The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-23

We all know perfectly well that there are
industries in this country in which the dividends
nave been enormous can name upon my ten
fingers men whose combined profits il the last
decade have exceeded those OF all the agricul-
tur1sts of any State in this Union [Applause-1
am not disturbed at this applause on this
other side. shall be exceedingly gratineds
Mr. Chairman, il they shall come to a realizing
sense that our countrymen deserve such pro-
tection by the act OF the National legislature
as viii give them fair vantage ground against
all The competitors OF the world That is all
We ask. II the time has come when my eoun-
trymen with equal opportunity can not hold
their own. being the most brilliant, the most
progressive. the finest people in the world. then
we had better retire from the field ZAP
piause.l
"a great deal has been said in regard to doing
something in behalf Of the farmer. But do
not think We shall find any special advantage
Dy limiting the market OF the farmer upon tho
one hand without extending it on the other.
have believed that SO far as the Angio-Saxon
race is concerned that which is good for half OF
the continent is good for all OF il. have DO
heVed that my countrymen hold the coigne Of
vantage against our neighbors OF the North.
ana the policy OF commercial non-intercourS9
can not result in the slightest profit or advant-
age except to few who have scandaliZed
the Industrial system of my country for
their own profit; who, to crafty their own
aVar1ce, have hlched from the pockets OF my
countrymen, maintaining that there is great
inequality between this side and the other side
| - - line JUST nOrin Oh U.s. AIu AZ
order to give the farmer . chance We have put
YAH so high that the Canadian agricultural
products can not cross il. Now, let us see
Facts are brutal things. There is nothing
SO utterly brutal as fact 1t yields nothing,
IL sympRthizes with nobody's feeling.
lLaughteE1 Now, what is the fact in this casef
During 1888 bought from Canada agricuk-
ural PRODUCTS to the amount Of over S17,OOc,OU'
WHAT did we sell them? About eelcoo,O0o and
The larger part OF it corn and the products that
We do not buy from them. To please the farmer
| OF the country we have shut him out OF the
market where he sold his products to the
amount of se1 10000 and kept out ss partial
| competitor nearly 100000 that we bought
| from the Canadian side. We have shut out
eggs, and that is paraded as an important mat
| ter. made little calculation as to how that
would affect our people We imported2l,OOOUp
dozen eggs, and by careful estimate tha1
| amounts to Just one omelette q year to each OF
| our peop1e-one omelette year. That Is all
| Laughter This committee knows very well
| that my fellow citizens do not during one-half
OF the year taste eggs at all Our friends OF
the committee have not inserted in the bill any
provision which would have enjoined upon the
hens that they should lay regularly during cold
weather as well as warm" tLaughter-l
| A member-Give them a bounty.
I'VE might haze offered them bounty
| continued Mr.. Butterworth, 'but do not care
| TO go into that. Strange is 1t not-aga1nst our
countrymen here ON the north, in whose veins
courses the same blood that courses in our own,
| control OF Kings or Congresses-we shut the
| door. We refuse even to accept their lumber, Dut
| send our children shelterless to bed rather
| than have q fair exchange with them But thai
| is not all Behold we have just expended hun
| dreds of thousands OF dollars to establish unre
| stricted reciprocal trade with fifty odd millions
| of people south OF US Of the Latin race How
| stands the balance of trade with them our
ing the last forty years? Two milton one hun
dred thousand dollars against us! The hVe
| million of our kinsmen north OF US have bought
CT us $s51.O 900 worth during that time IN eH
! cess of what We purchased from them
| whence came the opposition 10 the com
merce with the people north OF US! Wha'
prevented it? Avariee In certain locaNI1ss
The opposition was dictated from the potatt
patch, from the cabbage patch, from the hoI
patch laughter and applausel, and before tnt
| ball is over you will see my honored SneaAo u
charge of the hop brigade associated w1fa tn'
! cabbage cavalry endeavoring to persuade TIT
| former that his highest good is in combining cur
| within one-fourth of what We produce
| Laughter and applause
| There was some controversy, Mr. Chair
man, during the discussion here as TO whether
| our manufacturers sell outside Of the United
| states cheaper than they do at home. assert
| here, if can believe the manufacturers, that
| many of them do sell to all nations OF the earth
| cheaper than they do at home. Laughter and
| applause.1 could call the witnesses and II
could get them here and let them swear W1th
| uplifted hand they would SO aver. Applause. ]
Does not that proclaim to the world that we
have the coigne of vantage in this country in
| the line of those industries?
| There are some items in this bill which Ia
the average mind are peculiar. and there are
| some features OF the bill which hold not only
| to be not defensible, but not even passing the
requirements OF very high morality. Zap
plause and laughter Here is an item which
| is designed to establish the tin-plate industry
in this country. Now, have made a careful
| calculation and inquiry into this matter, and
| find that it will cost the American people to
day to do just what is proposed-that is to es
| tabiish plant to supply the Nation with the
plate-from $50 900 900 to 00O0CO0, which, If il
| can live Mt all under the circumstances, ought
| to live with the present tariff In other words,
| take that item alone and there is not a home in
| of this tin-plate establishment they propose to
| locate at Pittsburgh. There is not a family in
| the land, and there is not a person in the
| United States that will not contribute to it,
and to whom it will not be burden, although
my friend from Michigan (Mr. Burrows) here
says that it does not amount to any thing, for
| there is only IL cents on each small piece OF
| tin a very small piece OF tin, II cents on each.
I suppose he could be reconcfled to heas be-
cause each one is so small tGreat laughter
| and applause-l
| There is another to which I wish to call
| your attention, the copper industry. Why, sir,
! there has not been time in two decades when
| my countrymen have not produced copper as
| cheap as any other nation in the world, and
| most of the time cheaper and yet We have
| these people, who on an investment equaling
81 CSC so lave taken out over SEQ 100000 in div
/ i6cnds in nineteen years, coming and asking adj
| ditional protection Applause VIII you tell
| why the duty on copper should be continued
! Why not make copper free to all the people who
are using it in this country? Do you not know
that every electrician in this country petitions
| to remove the duty on copper? Is it necessary
| to protect this industry: Is it an infant indus
| try? Why, Mr.. Chairman, it would be better If
| had falra m ad wit
employment in the copper mines, boarded them
| Ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel and set them up
| in the banking business for life tGreat laugh
| ter and applause.l There is no apology in
| the world for the duty. Not the slightest.
| It does not protect any industry, but
| it draws on every family we rep
resent. There is not a yard OF wire, nor q
piece of copper in any household in the land
that does not pay tribute TO these people. That
| is not all; although they have the American
| consumers at their mercy there is not a nation
| on the earth the citizens Of which do not buy
American copper cheaper than the American
| citizens buy it. GApplause.l Nor is that all
| Mr. Chairman Having control OF the copper
| market in 1887 they organized a combine by
which the supply OF American copper had
| to go back TO American homes, sifted through
| the mercies of a French syndicate. Zap
| plause There are few men who have labored
| longer and harder in the interest of protection
| than have; what am saying is in defense Of
| the system, and is submitted in order that II
may not come tumbling down about our heads;
as a result of our attempt to shut out all this
world under Chinese policy. prolonged ap
planse.l
After further debate by Messrs
Hatch and Dingley. Mr.. McMillin's
amendment was rejected.
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