Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-29
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Senate Keeps On With Work
On the Tariff.
Ssilnle Of The AmaPicaa Fisherman Hat
tie ETelyn Before The Senate.
Change In Postal 8ssvics Between
Bar Harbor and Winter Harbor. i.

Bar Hagbog and winter HaIbor.
WAsHIxGroS, ID. C., July ae.-Afte.
come discussion . resolution WAS sgreed tc
that the Senate hereafter meet at IL A. NJ
and adjourn at p. NJ.
The tariff bill WAS taken up snd Vest Ad.
dressed the Senate in opposition 70 it. A3.
vocases of high tariff taxation. be said, are
confronted by q great peril Fur years the
farmers have been told that the home mar.
ket was all they needed and the foreiga
market vas bsgatelle, almost worthless, but
noz . great change had come. Depression
in agricultural interests and the emphatic
demands Of the farmer for some hing be
sides lying statistics and frothy defamation
had caused President Harrison and Blaine
to urge upon Congress legislation for suo-
sides to steamships and reciprocity treaties
with South American states in order to oh.
tain foreign market for American prod
ucts. Very little was heard new Of home
market, but a great deal of Souh American
market and the rAscaily devices by which
England had robbed the United States OF
that valuable trade.
Blaine nov deprecated puttipg raw
sugar on the free list or increasing the
duties on wool and sug yested that duties on
sugar and wool be utilized to secure
free trade with the South American States.
So at least protectiouists are driven from
their pretentious hnmbug about home
market forced TO adopt the principle free
commercial intercourse. which they 50 long
opposed and derided. The high priests of
protection are now burning incense on the
| affairs of free trade yelling for reciprocity
| treaties. which subsidies to ste am and sail
| ing vessels and pan American, or anythirs
| to bring about free trade with the South
American States and tn enlargslt1e foreign
market for American products.
Vest spoke of the proposed increase of
duties on wheat, oats. barley. rye and other
farm products. and asked how it was posi-.
BILE to protect farmers sgainst the compeu-
ton that did not exist. The whole thing.
he SAID was nothing but a premeditated
fraud aud humbug. As to the proposed re-
duction of the duty on rice and rice -four,
he referred to It as evidence of an unjust,
wicked and sectusl character of both
Honse and Senate bills. Why, he asked,
was that brutal Discrimination made against
the rice planters of the SOUTH
There could be but one answer, they
voted the democratic ticket. The pending
bill. he declared, WAS to repay the mill
owners for their contributions to the cam
paign fund of the republican party, during
the last presidential canvass; and as the
planters of the south we're democrats, and
negroes regarded by the republican man
ayers as mere political chattels who could
contribute nothing the duties on northern
manufactures were increased, while the
duty on rice was dmished. The proposed
increase of the duty on cattle, while no
cattle were imported except for breeding
purposes. Vest characterized as the baldesr,
most disgn- ting piece of bumbug ever ex-
hibited. even in politics. The same pre-
tense, he said, was seen in the increased
duties on hogs, sheep, horses and mules.
Referring to the proposed increase Of duty
on tin plate. (of which S2i 900 900 worth
was imported from England last year. Vet
said it was for the purpose of forcing the
people of the United States to use Pitts.
burgh galvanized iron, and he then, said
he, would ask Great Britain to remove the
quarantine restrictions on American cattle.
We stand with sword in hand II prevent
the importation of goods and expects her
people to take cur products without word
of objection. The farmer who could not
see that he was a victim under the high
tariff system was hopeless partisan. The
farmer furnished nearly four iifths of the
exports of the country and if the foreign
market was unfriendly or absolutely closed
sgainst him be would have to keep his sur
plus products at home and help to lower
the prices BY glutting the market. The
pending bill threw off all disguise and de-
fed the taxpayers of the ni,ed States to
resist it's unjust and wicked exsction.
Vest discussed the propose increase du-
ties on crockery, cotton ties, cutlery, guns
collars. cuffs, cotton and wooden goods.
was claimed, he said, that the tax on wool
was for the farmers protection; all he
asked was ihst every farmer will put face
to face all he received for his wool and all
he paid for woolen clothing by reason of
increased taxation, then turn to the faces of
his wife and children for the answer. He
asserted that the consumers Of the United
States are being Systematically plundere1
under the pretense of protection to home
industries. No further conceaIment was
possible.
Manufacturers who are persistentIy ask
ing for higher duties to exclude foreign
competitor are availing themselves of the
monopoly given by exclusive tariff to charge
people of this country 20 to 20 per cent.
h CHER for goods than they could sell the
same articles for in unprotected markets of
the world. II il no longer protection. but
pure, simple and naked piunder. II might
be that the people of The United States
would submit to that system. Wrongs
crystallized by custom and panoplied with
privilege aud po~er often become
hoary with age. These monsuous evils
have existed for centuries. while patient
ar accomplishing multitude watched the
stars and waited for deiiversnce.
The Americans bossted of their free in
stitutions. liberty and equality but who,
he asked. could call himself a free man.
save in mockery, when by force of law
the proceeds of his life and labor were un-
Justly taken to enrich another. The strug-
gle for human rights was not ended, nor
could it be until the IN equal and unjust sy--
TEN Of tax ttion which now. with the mack
protectio rode like = booted and spurred
highwayman over the land, and was tram
Piled under foot by enrsged people.
Aldrich questioned the statement made by
McPaerson Friday as to the stock of the
Rhode Island manufacturing company SELL
ing at 81 ,o50 per share.
Mcpherson said he rather understated
than overstated, aud read = list of stock
| sales frem the Dry Goods Economist show
ing the sale of the stock of the Amoskeaz
company at 81 $50. The only mistake
was he located the factory in Rhode Island
instead Of New Hampshire.
AIdrich said that Mcpherson hadl made
four Measurements in regard to the matter.
the principal one being that the par value
of stock was 500; the fact vas the par
value was $1,000. Frye added that the
original par value 10 no criterion whatever
Of the value Of plant. The plant might
have been auadrupled without the par val
ue being changed.
| Butler said he would like TO have that
problem explained-on what h.d the plant
| been increased?
SFrye-on actual money paid into the
company.
Mcpherson fortified his original position
by quoting from Spohord's Almanac, show
| ing the large ca and stock dividends Of
numerous manufacturing companies Of
New England IL vas pretty safe to assume
from oil that, he said. that manufacturing
in New EngIand vas quite profitable.
| ,Voofhees mentioneo Q statement BY Wor-
reil. . Nev York importer, before the
finance committee. ip which he quoted the
| report Of Whitman, treasurer Of Arlington
Mills. to the effect that for ,senty years he
had been tre ssureP, and the srcckhf ieYs
| received an average Of more than 20 per
cent on the capital stock.
Aidrich said Whitman deaiea having
made statement of.she form in which il 10
publisned. Whitman isforued him that
the average dividend paid the stockholders