Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
TALKS FOR TARIFF.
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work. If they did not receive work they
would live on the whites dishonesty. A
negro would not steal if he could get work.
Negroes were the best mine workers. They
were practical, industrious and faithful, If
they were paid promptly and treated kindly.
! Let Congress do nothing which would de-
prive these people of the opportunity of
making an honest living by delving IN the
ground with pick and shovel.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SOUTH.
He General Imboden) was a protection
ist; be had always been one, and he believed
that if in the South there could be a fair
and square vote OH the protection issue,
without any extraneous issues, the protee-
tionists would overwhelmingly carry iour or
five Southern States The North had been
made rich by protection; il was now the op-
portunitv OF the South to become rich. If
anybody was to be protected he would rather
make an American rich than Hungarian,
an Italian, or a Belgian.
Mr.. Flower, of New York, inquired in
reference to the remark as to elections in the
South, whether Mr.. Imboden meant that the
color line had to be drawn, and that the
gentleman had to vote against his senti-
ments.
Mr.. Imboden-we are compelled to stand
together there, under certain conditions.
The tariff sinks into insignifcance. In the
last election 1 voted, with extreme reluctance,
the Democratic ticket, but 1 did it.
Laughter.
AN ANTI-ADNINISTRATIoN
The President and Speaker, said Mr.
1mboden, are able and patriotic and sincere
men; but they have put the stamp on the
men in the South whom we do not vote for.
The President has not selected, as a repre-
sentative of the people, a single Southern
man to foreign mission. In the House
there are I6 Republicans from the South.
Only one got a Craftsmanship of a COM
mittee. On this question of protection am
Republican,; on local questions 1 am a
Democrat. Laughter
Mr.. McKenna, OF California-We are
glad to receive the approval OF your judg-
ment, even if you cannot vote with us.
Laughter.
Mr.. Gear inquired what the men now
working in the mines would do If they
should be thrown out of work
Mr.. Imboden-If they had no labor they
would have to go to stealing chickens.
Laughter.
Judge Bowling, of Virginia, made an ar
gument in favor of the retention of the duty
on iron ore. He thought that this matter
of protection 10 the industries of Virginia
became one OF the most important features
in determination of the race question.
REARED AMONG NEGROES.
The speoker mad been born and reared
among negroes and he counted them as his
warmest friends. He spoke in no dispar-
agement of the negro race. He could tell
of instances of trust in the race which would
do honor to the heart and head of any man,
and should live in song and story. The
negroes were in the South, and the question
was how to make better citizens OF them.
Farming did not pay in Virginia, and other
labor must be supplied to the negro. When
he had labor and received his wages for it,
instead OF remaining idle and thriftless, he
got a little home and ceased to be politi-
clan. Protection was source of strength
to the people of the South, in endeavoring
to make better citizen of the negro.
Congressman Louis A. McComas, of
Maryland opposed any reduction of duty on
biGuminous coal. holding that such a reduc-
ton would not cheaper coal for the freside,
but would paralyze an important industry,
and lessen the price of its labor. 1t would |
strike heavy blow to the coastWise trade. |
1t would give cheaper and better coal to |
English steamship lines and help English |
capital to delay the revival of American I
shipping. At this time reduction of the |
duty would be a blunder worse than a |
crime.
AGAINST FREE COAL.
O. M. Hitchins, of Maryland, a coal |
operator, who formerly mined in Wales, |
testified that if the duty was taken off coal |
the Welsh coal could not be kept out of the |
He stated that the wages received
in Wales were not nearly as large as the /
miner received in this country, and, al |
though clothing was cheaper abrosd, the |
homes of the workingmen were not half as
comfortable. There was no comparison be-
tween the condition of the English and
American miner.
James Sloan, practical miner of Mary
land, also spoke against putting coal on the
free list. He did not want the wages of |
Maryland miners reduced to the Scotch or
Nova Scotia standard. He cited story
descriptive of the condition of Scotch
miner. One was asked whether he ever ate
beefsteak, and his answer was that he some
times saw beef through a window, but that
that was about as near as he ever got to it:
but, he continued, ''lf you Americans
would take the tariff of, we might get bit
Of beef yet.''
John Fatkin, Of Maryland, another miner.
followed in the same line, and protested
against reduction of duty on coal
John P. Otterson, of Allegheny, advocated
An increase of duty on enameled iron.
The committee then adjourned until to-
morrow, when the sugar reiners will be
heard.