The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-03-18


by them that the tin was not made
IN California. I don't want to be
cai'ed liar" { Loud laughter).
Dir. Bowers said he would place
on his desk tomorrow a block of
tin, weighing fifty-six pounds, which
was made in California.
Mr. Payne, continuing, said the
Mckinley law was consistent and
ne would ever defend it. This law
made np the difference in the cost
OF labor here and abroad and the |
American manufacturer was placed
on an equal footing with the for
eigner; the laborer here got better
wages thar the foreigner, and he
could buy the necessaries of life Just
as cheap: Being piled with ecolo-
mic questions by Mr.. Harter, Of
Ohio, be asked the gentleman if he
had heard from Senator Hill yet.
cloud laughter.) He then pro-
ceeded 10 quote from Hills speech at
Birmingham on the tariff and said
to Nr. Harter that evidently Hill
did not agree with the gentleman
from Ohio, Or his party on this
question, more than he did on sill
yer. The Democr attic party was
afraid to 90 before the country with
complete tariff bill and brought
in separate measures as entering
wedges 70 public feeling. The
Mckinley bill was a tribute to the
completeness and wisdom of the
legislation by the Fifty-frst Con
gress.
Mr. Raynor (Democrat), Of Ma
ryland, followed. He said the day
had arrived when thousands of peo-
pie who have been confused, de-
ceived ard inyimidated have become
instructed and enlightened upon
the tariff issue. and have no longer
any fear as to the result Of a policy
which the Dem ocra.ic party was
pledged to promote and advance
! whenever invested with the power
to do so. Monopoly was against
US, and from the moment that an
attack is made upon it we
may expect to see from
its citadel its poisoned shafts flying
thick and fast. Money, the tre-
mendous power of centralized
wealth, is against us. Interest
after interest, who for q quarter OF
century have been levying their
toll at the ports Of entry of this
republic, resolved to perpetuatf
their partnership with the govern
ment, partnership that long since
snould have been dissolved by every
constitutional limitation, are com
bined against a continuance of tht
present system in every locality
where the ballet is unde
, filed, and where a freeman
, suffrage is not tor sale
He would never trifle piecemea
with the tariff. The people shoul'
, have every article Of necessity an'
f consumption upon the schedules a
as low duty as it is possible to plac
+Lon, consistent with the re
quirements of the government hon
, estly administered. In conclusion
8 he said, Il am for a tariff for reve
nue. and not for tariff for protee
! ton of monopoly. Any other con
struction is q perversion and false
, hood and will sooner or later brin
us to the threshold of a contes
- for the constitution that involve
! the very life Of this republic. 1t
= to-day so distorted and disfgure
= that those who brought it into lit
- would hardly recognize it as thel
= : offspring. We are the democrac
= . Of the constitution. We mu;
- gather around it and preserve
= - inviolate and unprofaned. W
:. - must watch it's pillars so that n
# :, sacreligious hand shall blast or ne
= Il down. and for all time to com
- - impress upon the people that tn
, instrument must be kept intact
J handed down to us by Madison ar
g Randolph, by Pincney and by Ru
Id LEDGE"