The Globe-republican., 1890-10-01
TARIFF ARGUMENTS.

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Some Good Points Made BY Senate. Hsw-
ley-We Do Not Want ..Cheapuess'' In
this Country-Diversificatio OF Industry
Essential to Prosperity.
Every whine and cavil and growl and
fault that the Democrats have had over
our bill here could have been applied
to the Mills bill itself, because that had
big duties. 1t left great many duties
as they were; the changes were trifiing;
in some it clipped off toe-nail here or
something of that sort and called it a
| reform bill They said it was because
they could not do any better at the
time; but l should like to have some
man draw one and then hang it up for a
specimen of what they would do if they
had absolute power.
Their argument is substantially this
it can not be avoided-that if any,
body in Gods world can make any thing
cheaper than it can be made here. it is
our duty to buy it. Now if there is a
meaner word in the English language
than the word cheap" do not know
what 1t is. 1t is mean and nasty. the
word cheap" is. Cheap labor means
cheap clothes, cheap food. cheap lodg-
ing, cheap morals and cheap human
devils. That is what cheapness means
Are we to have it? Break down your
barriers You do not want the China
man in here; you have forbidden him;
but now carry your machines abroad
and they will go to the Chinaman and
he will work for four or five cents a dav
with these magnificent American ma
chimes, and then he will como with ship
loads Of stuff to sell at less than Euro
peans or Americans or anybody else.
Yet you would take the tariff off and
let those cheap goods come in. Is that
your logic? What is your tariff to be,
and what sort of country do you want
to have, anyhow? You talk about the
British tariff. l have found but one
man on that side who had pluck enough
to say that was a model tariff. and that
was my friend from North Carolina, and
he thought that was the best tariff there
was going.
Sir, the Lord Almighty gave us with
in this country almost every thing
loathe the old Chinese-wall hum bug.
Sir. build it, and build it hundred
miles high, and we shall live within it
fifty years and como out rich and fat
and happy. You will not have much
coffee or much tea; you will not have
much silk goods; but there is nothing
mechanical, nothing essential to human
happiness, progress and prosperity that
we would not be able to make within
that time. Shut Great Britain up for
six months and half her people would
be in the grave. And yet you think the
same economic system is good for the
two countries
Great Britain by her own statStician
says that she has to bring in % per cent.
Of her raw material from abroad The
same statistician in the same paragraph
says America gets the same figure Of
raw material from within her own
bounds; and yet gentlemen argue from
the British tariff to ours. The English
man could not live a week under our
tariff, and therefore having cut his tail
off, or it having been cut off by nature,
he wants us to cut ours off also. He can
not raise half enough to feed him.
Ninety per cent of his materials he
gets from elsewhere. He has to be fed
by commerce; he has to live by COM
merce; and so what he has to do he
thinks other people ought to do. He
goes around the world with his ships
bullying and annexing and contro ling
little nations, inferior peoples, every
where expanding his territory, or as one
of their statesmen said, John Bull
thinks he is increasing his glory by in
creasing his burdens; he is undertaking
to cultivate patches all over the world
where his Lancaster men can sell goods"
That is what John Bull' thinks, and
the drum that accompanies the sun
around the world is the drum of COM
merce, the drummer. That is the sta tes-
of Great Britain.
They have to live so. On the other
hand we have to live in the other di-
rection. If we obey the plain intima-
ton of what is the will of the Almighty
in giving us these possibilities. it is our
duty to cultivate them. Says one of
these Englishmen-they occasionally
let slip the truth when they are argu-
Ing about this cOuntry-speaking of the
United States and it's glory and progress
and material possibilities: blessed is
the nation that is self-contained and
need not be always asking what other
peoples are doing" We can be self
and there was no more glorh-
Dus vision ever placed before states
man than the vision of what these |
Uni ted States shall be under such a |
policy as the Republican policy in all
matters of justice and of material pro-
yress such as this country will be, with |
, variety of industries. The diversif-
cation of industry is absolutely essen
tial to the moral and mental health, and |
as we'll, of the country.
The Fruits of Protection.
Lord Coleridge. the Chief Justice OF
England, in his farewell speech afteran