The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28
SENATOR HILLS SPEECH.

SENATOR HILLS SPEECH.
Senator Hills speech before the Demo-
cratic convention at Saratoga on Tuesday
was an able presentation of the issues of
the day. In speaking of the new tariff
bill, he says:
"Of its strictly tariff features it may be
truthfully urged that it is vast improve
ment over the Mckinley law, and will
clearly demonstrate its superiority as time
rolls on and the business interests of the
country shall adjust themselves to its pro-
visions 1t is true that it does not en-
body the full measure of tariff reform
which many of us desired and the country
anticipated, but nevertheless it is safe,
moderate, reasonable.
1T is better than the Mckinley tariff
because it will not create ii deficiency i'll
the revenues of the government. Neither
will it provide for an enormous and dan
gerous surplus. 1t will not require an
issue of government bonds to bolster up
its failures of revenue and to pre-
vent business depression 1t recognizes
in part, at least, the Democratic doctrine
of free raw materials, and in response to
an overwhelming public sentiment has APP
propriatcly provided for free wool, free
lumber and free salt. 1t has largely in
creased the free list in other directions. 1t
has reduced the duty on coal and iron
nearly 80 per cent. The general average
reduction from the Mckinley rates is near
ly 33l per cent. The reductions are not
deemed unreasonable, extreme nor un JUS
that no manufacturer in the country has
any excuse whatever to reduce the wages
of his employees. If manufacturers assume
to do it they must furnish some other
reason than the present moderate new
tariff law
1T may be safely asserted that the
new law will not cripple nor embarrass
single industry in the land nor throw out
of employment single working man, nor
unduly stimulate overproduction on the
one hand nor eXorbitant importations on
the other; it will not be prohibitory in its
effect, nor excessively competitive, but
with some important raw materials made
free and others freer, with general mod
crate reduction along the whole line bus
mess conditions will surely improve, our
citizens will be relieved from unnet essary
taxation, prosperity will now dawn upon
US once more, and the general conservative
tariff revision of 1894 will become more
and more acceptable to the people. The
fact should not be overlooked that it large
of life, upon the implements of husbandry,
and the wearing apparel of the citizen and
substituted for unsound taxes an addition
al tax upon liquors to the extent of $50
100000 If the new bill errs at all it is in
the direction of safety and moderation
1ann * tnn rD1. Il
while ardent democrats may criticise its
conservatism, it does not lie in the mouths
of our anniversaries to condemn it upon any
such grounds.
The bill properly strikes Il blow at pa
ternalism by abrogating the vicious system
of bounties to producers of sugar provided
for in the Mckinley law. The true Amer
lean doctrine is that every mans business
should stand alone, unaided by govern
mental favoritsm extended or bounties
paid from common treasury The elm
nation of sugar bounties saves to the
American people nearly Slo,ooooo0 an
nuallv. If it be said that the new law in
single respect is unduly favorable to one
particular trust my answer is that the
old law favored dozen trusts where tins
NAV favor one But Il better, more com
plete and perfect answer to republican
criticisms is that the very tariff duty com
planned of was reduced more than one
half from what was contained in the Nc
Kinley law l bespeak for this new law,
unsatisfactory though it may be to me III
some respects because of the objections l
urged in the Senate, which it is not adNls-
able or necessary to reiterate, the patient
consideration of fair trial, to which III
common fairness it is entitled.