New Ulm review., 1894-04-11
MR.. HILLS SPEECH,
The Senator From New York Attacks
the Tariff Bill Now Under
Consideration.
His Denunciation Directed Princi-
pally Against the Income Tax
... Feature.

If It Is Not Eliminated He Predict
Overwhelming Democratic Defeat
at the Polls. ss-
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The speecl
! of Senator Hill, delivered in the senat,
was chiefly devoted to an extensive an6
bitter attack on the income tax feature
of the Wilson bill. His. opening re-
marks, however, took wider range.
1.-THE political revolution" he began
(which commenced in 1890 and culmin
ated in 1892, was an emphatic expression
of the popular will in behalf of certain
governmental policies. Measures and
not men were largely the issues in
| volved in that movement. Rightly in.
terpreted, it indicated the public senti
ment in opposition, to intrenchment
upon the reserved rights of the states
through
Odioas Federal Election Laws,
some proposed and others then existing;
! it voiced the general demand for dis
continuance of the unwise and indefen.
sible financial system of silver bullion
| purchases by the government, instead
of the coinage contemplated by the con-
stitution, system equally hindrance
to the return to bi-metallism as we'll as a
menace to sound and stable currency;
it manifested the desire for better
administration of public affairs, greater
economy in governmental expenditures
and the exaction of higher official stand
ards in the execution of publicltrusts; it
demanded a more safe, dignitied and
consistent foreign policy; and it con-
demned that abuse or perversion of the
taxing power of the government which
is known as the policy of protection for
projections sake alone, and declared in
favor of tariff for revenue"
The Foreign Policy.
He then took up the foreign policy of
the administration, saying: 1T is not
denied that some mistakes have oc-
Cured. Our foreign policy, especially
that relating to Hawaii, it must be ad-
mitted, has not met the expectations of
the people. A sense of humiliation pre-
vailed when the project for the restora-
ton OF deposed monarch was un-
folded by the administration, and
qualification ensued when it's abandon
ment or f allure was reluctantly an
nounced, Influenced largely by an
aroused public sentiment.
''That unfortunate contemplated pol
icy was blunder, and blunder is
sometimes worse than crime. It was,
nat1
which might we'll have been anticipated
from that other mistake in placing the
department of state in charge of Re-
publican statesman, distinguished and
estimable though he may be, whose
public services have always been identi-
fled in opposition to the Democratic
party, who was without sympathy for
its traditions and purposes, and whose
political convictions upon the disputed
public questions of the day, if changed
at all, are carefully concealed.
1T is to be regretted that the presi-
dent should not have been able to find
in his own party some
Safe and Honored Statesman
in whom he and his party could have
placed confidence, one of Democratic
instincts and training, whose manage
ment of foreign affairs would have re-
Hected credit upon the country, and
would have avoided the PRONUNCIATION
of the un-American policy-a departure
from Democratic precedents-which
was sought to be forced upon an un-
willing people. In this view of the
some share of the responsibility for the
blunders committed in our foreign
affairs.
In other respects the present admin
istration of our government affords
scant grounds for just criticism"
He spoke of the repeal of the federal
election law as a fulfllment of the
party's pledges and a triumph for the
just doctrine Of states rights, and en-
dorsed the repeal of the Sherman law.
The Tariff Question.
Coming then to the main question:
tariff reform-he said that revision
should be approached with circum
spection and with realizing sense of
the changed condition of the country
since 1877 and 1890.
AN extreme reduction of tariff duties
at time when the treasury was swol-
len with surplus of $1Uo, 900, 900, when
I the country was reasonably prosperous.
when all our industries were in opera
ton and when all our workingmen were
employed, assumed a different aspect
and presented different question when
proposed now with a large and grow ing
treasury deficit instead of surplus
staring us in the face, with our indus
tries paralyzed, our manufactures
closed, our workingmen idle, and fol-
lowing upon the heels of one of the.
most disastrous financial panics in our
history.
Would Be Criminal Folly Now.
What was safe and prudent and wise
then it would be criminal folly to at
| tempt now. The present was no time
for partisanship, and Democrats and
Republicans alike should strive to solve
existing problems in spirit of broad