The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-06-29
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Mr.. Vest, (dem) of Missouri, said he
agreed with the Senator from Maine
(Mr. Hale) that the issue between the
parties were made up They were made
up in 1893 when Thomas Jefferson, in
accepting the portfolia of Secretary of
State, repudiated the declaration Of
Alexander Hamilton that Congress had
the right to levy duties to protect
American industries The democratic
party held then and holds to-day that
such doctrine was congressional absO
lutism. We accept the challenge given
to day. by the Senator from Maine, said
Mr.. Vest, and propose upon this issue to
stand or fall. as a political organization
Mr. Vest spoke of the tariff and exhibit
ed twenty one samples of the necessities
Of life supplied in March last by New
York house, with a statement of their
cost abroad, the duty on them and their
prices here, asserting that in every in
stance the cost to the laboring man had
been increased by the Mckinley bill.
Turning to the predictions made in the
matter of tin-plate, Mr.. Vest read state
, ments from the tin-plate consumers as
sociation of the United States and others
to show that, although the McKin
lev bill imposed an addltlona
charge upon American tin plate manu-
facturcrs of from ten to fifteen million
dollars a year, the entire output 0
the American industry, which the bill
was to foster, did not amount to one pc
cent of our imports and consumption
To day tin plate, by a combination 0
manufacturers, had been put up to IS Q
!. box, when, before the Mckinley bill
it had sold for 1915. Mr.. Vest then re
, ferred to Mr.. Carnegie, who, fror
J, his castle in Scotland had telegraphe
his congratulations to Mr.. Harrison a
>. now entrenched in his workshop benin
:. walls eleven feet high to protect his pre-
tccted industries against the people {
the United States He added: Il kno'
and l am glad to know, that they (tf
republican party) have put at IL
head of their committee another {
the same brood. | know Mr.. Camp
bell we'll. He is the fed attorne
and, nothing else of p D. Armour. 4
haunted my committee (the special con
mittee on the transportation of me-
products) from one end of the countl
to the other for the purpose Of defendir
Armour and his big monopoly. He
the person who advised Armour to de
the Senate of the United States and
was forced to come back to Washingtt
10 to avail myself of the statute we ha
'0 here of compulsory process. This nj
is nothing but the tool of monopoly. I
is the ablest instrument to Armour al
his gage in order to rob the people
the West. Of course he is at the he;
of the committee He is the sort of m
to do the work You pointing to the
publican side of the chamber) have
do. Armour's money and his Cam
bells) talent for manipulation against
American people We will accept I
issue, and God willing, will stand by
And if we should be beaten next Move
Der do not believe, Mr.. President, tt
this tlag will be allowed to fall to
ground. 1 have an unutterable c.
tempt for this slang about our being
t is British party. If we are the Brit
party then Great Britain owns the gre
III er part of the people of the Uni
Jlh States. Every man of intelligel
>, knows majority of the people are dc
iAo" OCTaCS, Dut IL Is worthy VI tllab ihlooi
ur cause (the republican, that they sho
1t resort to invective and accuse us
being bought by British gold. .
Hale, replying, said, the Senator fl
Missouri had dealt with the domain
statements, every one of which
debatable, and would be dispu'
Mr. Vest: ''Do it now" Mr.. Fl
81 do not propose to do it now" Re-
ing to Mr.. Vests remarks on trusts,
Hale said there was the great lea
who controlled the Cleveland force
Chicago, whom they all knew and
spected Whitney-wa he not
nected with any trust? The Chic
D [ convention was controlled by the ST.
n [, ard Oil trust, Mr.. Vest, interrupt
with much warmth, asked: "Does
ay. Senator from Maine charge Mr. v
ho