The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-02

calculable millions of blackmail ieved by
American manufacturers for their own
pockets on their enforced customers,
when cut of from all outside competition.
IL rs enough for my present purpose to
say that we have liberalized American
markets, made them more accessible TO
the traffic OF the world, and, while not
establishing free trade, we have made
trade freer and more eve.l handed between
the manufactures and the consumer.
But over and above and beyond this
wide and well-known field OF extortion
and injustice, il will be found from the
schedules OF this bill, that tariff taxes now
officially ascertained and paid under ex-
isting laws on the wants, necessities and
daily consumption of the laboring men,
women and children OF the United States.
have been reduced more than $40, 900 900
per annum.
These reductions are as follows: On
chemicals, sl,OO0,000; pottery, Il 100000;
glass, II 800, 900; metals, s12 SOC, 900; wood,
$4,000; tobacco, S33oO,000; agricultu-
raj products, $500, 900; spirits, wines,
etc, S1,50O,OO0; cotton manufacturers
s3,4oO,O0O; flax, hemp and jute manufac-
lures $4,000 900; on woolen manufactures,
~, ,5OO,OOO; silk manufactures IS, 900, 600; /;
paper and pulp s3O0,000; sundries
S2,I50,00O; transferred to the free list,
sl1, 10000; total, S76.670,000. To this
that the bill provides for full and ample
revenue largely in excess OF present sup
plies with which TO meet all the require
ments of the public credit.
such a consummation as this, so full
of relief to the people and OF strength,
safety and hcnor to the Government, may
well atone for the imperfections and short
comings alleged against the pending
measure.
Manufacturing interests which 100
years ago were in their infancy and which
were nursed and fostered while yet i'm the
cradle of their birth are now the colos-
sal task masters of the whole people,
commanding tribute from every days
labor beneath the sun.
Those who own and represent these
swollen and arrogant interests do not
hesitate TO declare on what terms bill
vitally affecting seventy millions of people
will be permitted to become law.
The speaker then commended both the
whiskey and and sugar schedules, and in
referring to the proposed income tax,
Mr.. VOORHEES, said: For no
earthly consideration would i paint an
unjust or overwrought picture of the
dangerous pretensions and intolerable ar
rogance OF accumulated wealth now
manifested in this country, but, speak
ing in the fear of Ioy Maker, devoutly
believe that the limit of endurance has
DStn rcacntu; inhJ the time mas come
for a test TO be made between the
power of boarded money and the power of
productive labor; that the people from
this time forward will organize and take
rapid and heroic measures against the con-
tinued and brutal dictation of the
plutocracy, against the paramount infiu-
ence of wealth, against the rule and SUI
premacy of the rich in shaping the fnan-
cial policy of this government in their
own interests.
Referring TO the wool schedule, the
speaker said: II | believed wool on the
free list would hurt the farmer |
would not vote for the pending bill. Ii
is n matter of actual demonstration,
however, which has been ofteu made, that
free wool, accompanied by such reduced
rates as can then be placed on manufac-
ture of wool, and which are placed OH
Them in this bill, is one OF the greatest
blessings that can befall the farmer.