.. HARRISON and Mr.. SULI
VAN against Messrs. MicHENER and FoULI
+, intoa "gratuitousandin indecent attack upC
Judge HowE of the supcsior court" II
SENTINEL has not said a word that is su
: ceptble OF such an interpretation, and u
: Journal, in asserting the contrary, is gull
Of a gTatuitous and indecent falsehood.
4 IuII still in the Field.
/ ALBANY, April 5.-It is announced that
= may be- put dogn as settled that willy u. i. II
. is in the field for the democratic president
: nomination. Any idea that he win decline, I
. nomination before or after 1t " offered u
: must be dispelled.- The nm~- hSt like I
: late lamented Blaine, he lIas .sts~- -esser
faithful hcnchman, to he sprungn. - POL