Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-05-15


posed here that he will be elected
by the Kentucky legislature, which
is now in session, next week. Rep
resentatives Carlisle and McCreary
are both considered as candidates.
Assistant Postmaster General
ClarksoE has gone to Iowa to attend
the funeral of his father.
Senator Quay's visits to the Pres
ident, which are quite frequent these
days, are disturbing the democrats
very much.
Senator Edmunds who has been
ailing all winter, is now reported to
be very i'll at his residence in this
city.
On the tariff debate in the House
last week Representative Burrows,
of Michi gan, made some excellent
and logical remarks, as follows:
Mr.. Burrows said that the condi-
ton of the treasury to-day was an
OVERLOOKING one. What was the
remedy? The Republicans would
reduce the surplus by one theory,
the Democrats by another; and it
was this conflict of theories which
had prevented the remedy being
applied. 1t was a theory which
prevented the passage Of a tariff bill
last congress. The House was Dem
ocratic, the Senate Republican.
Each body passed a tariff bill, the
effect of which, it was claimed,
would be to reduce the revenue to
the actual needs Of the government;
but both measures failed. In the
campaign of 1888 the two theories
were presented to the American
people, and verdict was rendered
so pronounced as to wrest the pres
idency and the popular branch Of
congress from the Democratic party
and confer them on the Republican
party.
The Mckinley bill was intended
as measure of protection from the
enacting clause to the closing para
graph If there was a single pro-
vision IN it which, in its workings,
would enure to the benefit Of any
foreign industry to the detriment
Of our own, such a provision was
there by inadyertence and not by
design If there was a section in
the bill which would bring disaster
to any American industry or para
lyze the arm of any laboring man in
the United States, such a section
was there by accident and not by
design Mr., Burrows defended the
tin-plate, sugar and wool sections
and in reference to the latter said:
The Democrats, unclothed, except
in foreign wool, would stand shiver-
ing on the coast of the east and
drink the health of English labor
and English capital out of English
cups. Free trade, he said, meant
unrestricted competition; unrestrict-
ed competition meant cheap goods;
competition in cheap goods meant
cheap labor; competition in cheap
labor meant cheap flesh and blood;
competition III cheap flesh and blood
was slavery. Cheap clothing and
cheap food were of no value if
human labor were cheaper still.
Free trade meant cheapness to the
rich and idle, but longer hours and
harder work to the laborer. In this
race for cheapuess the Republican
party did not propose to enter.
Whatever might be the cause of
the present agricultural depression,
no one would be bold enough TO
assert that it was due to a policy
which had created a home market
capacious enough to consume, ex-
elusive of cotton and tobacco, 90
per cent, of the products of the
farm. Of what value to the farmer
were the markets OF the world In
comparison with the home markets?
If the government by a reversal of
the present policy destroyed the
nome market, where on the face of
the earth would the farmer turn to
dispose Of his surplus products?
Whatever might be the remedy for
the agricultural depression, one
thing was true; it would not be
found in the markets of the world,
In this bill, said Mr.. Burrows in
conclusion, We have sought to re
duce the revenues to the basis of
government need without imparing
a single American industry or de
priying single laboring man of the
product of his toni. We submit this
measure u the considerate judg-
ment Of the house and the country
in the confident belief that. if en-.
acted into law, 1t will mpart to all
our industries new impetus, relieve
whatever Of depression NAV exist.