The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-08
REFORM IN LARGE DOSES.
Mills Believes in Allopathic Treatm ent
of the Tariff
From the Neto York Advertiser.


From the Neo York Advertiser.
The Reform Club gave an enthusiastic re-
ception to Congressman Roger Q, Mills
Friday night. The cozy club house, Fifth
avenue and Twenty-seventh street. was
crowded with tariff reform enthusiasts.
President E. Ellery Anderson and Thomas
G. Sherman gave dinner to Mr. Mills at
the club early in the evening, The other
guests were ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Fairchild, Francis Lynde Stetson, II.
LOOMS Nelson, Congressman Ashbel p.
Fitch, Everett p. Wheeler, Louis Wind
muller and A. A. Healy.
1t was nearly 9 O'clock when the dining
party came downstairs, and Mr.. Mills took
his station at the Fifth avenue end of the
parlor, where he was introduced t. the
members and guests of the club. After q
short Informal reception, tho members were
seated and President Anderson introduced
the guest of the evening in short speech.
Mr.. Mills responded with fervent and
eloquent address on the subject nearest his
heart.
Among other things he said: st was
never more necessary that the promoters of
tariff reform should work earnestly than il
is to-day. For some unknown reason the
cause has received a check. The people
seem to be wavering and halting. But il
will not satisfy the country for US to take q
step backward.
40 stagnate means to die; If we retreat
we are lost. A distinguished leader in the
Democratic party says that we must &c
back to the tariff of 1888. This gentleman
forRets that that tariff bill was opposed by
almost every democrat in the House.
1.-THE whole party and the only demo-
cratic President we have had in thirty years
arraigned that measure before congress and
before the people. The majority of the
people condemned it in the election Of 1884.
A man who says that the Democratic party
must go back to that point has fingered too
long in the rear among the suffers and the
camp followers. AS for us we won't re-
treat. We are for war-eternal, uncom~
promising wsr-not with Chile or any other
insignificant republic which has been
fostered aud inspired by the example of
our own country, but q war to
rescue our own people from
domestic plumber of their own homes. We
intend to press on until we restore to our
people the God-given right of free trade.
We must take holder ground than ever
before. The people are always in advance
of the traders. 1t is the representatives of
the party who haven't the courage of their
convictions. We must pass tariff bill on
scientific principles. We must take eff the
tax from every finished production in our
market and from all raw material. We
must levy revenue duty on finished
products, but not one cent above such duty.
That is true tariff reform.
81 am not believer in homeopathic treat
ment Of the tariff question. Wherever
waves the flag Of larger liberty and larger
and freer trade, there | follow and fight.
Let us leave to the republican President and
the republican Senate the responsibility of
overthroving our efforts for free trade,
which is the nearest approach to the laws OF
nature. The closer we get to nature the
nearer we are to God"
Mir. Mills was frequently interrupted by
applause and at the conclusion of his adj
dress he received an ovation. He was fol
lowed by Sinclair McElway of the Brook.
lYn Eagle and Parke Goodwin, who spoke
eloquently on the same subject. At the
conclusion of the addresses there was an in
formal discussion among the members.