Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-07
Senator Carey's Sharp Criticism of
the Tariff Bill.
SOUTHERN INTERESTS PROTECTED
An Argument in Behalf Of Protec
ton for Wool.
THE DEPRESSED CONDITIONS

of March, 1893, the democratic party, after
fits and spells of partial success. was hailed
as party in some respects triumphant
The democratic orator had told of the good
times to come. but the country could see
how far this was from fulfillment. He re-
viewed the administra ton, and said it had
been pre-eminently successful. Mr.. Cleve-
land, he said, was elected in an era of
great prosperity. All who sought work
could find it. The newspapers. which re-
fleet public sentiment, in dispatches and
editorials, day after day, toM of our pros
perity. The profession of tramps became
well-nigh obsolete. Money was not boarded,
but was in circulation. Never before in
its history had the country been in such
prosperous condition.
He then contrasted the present with these
conditions and said the people were anx-
iously awaiting for the democratic party
to give them some measures of relief. The
Mckinley act accomplished all that was
claimed for ii as long the republicans
were In control of the government He
said II was singular fact that no demo-
crat on the floor OF the Senate had attempt
ed to explain the schedules of the bill under
consideration or tell its effects upon the in
dustries of the country. No man on the
democratic side had Internationally defend
ed the measure. Each has in course damned
1t with more or less severity. Mr.. Carey
made comparison of the Wilson bill and
the Senate bill, and said the House did not
make conspicuous exceptions by placing
all the agricultural products on the free
list, while protecting the trusts and COM
bines, which was apparent in the Senate
bill. An attempt had been made by the
Senate to crafty the agricultural interests
or the southern states, but nowhere else.
The Cattle Interests.
He declared that the Spectator was in
Canada and Mexico buying horses. cattle
and sheep in anticipation of the passage of
IA nd haca Ia l.,
to this country soon as the bill became a
law. He discussed at some length the cost
of live stock beyond the borders of the
United States and the prevailing prices In
this country
The price of horses was decreasing be-
cause of so many street car lines being
operated by other power. and the fact that
the bicycle was, to a considerable extent,
taking the place of the horse in town and
country. No one, said the Senator is able
to point out where the Mckinley law has
injured the country or any individual In it.
1t may be called a robber and fraud. but
these are simple assertions which facts
deny and overthrow. He then entered upon
a careful defense of the present law, and
pointed out the benefits which had grown
out of it, and defended at length the pro-
tective system. He quoted from eminent
men of the past in support of protection
and also sketched the effects of different
tariff bills.
The republican party. he asserted, had
cratic party has already found that it can
not frame bill on the lines laid down in
the Chicago platform. He said II had been
the claim of southern representatives that
their lack OF progress had been due to
the effects of the war, and he contrasted
their growth with the western states that
had been entirely built up since the war
and whose wealth was greater than many
of the southern states. The comparisons
everywhere. he maintained, showed the ad-
vantages of manufacturing industries under
the protective system.
1t was the theory of the south, as repre-
scented by the Senator from Texas Mr.
Mills, to put a tax on tea, coffee and sugar
and articles which we could not produce
and admit those things We could produce
free. 1t was the policy of the Mckinley
act to protect every industry that could be
successfully initiated or maintained in the
United States. . -5-- T.. 6 --.5
Needs of Wyoming.
Speaking more particularly of his own
state. Mr.. Carey said that Wyoming was
one of the youngest of the forty-four. 1t
was suffering from the depression every
where felt, but the people are not organiz-
ing Coxey armies, nor are the miners in the
great coal mines going a strike. The
state needed new industries, for which il
had every facility. There were fifteen or
twenty million acres of coal lands; half of
the mountainous sections of the state were
covered with great forests; while there are
gold, silver, copper lead, iron, petroleum,
soda, asbestos, plumbago, gypsum, mica,
tin and score of other valuable minerals
and every conceivable kind OF marble and
building blocks. Wyoming, he contended,
would develop into one of the great states
of the American Union. In nothing does
protection injuie the state, while in every
way will it be benefited by the protective
system OF the republican party. Mr.. Carey
then discussed, with considerable detail, the
production of coal in the United States and
compared it with the Wyoming output
Iron and steel also formed an important
part of his arguments in behalf of the pro-
tective system. By quoting from the fig
ures of the census Office he asserted that the
west was going ahead of the south. and
claimed that this was due to the fact that
the west took advantage of protection. Mr..
Carey took occasion to make some compari-
sons in reference to the production of sugar
claiming that with the continuance OF the
system inaugurated by the republican party
the west would, in short time. outstrip
the south in sugar production.
Protection for Wool.
Mr.. Carey devoted a large portion of his
speech to wool, and made an elaborate ar
gument liz behalf of protection for this in
dustry, which was of much Importance
to his state. He went into details of the
minutest character. The sheep industry, he
said, is an interest in all the states and ter
ritories, and cannot in any sense be called
a sectional one. The number OF people en-
ployed is l.125,0oo producing S95,oOOoSo in
WOOL food and pelts, with an estimated
capital of S510,00ooOO. The sheep industry
was not in the hands of trusts or combina-
tons. The wool growers of the Rocky
mountain states could not compete with
those of South America, Mexico and Aus
tralia. Mr.. Carey then entered upon a dis
cussion of the wool-growing interests as II
particularly applied to his own state and
discussed the effect which the present bill
will have upon the sheep growers of Wyo-
ming, claiming that it would destroy many
of the smaller wool growers and ultimately
crush out the entire sheep industry He
said that the United States had now about
Jo,VO,00O sheep; If 1t had 100000, go all the
wool consumed in the United States would
be produced at home. Retain the McKinle;-
law and this result would be brought about:
but enact the measure under consideration
and sheep raising would become story of
the past.