The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-23
GIANT OF THE WEST!
SENATOR VEST WINS THE TITLE BY
HIS GREAT SPEECH.
A Sweeping and Mastery Exposure
Of the Reciprocity Sham and
the High-Tax Frauds.
The Era of Senatorial Greatness
RecaIIed-A Speech that
VIII Live.

The senate, as in committee OF the
whole, resumed the consideration of
the bill (H. II. 9,416) to reduce the
revenue and equalize duties on imports,
and tor other purposes.
Mr.. Vest Mr.. President, the advo-
Gates of high tariff taxation are con-
fronted with great peril. For years
the farmers have been told that
the homo market was all they
needed, aud that the foreign market
was bagatelle almost worthless.
Magazine articles from senators
and representatives, the subsidiz-
ed literature OF the manufacturers
press, with Columbian eloquence, by
orators of all sizes from Mr.. Blaine to
the ranting ward bowler, have been
reiteraiiug that the home market was
all sufficient and the farmer should
look TO that alone.
A great change has come. The de-
preston in agricultural interests, and
the emphatic demands of the farmers
or something besides lying statistics
and frotby defamation, have caused
President Harrison and Mr.. Blaine
to urge upon congress legislation Tor
subsidies to steamships and reciprocity
treaties with the South American states
in order to obtain foreign market for
American products. We hear very
little now of the home market, but a
great deal OF the South American
market, and the rascally devices by
which En- land has robbed us oil
that valuable trade, which now goes
by our doors 10 the English ports.
| MIR. Blaine urges congress to subsi-
die steamships tor postal and CONNER
cisl purposes to South America, but
he admits that something Is necessary
besides mail communication and trans
portation for merchandise, anu lie
therefore surrenders the policy OF pro-
| ection and home market by advOcat
Ing treaties with tho South American
states upon the give-and- take plan
called in diplomacy by the high sound
ing name of reciprocity. lie depre-
Gates the putting raw sugar Oh the free
list or increasing tho duties on wool
and suggests that the sugar and wool
duties shonld be utilized TO secure free
trade with the South American states
interested in those products. At last
the. prOtectionists have been driven
from their pretentiOus humbug about
the home market and are forced To
adopt the principle of free commercial
intercourse which they have SO long
opposed and derided.
We hear no more of that eIOuueut
prayer of Henry e. Carey, of Phiiadel-
phia. who was TO the high tariff party
of the United States what MOhammetl
was to Islam, "that the Atlantic mig ht
become an ocean OF fire over hich no
ship could pass" We hear nothing of
Senator Frye's speech at the Home
Market Boston Club on October "A,
1888, when he declared that he wanted
TO see duties Increased 30 that NO
manufactures of silk or wool, or iron
and steel could be imported into thus
country. On the other hand, that sen.
alor now urges the paying enormous
subsidies to steam and sailing vessel.
in order TO secure trade with foreign
countries.
In this connection, MIR. President
because the discussion is now rilt
throughout the country as to reciproci