Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11

The New York Sun says: ga
speech which should be read by
every patriotic American, no matter
what his party predictions, was de
livered last week in the senate by
Mr.. Mcmillan of Michigan. The
subject was the grievous and wantor
injury which the Wilson bill, should
it become law, would infiict upon
the farmer and lumberman of oul
border states by exposing them to
competitor with cheap labor of the
Canadian dominion. To compre
bend the significance of the provis'
ions of the Wilson bill relating to
the importation of Canadian raw
products, it is necessary to compare
them, as Senator Mcmillan has com.
pared them, with their pretended
counterparts in the tariff bill lately
driven through the Ottawa house of
commons by the Tory government
of Canada. BY such comparison
two things are made patent and un-
mistakable. First, the American
producer of food staples and other
raw materials, whom the trainers of
the Wilson bill profess to champion
at the expense of the American man.
ufacturer, has been needlessly and
ruthlessly sacrificed to mis- Canadian
rival, who has three-fold advantage
of cheap land, cheap labor and cheap
transportation. Secondly, this dis
graceful surrender of our national
interests has been brought about by
a certain mysterious influence exert
ed upon the president and through
him upon these elements of the fed
eral Legislature which are responsive
to executive pressure. The precise
source of that influence, its channels
and modes of operation, will perhaps
at no distant day be made the sub
ject of congressional inquiry; for the
present well informed persons in
Washington will at once identify it
as the secret medium through which
the policy Of infamy projected by
Mr.. Cleveland in Hawaii is made
known to British newspapers long
before an inkling Of it was vouch-
safed to the American people by the
publication of Mr.. Gresham's letter.
For an act UNNECESSARILY less mis-.
chievous and offensive than the
divulgation of the presidents inten-
tons, or the stealthy manipulation
of important features Of our tariff
legislation, former diplomatic rep
resentative Of England, we refer, of
course, to Sackville West, was or
dered not to stand upon the order of
his departure from this country, but
to depart at once. Senator McMil.
Ian is the first to point out the extra
ordinary confidence of the opening
of our huge American markets to
the dominion, and the derisory prof
fer by the Ottawa parliament of
ostensibly equivalent privileges to
American producers, TO whom in
reality they were hollow mockery.
How has it come about that the
president and that side of the house
of representatives which he controls
have been persuaded to betray that
great mass of American producers
whose welfare they profess to have
at heart, by what adroit and diplo.
matte agency has such betrayal been
accomplished? Whom are the fire.
quenters of the whitehouse are
apt to find squat at the ear Of
the executive, pouring into it coun-
sells made insidious with dulcet adu-
lation, fraught with depression and
ultimate disaster to the producers of
American raw material? Who is
the man whose words are smooth |
enough, but whose acts are rendering
bin by no means persona grata to
the American peopleS"