Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-02-08

sDip. When he arose in his place be re-
otiVed an ovation. The speaker is sym.
Htetr1cal IN form, dignited in bearing,
WIN a broad, wei poised head, fringed
Win a touch Of silver hair on the sioes,
upon u pair Of square shoulders. tie
1ohed the Judicial-minded man he is.
onth ne warmed dp he spoke with the
HESITATION oil Il man weighing each word,
anu win a perceptible tremor of the lip.
~ NC oeeaihe aroused, however, he dis
tiaseu more freedom and ease. until the
words came in a perfect torrent. syyaan,
ing resistlessly over all opposition. As
MI. Crisp proceeded he was given gener
Gus applause by his Democratic associ-
ates upon the iloor, but his points were of
III arSulnentatiye 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 which declared that the for.
elgner paid the tax. In particular the
speaker addressed himself to the ex.
speaker, although the latter was still held
~ tne cloak room by the congratulatory
handshakes.
Mr.. Speaker" began Mr.. Crisp. Il
leei embarrassed at this vast audience
here assembled; embarrassed in The idea
that l may not be able 10 fulfill the eX-
pectatlons OF my friends when | under
Iake, IN the brief period allowed in the
rules OF the house, TO answer, 10 reply TO
anu make corrections 10 this house of the
errors III the argument TO which we have
Just listened. | assume that the cause
OF protection has no more able advocate:
l assume that the arguments for pr0teC-
tlol can be put in no more fOrCible form
than that to which you have listened to-
day l shall ask you di~spasSionatcly
~ nv n nina 9th 49,. .l.s -
then ask the judgment of the house as
TO whether the cause attempted to be
sustained can be established consistently
with right and justice TO the people Of the
United States"
Opposed TO Protection.
After his opening Introductory remarks,
Mr. Crisp declared hat an examination
OF the protective system would show that
While 1t was built up for the oStensible
benefit of labor. it was in truth con-
structed for the benefit of the manufac-
turing classes. He pointed Out that the
wages of laborers in protected industries
went down, and those in unprotected in
dustricS went up as a result of the Nc
Kinley act. This was shown by the
statistics gathered by the senate commit
tee on finance. The speaker referred to
the artificial conditions created by pro-
lection. 1t took men, he said, from their
natural channels and diverted them to
unnatural channels. The same was true
in the diversions made in the channels of
trade. Protection was a Chinese wall,
which not only shut out the world, but
shut i'll the United States.
Mr.. Crisp was greeted with applause
when he said that thirty years of prOtec-
ton was a period of unrest during
which the masses of the people had con
stantly rebelled against the heavy burden
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 Republican
legislators surrendered themselves, body
and soul, to the manufacturing classes.
The speaker declared that the gentleman
(Reed) had throughout his speech re-
Trained from the arguments of reason
and held to those of prejudice. He point
ed TO the Chinese as an example of what
had resulted from a protective policy of
hundreds of years, which had sought to
make China rich by trading with itself.
FavOrs nm Income Tax.
Mr.. Crisp said that for twenty-five years
the Democratic party had been trying to
get IN power. 1t had told the people that
If given power it would reduce the bur-