The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-20
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pirate emblem is the American flag.
Where, o. Where.
Where are the fellows whose tears
fell like rain over the gloomy prospects
of the people about to suffer new ex-
actions under the Mckinley bill? They
are here still pleading with stale pathos
for the cure of the evils that never came.
These are 1.-The professional wholesale
dealers in misfortune" into whose hands
the professor at the breakfast table
says, 1T is an awful thing to fall?"
These are the statesmen that put the
worldly prospects of whole stat s like
Kansas and Nebraska in to the ragbag
and present the bag for our inspection
and applause in this house.
My friend from Nebraska Mr. Bryan
seems to be the chief mourner now over
the desolation of our common Israel,
and his metaphors take on color al
most oriental, and suggest the rugged
determination to get elected again to
congress even if he has to set ont capni-
bal trees in every township in the state
of Nebraska That complicated Aus
tralian shrub, first brought to the pub
lie attention by Thomas Pepper, by
which my friend has illustrated the man
trap of the protective tariff, though it
does not rise to the dignity of a myth
| even among the bushmen of the Aus
tralian desert, is useful in a discussion
like this to exhibit the languid crcdulity
which enables SO bright man as my
friend to swallow the folklore of free
! trade and the ghost dances of imagi
nary savages with equal enthusiasm
Congressman Dolliver.
TRUTH needs no color; facts need no
varnish. What we see and know and
| feel is conclusive against misrepresenta-
ton and false prophesy. There is diff
| fere nee between u tariff bill and tariff
law. The one is propositions; the
other is fact There is difference,
too, between a tariff law month old
and tariff law eighteen months old. The
difference is, not in the text-for they
are the same-the difference is the OPP
portunity of the demagogue to spread
falsehood about the one that he cannot
about the other. The tariff law four
weeks old is too young to speak for it.
self; the tariff law eighteen months old
talks for itself. 1t furnishes its own fig
ures and supplies its own dcmonstra-
tions, which confuses the demagogue
and confounds the democrat.
You can say of departing train that
it will never reach its destination. You
may brighten some from taking passage
and make those who go uncomfortable.
But when the train goes through in
safety you have won the scorn of those
you sought to alarm, and the contempt
of those who believed in you. You are
henceforth discredited and harmless as
a prophet.
A lie adhered to, somebody has said,
is as good as the truth-that is only be-
cause the lie passes for the truth. But
| it never is as good as the truth, and
fails of any force after it has been con-
victed as a lie. The democratic ma
| jority in the present house of repre-
sentatives at Washington will appreci-
ate this point next November.-Gov.
Mckinley, at Pawtuckct, r. l.
ACCORDING to the report of Consul
Halves, the average weekly wages of
100. 900 W orlling people in / ,131 establish
ments in the consular district of Reich
enberg. Bohemia, are g. ID forms (S2.57)
for adult males and 3.72 florins (1.69)
for adult females Judging from the
deposits in savings banks and the capi-
tai of building and loan associations in
the United States, it is not too much to
say that the average American work
ingman, after paying for everything he
has used land he lives better than the
workingman of any other country in
world) has as much money left at the
end of the week as woman earns in
Bohemia and almost as much as is
earned there by a full-grown man. This
fact speaks more eloquently in favor of
our protective policy than any theo-
retical argument we could adduce.
THE American laboring classes are
far better paid, better fed, better
clothed, better taught and happier than
those of France, and still more so than
those of other countries in Europe. 1t
is almost discouraging to have to go
back to my country and paint picture
in my report which shows such a con-
trast between the condition of things
In America and in France. Paul De-
schanel, special commissioner of the
French chamber of deputies to investi-
gate the condition of workingmen in
the United States.
BETWEEN 1900 and 1890, when wool
was practically on the free list, our an
nual production increased from 5000, 900
to IA, 0O0, 900 pounds a gain of 5000, 900
pounds. By 1880 q protective tart # had
been placed on wool. Mark the result.
From IS, 900, 900 pounds in 1880 our an
nual wool production had jumped to
90. 900, 900 pounds in 1850, a gain of ~
OOO, 900 pounds. This is the difference
between two decades of free wool and
an equal period of protected wool.
BEFORE the passage of the McKinle y
bill there were seventeen pearl button
factories in the United States, none of
which were very busily employed or
turning out large quantities of pearl
buttons. To-day there are seventy
seven factories, all of which are run
ming on full time and are crowded with
orders. This is what protection ha S
done for the pearl button industry in
the United States.