Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-10
DINGLBY TALKS
And Talks Well on The Old
Democratic Promises
About faFi1 Reform. He Strikes flom
The Shoulder.
Eloquent Words In Defence Of the Me
kinley Tariff Act.

Eloquent Words In Defence OF the Nc
kinley Tariff Act.
WASHINGTON. March Sin the Housi
today in reply to McMillin. Nelson Dir &
ley made An eloquent speech. Mr.. Ding.
ley said: If the gentle emsn from Tennes
see, (McMillin) represents in his speeot
And his North American article, the views
and purposes of the Democratic party as tc
tariff legisl Oh. and have no doubt ht
does then the three sporadic bills reported BY
the Democratic III. ,ritv Of the ways and
means committee. now before the commit
tee ~ . tariff reform scheme Of the Dem
ocrstic House contsinir z l40 Democratic
majority, AFFORD the mt st striking exhibitit I
Of letting II dare not" before Pfesidentia
election ard wait on | would after the
election, it has ever been my fortune tc
observe in the political history Of thi:
country.
Voters were deceived and persuaded tc
sccept the Democratic promises in New
England that the Demo crstic scheme or
tAiih reform looked TO the relief Of manu-
facturers suffering for want of free coal
free iron ore and free pig iron. with oily
intimation that manufactured articles would
be undisturbed, are anxiously awaiting the
redemption Of those pledges by this Dem
cratic House.
Voters in West Virginia, Virginia and
the other coal and iron producing states
told that the Democratic plan Of tariff re
form would leave coal, iron ore and pit
iron undisturbed, and would severely Gu
duties on Eastern manufactured ptoduc
are beginning TO ask for the redemption Of
the pledges made to them.
Those Western and Southern farmerl
whose votes were captured by the assur'
ance that that the Democratic plan Of tari q
reform contemplated the general over
throw Of the Mckinley tariff and protec
fion, are becoming uneasy at the non-ful
tilment of the pledges made to them.
In this situation, with the Republican
policy fully and clearly set forth in the e1
is,iug law, with the representative OF thu
great Democratic majority in this HOUSE
repeating his old denuncia,ions Of the enor
mites Of the Mckinley tariff what do th'
Demo cratic shorty Of the ways ant
means committee propose As q Democratic
plan Of tariff reform.
First, to place binding tvine on the fre,
etCUuus W piASc oh shC AhCV iink bek
ging for cotton and hoop iron when manu-
fsc.ured into cotton ties and all the ms
chinery for the manufacture Of cstton bag
ging third. to place on the free list farm
er's wool, abolish 60 much Of the duty OF
cloth which is for the bene fit Of the fsrme
and leave the average ad valorem duty o.
80 per cent to protect the man anufacturer.
The gentleman from Tennessee intimate
that a few more desultory bills, attacking
an item mere and there Of the 2500 items Of
the Mckinley tariff, will be forthcoming
Is to the redemption Of the remainder o
Democratic pledges he comforts the voter
who elected this Democratic House, unde
the promise that sweeping tariff reform
would promptly follow its assembling, wit!
another pledge that if they will only wal
and re e-elect this Democratic House ant
elect q Democratic President, then tn,
Democratic tariff reform shall blossom o
the rose.
Pray, what kind Of tariff reform IL to b,
expected in such an event2
The voters who have been cheated one,
would like to know before they submit Il
be fooled ag.in.
II f"tariff reform" is to be made an il
sue by the Democratic party in the mex
Presidential campaign, the voters Of th'
country have Q right to be Informed nov
and here by the l40 Democratic majorit,
Of this House exactly what kind Of tariff
bill the Democracy would substitute TO
the existing Mckinley tariff.
The Mckinley bill is complete bill Oh
q protective basis. The people demaDo
that this Democratic House shall presen
such a measure as they profess TO hav'
ready to tubs,i,ute for the Mckinley tariff
before election, not after.
The fact that the Democratic leader
have not presented and will not presen
such = complete tariff MEASURE is prao
ticaliy q confession that they dare not lie
the people see what they propose t.
do.
Gentlemen on the other side say tina
these sporsdic bills reported by the Dem o
cratic minority Of the ways and mean
committee sufficiently indicate the tarid re
form policy OF the Democratic party.
Pray, which Of the sc bills is it that ind
Gates THU. Is it the bill which places OF
the free list q completed, manufactures
product like cotton bagging, with the per
fected machinery to make it2
Does Democratic tariff reform mean fre,
trade in completed manufactures as thi
bill proposes?
Is it q bill which places on the free lie
manufactures Of hoop iron in the form o
cotton ties, while it leaves not only tn
hoop iron in every other form with q dut,
| Of As per cent, but also leaves even iroi
ore and coal on the protected listI
IL protected raw material and free man
ufsctured products the Democratic idea o
"tarjf reform" as this bill indicates?
Oris it the bill which places on the fre'
| list the farmers wool-his completed pro
duct-snd gives an average protective duty
! of Sc per cent to the "robber manufac
turerr' Does the Democratic tariff reform
mean .uch "class legislation" - this
Dingley stated that according to a New
York paper distinguished Democrat,
member Of the ways and means committee
| was asked if he did not think seven tenth
Of . cent Per pound duty on binding t~in'
was not sufficiently low in the interest oi
tar # reform; to which came the reply;
"It may be sufficient for tariff reform
but 1t 10 not sufficient for the interests o
the Democratic party.
This seemed to indicate, said D!ngley, il
preparing these bills that the majority oi
the committee were engaged in revising
| means to catch votes 10 the approaching
Presidentfal election. From this point o.
| view can understand the bills.
The free wool bill 10 for the latitude o.
Massachusetts, the free binding tviDe bill
10 for the latitude Of Iowa, and the fret
cotton tie and cotton bsggipg bill is for ih'
latitude Of Georgia and Texas. The vote
fooled by Democratic orators Of 1890 can
not be easily fooled again.
Every intelligent man understands tbs
such desultory and contradictory sporadic
tariff IL egislation ~ proposed by these three
bills. is sbsurd, uni ust and unsise.
The report Of the ms jority OF the way
and means committee states thst they lef
in the wool bills the protective duty OF
cloth for manufacturers more than sufficien
to cover the difference Of the cost Of man
ufscture here and abroad.
II protection is right for one manufac.
tured product then it 10 right for all tha
need it. II the Democratic mi rity are
sincere in this statement tina. they favor pro
tecting wooleu cloth, then thsy give away
their whole case.
DinsIey defended the Mckinley set elo
quently and srgued that the three bills pro-
posed By the maj ority Of the ways and
means committee could result in nothing
but ip jury to the farmer. The free WOO
bill, he said, voud reduce the price and
destroy the wool industry.
Dipgley said the old charges against th,
Mckinley tariff have ali been swept away
BY the march Of events.