Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-22
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MR.. PAT,TON's MAIDEN SPEECH.
He Attacks the Proposed Income Tax
The south and the Tariff.

Mr. Patton, the new republican Senator
from Michigan. delivered his maiden speech
In the Senate today. 1t dealt generally
with the subject of the tariff. and he
sketched the growth Of the industries Of
Michigan under a protective system. Deal
ing with the income tax features in par
ocular. he said the bill would increase the
cost of insurance IN many ways. He ar
gued that the former operation Of the in
come tax levied during the war had proved
a failure. The democratic party, he said,
In its long minority opposition without re-
spOn Sibility had attracted to itself many
impracticable and destructive theories. Now
that II had attained power II was plagued
with these and had been compelled to in
corporate many of them in the bill. He
claimed MichiganS special interest In the
question from her many leading industries.
which he enumerated. The discrimination
against the farmer and the wool grower In
the bill. he said. bore with special severity
on Michigan. He said of the bill:
1T is covered with the stain of a great
scandal. by which the sugar trust gets q
concession of some thirty millions Of dol
lars; 1t has brought lasting disrepute on
the Senate itself, and Is discredited and de-
rounced in the house Of its friends. 1t Is
a series Of bargains and deals uneQualed
in American politics. and 1t cannot but re-
ceive the just condemnation Of the people
of the country II they should ever pass
judgment upon it,"
SectiOnalism In the Bill.
OF the sectional character Of the bill he
said:
The speech Of my friend. the distinguish
ed junior Senator from Georgia, was an
earnest effort to refute the charge that
this bill is not sectional. but he was sur
rounded with unfortunate concessions
which cannot be explained on any other
theory. The spectacle of a duty OF 80 per
cent n "a
cent on sugar, while the northern farmer,
in competition wiz. Canada is not given
adequate protection to his eggs. hay and
vegetables. and is offered free WOOL is
one which taxes the best energies of his
mind to explain, 1t is difficult to harmo-
nize the action of the finance committee
on cotton ties and cotton machinery with
placing barbed wire on the free list-barbed
wire which employs 10000 men in illinois,
l am told, while the billets from wnIcn IL
| is made are dutiable for the benefit of for
eign labor. / listened to the glowing pic
ture he presented of the undeveloped re-
sources Of his state. l also heard the ju-
nior Senator from Louisiana describing the
virgin pine forests in louisiana Senators
have grown eloquent picturing the coal and
iron and marble now awaiting the capital
and skill and enterprise to develop these
marvellous resources Let us say to these
Senators. If they would listen to the voices
from the new south; II they would point
to the smoke signals which have waved In
the sky from Atlanta and Birmingham and
Sheffield; IL they would come out of the
mists and fogs of the past and denounce
the mumblings over dead issues, and get
away from the doctrine of free trade which
was the corner stone of that confederate
constitution which was shot to death by
the armies of the Union and persisted at
Appomattox, their resources will not re-
main undeveloped. Let them listen to the
voice of the new south, which Is surely
coming with The triumph of protection
already heralded by the ground swell Of
popular approval at every opportunity the
people have to apologize for the great mis-
take of 1892.
The doctrine this side of the chamber
advocates is as broad as our country. 1t
will do for Alabama the Eirginias Louisi-
ana and Georgia what 1t has already done
for Ohio and Michigan.
Let them denounce and disclaim the Gen.
Rossers and Rev. Caves, who are still
classifying history and tanning the almost
| extinct embers of past bitterness, and well
come the northern immigrant into great
states which only require the magic touch
of capital and labor to become hives of in
dustry, surrounded by a people enjoying
the comforts and luxuries of life insepara-
Bile from the high wages the protected
American workman has heretofore received.
Grady and the New south"
The south had a gifted son, who passed
away in youths bright morning." lament
ed by the entire nation, whose grave Is
still covered with the mmortelles of our
affectionate admiration. In his brief life
he had accomplished great things for his
country and was as eloquent in speech as
he was grea.-souled and ender-hearted. A
true lover of his country. he raw the future
and the needs of the south with unclouded
vision. He believed In protection and sought
TO build up his section. He turned his back
on the bitterness and mistakes of the sad
past, and with beautiful word-pictures
painted a future of industrial development
for the states of the south which is an
Inspiration TO better things. He had an
all-embracing patriotism which reached out
the hand of friendship to the north and has
done more to bring us all together. Mr..
President the national calamity of the IN
timely death of Henry w. Grady is uni
versally recognized
He quoted from a speech by Grady which
referred to Mr. Mills as that lion of the
tribe OF Judah " who had at last laid his
mighty paw on the protective system. and
under this indignant touch it trembled to