Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22


stood that the people are beginning to under
stand, or at least are beginning to IN
Quire, to the reason why Faui ID
favored and Peter turned down. Applause
on the Democratic side.] Why. In an industry
where we hold the coigne Of vantage against all
competitors, whether in Canada or in England,
should the rest Of the community be made 70
add to the profits Of that particular class OF
industries? We are told that we need not wor-
~ about that because competition will make
It all right. But will It? Is It not enough that
every industry in this country stands on an
equality with .yourst And, when We have lift
ed them all up by q protective tarin and
thrown around them the shield Of full and ad-
eQuate protection, tell me why 1t Is that we
should draw from all the consumers Of the coun-
try in order that the profits Of favoredfew may
be increased?
I'VE all know perfectly wen that there are
industries In this country in which the dividends
have been enormous. can name upon my ten
fingers men whose combined profits in the last
decade have exceeded those of all the agricul-
turists Of any State in this Union. [Applause.1
I am not disturbed at this applause on the
other side. I shall be exceedingly gratiied.
Mr.. Chairman, If they shall come to realizing
sense that our countrymen deserve such pro-
lection by the act OF the National legislature
will give them fair vantage ground against
all the competitors OF the world. That is all
we ask. II the time has come when my coun-
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
plause.]
"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
by limiting the market Of the farmer upon the
one hand without extending it on the other I
have believed that so far as the Anglo-Saxon
race is concerned that which is good for half of
the continent is good for all Of it. I have be-
Heved that my countrymen hold the coigne OF
vantage against our neighbors of the North,
and the policy of commercial non-intercourse
can not result in the slightest profit or advant
age except to a few who have scandalized
the industrial system OF my country for
their own profit; who, to crafty their own
avarice, have flched from the pockets Of my
countrymen, maintaining that there is great
| inequality between this side and the other side
| of an imaginary line just north OF US. And in
| order to give the farmer q chance we have put
| a wall so high that the Canadian agricultural
products not cross 1t. Now, let see.
'sF'acts are brutal things. There is nothing
| SO utterly brutal as a fact 1t yields nothing,
| it sympathizes with nobody's feeling.
| [Laughter.] Now, what is the fact in this case:
During 1888 we bought from Canada agricult-
ural products to the amount of over ST. O0O,O 600.
What did we sell them? About S21,OOOOOO, and
the larger part of it corn and the products that
we do not buy from them. To please the farmer
OF the country have shut him out of the
\ market where he sold his products to the
| amount Of S21 100000 and kept out partial
| competitor nearly $4,000, 900 that We bough
| from the Canadian side. We have shut out
| eggs, and that is paraded an important mat.
| ter. made little calculation as to how that
| would affect our people We imported 81 600 600
| dozen eggs, and by careful estimate that
amounts to just one omelette year to each of
| our people-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
| weather as well as warm" Laughter
A member-Give them a bounty.
I'VE might have offered them a bounty
| continued Mr.. ButterwOrth, ''but I do not care
| to go into that Strange, is it not-against our
| countrymen here on the north, in whose veins
| courses the same blood that courses in our own,
| united to us by destiny which is above the
control Of Kings or CongreSseS--we shut the
| send our children ShelterleSS to bed rather
than have a fair exchange with them. But that
| 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 of the Latin race. How
| stands the balance of trade with them dur
ing the last forty years? Two million one hun
| dred thousand dollars against us The five
million Of our kinsmen north Of us have bought
OF us $3.50 0OO, 900 worth during that time in
| cess of what we purchased from them.
! whence came the opposition to the COM
merce with the people north OF us? What
prevented it! Avarice in certain localities
| The opposition was dictated from the potato
patch, from the cabbage patch, from the hop
patch laughter and applausel, and before the
| ball is over you will my honored friend in
| charge Of the hop brigade associated with the
cabbage cavalry endeavoring to persuade the
former that his highest good is in combining our
selves to a market where do not sell now
within onefourth of what produce
| Laughter and applause.l
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. I aSSer
here if can believe the manufacturers, tina
many of them do sell to all nations of the eartl
cheaper than they do at home. Laughter anG
applause] could call the witnesses and if
could get them here and let them swear will
uplifted hand they would SO aver. Applause
Does not that proclaim to the world that We
have the coigne of vantage in this country il
the line of those industrieSs
There are some items in this bill which tt
the average mind are peculiar, and there ART
some features OF the bill which I hold not Onl,
to be not defensible, but not even passing thu
requirements of very high morality. lap
plause and laughter.] Here is an item which
is designed to establish the tin-plate industr.
in this country Now, 1 have made careful
calculation and inquiry into this matter, and
find that 1T will cost the American people to
day to do just what is proposed-that is, to es
tablsh a plant to supply the Nation with tn
plate-from $50 600 900 to Sc, 0OOG, winch, if
| can live at all under the circumstances, ough
| to live with the present tariff. In other words
| take that item alone and there is not home i
America that will not contribute to the plan
of this tin-plate establishment they propose t
! locate at Pittsburgh. There is not a family Il
the land, and there is not person in tn
United States that will not contribute to i,
| and to whom it will not be burden, althoug
my friend from Michigan {Ar. Burrows) her
says that It does not amonnt to any thing, 70
there is only IA cents on each small piece c
tin, a very small piece OF tin, IL cents on each
I suppose he could be reconciled to feas be
cause each one is SO small. IGreat aaughte
and applause
There is another to which I wish to cal
your attention, the copper industry. Why, sill
there has not been a time in two decades whe
| my countrymen have not produced copper a
| cheap any other nation an the world, ant
most of the time cheaper, and yet we hav'
! these people, who on an Investment eQualin
81 ESQ 600 have taken out over SEQ 600 600 in div
idends in nineteen years coming and asking ad
ditional protection. [Appiause-] Will you tel
why the duty OF copper should be continued
Why not make copper free to ala the people VIII,
| are using it in th6s country? Do you not know
thxt every electrician in this country petition
| to remove the duty on "copper" Is it neceSsar!
| to protect this industry? Is it an infant indus
trye Why, Mr.. Chairman, it would be better
: We had taken every man connected with tina
employment in the copper mines boarded then
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and set them u
in the banking business for life. fGneat laugh
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