Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-22

[Sensation.I OF course would not set up my
judgment against that of the honorable gentle
men IT )und me, but at the same time l desire
pra-or-ulIy and earnestly TO have it under.
sto, d that the people a. beginning to under
stand. at least are beginning to IN
quire, as to the reason why Paul is
favored and Peter turned down. Applause
on the Democratic side. Why. in industry
where we hold the coigue OF vantage against all
competitors. whether in Canada or in England,
should the y of the community be made to
add to the profits of that particular class OF
industries: We told that we need not wor-
~ about that because competition will make
it all right. But viii it? Is it not enough that
every industry IL this country stands on
equality with yours: And when we have lift
ed them all uD by a protective tariff and
thrown around them the shield cs fun and a!-
equate protect, n. tell ne why it is that we
should draw from all the consumers of the coun-
try in order that the profits OF favored few may
De increased:
I'VE all know perfectly well that there are
industries in this country in which the dividends
| have been enormous. | can name upon my ten
fingers men whose combined profits in the last
decade have exceeded those of all the agrlcul
turists of any State in this Union. Applause
l am not disturbed at this applause on the
other side. l shall be exceedingly gratlhed,
Mr.. Chairman. if they shall come to realizing
sense that our cOuntrymen deserve such pro-
! lection by the act of the National legislature
as will give them fair vantage ground against
|
We ask II the time has come when my coun-
| trymen with equal opportunity can not hold
| their own. being the most brilliant, the most
progressive the finest people in the world, then
we had better retire from the field. lap
| plause.I
! "A great deal has been said in regard to doing
| something in behalf of the farmer. But l do
not think shall find any special advantage
| by limiting the market of the farmer upon the
| one hand without extending 1t on the other. L
! have believed that so far the Anglo-SaNon
race is concerned that which is good for half OF
| the continent is good for all of it, 1 have be-
| lieVcd that my cotIntrymen hold the colgnc OF
| vantage against our neighborS of the North,
! and the policy of commercial non-intercourse
| can not result in the slightest profit or adVant-
| age except to a few who have sc2ndallZed
| tht industrial system of my country for
| their own profit; who. to crafty their own
| ayaricc, have tilched from the pockets of my
| countrymen maintaining that there is great
! inequality between this side and the other side
| of an imaginary line just north of US. And in
! order to give the farmer chance we have put
| a wall so high that the Canadian agricultural
! prOdueS can not cross it. Now, let US see.
| Facts brutal things There is nothing
| so utterly brutal as Il fact. 1t yields nothing
| it sympathizes with nobOdy'S feeling
| Laughter. Now what is the fact in this case:
! During 1883 bought from Canada agricult-
| ural products to the amount of over $170O0,0OO.
| What did we sell them: About S21.OoOOOO, and
| the larger part of it corn and the products that
we do not buy from them. To please the farmer
| of the country we have shut him out of the
market where he sold his products to the
amount of s21 100000 and kept out as partial
| competitor nearly S17.O00OOO that we bought
| from the Canadian side. We have shut out
! eggs and that is paraded as an important mat
| ter. | made little calculation as to how that
would affect our people. We imported 81 10000
| dozen eggs. and by careful estimate that
| amounts to just one omelctte Il year to each Of
/ our people-one Omelette year. That is all.
| Laughter. This committee knows very well
| that my fellow-citiZens do not during onehalf
| of the year taste eggs at all. Our friends of
| the committee have not inserted in the bill any
| provision which would have cnioined upon the
! hens that they should lay regularly during cold
| weather well as warm" Laughter
! a membcr-Give them a bounty.
We might have offered them bounty"
| continued Mr.. Butterworth, but do not care
| 10 20 into that. Strange. is ii not-a%ainst our
| cOuntrymcn here on the north. in whose veins
| courses the same blood that courses in our Osyn,
| united to us by destiny which il above the
| control Of Kings CongTcSSeS-wc shut the
! door, we refuse even to accept their lumber but
/ send children SheiterlcSs to bed rather
| than have fair exchange with them. But that
/ is not all. Behold we have just expended hun
! dreds of thousands of dollars to establish unre-
strictcd reciprocal trade with fifty odd millions
| of people south of US of the Latin race. How
stands the balance of trade with Thorn dur
! Ing the last forty years: Two million one hun
| bred thousand dollars against us. The five
/ million OF our EinSmen north of Us have bought
! Of Us SO 10000 worth during that time in
| cess OF what We purchased from them.
! Whence came the opposition to the COM
merce with the people north OF US: What
! prevented ii: Ayarce in certain localities.
/ The opposition was dictated from the potato
/ patch from the cabbage patch, from the hop
| patch laughter and applause. and before the
/ ball is over you will see my hOnored friend in
charge of the hop brigade associated with tho
! cabbage cavalry sndeavoring to persuade the
( former that his highest good is in combining our
| selves to "A market where we do not sell now
| within one-fourth of what we produce.
! Laughter and applause.1
There some controversy. Mr.. Chair
man. during the discussion here as to whether
! our manufacturers sell outside of the United
! States cheaper than they do at home. l assert
| here, if can believe the manufacturers, that
many of them do sell to all nations of the earth
| cheaper than they do at home. Laughter and
| applause.1 could call the witnesses and if 1
| could get them here and let them swear with
| uplifted hand they would SO aver. Applause.
| Does not that proclaim to the world that We
| have the coignc of vantage in this country in
| the line of those industries:
There are some items in this bill which to
| the average mind are peculiar, and there are
| some features Of the bill which hold not only
| to he not dcfcnsiblc. but not passing the
| requirements of very high morality jAp-
plausc and laughter Here i item which
| Is designed to establish the tin-platc industry
!
! calculation and inquiry into this matter. and [
/ find that it will cost the American people to-
/ day to do just what is proposcd-that is, to eS-
! tabiSh plant t. supply the Nation with the
platc-fro so OO00 900 to siuODOtOD. which if it
| can live nj all under the circum~ tanccs, ought
! to live with the present tariff. In other words,
/ take that item alone and there is not Il home in
America that viii not contribute to the plant
| of this tin-platc establishment they propose to
! locate at Pittsburgh. There is not family in
| the land. and there i not n person in the
| United States that Will not contribute 10 it,
! and to whom it will not be a burden. although
my friend from Michigan Mr.. Burrows here
| says that it does not amount 10 any thing. for
tin, very small piece OF tin, IL cents on each.
| l suppose he could be reconciled to heas he
| cause each one is small. Great laughter
! and applause.
| There is another to which I wish to call
your attention, the copper industry. Why, sir,
| there has not been a time in two decades when
my couutrymcn have not produced copper as
| cheap as any other nation in the world, and
most of the time cheaper. and yet we have
these people who on an investment eQualing
81 $50 900 have taken out over $50 100000 in div
idenGs in nineteen years, coming and asking adj
| ditional protection. iApplausc.l VIII You tell
| why the dut> copper should be continued!
| Why not make copper free to all the people who
! are using it in this country? Do you not know
that every electrician in this country petitions
to remove the duty on copper: Is it necessary
to protect this industry: Is it an infant indus
! trvg WHY Mr. Chairman. ii would be better if
| we had taken every man connected with that
employment in the copper mines, boarded them
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and set them up
in the banking business for life. Great laugh