Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-09-19

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the supply of bonds in the market.
but had enhanced the prices TO 1919
for As and 100 for As. Notwith-
standing those unfavorable condi-
tions there had been purchased
during the past eighteen months of
Mr.. Harrison's administration $I51.-
600. 900 of those two classes of
bonds, and there had also been
redeemed at par about S20,000,O0O
of 81 per cent bonds, makinga a total
reduction of the interestbearing debt
of about s7l,000,0OO as compared
with reduction of about SG2,O00.-
900 in the corresponding period of
the Cleveland administration. The
wisdom of the Republican policy
with regard to silver was already,
Mr.. Hiscock said, apparent in the
increased prosperity of the country.
The total increase in the value
of the wheat crop of 1889 was one
hundred and fifIy-four millions dol
lars, of the corn crop four hundred
and tventy-seven millions and of
the oats crop one hundred and
eight millions. Nearly all other
farm products, he said, hadadvanced
in value in like manner, and if to
them were added the increased value
of other products of industry the
grand total would largely exceed a
thousand million dollars.
Mr.. Gibson called attention to
some points in the sugar schedule
under which, he said, the whole su-
gar crop of Louisiana would be
forced upon the market at a sacri-
flee of not less than million or a
million and a half, which would be
added to the profits of the Sugar
Trust He wished to have tbe Sen
ate conferrees made acquainted with
the facts.
Mr.. Turpie addressed the Senate
in opposition to the bill. Opening
with an allusion to the phrase
''pauper labor so often used in the
tariff debate, he said that if that
meant the labor eliminates of prisons
or of eleemosynary Institutions he
was very certain that none of the
products of such labor, either in
Europe or the United States, en-
tered into the volume Of foreign
commerce, and that if it meant the
labor of those who were represented
in the international Congress of
Labor it should not be qualified as
"pauper." IL was true that the
laborer of Europe was often very i'll
paid in some lines, but in the United
States, also, they were often very
wretehedly paid.
Mr.. Vest, the next speaker, char
acterized it as the elimination or
what was called the protective
principle in this country and as u
glaring illustration of the historic
truth that class legislation never re-
ceded. The high protective tariff
system was, he said, an unnatural
political stimulant. Like all stimu-
lants, it was violation of the laws
of health. 1t was q violation of the
foundamental principles of honest
and fair government. He congratu-
lated the country on the passage of
the bill, because he believed that
the sooner the crisis was reached
and the issue brought to finish the
better it would be for the country
and all It's material interests.
Coming to the question of the decay
of the foreign commerce of the Uni
ted States, he ridiculed the reason
given on the Republican side and
said that the great and stupendous
cause of its decay was the old navi-
CATION laws-a relic of barbarism.
Coming to the question of recipro-
city, Mr.. Vest declared that Mr.
Blaines market was in the wrong
place. The people of the West
could not give up the market OF
Great Britain. The English were
bound to have the wheat and corn
and meat products of the West.
The South American people did
not want their products and would
not take them. All the talk about
reciprocity and Pan-Americanism,
and all The brass bands and terrapins
and cham mpagne were the merest
dross and rot ever undertaken by
any sensible men. The South
American people would take pro-
duets of the United States when
they could not get them anywhere
else or when Americans could under
sell British, but not before. MIR.
Vest opposed the reciprocity amend
ment because it committed to the
President powers which were abb
horrent to the the principles of the
government.
Mr.. Vance said that in closing the
debate of the Democratic side he
was performing duty, but that he
knew that his action was hopeless.
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