The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10
FLEECING THE FARMERS.
VANCE SHOWS aCW THEY ARE
ROBBED BY THE TARIFF.


Ito O'Clock this morning. but the roll ca
shows that there were in the chsnaoe'
twelve senators less than a quorum Tbs
sergeant-at-arms was directed 70 request ~
attendance of tie absentees, and by l0.a
O'Clock the presence Of quorum was -
cured and business proceeded viii.
Mr. Blackburn gave notice that he would
on SATURDAY., the 2Sd inst, ask - submit
the customary resolutions relative 10 the
death of his late colleague. Senator Bees,
and ask the Senate at that time to consider
them.
TIE House bill authorizing the construc-
ton Of a bridge across the TenneSsee river
at or near Guntersville, Ala, was taken
from the calendar and passed VITA sn
amendment adding the words 'or at or
near Deposit, Ala"
The TARIFF TAKEN Up.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
question being on Mr.. Buffers ameod-
naent to paragraph lS4, page p, 70 reduce
the duty on cotton ties 10 IS per cent. al
valoren.
FARMERS NOT BENEFITED.
Mr.. Vance made an amusing speech in
ridicule of the claim that tie farmer de-
rived any benefit from the tariff. Inc
manufacturer of wooden goods, he SAID,
who got IS per cent. protection on his goods
said to the farmer: If you give me 10 per
cent. protection on my wooden goods against
English manufacturers, viii give
YOU p cents per bushel pro-
lection on your wheat and 10 cents per
bushel on your corn, against England, that
does not grow a bushel of corn aid does not
grow one-fifth of the wheat that her people
eat One got cash aud the other promises
Cash was the ''short run" and promises
were the "long rum" Whenever the manu-
facturer got tired Of reaping the benefit Of
tie bargain on his side he agreed to let the
farmer get his innings" So far the
manufacturer had proved remarkably long
wnded He had not shown the slightest
evidence of being tired.
A LAUGHABLE ILLUSTRATION.
The nature of the bargain between the
farmers end the manufacturers was we'll
illustI atod by the offer of one urc ain to an
other: Jim, if you give me a bite OF your
big red apple | will show you my sore toe"
Laughter If the senators insisted on
TRIPPING the existing tax on cotton ties,
might nor, he asked when some Of them
were on the stump talking about protection.
to American labor, some man In the audi
ence say with great propriety: That Is
lie, you know that you are not for pro
tectlng American labor. for 100000 bales
of cotton are oppressed when prepared in
foreign markets by tax three times higher
than that on many other articles"
PAUPER INDUSTRIES.
He confe sed that he hated TO see new in
dnstries rise in this country because 1t was
sure to be a pauper on the United States
treasury.
Mr.. Hoar inquired whether that feeling
applied to the industries already existing.
Mr. Vance replied that it did not. He
hoped to see before he died American man
ufacturers flourish. He hoped to see Amer
lean manufacturers flourish by the sweat of
their brows and by their own industry in
stead of by the sweat of the brows of his
people and of their honest industry.
PILING UP THE BURDENS.
Every time that new mine was dis
covered or new industry established
it was Immediately fostered upon the
pubic treasury, ana now for fear lest there
might come liking who knew not Joseph"
or in other words, a democratic major
ity which did know the people,
it had been thought necessary to provide,
by the last will and testament of the repub-
hcan congress, for such paupers as might
hereafter be born Ill lawful wedlock to tuat
community, or in unlawful wedlock, either
So there was to be an opening made for
some manufacturer of cotton ties to be
established and 1t was said to be the pur-
D. Sc not to provide for the infant when it
came, but to provide Tor it before it came.
NO ONE TO BENEFIT NOW.
Who, he asked, was to be the recipient of
the taxation on cotton ties before that in
FAINT was born and baptized. There was no
way in which the proposed increase of duty
on cotton ties could be looked at that was
defenslble. Not solitary one. The most
deserving, because most useful in a COM
mercial point of view, product of the
United States was taxed to death in all
parts OF its growth aud production, ana
was then taxed, a farewell shot, as the bale
left the gin house, 103 per cent on
the ties that enveloped it, and this not for
the benefit of American manufacturers Of
ties for there were none. and not for the
benefit of the treasury for the bill was one
to reduce the revenue), but out Of ''pure
cussedness" and because the Republican
party had got so used to taxing things that
they could not stop.
Mr.. Turpie made a speech upon the gen
eral subject of the tariff and in opposition
to the pending bill.
WAR UPON AGRICULTURIsrs.
Mr.. Daniel made speech on the question
of the pending bill in general. and Of the
proposed increase Of duty on cotton ties in
particular He spoke of that pro
posed increase as characteristic of
the war which the Republican party
was making upon the agricultural
industries of the United States. On what
principle of free trade or of protection, or
what economic theory of any kind, he asked,
could a proposition be sustained to increase
the tax on cotton ties, an article of hides
pensable necessitys But the republican
party had declared war, and war
TO the knife, against everything
that The agricultural producers used.
1t did not intend to give
them anything except little sop here and
Their to placate the ignorant, and to dis
guise the false intention that lurked under
its sometimes pleasing premises.
RAID ON THE SOUTH.
The hill proceeded to triple the duty on
cotton ties, to take the duty off sugar and
to reduce the duty on rice, thus attacking
three OF the great industries of the south,
while 1t attempted to delude the farmers
of the west NTH increased duties on barley,
cats and wheat. ut fed oats to the ignor-
ant voter, cooed the coy maiden of agricul-
ture 'Coming Through the Rye, and did not
protect to the value of ne mill for all the
farmers of any one county in the United
States In other words, for American farm
ers there was in the bill protection where it
would not protect, and there was no protec-
ton where it would. In the bill the Repub-
hcan party was for free trade and every
thi that would injure the farmers of the
United States.
THE RECIPROCITY TALK.
"Why was it that while there was pro
ject for reciprocity with South America