Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-26

which will give us reduced taxes on the
manufactured products, which will re-
duce the taxes on structural iron and
ON railroad bars, and all the multiplied
uses to which iron Ia put IN civilized life
and cuts in half the tax on coal and iron
GRE.
Mr. President, should be recreant to
the high trust that has been reposed In
me by the people who sent me here if |
should have failed, by my vote, to sup
port any measure because 1t did not
come up to the full standard of what |
believed to be tariff reform, or because
l found attached to 1t by the House Of
Representatives what consider an alb.
horrent provision, in nowise connected
With true tariff reform-l mean the In
come tax--yet voted for 1t despite all
these things; and | shall vote for any
measure that comes from the conference
committee that gives substantial and
real abatement and relief from whit
believe to be the unjust burdens of the
Mckinley tariff.
There, Mr.. President, I differ from
the Senator from New York. am sin.
cerely in favor of tariff reform, and
shall vote for the best measure in that
direction that can obtain. shall vote
for it whether there is free coal or free
iron ore or only duty Of half the
present duty on those two articles en-.
braced in the bill; and so doing, think
shall be discharging my highest duty
to my constituents and to the whole
American people.
Forty.threc votes were necessary and
the conditions were anomalous. They
were such that any political gambler
could take US by the throat and say,
'By my not voting for this bill put
the bill in jeopardy, or defeat II"
| That wchave had to confront and we did
confront ii, and we oyercame it, and by
Gods blessing we shall overcome the
remaining obstacles that lie in the path
| of the achievement TO which the Demo-
cratic party Is pledged. We shall bring
honesty, we shall bring high endeavor,
we shall bring all the patriotism that
ought to existin the breast of an Amcri.
can Senator, and we shall join hands to
| see that the hopes of the American
people are not at last disappointed, and
| the fruit offered them does not turn Ia
ashes on their lips.
Mr.. President, patriotic duty requires
sacriiicc;it requires self-suppression;
it requires resistance to the temptation
To splf.exploitation for little popular
aud temporary applause. have nc
doubt, in my imperfect way, | could
gain from these thoughtless friends Of
tariff reform my measure Of applause
by standing here and rHciting my creed
in regard To unfettered commerce.
could, no doubt, receive the applause Of
many valued friends at home by telling
them how ardently and how heroicallS
was standing for the things that they
stood for, and that | was SO heroic and
SO firm that ! would not abate one jo'
or one little of my opinion, even though
ali adherence to 1t inflicted the McKin,
ley law on the country for an indefinite
number Of years in the future. an
not that kind Of u Democrat. Manifesto
tions Of applause in the galleries.
Mr.. President, | have said all thinl
it necessary to say on the motion tina
desire to offer at the proper time.
believe that the dignity, the patriotism
and the self-respect OF this body requir
it to insist upon tho amendments which
they have solemnly and deliberately
placed upon the bill as it came from th
House of Representatives.