The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-07
SPEAKER CRISP ON THE FLOOR.
The Protective system for the Manu-
featuring CInsses-An Ovation.

The Protective system for the Manu-
featuring Clnsses-An Ovation.
While the demonstration was going on
Speaker Crisp relinquished the chair to
Mr.. Hatch of Missouri and assumed the
old seat which he occupied in the days
before he was elevated to the speaker
ship. He received an ovation. The
speaker is symmetrical in form. dignified
I'm bearing, with a broad. well-poised
head, fringed with a touch of silver
hair on the sides. upon a pair of square
shoulders. He looked the judicial-mind-
ed man he is. Until he warmed up, he
spoke with the hesitation of a man
weighing each word, and with per-
ceptible tremor of the lip. AS he became
aroused, however. he displayed more
freedom and ease, until the words came
in a perfect torrent.
AS Mr.. Crisp proceeded he was given
generous applause by his democratic as
sOciates on the floor, but his points were
of an argumentive character which ap-
pealed to the students of the question
rather than TO the galleries. He read
from the minority report and criticised
that feature thai declared the foreigners
paid the tax. In particular the speaker
addressed himself to the eX-speaker,
although the latter was still held i'm the
CLOAK iOOln DN the COnEIdIulalOFN ndnu-
shakes. Mr.. Crisp said:
Il feel embarrassed by this vast
audience here assembled; embarrassed in
the idea that / may not be able to full
fill the expectation of my friends when
i undertake, in the period allowed by the
rules of the house. to answer, to reply to,
and make corrections of the errors in
the arguments to which we have just
listened. 1 assume that the cause of
protection has no more able advocate
and that the arguments for protection
can be put i'm no more forcible form than
that to which you have listened today,
and / shall ask you dispassionately to
examine with me that argument and
then ask the judgment of the house as
TO whether the cause attempted to be
sustained can be established consistent
ly with right and justice to the people
Of the United States
After his opening Introductory re-
marks. Mr.. Crisp declared that an ex-
animation of the protective system would
show that while il was built up for the
ostensible benefit of labor, IL was in truth
constructed for the benefit of the manu-
featuring classes. He pointed out that
the wages of the laborers in protected
Industries went up, as a result of the Nc
kinley act. This was shown by the
statistics gathered by the senate COM
mittee on finance The speaker re-
ferred to the artificial conditions created
by protection. 1t took men, he said,
from their natural channels. and divert
ed them TO unnatural channels. The
same was true in the diversion made in
the channels of trade. Protection was
Chinese wall which not only shut out
the world. but shut in the United States.
Mr.. Crisp was greeted with applause
when he said that the thirty years of
protection was the period of unrest dur
ing which the masses of the people had
constantly, rebelled against the heavy
burdens Of taxation. The people had
always been stilled at the polls by the
republican promises to reduce the tariff
but 'once successful at the polls, the re-