The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-20
TIME TO CHANGE.
Should Have a Settled
Policy
PERKINS ON THE TARIFF.
Too Much Anglomania Abroad in
the Land.
DEMOCRACY is GIVEN UP TO 1T
With the Result That All Ameri-
can Industries Are Made
to Suffer.

Senator Perkins or California. The speech
was mainly devoted to the discussion OF
the articles which directly affected Cali.
foInia-fruits, quicksilver, beef sugar. etc.
although he considered other features IN
the bill in which his State was not inter
ested. but which were opposed to Republl-
can principles and which he accordingly
arraigned. The Senator opened his speech
with a general statement describing the
business and financial conditions OF the
country, saying that he preferred to con-
slider and discuss the question as buSi-
ness rather than political matter. de
said:
I'VE should not permit foreign nations
to bring their products here to compete
with our industries, giving them equal
If not better advantages than our own
people 1t has been the plan Tor the past
thirty years of wise American statesman
ship to raise about half OF the expenses oil
the Government by placing an import duty
upon the products of other lands that come
into this country for consumption or for
the use of our people, aud TO SO ADJUST
these duties that they will best protect and
foster American Industries, and thereby
dignity and protect American labor
against the cheap. servile and contract
labor of foreign lands. That this is the
correct principle is evidenced by tho fact
that during this time our Industrial inter-
ests have been stimulated and our people
prosperous, contenled and happy.
"1he bill before US fer con sderatlon,
desgnat.d the tariff for revenue, proposes
10 take from the import duties SO. 0O0.0 600.
which is simply license the producers
pay for the privilege of entering into our
nome market with their merchan disc on
equal terms with those TO the manner born,
aud imposes this additional burden upon
our people in the form of an increased
excise duty and an income tax upon the
gain or profit made by their diligence OF
industry aud enterprise.
THE d, mocratic party has fallen from
its high estate, abandoned its principles
utterly, and instead Of making open and
bold war for its ancient doctrines and
adopted platform, enters beneath the
Republican platform, attacks the Repuhi-
can tariff measure, which 1t declared IN
constitutional and robbery, and tearing
il down attempts to build on the same
principles weaker structure OF the same
materials. We are thus brought to this
contest with no great fundamental princi-
pie to investigate, but TO contrast as a
measure of policy The Legitimate with the
Legitimate, the complete with The incom-
plete, the strong and carefully completed
structure with that OF the madly gathered
and weakened fragments"
He then took up and discussed the
question in detail and at some length as
to the varied California in,erests-borax.
quicksilver. beet sugar. sulphur. sat.
fruits, nuts. wine, wool, coal-affected by
the bill, claiming for them all the protec-
ton given under the present laws.
"The present administration" he said,
assumed control of the country on the
Alb of March. 1893. During the seven
months following. as shown by Bredstreet,
the falling IF in the business of the clear
lighthouses amounted to the vast sum OF
nearly 5000, coo. 600. and 1t has kept up
that fearful rate ever since. This stu
pendous deficit represents the country's
value of trade, twelve billions of dollars
less money circulated in the ordinary
channels of trade and commerce. in wages.
in the manufacture of goods. In the en-
ploymens of labor. And ali this under the
tariff-rsforln or free-trade policy of the
present administration, in the brief period
of twelve monthsl Indeed. the nation
stands appalled, before the peril that
threatens It.
'This ought to be the richest country in
the world. Taxes should be the lowest;
labor ON higher standard and better
paid; its products should bring the great
est satisfactien-all of which it would be
and do but for the Anglomania that has
.urned he heads ola large portion of our
people, and especially of one of our great
political parties. There is nothing genuine
with some so-called Americans, in their
estimation, that does not bear a foreign
stamp. Even American manhood is of
little worth as com pared with the effete
and dissipated titled roues Of the Old
World. They come here for the rich
plums that are ready to fall into their
open mouths. and they seldom 90 away
empty.
1.-THE condition of affairs in this country
is vastly different from what it was quar-
ter Of century ago. The discontinued
and unsettled classes, of which the number
is steadily increasing, have no longer new
and virgin territory to occupy when they
become dissatisfied with the older commu-
mites. The time has come when in the
order of things we must have fixed
national policy on all questions affecting
the stability of the Government. The
shifting 1uctuating policy Of the managers
of the party of free trade seeking to force
its views upon the country. whether the
people indorse them or not. is a striking
Illustration Of its unftness to manage
national affairs, and can but result 10 dis
aster to the party that attempts it. We
can endure less foolishness than formerly.
The people can stand less nonsense in the
shape of unwiss laws than when there was
less suffering and idleness among them"
But little business was transacted dur
ing the morning hour, the agreement of
the Senate to the report of the conference
committee on the urgent deficiency bill
being the most important. The PETER
resolution for the appointment for CON-
mittec on communications for the purpose
of hearing the grievances of Coxey's army
was debated by Senators PETER and Allen,
both of whom favored il, blu: it went over
without action by the expiration of the