Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-13
MIR. HILLS SPEECH.
The Senator From New York Attacks
the Tariff Bill Now Under
i Consideration.
His Denunciation Directed Princi-
pally Against the Income Tax
Feature.
If It Is Not Eliminated He Predicts
Overwhelming Democratic Defeat
at the Polls.

WI WucA1lluS ~dUlC Ue1eHC
at the Polls.
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The speech
of Senator Hill, delivered in the senate
was chiefly devoted to an extensive and
bitter attack on the income tax feature
of the Wilson bill. His opening re-
marks, however, took a wider range.
"The political revolution" he began,
(which commenced in 1890 and culmin-
ated in 1892, was an emphatic expression
of the popular will in behalf of certain
governmental policies. Measures and
not men were largely the issues in
volved in that movement. Rightly in
terpreted, it indicated the public senti-
ment in opposition to intrenchment
upon the reserved rights Of the states
through
Odious Federal Election Laws,
proposed and others then existing;
it voiced the general demand for a dis
of the unwise and indefen-
sible financial system of silver bullion
purchases by the government, instead
OF the coinage contemplated by the con-
stltution, a system equally a hindrance
the return to bi-metallism as well as a
menace to q sound and stable currency:
manifested the desire for a better
administration of public affairs, greater
economy in governmental expenditures
and the exaction Of higher official stand
in the execution Of publicltrusts; it
a more safe, dignitied and
foreign policy; and it con-
that abuse or perversion of the
taxing power of the government which
is known as the policy of protection for
projections sake alone, and declared in
favor of a tariff for revenue"
The Foreign Policy.
He then took up the foreign policy of
the administration, saying: '.It is not
denied that some mistakes have &C.
CURED. Our foreign policy, especially
that relating to Hawaii, it must be adj
mitted, has not met the expectations of
the people. A sense of humiliation pre-
vailed when the project for the restora-
ton of a deposed monarch was un-
folded by the administration, and
qualification ensued when it's abandon
ment or f allure was reluctantly an
nounced, influenced largely by an
aroused public sentiment.
'That unfortunate contemplated pol
ICY was a blunder, and a blunder is
sometimes worse than a crime. It was.
however, the natural consequence
which might we'll have been anticipated
from that other mistake in placing the
department Of state in charge of a Re-
publican statesman, distinguished and
estimable though he may be-, whose
public services have always been identi-
fed in opposition to the Democratic
who was without sympathy for
its traditions and purposes, and whose
political convictions upon the disputed
public questions of the day, if changed
at all, ale carefully concealed.
''lt is to be regretted that the presi-
dent should not have been able to find
in his W party some
Safe and Honored Statesman
In whom he and his party could have
placed confidence, one of Democratic
instincts and training, whose mage
ment Of foreign affairs would have re-
dected credit upon the country, and
would have avoided the PRONUNCIATION
Of the un-American policy-a departure
from Democratic precedents-which
was sought to be forced upon an un-
people. In this view of the
u opponents must accept
share of the responsibility for the
plumbers committed i'll our foreign
In other respects the present admin
.lstration of u government affords
grounds for just criticism
He spoke of the repeal Of the federal
election law as a fulfllment Of the
pledges and a triumph for the
just doctrine of states rights, and en-.
dorsed the repeal of the Sherman law.
The Tariff Question.
Coming then to the main question
reform-he said that revision
should be approached with circum-
and with a realizing sense of
the changed condition of the country
'ince 1877 and 1890.
IAN extreme reduction of tariff duties
1T a time when the treasury was swol-
with a surplus of 500, 900, OOO, when
the country was reasonably prosperous,
when all our industries were in opera
hon and when all our workingmen were
employed, assumed a different aspect
md presented a different question when
proposed now with a large and r ing
treasury deficit instead Of a surplus
us in the face, with u indus
paralyzed, our manufactures
our workingmen idle, and fol-
upon the heels of one of the
most disastrous financial panics in our
Would Be Criminal Folly Now.
What was safe and prudent and wise
then it would be criminal folly to at
Tempt now. The present was no time
for craftsmanship, and Democrats and
alike should strive to solve
existing problems in a spirit Of broad
I'm the face Of the prostration Of pri-
rate industries" he continued, sand in