Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15

and iron goods? Why did it not put
protective duty on sugar and compel its
production in this country and carry out
the protective policy?
The committee, Mr.. Mills said, had
found out that the wheat production was
in danger and had increased the duty so
per cent The United States exported
90, 600, 600 bushels of wheat year, and
it imported the startling amount of l. 46
bushels. Laughter The increased
duty was to protect the American farmer
against the pauper of India. Corn was
to be protected. The United States last
year exported 60, 600. 600 bushels of corn
and imported 2, 1888 bushels This i'm
mense importat ton must be stopped.
The committee proposed to deliver the
rye farmer from all peril It was
going to speak words of COM
fort to him and tell him that
he would not have to compete
with pauper labor. How much did
the United States import? Sixteen
bushels. [Laughter.] Some adventur-
Gus farmer had bought this rye to inn
prove his crop and he was to be rebuked
for this at the capital of his Nation. He
attributed to the majority of the COM
mittee one bold and audacious move,
which meant the deliverance of the
farmers. They cried out, '1et the port
cullis fall in order to save the cabbage
patch. They had placed duty on cab
bage, and that was to be the panacea for
all ills. The farmer could stand in his
cabbage patch and defy the world.
Laughter This was cabbage-head
bill. [Applause.]
The Republicans, Mr.. Mills declared,
must do some something more than this
in order to fool the farmers. The farm
ers understood that they needed markets
for their products. This bill would al
most stop the expectation of agricultural
products, and then the Republicans
| would hear a storm worse than Ne
braska cyclone. In order to increase
the home market and give employment
to Americas people, the farmers should
be given access to the foreign markets,
where they could sell their surplus
products Agriculture was chained like
galley slave. When her bonds were
rended and her products exported to
foreign markets, the price of her pro-
ducts would be increased at home and
abroad, and the increased price would
extend employment to production
in all departments of labor.
The industries of the country
had developed labor. The industries of
of the country had developed until they
produced Is per cent. more than could
be consumed in this country. The sur
plus was constantly increasing and the
question was what Congress was going
to do about it. The Democratic way
was to let down the barriers and let the
surplus go out to the people who wanted
it and take from other people what they
did not Ewant and this Nation did.
There was but one way for this country
to enter into the contest with the world,
and that was to LAY aside every weight
that doth beset her." The people
wanted foreign market and they were
going to have it,
In this extraordinary bill new policy
was inaugurated, by which the whole
American people were taxed in order
that somebody might go into foreign
market and sell cheap goods to foreign
ers- The American Government had a
foundation laid by the grandest and
greatest men the world ever produced.
They did not build the Government to
tax the people in order that somebody
might sell cheap goods to foreigners.
Discussing the sugar bounty clause,
Mr.. Mills said that the people who
raised corn and wheat and rye would
step up to the counter and say: eve
will take some sugar in ours" The
Democrats were opposed to subsidies.
He wanted to see the flag of the Union
float in every sea; he wanted to see
American vessels in every port; but he
wanted to see those vessels go into for
eign ports as free ships, representing
free American institutions. He did not
want to hire anybody todisplay the flag
of the United States anywhere in the
world. He wanted to see the
flag, when it went into for
eign seas, go as an emblem of the
proudest and freest people of the world,
who by their genius had conquered the
seas and brought their commerce where
they pleased. The Republicans might
pass their bill, but it had He'll Gate to
go through after it left the House and
Senate. [Applause-] There was a
whirlpool beneath the surface of the
waters upon which the little craft float
ed. The American people were long
suffering, but there was time when
distress was so supreme that the man
stood with his eyes open and was bound
| to step forth for his own deliverance
That time had about come. Applause.
He did not expect to hinder the Repub-
licans from passing this bill, but he
| wanted them to take the bill to the
Northwest and show it to the people
whom they were taxing unnecessarily.
He wanted them to confront those peo-
pie and when they had preached their
sermons and told the people how good
the Republicans had been and how in
the peoples name they had cast out the
devils, the people would say to them:
Get thee behind me, Satan" The
Democrats would not impede the pass
age of the bill, but, when the Republic
ans appeared before the great American
people, after passing this measure, ''May
the Lord have mercy on their souls -
Applause.
RADICAL REMARKS.