Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-10
SENATOR JOHN W. DANIEL.
his spEECHEs on THE TARIFr

able speeches in the Senate recently, nota
bly, his speeches on the silvor question and
the Mckinley Tariff. On the first page last
week we published extracts from his speech
on the tariff on the 9sh of August, and we
now give also couple of extracts from his
speeches on the 12;h and Goth of August.
In his speech of the 18th, he said:-
Mr.. President, the State which have the
honor in part here to represent is interested
iu this item of tin-plate from the seashore
to the mountains. Where the first Atlantic
wave strikes our eastern slope, in Accomac
and Northampton, our people are packing
oysters and fish for different markets. With
in the Capes our truckers. 10 the Norfolk
district and thereabouts, are packing mill
lions worth of small fruits and vegetables,
which 80 from their ports throughout the
world. Iu the Piedmont, the Valley and
the Southwest, in some counties, there are
as many al forty and fifty canneries where
market and where the poor, by plucking
cent living.
ask these and all like them to take no.
tice that, while the Republican party prom
ised them to reduce the suplus, hereafter
when they spend $1700 for their tin, $500
of it is going into the nav Of the Treasury
that does not want it and is to lie there
awaiting the pleasure of soma newborn
monopolist to make his profit out of it.
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You are going back to the Dark Ages in
this form Of monopolistic protection. You
are initiating the Mussulman and not the
Christian. In the eighth century, when
the power of Mohammedanism had over.
spread the Dark Continent, when his
twelfth successor was Caliph, there was q
Moorish officer by the name of Tariff that he
sent across the straits to spy out the new
lands which, as Irving says in his History
of Mohammed, seemed to invite the
triumphs of Islam, and at Tarifa, which
took this c0lquerors name, on the south
ern coast of Spain, Ta1if built his fort and
took toll of the passers-by of commerce.
And TO- day, here in the far West, across
the great ocean, when you sit down to con-
template this bill and paragraph, which
turns away from you the civilization of
your ancestral home and denies to you the
right to profitable trade with the very blood
from which you sprang. you are not per-
petuatng the Christian law of commerce
and fraternity and the extension of law and
letters and arts amongst mankind, but you
are reverting to the barbaric policy which
came from China upon the one side and
from the Mussnlman upon the other, AID
in the land of the far West you are seeking
to perpetuate for the same purpose of ag-
grandizsment the law of Mohammed. In
the pame of the oppressed farmers of the
Unitsd States, who believe that they have
got as much right to protection as any
others; in the name of that equality which
is the soul of the Republic, whether it be
or not; in the name of the mag
nificent effort with which the genius of the
Western world is seeking to lay broad and
deep the foundation of Republican institu-
tions, appeal to you Pharaohs to let the
people go and give the farmer fair chance
for light and life and wealth and progress
in this free young nation. Deny it to him
and you will hear from him again; aud we
shall see you later.
The following are the concluding para
graphs of his speech on the Goth of August
in which he referred incidentally the tariff
on WOOL
One word more, Mr.. President, since I
have been interrogated upon the wool
tariff. There ara A, 900, 900 sheep in the
United States, and there are $1,000, 900
people. Each of those $4,000, 600 people
wants about 10 pounds of wool for his
clothing, and the 1000, 900 sheep do not
produce half enough wool for the IS, 000,.
BOO people. Mr.. President, if you could
arrange human heads on one side and sheep
heads on the other side, and if all the
sleeps heads were TO vote for high wool on
sleeps backs, and all the human heads
we're to vote for cheap wool on the human
backs, human suffrage would beat sheep
su ffrage by 10000, 900 majority. Laugh
.er.
Mr. President, when am consulting the
of animated nature l prefer the
sentiment of the Roman poet of centuries
ago-that 81 am man, and am not iudif-
ferent to what is human" and leave it
to those who think more of sheep to take
sides accordingly.
Why, Mr.. President, when you make
the simple analysis of this case you prove
utterly the fallacy, the absurdity of it, and
you insult the understanding of the human
race with the idea that it is benefit to the
IS, 600, 900 of people to make them pay high
prices for ten pounds of wool apiece in
order to enhance the price of wool on the
backs of A, 000,0 sheep which belong
only to some 1,000,0 600 of people.
Mr. President, your tariff laws have ut
terly failed to achieve that benefit, even if
it were a benefit. Look at the State of
Vermont whence comes the great champi-
On of the wool tariff, anG you will find that
the number of sheep is decreasing and the
value of wool is decreasing. You have not
benefited the sheep men, and you have eX-
torted doubly out of the human men.
In order to keep up this hopeless pro-
tective tariff on wool you have got to ex.
tort from the great body of the people, to
extort from your manufacturers, and to
make complicated system of tariff laws
which keep the commerce and manufact-
ures of the United States in continuous hot
water. Have you ever seen the day when
either the manufacturers or the producers
were satisfied with the wool tariff? 1t is
utterly impossible to satisfy them. If you
make it one thing to-day, they want it
another thing tomorrow; and it is simply
and only perpetual triangular game of
battledore and shuttlecock between the
people, the manufacturers, and the sheep
men. If you put a high tariff on the raw
wool products your manufacturer says,
"Why, here, you have got to protect me
upon the CLOTH"
The wooden manufacturers of Great
Britain can draw their wool supply from
all the quarters of the earth free, and can
clothe their people with the best goods at
the cheapest rate. Having put this high
tariff upon wool, to the crippling of the
New England and Middle States weolen
manufacturers, and to the detriment of
your carpet industries, the men who make
those things say, "Here, you must now
put another tariff upon the ready-made
clothes and the textiles that produce them
in order to protect u.s."
Mr.. President, for the sake of the A.
0O0,00 sheep. owned by about 100000
mep, 65, 1000, 900 people are paying annually
for their wooden clothes and outfits just
about the value of the whole number Of
sheep in the United States.
295 FRENeHMEN ST., SAN FRANCISCO.
November 3d., 1899.
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