Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-08

check expectation. When we refused to
take the products of other nations, that
refusal was an interdiction against our
exports, and as we remove the barriers
to free exchange we increase our trade.
Protection, boiled down, meant more
work and less result, and carried out to
its conclusion it meant all work and no
result.
Mills criticised the provisions of the
bill relating to hides, tin plate and
sugar, and then said at length these
gentlemen were brought on their knees
at confessional, and were bound to ad
NIT there was widespread depression
throughout the agricultural regions.
What did the bill do to aid agriculture?
1t put sugar on the free list. Two years
ago the democrats stood here and de-
clared that the country was on the edge
of dark shadow. The republicans had
ridiculed this, and had said farm mort
cages were only further evidence of pros
perity and wealth.
Why did not the committee treat
sugar as it treated wooden. goods and
cotton goods and iron goods? Why did
it not put protective duty on sugar and
compel it's production in this country,
and carry out the protective policy?
The committee had found out that
wheat and corn production was in
danger, and increased the duty. The
United States exported 90,000,000
bushels of wheat a year, and
last year imported 1916 bushels; of
corn, 69,000,000 bushels were exported,
and 2,3SS imported. This immense inn
portation must be stopped. The COM
mittee proposed to deliver the rye
farmer from all peril. How much rye
did the United States import? Sixteen
bushels last year. The majority of the
committee cried: 'Let the portcullis
fall" In order to save the cabbage
patch they had placed duty on cab
bage, and that was to be panacea for
all ills. The farmer could stand in his
cabbage patch and defy the world.
This was cabbage-head bill. The repub-
licans must do something more than this
in order to fool the farmers. This bill
would almost stop the expectation of
agricultural products, and then the re-
publicans would hear storm worse than
Nebraska cyclone. Agriculture was
chained like galley slave. When her
bonds were rended and products ex-
ported to foreign markets, the prices of
products would be increased at home and
abroad, and the increased prices would
extend to employment and to produc-
tion in all departments of labor. The
industries OF the country developed I'M
til they produced fifteen per cent. more
than could be consumed in this country.
The surplus was constantly increasing,
and the question was what congress was
going to do about it? The democratic
way was to let down the barriers and let
the surplus go out to the people who
wanted it, and take from other people
what they did not want, and we did.
The people want foreign market, and
they are going to have it.
Discussing the sugar bounty clause, he
said the people who raise corn, wheat
and rye would step up to the counter
and say "We will take some sugar in
ours" The Democrats were opposed to
subsidies. He wadted to see the flag of
the union in every sea. He wanted to
see American vessels in every port, but
he wanted to see those vessels go into
foreign ports as free ships, representing
free American institutions.
The democrats would not impede the
passage of the bill, but when the repub-
licans appeared before the great Ameri-
can people after passing the measure,
"May the Lord have mercy on their
souls" [Applause.l
The committee then rose, and the
house took a recess until s O'Clock,
when the debate will be continued.
The Evening Session.
At the evening session O'Donnell, of
Michigan, spoke strongly in favor of the
sugar section.
Post, of Illinois, favored the bill, and
took occasion to speak for the free coin
age of silver
Stewart, OF Georgia, and Ellis, of Ken
lucky, opposed the bill, and the house
adjourned.