The Portland daily press., 1890-09-08
THE LAST GUN.


country in the world TODAY and import ali
the tin you want without paying one cent
OF duty at the custom house of the United
States. So that even If we had no tin we
are as well on as England, for England
her tin to be made into tin plate to send to
me United States. Let me venture predic-
tion mere tonight. If this tariff bill becomes
law great Industries will spring up all over
Ine country. and, as has been the result over
ana I over again. the price OF tin plate to the
american consumer will go down, and in
less than five years you will be using Ameri.
can tin just as good as the foreign tin and be
paying less price than you are paving for
inc foreign article today. IApplause.l oh,
put they say, these high advalorems, and
You know what they mean by advaiorem
EQUIVALENTS. II you put q specific duty on
any given article like dollar ton. they
hgure 1t out on the foreign valuation of the
artlcie and say that dollar ton means a
high advaiorem." Let us look at it a minute
and see how little there is in 1T. Eighteen or
twenty years ago the Republican party put a
duty land use this only for illustration) of
$2S ton on steel rails. Steel rails from
England were selling then at hundred dol
iars per ton. The adyalorem equivalent of
In less than five years the price of steel rails
had gone down to SIS a ton, ann the advalo-
rem had just doubled, gone up to Sc per cent,
and then the Democratic party howled about
ths high advalorem. What do we care about
high adyaioremp Republicans and bust
ness men rather have steel rails at $56 ton,
with an advalorem Of sc per cent, than steel
rails at 800 ton, with an advalorem of %
per cent. [Applause.I We are after the SUBJ
stance and they are chasing the shadow, as
the Democratic party has always chased the
shadow. Laughter.
But, my fellow citizens, there are good
many things In this bill to which the Speak
er so kindly referred In his opening speech
tonight We discovered In the last admin
1stration.. the administration Of Grover
Cleveland, that his administration was going
abroad and buying foreign goods for the
use OF the army aud the several departments
Of the government. We looked into 1t and
found an old law on the statute books, law
as old as the government itself, permitting
the government to import anything for its
own use from any country of the world
without paying duty. And we discovered
that Cleveland's administration was engaged
in discriminating against our own manufac-
lures and our own people by going abroad
the United States So, In this BILL we pro-
vide that the government shall be bound by
the very same laws that 1t imposes upon its
own citizens and If 1t wants to 60 abroad
and buy any foreign goods for its own use 1t
shall pay at the custom house OF the country
porting like goods. We thought that the
government Of the United States above all
ought to patroniZe Its own people and help
sustain its own industries. [Applause.l And
II Democrat ever gets in power again he
will never have the right to favor England
BY going abroad to buy goods for the use of
the government Now that bill will become
law; 1t has been hanging a good while In
the Senate of the United States, but a final
vote will be taken next Tuesday and twill
49, csr~ 11awx SC At,nI Tate
ed States, and another great pledge of the
Republican party will have been kept and
fulfilled. lApplause.]
A Tribute to Mr.. Reed.
don't know, in the years have been in
Congress, House of Representatives that
has done so much public busidess as we have
done at the first session of the Fifty-frst
Congress. And want to say tonight what
. is true, want to say it because it is true,
that it would have been impossible for the
House of Representatives to have done the
publ business 1t was able to do in the last
eight months except for the distinguished
services and magnificent leadership OF the
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
[Tremedous applaues.l | was one of those
thought we might get on in the House If we
had somebody for Speaker rather than the
distinguished gentleman from Maine
Laughter. He was not my first choice.
BILE thing as Maine had had already one dis
tinguished Speaker Iapplausel to have it
come to Ohio, and for time / really thought
1 was a candidate for Speaker myself. [Re-
newed laughter.l But want to say, and l
say 1t with all frankness. 1 say 1t because |
the House of Representatives did rightly, land
If l could 60 back nine months with the
power to undo, with my knowledge OF what
this great leader has done, | would decree
that he should be speaker of the House of
Representatives. [Great applause.l The
flibuster is no longer heard in the House Of
Representatives, and this great act of yonr
Speaker and of our Speaker is approved by
the whole country from one end of it to the
other; and mark my words, II the Democrats
they will adopt precisely the same rules that
were adopted in the first session Of the Fifty
first Congress. We are indebted to Speaker
Reed for having released us from the slavery
Of a century Of parliamentary practice.
their places, sworn to perform their public
duties under the constitution, sitting there
in the full gaze of the country, in the full
observation Of their associates and the Off
GERS Of the House. sitting there drawing
their salaries at the rate Of S19 day, and
yet stopping the public business because of
their stubborn and sullen silence, wanting
the journal to declare that they were absent.
when in fact they were present, wanting the
the journal to declare lie. Speaker Reed
said. and he said It with 2 goodness and dig;
teif the truth. [Applausel. And that jour:
applause]. Wasn't he right? lCries of
"Yes, ;" "yes."] Hasn't mankind approved
and has not the country approved? You
would not tolerate such things in business
fr fn~ all ha 1ouf hot
was done and the decks were cleared we
commenced to do the public business. Let
me tell you here, that il you read the plat
form OF 1888. made In the city OF Chicago,
the platform upon which we won our great
victory, you will find that every pledge Of
and fulfilled by the House of Representatives
presided over by your distinguished repre-
sentative. [Applausel We said we would
revise the tariff. and we have done 1t. We
said we would pass bill to destroy combi-
nations of capital that organize into trusts
for the purpose of raising the prices Of pro-
ducts according to the will of such combina-
tions. We put upon the statute books of
the United States for the first time In our
national history, law that declares that
are illegal, and imposing punishment upon
those who would organize for such a
purpose. That is already q law. We
said we would protect the farmers of the
United States, and we have done 1t. We
have passed what is known as the compound
lard bill. We have no objections to people
making lard out Of anything they want
to, and no objection to people
eating any kind of lard they choose II they
only know what 1t is, but we made up our
minds that it was not fair thing to compel
the farmer who gets his lard honestly out OF
the hog, to sell 1t side by side with lard made
out of cotton seed oil. And so we said that
these parties who made the compound lard
must put brand on it; In a word, that they
must sail under their own flag.
We have passed the anti-lOttery bill, bill
that has given the death blow, to that nefar
ious scheme, and from which 1t will never
rise again; a scheme that has drawn millions
from the poor, and has given rise to corpora.
ti0ns so rich that they have dominated state;
and states, governments, and corrupted pub
lie and private morals. That bill will be
passed by the Senate of the United States.
Mr.. Mckinley then referred to the admis
sion of the territories and the passage of the
bankruptcy bill, and continued:
We declared in our platform Of 1888 that
we would give to the country suitable silver
legislation; that silver should be no Longer
Disseminated against, but should be equally
we put upon the statute books at this session
Of Congress, beginning before the Senate
began, the best silver legislation that was
ever known In the United States. We util
lied every dollar of the silver product of this
country. Every ounce that is dug out by
the miner this bill authorizes the government
to buy and coin into silver dollars to be
put into circulation among the people. The
effect of that legislation has been to increase
the value of the silver dollar throughout the
country. In Cleveland's administration
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