Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-10

me a bite Of your big red apple will show
YOU my sore toe." tLaughter.i
THE HEREAFTER.
II aenators insisted on TRIPPING tho exist
ing tax on cotton-ties might not. ne asked,
when some of them were on the musings
talking about protection to American labor
some man in the audience say with great
propriety, THAT is lie? You know that
Won are not for protecting all American
labor. for seven million bales OF cotton are
oppressed when prepared IN tne foreign
Market by tax three times higher than
that imposed upon many other articles"
EVERY NEW INDUSTRY rAuPEB.
He confessed that he hated to see new
was sure to be q pauper saddled on the
Mr.. Hoar inquired whether that feeling
anplied to industries already existing.
Mr.. Vance replied that it did not. He
hoped to see before he died American
manufacturers flourish Just as American
agriculturalists flourshed..
Prophets and kings desired it long, but
did without the sight" He hoped TO see
American manufacturers flourish by the
sweat of their brows and by their own
honest industry instead of by the sweat of
the brows of his people and Of their honest
| industry.
BURDENS on TIE PUBLIC TREASURY.
Every time that a new mine was dis
covered or a new industry was established
| IL was Immediately foisted upon the pub
| lie treasury, aud now, for fear that there
might come "a king who knew not Jo-
seph," in other words, O Democratic ma
jority which did know the people, it had
been thought necessary TO provide by the
| last will and testament of the Republican
1 Cos oh a . MIGHT
after DO born in lawful wedlock TO that
community, or in unlawful wedlock,
either. so there was TO be an opening made
| for some manufactory of cotton-ties 70 be
established. And it was said to be the
| duty of senators not to provide for the IN
FAINT when it came, but to provide for 1t be-
! fore 1t came.
THE coTToS-TrE INFANT.
Who. he asked, was TO be the recipient
| of tho taxation on cotton-ties before that
infant was born and baptized? There was
| no way, he declared, in which the proposed
| increase of duty on cotton-ties could be
| looked at that was nsible-not single
solitary one. The most deserving. because
the most useful in commercial point OF
| view, of all the agricultural products OF
! the United States, was taxed to death In all
the processes Of its growth and production,
and was then taxed farewell shot, as the
bale left the Clubhouse, of 1903 per cent. on
the ties that enveloped il, and this not for
| the benefit of the American manufacturers
| of cotton-ties (for there were none) and
not for the benefit of the Treasury Tor the
! bill was one Ito reduce revenueD. but
| ont of pure "cussedness," and because
| the Republican party had got so used to
taxing things that they could not stop.
| Mr. Turpie made a speech upon the
| general subject of the tariff and IN opposl-
ton to the pending bill.
| MR.. DANIEL on THE TARIFF.
| Mr. Daniel also made a speech on the
question of the pending bill IN general and
| of the proposed increase OF tho DUTY on
cotton-tles in particular. He spoke OF that
proposed increase as characteristic of the
relentless war which the Republican party
was making upon the agricultural indus
| tries of the United States. On what prln-
| cipe of free trade or of protection, or what
economic theory OF any kind, no asked,
could q proposition be sustained TO IN.
crease the tax on cotton-ties. an article or
| indispensable necessity? But the Repub,,
| lican party. he said. had declared war, and
| war to the knife. against everything that
agriculture produced. IL did not intend
to give TO the agricultural interest any,
thing except o little sop here and there TO
placate the ignorant and TO disguise the
| false intention that lurked under its some
time pleasing promises.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES ATTACKED.
The bill proposed to triple the duty on
| cotton-ties, to take the duty oil sugar, and
to reduce the duty on rice, thus attacking
| three of the great industries OF the South
while attempting to delude the farmers OF
the West with increased duties on barley,
oats, rye, and wheat. 1t fooled the
| ignorant voter, cooed tho coy maiden
of agriculture Coming Through the
Rye but did not protect wheat 70
the value Of one mill for all the farmers OF
any one county in the United States.
| PROTECTION THAT DOES NOT PROTECT.
| In other words, for the American farm
ers there was in the bill protection
wherever it would not protect. and there
was no protection wherever it would.
In the bill the Republican party was for
free trade in nearly everything that would
injure the farmers Of the United States.
Why was it, he asked that while there
was project of reciprocity with South
America hides were to be put on the free
| lst-an article in which South America
was rival of the United States? There
| was q reason, ne said, for 1t.
| The RIFT IN BLAIsE's Lutte.
Hides were a product Of agriculture and
and they were wanted free by certain man
ufacturers. and it would be for wool just
as it was for hides but for the fact that the
bill had (as curiosity TO provide some
simulated and pretended form OF protec-
| ton with which to make picture deluslye
and full of snares for the American farmer.
LIKE BARSUM's wooLLY HORSE.
The wool tax figuring in the bill was
very much like Barnum's woolly horse
some thirty years ago. 1t was the woolly
horse of the Republican party which de-
rived from it large revenue in the way OF
tho votes of the humbugged wool-pro-
ducers of the United States.
The vote was at last taken on Mr.. But
! ler's cotton-tie amendment, and it was re-
jected by strict party yote-yeas, 16;
nays, q.
| tenths cent additional duty on hoops when
| cut into lengths for baling purposes to one