Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-10-09

should perish by atrophy, and that it
Bhould be annihilated for the want of
members. Now wh0t do you find to be
the fact2 Is there any want Of members2
Is not the struggle to get more? LOOK
at the oensus-the charge is made, 1
know not how true, that it has been
manipulated for the purpose Of increas-
ing the number Of representatives. here
and there-every state, every community,
is struggling and insisting upon a fair
and full count of their population. In
order for whatf In order that they may
have their full representation in the
Congress of the United States.
ALL WANT MORE MEMBERS.
Therefore, 30 far from the exigenoy
that Hamilton contemplated having
arisen, nothing ia more remote. The
Southern States, the Northern States, the
Eastern and the Western States, each
alike, are seeking to put their full quota
of members In both houses of Congress,
there to sustain the rights Of the people
and to carry on this government as best
they may. [Applause.
HENLEY TAX BILL.
Fellow citizens, there might be enougn,
in this discussion of the Reed rules and
Of the Lodge bill, to satisfy you in which
way your EFFORTS and your vote should be
cast OF tho coming election; but at
the risk OF taxing your patience,
/ must abE to be heard on the subject
of this tag bill, which has just past
through both houses of Congress. Jap.
Plsuss.1 It is called the Mckinley bill.
The subject is vast, and it is worthy OF
long and grave study. There arc two
views to be taken of this bill : First, as o
measure Of public policy, q measure OF
finance, o measure affecting your reve-
nues, q measure affecting taxation, q
measure affecting the cost of the living
of the people and the domestic business
OF the American citizen,0 measure affect
ing our relations with foreign powers;
and then, beyond that, comes its politi.
cal results and the principles Of leglsla-
ton and government which it contains.
DOES NOT REDUCE TAXATION.
have with me a copy of this bill. II
is just printed, and has 65 pages. 1t
contains II pages more of what they call
the administration Of the tariff, to sim
plify tn collection of duties, the result
OF which is vastly to increase them. II
is called a bill to reducs the revenues.
That it undoubtedly does; but it is not a
bill reducing taxation, which was more
important. Applause.
IT BUT DIVIDES rAxArIoN's sPoILs.
Now, what does this bill mean, and who
shall explain it? The only men who can
explain it are the men who made it. The
men who made it are not the men who
voted for its passage, The Mckinley
bill is nothing but division OF the SPOTS
of taxation. [Applause. 1t has bsen
created wholly by classification OF men
to further their class and interests. Il
increases the difficulty OF the cost OF liv-
ing and the taxation upon the masses OF
the country; it eighty diminishes the
taxation upon the Injuries of the country.
II certainly inhlc.s upon business q most
violent disturbance, anu that is now ex-
hibited by the unprecedented scenes that
you witness in the great port of entry of
New York. You may have seen, lately, how
one vessel, loaded with Sumatra tobacco
tobacco Of description that never hes
been and never can be raised in the
United States, and yet which is desired
by those who use thet commodity.
The vessel contained $500 balss.
The duty upon those bales, if the
vessel arrived before ths LIST OF October,
would be $50 q bale; il the vessel arrived
fer the LIST OF October the duty would
be- $S4O bale. Compute it-milions
hanging upon the speed of that ship |
You heard the other night my eloquent
friend, Mr.. Breckenridge, picture that
race between the steamship and the
greedy law that was to add so much more
to the burdens OF the American people.
Read again the approach OF the steam
oh iii TO Mi 50
IL O'Clock ut night the vessel had not
been entered, when cab, driven at
break-neck speed, brings up the captain,
who PUSHES IN and enters his ship rs the
clock strikes the hour. Each of those
meant thousands of dollars OF
difference to citizens of the United States.
Upon that cargo alone 100000 differ.
encs in the duties under the Mckinley
bill and under the present law was to be
shown.
NOT HONEST IN SPIRIT AND SUBSTANCES
Now, say that that billiard none Of
us here, however much we may have
tried to keep up with its contents, know
what it contains, because it has been
framed, and framed cunningly, by expert
hands in the interests OF the men who
framed it's not the voice of the Ameri-
can people; it is not the unprecedented
and unbiased voice of the representatives
Of the American people. 1t hes the form
Of law, but it has not the honest spirit
and substance of law. II there ever Wss
a cRss where the letter kllleth but the
spirit giveth life, il is in that bill, which
Iaoks every element of the American con-
and of just legislation. APP
plause.
ITS BENEFIoIARIEs FRAMED IT.
When say these men framed it, ami
not speaking without authority. Here I
ind the statement OF Mr.. Henry W.
Oliver, man of great wealth. of intelli-
yence and ability, whose business it haH
oeen to Gee that the laws of the land were
made favorable to his interests. He
peaks of the iron, steel and other metal
schedules. Like great majority of the
lew rates. those OF which he speaks are
hose which the manufacturers Them
lelves proposed. He says this is the
most highly protective tariff ever passed.
He says, it is entirely satisfactory.
WOOL MEN HIGHLY PROTECTED.
Here find the wooden men, very
mall number OF our fellow-citizsns, who
,wn large hocks, and who seem to con-
ider that the whole country and its leg
slatiye power is theirs. 1 hnd that
Vhen this remarkable scheme oil reoi-
,rooity, of which shall presently
peak was first proposed in the Senate
" Mr.. Hale, as the sdjutant of the
secretary of State, Mr.. Blaine, MIR.
Columbus Delano, the president, and
Or. Wallace, the secretary OF the Wool
assoc atoms in Ohio, said that "Senator
Iale's amendment to the Mckinley bill,
adopted, would admit wool free of
Iuty from all nations of this hemisphere.