The Dickinson press., 1890-05-17
DEN0CRAIy APPLAUD.
BuiterwOrtll, of Ohio, Makes
Some Pointed Remarks Oh
the Tariff.
He Criticizes the Bill Prepared
by MI. McKinley's Com
mittee.
All American Industries Should Re.
ceive Equal Protection-Doings
of Congress.

ANoy AC0SS
met, and. after the transaction of some
routine business, went into committee of
the whole ON the tariff bill. Mr.. Nc
Millin. of Tennessee, moved to reduce
the duty on ammonia. He said he could
see no reason why this article of neces-
sity to the farmers should be so heavily
taxed. Mr.. Mckinley, in opposition.
stated that since the tariff had encour-
aged competition in this country, the
price of ammonia had been reduced
from 90 to y cents per pound. Mr.. But
terwolth said that the price of an article
was not reduced on account of COMPETE
ton alone, 1t was reduced Oh account
of improved methods of manufacture.
He never doubted that the protective
system was wise and had scattered
blessings on the land from shore to
shore. If there was any danger to the
protective system it was in its oscillation
between the extreme of free trade on
the one hand. and on the other the en-
IRENE which created inequalities among
Americans themselves. The country, in
the election of Harrison and a Republic
can congress, had declared unequivocally
in favor of sustaining and UNFOLDING
the protective system. The conflict i'll
1888 had not been between schedule
rates, but between economic policies.
Did that Republican policy mean to re-
move the inequalities which existed
between industries on this side of the
water and industries on the other, or did
it mean to shut out all importation. He
;,o;e<nI %bot rr,n e1N,,l1 ,,~t .,,-,,
inequalities here. The protective sys-
national boundary lines. If the tariff
did not deal with conditions then a tariff
was good in the abstract, and if it was
the fathers of the republic had paid
themselves Il poor compliment when
they provided that as between the states
there should be no restriction of COM
merce. The committee had tried
to do the best it could in
framing the bill, but it was not
always safe to rely altogether on the tes-
timony of the beneiciaries under a law.
Applause on the Democratic side.l Of
course he respected the wisdom of the
committee, but why was Paul favored
and Peter turned down. Why increase
the profits of certain classes. He could
name certain capitalists whose profits
had exceeded those of all the agriculture
lists in any state in the union. Zap
plause ON the Democratic side. If.
when we had protected equally and
lifted up all our industries, the time
should come when we could not hold
u own, being the most intelligent, the
greatest and the ablest people on earth
then we had better retire from the field,
democratic applause.
Mr.. B~utterworth then proceeded to
expound his views touching reciprocity
with Canada. He said that we were en-
deavoring to cultivate relations with
10000, 900 people to the southwark and
yet we are afraid of Canada. Abraham
Lincoln and Gen. Grant We're not srls-
pected of lack of patriotism, yet they
favored reciprocity. There were some
things in the bill he did not like. He
had known of an industry that had been
able to make $50, 600, 900 dividends on
a capital of 81, 100000. Protection !!
Why the country could in such cases
better afford to keep these men in the
Fifth Avenue hotel, pay their board
and expenses, and set them up in
the banking business. He favoredproper
protection, but these men held the world
in their grip. The time has come when
some l1utle concern should DE ShOWn to
American homes and American firesides.
A great body Of employees in this country
was foreign. In some great factories in
the East they were known on the
rosters by numbers because of unfamil-
iarity with their In conclusion
he said that the gentlemen were very
much mistaken if they thought that the
greatest desire of his heart was not to
pass a bill rejecting in the highest de-
Wanted to avoid were such features as
he had pointed out in this bill. There
was such a thing as paying too much for
an industry. Such was the case with
tin plate. The duty would be a tax on
every farmers patch-on every can Of
goods. That tax would amount to $50
000, 900 before the manufacturers of tin
plate could declare a dividend. He was
anxious that his party should take no
false stem