St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-04-26
OUR VENERABLE SENATOR.
He Talks Tariff, and, as Usual, Talks
Common Sense.

6OLu"OH OCASCs
Senator Morrill, made a tariff
speech on the 18th inst, and it was
a fine presentation of the republican
idea on this important topic. Mr..
Morrill, began his speech by a
promise that he would mot weary
the unoccupied mahogany chairs of
senator's" but would observe com
parative senatorial brevity." He
knew how vain it would be for him
to seek to "deprive the cigar SYM
postum of its usual quorum in the
court ROOM"
The financial and industrial crisis
had not yet passed away, audit was
a wondrous pity that the political
interests of the democratic party
should require it's continuance by a
vainglorious and clumsy attempt to
practically carry out its Chicago
tariff platform. Surely the political
tariff bill now presented, instead of
revenue tariff, would give more COM
fort abroad than at home, even to
its tired authors, and the rather dis
tended notion of the people in 1892
of democratic craftsmanship and in
fallibility in the construction of a
symmetrical tariff for revenue only"
had suddenly collapsed.
JEERED AND SNEERED AT.
Even their mugwump allies openly
jeered and sneered at their work.
Their bill was barely launched before
the very able senator from New
York, a skillful and courageous
navigator on stormy seas, declined
to sink or swim on the unseaworthy
craft. Surely the crew should now
feel warned to jump ashore and re-
fuse to go down with the keel-broken
bill.
FALsITY OF FREE TRADE PRETEN-
sIONS.
The democracy had the elite habit
Of shaking hands with free trade
with its elbow on a level with the
top of the head, but dropped limp
and low when IS per cent protection
was demanded and yielded on rice.
1t embraced revenue form" like a
lover, and, presto, saw revenue
only" in SIS per cent protection on
cuffs and collars. Free trade swore
eternal fealty to the democratic god
dess of "free raw Materials" but
forthwith the goddess was dethroned
by the democratic provisional gov
eminent on the tariff and protection
on coal. coke and iron ore, gracious
ly reinstated, was no longer a "cul-
minating atrocity."
The ferocity of free trade against
$1O,OOO,OOO bounty on sugar could
not be muzzled, but tax of SAL
100000 for the protection of sugar
cane, a veritable white elephant, was
welcomed with smile, slightly
puckered. The philosophy of the
present tariff bill, as confessed by
the chairman, was found in the
dogma that concessions had to be
made to pass the bill, that "all gov
eminent and every prudent act is
founded on compromise and barter"
by which it would be explained how
one by one of the foregoing
capricious favors crawled hurriedly
into the tariff bill when some demo-
cratic Roman threatened otherwise
to appeal unto Caesar. If any re-
puOliNoh III LIZ WIZ
piously pitied and then pitilesly
cruci6ed.
Mr. Morrill, quoted Senator
VOORHEES, to the effect that some por-
tons of the bill had been consented to
under duress, and remarked that
legally and constitutionally such
coercion invalidated the whole bill.
The duress amendments should,
therefore, be doomed to short shrift.
REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY.
He spoke of the increase Of Amer
lean manufactured products from
$4,000, 100000 in 1880 to $9.OOO,-
100000 in 1890, and said that
that growth eclipsed any progressive
growth of this or any other country
in the worlds history. In 1890,
he said, under republican
regime, the four and one-half mill
lions of employees, with many more
millions of their dependents, were
happy, and over six thousand mil
lions of capital appeared safe and
prosperous.
SURRENDER TO FOREIGNERS.
In 1894 the nalf-born democratic
tariff bill, now in the senate, like
Millions "tawny lion" paving to
get free his hinder parts, threatened
tomaim and cripple the whole of our
vastly extended manufactures, and
much of them to absolutely destroy,
by an intentional and vicious sur
render to foreigners of the American
market. This impending hostility
had for many months been multiply
ing a great army of the unemployed.
Steam engines had had a rest
Dividends had been cut in twain, or
had wholly ceased. Bankruptcies
only seemed to flourish. And now,
as if to f1atten out all hope for