Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-25
The SGD CONGRESS.
Sscstor Mills Speaks It Length on
the Tsnf Bill
THE FAST NAIL SOUTH.
Appropriation ThsrsFoe STANDS, 10 Far ~
tho House IL Observation-Disclosures
Of Postage Defeated.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April Sss-oS-S
ATE.-Immediateiy after the reading OK
yesterdays Journal the Senate held
brief executive session, and them at r.
A., the debate on the tariff bilf was re-
sumed. and Mr.. Mills closed the general
debate" on the Democratic SIDE IN support
Of the bill Every act Of legislation ne
said. was necessarily an act OF compro'
mise, and none more so than one winch
irposed a duty On imports. The pen1hs
hill dld not meet his entire approval AID
he doubted II It met the entire approval
OF any gentleman on his side OF the cham'
ns, ant AZ II was, It should have his
cordial support. II he should think that
tbera was a prospect OF improving II, ne
might offer and support some amend
,rc,ta Hut. whether he succeeded m
saving amendments engrafted on 1t or
not ne should bow to the collective Judg-
rnent OF his side OF the chamber ana
should support whatever conclusion IL
reached. lie believed that that was que
from him and due from every party man,
because the tariff bill was n strict party
measure. and had been one since the
formation of the government. IL he had
been chosen to construct the bill, ana mao
the Democrats been IN perfect accord
with his Views, he would have constructed
III on different lines. Vie would not nave
loft coffee and tea on the free list, ana TAX
"a ,voo,,en- and cotton-goods. and the man.
fractures Of iron and steel. lie "ou'u n"se
mt tax.on coffee tea and sugar. why
because that would carry out the Demo
cratic prtucipIe of obtaining the revenues
necessary TO the support OF the govern
mont with the least possible purueh "
the tax-payers His Republican lrienus
haa nut duties on cotton and wooheh-
Goods and on iron and steel, because
In that way while raising revenue ioi
tho government four or five times as
much went to the favored classes.
REPUBLICAN DECEIT.
10 charged the Republicans with having
deceived the farmers by the promise tha'
under their protective system home
market would be built up; that the non
AGRICULTURAL classes would DE pfous"'
into the country to consume the surplus
wheat of the Northwest. And the sur
plus product of this country. which iiau
either TO eo to waste or seek foreign
ton from India, he declared that
bushel of wheat could not be produced
I'm India and laid down in the city oil
New York I'm competition with n Dushe
OF wheat raised in Dakota, or anywhere
I'm the United States; and that even the
cost of the transportation TO Londof
could be paid, and still American whea'
would compete there with the wheat from
India. He had been told by farmer
from California the other day that ne
could gather ZOO bushels OF wheat IN
one day at labor cost not exceeding
2 cents a bushel. And yet the Republi-
cans got up "scary tax to frlshten
farmers about the competition with In
dla, where ploughing was still done with
the fork of tree. and reaping with a
small handbook They had been singing
TO the farmers OF the United States the
little song:
Hush. hush. hush; the boyle man
Is coming:
You've got no show,
You'd better lie low,
He'll catch you If he can"
They had been thus trying to brighten
men TO produce ten or twenty times as
much wheat as the farmers In India, and
at labor cost over six times less. The
Republican doctrine was opposed to
trading with foreign people. and wanted
70 build up home market but here was
five billions worth OF products TO be con-
sumed at home. How was That being
consumed?
The Democratic doctrine was to ex.
port the products all over the world
where the people live. and where they
should remain. The Republican doctrine
on the contrary. was 10 import people tc
consume the surplus agricultural pro-
ducts, and 1t would be necessary TO Inn
port 33.GO.0O of people to do that. The
Republicans would import Chinese ant
Maltese and chimpanzees to join Coxey'!
army among the aborigines. daughter.
He had been taught by his pious mother
TO read the Bible. and he remembered
reading OF Elijah, where he attacked TIT
400 false prophets Of Baal and slaughtered
them. Ii was thought then that all tn
false prophets We're dead: but 1t seemed
that some of them got away. And the!
had come down TO the present time, an
told the people sophistries in order t
soothe them.
THE PANIC
The United States would have had II
1891 the agonies which 1t was passln
through now If 1t had not been that tn
crop of 1891 was more valuable than tina
of 1890. and the crop Of 1890 more valu
able than that of 1889. The crop of lS9
had Yielded 5000. o00 900 or $500. O0o. 900. an
that fact had kept off the panic.
The panic had not commenced, as wa
charged. with the advent of the Demo
cratic administration. The storm sigma
had been hoisted before then. The peopl
had been admonished TO look out 70
squalls. And the Sth Of November, 1Ss.
the people had felt that the squall wa
coming. The crop Of 1892 had fallen belo'
that of 1891 TO the amount of 500, 900 Oc
and the crop of 1898 had fallen below tina
Of 1892 to the amount of SeOO,OOo.oN
value. And the country was now wher
IL had been In 1889.
And still they were told by Republican
that the Democratic administration ha
brought on the panic. and filled tn
streets with wretched people. But 1t wa
the exhaustive taxation under the McKir
ley bill, and the exhaustive obstruction
in IL that had Frustrated the farmers c
this country and when the farmers fe
the strain they stretched out their arms
and, like Samson, pulled the whole fabri
over the heads OF all.
Great Britain imported wheat from q
countries Of the world-from Russia, Gel
many, France. Austria, Roumania, Tul
key, Egypt, India. and the United State
IT imported from the United States, an
would gladly take all its wheat from tn
country. were II not that the tart
stopped the Importation of English MANI
features TO this country.
Mr.. Mills went on to assert that Amer
can labor was the cheapest In the worl
and the poorest paid. in proportion
what 1t produced; and that a given thir
in manufacture was produced cheaper
the United States than anywhere else Q
earth.
He quoted from a speech Of Blaine
10 the effect that the tariff was que
ton of labor from skin to core and frol
core back to skin again." and he askC
why, In the name OF the poor. distresst
people OF the country only a small pa
OF the duty on manufactured article
went to the labor. Why. for instanc
was less than 50 per ton paid TO lab'
for producing a ton Of steel rails. viii
the tariff was si3A? AS to the T
auction of prices on all articles. which Il
protectionists ascrbed to the tariff, NJ
Mills asked why 1t was II the tart
reduced prices In the United States, FRI
trade reduced them In Great Britain; ar
he asserted that prices had been brougl
down everywhere by improved methoe
OF production, by machinery, by invel
tons