Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-08

factured products In his state there we're
100000 more people than sheep. and between
the sheep and the people has sympathy was
with the people.
DISCUSSING The sUBJECr or TRUSTS
ss connected with the tariff. he denounced the
dressed-beef monopoly OF Chicago as having
plundered the farmers of the west by its un-
scrupulous exactions. IL the farmer was
10 be relieved, if the mortgage was TO
be taken oil his farm. the government
must speedily reverse its policy in regard 10
foreign trade. III the government would un-
shackle our genius, unhamper our enterprise,
unfetter our resources. we would soon outstrip
England and wrest from her that commercial
distinction which she had won since this policy
had confined American prowess to American
shores. lApplause.I
CoNTRADIcrs Mr.. DocKERY
Mr.. Frank (Mo.) } denied a statement made by
Mr.. Dockery to the effect that money had been
used TO enable the republicans to carry the
three st. Louis congressional districts. Not a
single dollar had been contributed to carry HIS
district. The reason the republicans had carried
those districts WAS because for the first time in
twelve years they had had an honest election
and a free ballot and an honest count
MIR. Dockery was unable TO get the floor 10
reply, but gave notice that he would do SO when
he could obtain recognition.
THEORY AND NOT A CONDITION.
Mr.. Burrows (slich. opened his speech with
the declaration that 1t is q theory and not a
condition which confronts u.s." There could
be no condition Of the Treasury that legislation
could not remove. Ii It was overflow
ing with surplus il was necessary only
to diminish the supply. IL it was de-
pleted, increased revenue could be furnished.
The condition OF the Treasury TODAY an
overfowing one. What was the remedy The
republicans would reduce the surplus by one
theory; the democrats by another; and ii was
this conflict of theories which had prevented
the remedy being applied. II was a theor ~
which prevented the passage of tariff bill last
Congress. The House democratic. the
Senate republican. Each body passed a tariff
Dill, the effect of which. Il was claimed. would
be to reduce the revenue 10 the actual needs
OF the government, but both measures
failed. In the campaign OF 1888 the two theO-
ries were presented TO the American people.
and after a full debate on platform and in the
press a verdict was rendered in favor OF the
republican theory Of taxation verdict So
pronounced as 10 wrest the presidency and the
popular branch of Congress from the demo-
cratic party and confer them on the republican
party. lApplause.I
To EXECUTE THE POPULAR VERDICT.
In the measure the committee Oh ways and
means presented it had sought TO execute the
popular verdict thus expressed and TO crystal
democratic party would acquiesce and permit
the verdict to be executed. But the democratic
party did not propose TO accept the
peoples judgment as final The
opposition and the conflict of 1855 was TO be re-
newed 1t was again going before the people
with an appeal that they reverse their verdict
OF two years ago. The democratic party favored
tariff for revenue; the republican party
favored tariff for revenue and protection -
not Incidental, not accidental but intentional.
He WHO BELIEVED IN FREE TRADE
must support the democratic party and he who
believed in protection must sustain the repub-
lican party. tariff bill for revenue only was
a step toward free trade and the republican
party was against it, IApplause.l That party
did not believe III imposing tariff on foreign
products the like Of which were not and
could not be produced in this country.
All such products ought to be admitted free of
duty. On this principle the committee has
materially enlarged the free list in its bill If
the committee had failed to place on the free
list single article of foreign production
which could not be produced in
this country, it was error which
the committee would be prompt TO remedy. IL
there was an article on the free list the like of
which could be produced at home. il was an
oversight and would be transferred to the
dutiable list The bill was intended as
MEASURE OF PROTECTION
from the enacting clause to the closing para
graph. [Applsuse.l If there was a single pro-
vision in it which in its workings would inure
to the benefit of any foreign industry TO the
detriment of our own such a provision
was there by inadvertence and not by
design. Applause. II there was a section in
the bill which would bring disaster 90 any
American industry or paralyze the arm of any
laboring man in the United States such a
section was there by accident and not by design
[Applause.l
Referring to the subject of tin plate. Mr..
Burrows said that the Mills bill put IT ON the
free list. and the pending bill increased the
duty. 1t was conceded that the United States
did not produce pound of tin plate The
democratic party would SO legislate as to
make its production here an imposslbility
for all time TO come. and thus not onlv CON
tinue our dependence on foreign countries
for this article of prime necessity but make
our thralldom complete and perpetual. The
republicans proposed by guarantee of ample
protection to invite American capital TO enter
new field of industry and lay the
foundation for the production of our
own tin plate The United States could make
its own tin plate 1t had the material, skill.
genius, and, under this bill. new industry
would spring into life and bring to the Ameri-
can people new source of wealth and TO the
American worklngman a new field of Labor
Applause.
Democrats would put wool on the free list
and expose American wool growers TO ruinous
competition with the woods of Australia and
South America and reduce the people of this
great nation to a dependence on foreign coun-
tries for the very clothing on their backs The
republicans proposed an increased safeguard
for this great industry and would encourage it
until the United States possessed within itself
the capacity to supply its own people with this