Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-22
BUITERWORTH KICKS.
The Ohio Congressman Surprises
His Republican Colleagues.
A Fierce and Logical Remuneration of
McKinley's Tariff isiil-His Arguments
Endorsed by Many Western
Republican Members.

denounced certain features of the Me
kinley tariff bill in manner which
paralyzed the Republicans and drew
out ecstatic cheers from the Demo-
| Gratis. Though Butterworth had
threatened to deliver just such a speech
his colleagues supposed he had been
gagged by the summary closing of the
general debate on Saturday. Butter
worth, however, was not to be choked
off in this manner, and attacked the
measure with a vigor bordering on
fury. Mckinley looked daggers.
and even the Republicans smiled
at his discontinue. A peculiari-
ty of the situation was the
presence of the Republicans during the
denunciation of their bill, for they have
heretofore boorishly absented them
selves while the opponents of the meas
ure We're speaking. Speaker Reed fidg-
eted as if his chair were cushioned with
/ thistles. Mr.. Butterworth is always
one of the best speakers on the Repub-
/ lican side. but yesterday his words
rolled out in a torrent of eloquence that
would have swept all before it in an I'M
/ prejudiced assemblage.
/ Mr.. ButterwOrth's speech was as re-
markable in manner as in matter. a
| Republican in good standing in his
! party and a leader in its counsels, Mr..
! ButterwOrth has the reputation of be-
| ing a bold and honest man, reputation
which he we'll sustained yesterday by
admonishing his party not to go too far
/ in its work of sustaining the protective
system. The members of both parties
crowded around him and the DEM
ocrats cheered to the echo his
warning to the high takers not
to kill the goose that lays the golden
eggs by overlooking it. At first
/ little ditfident, as if feeling his way,
and somewhat ditfident about casting
loose from his mornings, he finally
! warmed up to his work and made a
speech which will be read from one end
| of the country to the other. Mckinley
and the other high takers would have
been glad to cut him off had they dared,
but they were afraid to do so. His elO-
quence. his carncstncSS, his logic com
manded attention and respect. At first
the Republicans sat gloomy and silent,
, while only Democrats applauded, hut
I finally, when the full force of the argu-
ment dawned upon them, some of the
low-tariff Repu blicans from the West
forgot themselves and joined in the eX-
pressions of approval which, at almost
every sentence, greeted the speaker
from floor and galleries. Republicans
I applauded ButterwOrth who will next
! week bow down to the rule of King
j Caucus and vote for the Mckinley bill
/ to encourage monopolieS and foster
/ trusts. The news that ButterwOrth was
| tearing the tariff bill to tatterS spread
rapidly, and the Hobbies were quickly
filled with eager auditors. No speech
in either House this session has created
such excitement.
The proceedings were opened by Mr.
/ McMillin. who moved to reduce the
duty on ammonia. saying ne could see
no reason why this article of necessity
to the farmers should be so heavily
taxed. Mr.. Mckinley stated that,
since the tariff had encouraged COM
petition in this country. the price of
! ammonia had been reduced from 20 to
/ ~ cents per pound.
! Mr.. Butterworth was then, by unan-
! imous consent accorded permission to
/ discuss the tariff at large. and spoke as
/ follows:
u insist that as We proceed with the revision
I
some fixed basis line of principle Iapplausel
and bearing in mind that competition alone
never reduced the cost of any thing because it
| must Re clear to this House that Il Shoe-T. akcr
can not make pair of boots for any less &c
cause there are nine others sitting by his side
each at work on Il pair of boots The increase
of production results undoubtedly in improved
methods. Competition reduces the selling
prices of commodities to the lowest point con
siStent with profit 1t could not 20 below that
of course. for if it does the industry is nAces-
sarIly destroyed That then, is its limit. And
We have got to so protect our manufacturers
/ that in the fair. open field of competition they
/ can hold their own and even have the coignc of
vantage. Competition never. of itself. orig
mated new industry on Coos earth. New in
/ dustries and new fields of employment are the
/ result OF the creation OF new inventions.
What is a new industry: y new device, a
machine which may open up new employ
+ ment~. The man who produced the harvester
introduced hundred new and diversified in
tustricS for opening up new fields OF labor.
. The man who produced the CorliSS engine null
tiplicd the fields of labor He produced hun
/ drcds of now Industries The acceleration Of
+ production i result of new devices. IF we
+ had continued to weave in the old way the
I price of cotton goot~ would not have been re
duccd one poor SCruplc in all these years: but
. with the creation of new devices we now turn
T out 4 thousand yards where in former years We
+ made but ten This reduces the cost. zap
{ plausc on the Democratic side What else:
/ They may use new machinery and improved
/ machinery on the other side of the water as
/ well as We can. Where is the advantage to us:
/ Genius is not confined to our own Countrymen,
bat our people have been given the grandest
opportunity in the world. [Applause.l New
/ fields are open to them.
THE creation of new industries Is the work
of the brain OF the workman. He gives you
your new fields of employment. He gives you
your new arts. He reduces the cost of produc-
tion in our country. And yet we are constantly
I assembling the reduction to influences to which
ii is in no doubt in part due, but to which
some elements OF it are no more due than they
| are due to the direction of the trade winds.
desire to call attention to this matter because /
| am aware that we are expected to follow IN the
| wake marked out for us by a committee chosen
! upon one line of thought. This is our bantlng,
/ gentlemen of the committee. 1t is no more
yours now tan ii is that of the member from
the First district of Ohio. This bill is Re
publican measure. and is ours as well as yours
and the criticism which will keep it in the line
of precedents which have prevailed in the ad
juSting of our tariff with direct reference to the
principle which ought to control is not out OF
place.
Il am perfectly aware that my honoreo
friends upon the committee have tried to meet
every phase of the situation. l am equally
aware that it is unsafe TO rely always upon the
testimony of the beneficiary or to take his fig
ures. Applause on the Democratic side
Now, say to my friends this side of the
House that the Republican party%s charged
with no higher mission than the preservation OF
the equality of opportunity in this country Nc
industry, whether it be manufacturing sui
phurlc acid or manufacturing plows or harrows
or manufacturing any thing else has right &c
any advantage over any other industry in the
Republic because we know that it is the ten
dency of such an advantage and not merely the