The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-10
THE TARIFF.
Maj. McClammy Grows Humorous and
Sarcastic--He is Granted More
Time and Makes Some
Good Hits.

of this tariff bill, but l believe the
time has come when it is necessary for
me to speak out in meeting. Laugh
ter. [ have listened lately to so many
compliments to the class of citizens [
represent that | feel that | would be
incapable of gratitude and insensible
to kindness if | did not rise here and
thank you, brethren, for what you
are attempting to do for us.
Laughter.
Mr.. Chairman, it has been the
dream of my uneventful life to witness
the spectacle that every day is enacted
on the floor of this House. The
farmer is abroad in this land.
Laughter Jew or Gentle, Swede
or Norwegian, German or CeIt, Dem
ocrat or Republican, freetrader or
protectlonist, tariff reformer or tariff
adjuster, mugwump or spokesman, and
above all, my friend from the First
district Of Ohio against the field we
are all farmers here, the Lord be
praised Laughter. There is a
word in our vocabulary that silences
all political, social, economic, or sec
tional differences.
Farmer is the c~ountersign, and
God bless you, we have all got it.
Renewed laughter. But, Mr., Chair
man, the farmers are not all fools.
They know that House bill 1852 still
sleeps in the committee which has
produced this great big bill. They
know with my distinguished friend
from Ohio Mr.. Mckinley that the
same hand of protection that stirs
this toothsome omelette taxes sui
phuric acid and muriatic acid, which
enter so largely into the lAboring
mans fertilizers.
Do you mean business, gentlemen ?
The farmers have not got the vision
to pierce a milestone, but, thank God,
they can see through the diaphanous
diatribes of desperate debaters.
Great laughter. Why do you not
cheaper our fertilizers .? You have
placed a duty on Canadian eggs; you
boast about what you have done for
the American farmer, and you refer
to it as a complete vindicati N of your
american policy" What ~audacity
1t paralyzes me. Laughter
Why did you put cotton seed on
the free list and make these farmer
friends, whom you hug with so much
delight to your bosom, compete with
the world ? Why did you put cotton
seed on the free list unless it was for
the purpose of destroying the manu-
facture of cotton seed oil, a struggling,
an "infant" Southern industry ?
Laughter. Does your boosted pro.
Uective system mean only protection to
Northwestern wool and New England
manufacturers? If not, why do you
place every Southern product that is
susceptible of mechanical development
on the free list ?
Will anybody get up here and say
that this bill is not in every line, in
every word, from its enacting clause
to it's "fnis," VIGOROUSLY, conspjcu-
ously, outrageously sectional? TLaug-
ter and applause on the Democratic
side. My friends, "free traders"
do not alarm us. Brethren, brother
farmers, God bless you, We are con
ing, and we are coming to stay; no
question about it. Laughter.
We may have been in the past a
little extravagant about our inherent
greatness and our superlative superb
ority against the world and mankind
generally, but we have quit that. Let
me tell you the power and the wealth
| of the Southern States half a decade
hence will startle the new world and
will teach in these Halls of Congress
the glory Of American manhood.
Here the hammer fell.
MI. McClammy. l would like a
few minutes longer.
Mr. Springer. I hope the gentle
man will be allowed five minutes
more.
Mr.. McAdoo. l ask unanimous
consent that the time of the gentle.
man from North Carolina Mr.. Nc
Clammy be extended for five min.
utes.
Mr.. Flower. Let it come out of
the time on this side.
The Chairman. Unanimous con
sent is asked that the gentleman from
North Carolina may occupy FIVE min
utes longer, to come out of the time
on that side Of the House. Is there
objection ? Applause. The Chair
hears none
MI. McClammy. l am very much
obliged to my friends for this cour,
tesy and kindness. 1 tell you, Mr..
Chairman, there is nothing in the
world like being a farmer; is there
Laughter.
Mr.. Chairman, 1 was just remark,
ing about our trouble twenty five
years ago.
Mr.. Kerr, of Iowa. l. object to
the extension of time.