Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10
TALK ON TARIFF TLAs1 BEGINS
Continued from Seventh Psgs.

OF the present law that should be AMENDED
the one allowing those who are opulens
enough and have the leisure to go abroad to
bring in free Of duty quantities OF clothes as
wearing apparel. To illustrate, rich man
going abroad can bring back thousands OF
dollars worth of wearing apparel free from
| taxation, but II one of his humble laborers
were to seek to get 500 worth OF woolens
brought back by him for the use OF his ram
average rate ON WOODEN goods, more than $50
duty, and on some grades he would be com,
pelled to pay on knit goods more than s5o9
duty There should be some limit piaoeI
upon the amount even Of wearing apparel
that can be imported free of duty.
The law now enables those who buy exten.
sfvely to pay the expenses of q trip abroad
shg man Toaea q ths S
and who helped to saddle that measure upon
the people who. in less than 100 days after
its passage. landed in England and bought
$1,000 worth of clothes the first thing. he
was protectionist
Mr. Chairman, the question of excessive in
| crease in the rates OF taxation has been
passed upon by the people and condemned
discussion preceded its adoption. News
| papers and periodicals did their work in In
| forming the people of the changes. Then
came the advance in price, speaking In un-
mistakable tones of the hardship that comes
from increased taxation.
The Verdict of an Election.
Then the election came, and never was
such a defeat administered to q recreant
party as was visited upon those who had
passed this measure. From Maine to Cali
fornia, from the Lakes to the Gulf, people
rose almost as one man. They condemned 1t
| in bulk and in detail. They relegated to
private life the leaders who had conceived
| it and the followers who had executed 1t. An
arrogant majority was converted into an in
significant minority. New England sent q
majority of Democrats here; the whole North
| sent majority: the South sent majority.
| So overwhelming was the defeat that II
| you divide the country into two sections,
North and South, and remove every Demo
| crat from the South, the Democrats from the
North would still be in the majority. II you
remove every Democrat from the North
| those from the South would have majority
over their opponents. Those who held the
| clothes while other threw the stones Jared
! as i'll as those who did the stoning. Rank
and file were smitten hip and thigh, until
| to-day there are but a handful of those VINO
favored the bill left on this floor On the other
n hand among the Dem9crats who op2osed lit it
nominated was defeated by the people.
| The handwriting is on the wall. and is not
| to be mistaken. The people have resolved
and they will make that resolution good
that they will have reduction in the rate
OF taxation or still further reduction OF
those in Congress who favor high taxation.
This battle is on, and to the finish. On the
| favor of just taxation; on the other its oppo-
nents, clamoring ,for excessive and unjust
| taxation. We would not avoid this conflict
II we could; we could not if we would Let
the battle rage, and the dercer the better,
until some recognition is given to the pIinci-
pie that taxes should be levied and collected
{or the support Of government rather than
and for the benefit OF the few.
Interruptions Of the Speaker.
Tn {ha Of w in
was interrupted by Mr. Raines, OF New
York, with the suggestion that the State
elections in New York had not been Of q
character to encourage the Democratic
party. Mr.. McMillin retorted that the ex-
Speaker had on Monday last referred to the
triumphant march Of truth. That march
was emphasized by the fact that the gen.
tleman from Maine Mr.. Reed) no longer
occupied the Chair, but was relegated to the
floor, where he could do nothing but curse
and cry. [LaughteE] The city of the gen.
tleman from Maine had gone Democratic
the other day. [Applause.]
Mr. Reed, who was in tho cloak room
when his name was mentioned, here strolled
down one of the aisles, and as he did so
made the apology that he had not been
present because he knew that the gentleman
from Tennessee was speaking. Laughter.
Mr.. McMillin replied that he cared not
what the gentleman's reason for being alb
sent was. At the conclusion of Mr.. Nc
Millin's speech he was the recipient of q
magnificent cluster of red roses, and his
Democratic colleagues honored him with
generous applause.
Dingiey Speaks for the Minority.
Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, opened the de-
bate on behalf of the Republican side in
opposition to the Democratic tariff bills, as
follows:
II the gentleman from Tennessee repre-
| sents in his speech and his recent North
American article the uiews and purposes OF
and I have no doubt no does-then the
three sporadic bills reported by the Demo
cratic majority Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, and now before the committee as
House containing 140 Democratic majority,
afford the most striking exhibition of letting
81 dare not" no bef0re "a i' Presidential election
ever been my fortune to observe in the po-
litical history of this country.
The gentleman from Tennessee condemns
the Mckinley tariff, enacted by the Repub-
lican party and presenting q complete plan
of protection. and condemns all protective
duties as class legislation, as robbery
measure which is bringing ruin upon the
country. And he announces-just as he and
his Democratic associates did before the
election OF 1871, at Cne Time th6 new tariff
was framed-that the mission of the Demo-
cratic party was to sweep every line and
word OF the "unholy tariff from the
statute book and substitute a measure of
"tarif REFORM" from which shall be elimi-
mated all "class legislation" all "robbery,"
all protection.
Pledges Too Long Unredeemed.
The voters who were deceived and pur-
suaded to accept Democratic promises in
New England that the Democratic scheme
of tariff reform looked to the relief Of manu-
facturers suffering for want of free coal, iron
ore and free pig iron, with q sly intimation
that the manufactured articles would be
undisturbed, are anxiously awaiting the re-
demption of these pledges by this Demo
cratic House. The voters in West Virginia.
States who were told that the Democratic
plan OF tariff reform would leave coal and
iron ore and pig iron undtsturbed and would
severely cut the duties on Eastern manu-
factured products, are beginning to ask for
the redemption of pledges made to them,
and those Western and Southern farmers
whose votes were captured by the assurance
that the Democratic plan OF tariff reform
contemplated general ov erturn of the Nc
Kinley tariff and protection are becoming
uneasy at the non.fuIfllment Of the pledges
made to them.
In this situation, with the Republican
policy fully and clearly set forth in the ex-
fsting law, with the representative Of the
great Democratic majority in this House re-
peating his old denunciattons Of the enormi-
ties of the Mckinley tariff, what do the DEM
ocratic majority of the Ways and Means
Committee propose as the Democratic plan