Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-07-26

per cent, and that the. profits of last
year were three times as great as
those of the preceding year.
Mr.. Voorhees, referred to the
recent Stanley wedding in London,
and to
ANDREW CARNEGIE's GIFT
of a magnificent uncut diamond. The
farmers of the United States, he said,
had paid for that diamond ten thous-
and times over in the last twenty
years by paying an average duty of
over 9S per cent on every article of
iron and steel that they had used and
by paying an increased rate of rail-
road freight made necessary by the
high duties on steel and iron rails
and rolling stock, for the farmer at
last paid for all. If the pending bill
became law, they would have an
increase of duty to pay on iron and
steel from SO "a per cent to 81. rs per
cent.
Mr.. VOORHEES, passed on to the dis
cussion of the proposed increase of
12O per cent on tin plate in order to
protect an infant industry as yet un>
born, and in order to give employ
ment to $4,000 workingmen now idle.
1t would be far cheaper, he said, for
the country to pay the $4,000 iIle
men their average daily wages than
to tax every square of tin roof, every
dinner pail, teapot and milk can,
simply to build up half dozen mil>
lionaires and to enable them to give
coaching parties to protective leaders
and to found libraries from the saw
ings of a 10 per cent
REDUCTION OF WAGES
of their working men. Tin plate, he
said, had the first right to be on the
free list, and he would, at the proper
time, move to put it there. There
was no manufactures of it in this
country, and therefore nothing to
protect, even if protection were right.
1t was material in general use, a
common want with the laboring peo-
pie, and it ought, therefore, to pay
no tax. Might he not, with proprie-
ty, in leaving the tin plate schedule,
call on all men and women who use
tin pans, pals, cups, strainers, tea
pots, coffee pots, wash basins, cook
ing pans, pie plates, cans for fruits
and vegetables and tin for roofing
their houses, to join in pronouncing
ANATHEMA MARANATHk
against this bill. The title of the
bill was san act to reduce the reve-
nue. and equalize duties on imports
and for other purposes" The only
truth in the title being "Nr other
purposes" than those declared. With
sugar on the free list, an annual rev.
enue of $50, 900, 900 was abolished, but
3 the other schedules increased duties
to the amount of $50, 100000. But
, if the bounty Of 3 cents per pound on
sugar produced in the United States
should result, as its friends urged it
: would in the production of all the
sugar consumed here, then, according
to the last statistics, the American
people would find themselves paying
an annual sugar tax of SCI, $4,000,
under the masquerading, fraudulent
> process of so-called free sugar, in alli'
y ance with high protection and gross
subsidy. He went on to say that all
internal revenue taxes on manufact'
urers, brokers and dealers, hank
checks and incomes had been swept
away, while the duties on trace
chains, tin buckets, flannel shirts and
/, the like had had
A MANIFOLD GROWTH.
According to the present rates .
. taxation on the farms and in thu
workshops, war was still raging ant
y costing mole than.ever before. Who
y he asked, would dare stand before
= the country and say that party 81
y long in control of the government
- had dealt fairly with the people OF
the subject?
- In conclusion, he declared that tn,
: battle for liberties, justice and equal
:. ity would be fought out in ever.
part of the field, but that at no poin
was victory more essential thar
where floated the banner of tariff re
~ form.
- Mr.. VOORHEES, spoke for about tw
u hours and marked attention was pai
- to his speech by the democratic sena
:, tors, most of whom remained in tn
~ chamber during its delivery. On tn
~ other hand, there were very few
w hor6lxI a do1ap ronuhlinaY1 conaforS (