Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1890-05-16
DEMOCRATS APPLAUD.
Butterworth, Of Ohio, Makes
some Pointed RcIaariss ON y
the Tariff. ~ "a
He Criticizes the Bill Prepared
by Mr.. McKinley's Com
nnittee.
All American Industries Should Be
ceive Equal Projections Doings
Of Congress.

WASHINGTON, May 13.--The house
met, and, after the transaction of some
routine business, went into committee of
the whole on the tariff bin. Mr.. Nc
Millin, of Tennessee, moved to reduce
the duty on ammonia. He said he could
see no reason why this artidle Of neces-
sity to the Farmers should ho SO heavily
taxed. Mr.. Mckinley, in opposition,
stated that since the tariff had encour-
aged competition in this country, the
price Of ammonia had been reduced
from 90 to II cents per pound. Mr.. But
terworth said that the price Of an article
was not reduced on account Of .competi-
tion alone, 1t was reduced on account
of improved methods of lnHniafacfure.
He never doubted that the protective
system was wise and had scattered
blessings On the land from shore to
shore. If there was any danger to the
protective system it was in its oscillation
between the extreme of free trade C,,,
the one hand, and ON the other the ex-
treme which created inequalities among
Americans themselves. ThR country, in
the election of Harrison and a Republi-
can congress, had declared uneaHivocally
in favor of sustaining and upholding
the protective system. The conflict in
1888 had not been between schedule
rates. but between economic policies.
Did that Republican policy mean TO re-
move the inequalities which existed
l. at,.,n u, il ~
water and industries on the other, or did
1t mean to shut ont Ril importation? He
insisted that we should not create any
inequalities here. The protective sys-
tenn dealt with conditions and not with
national boundary lines. Ii the tariff
did not deal with conditions then tariff
was good in the abstract, and If it was
the fathers of the republic had paid
themselves poor compliment when
they provided that as between the states
there should be no restriction of co,n-
merce. The committee had tried
to do the best il could in
framing the bill, but 1t was not
always safe to rely altogether ON the tes-
timony Of the beneficiaries under a law.
EApplause on the Democratic side.l OF
course he respected the wisdom Of the
committee, but why was Paul favored
and Peter turned down. Why increase
the profits OF certain classes. He could
name certain capitalists whose profits
had exceeded those Of all the agricultur-
lists in any state in the union. Ap-
plause on the Democratic side. Ii,
when we had protected equally and
lifted up all our industries, the time
should come when we could not hold
our own, being the most intelligent, the
greatest and the ablest people on earth
then we had better retire from the field.
Democratic applause. .r..fg
Mr.. Butterworth then proceeded to
expound his views touching reciprocity
with Canada. He said that we were.cn-
deavoring to cultivate relations with
so, ,0OO, 900 people to the soHthward and
vet we are afraid of Canada. Abraham
Lincoln and Gen. Grant were not sus-
pected of lack of patriotism, yet they
favored reciprocity. There were some
things in the bill he did not Ike. He
had known os o. industry that had been
able to make 100000, 600 dividends ON
a capital Of 81 ,a50,000. Protection I
Why the country could in such cases
better afford to keep these men in the
Fifth Avenue hotel, pay their board
and expenses, and set them up IN
the Banking business. He favored proper
protection, but these men held the world
In their grip. The time has come when
some little concern should be shown to
American homes and American tiresides.
A great body OF employees in this country
was foreign. In some great factories in
the East they were known on the
rosters by numbers because of uufamil-
iarity with their names. In conclusion
he said that the gentlemen We're very
much mistaken if they thought that the
greatest desire of his heart was not to
pass bin rejecting in the highest de-
gree protective system. What he
wanted to avoid were such features as
he had pointed out in this bill. There
was such thing as paying too much for
an industry. Such was the case with
tin plate. The duty would be a tax on
every farmers patch--on every can Of
goods. That tax would amount to $50,-
Doc. 900 before the manufacturers of tin
plate could declare dividend. He was
anxious that his party should take no
false step.
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