The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-25
MILLS ON THE TARIFF BILL,
The Senator Makes a Strong Anti
Protection Speech.

But He Will stand by His Party and
Vote for 1.-THE Fallaoies of the Re-
publican Doctrine Pointed out-He
Defends the Income Tax-Time for
Action Instead of Unoeasing Talk.
Washington, April 24.-Immediatelv
after the reading Of yesterdays journal.
the Senate held brief executive session
and then at o'clock p. m. the debate on
the tariff bill was resumed, and MIR. Mills
closed the general debaten on the demo
cratic side in support of the bill Every
act Of legislation, he said, W as neoes-
sarily an act of compromise; and none
more so than one which imposed duty
on imports. The pending bill did
not meet his entire approval
and he doubted If it met the entire an
proval Of any gentleman on his side of
this chamber. But, as it was, it should
have his cordial support. If he should
think that there was a prospect Of i'm
proving it he might offer and support
some amendments. But whether he sue
ceeded in having amendments enerafted
on it or not, he should bow to the collec-
tive Judgment Of his side of the chamber,
and should support whatever conclu-
sion it reached. He believed that
that was due from him, and
due from every other party man, because
the tariff bill was a strict party meas
ure, and had been one since the founda-
tlon OF the government If he had been
chosen to construct the bill and had the
Iorty' Tour democratic senators in perfect
accord with his views, he would have
| constructed it on very different lines. He
| would not have left coffee and tea on the
! free list, and taxed woOlen and cotton
| goods, or the manufacturers of iron and
| steel. He would have put a tax on coffee.
tea and sugar. Whyl Because that
would carry out the democratic principle
OF obtaining the revenues of the govern
| ment with the least possible burden to the
tax payer His republican friends had put
duties on cotton goods and wooden goods
and on iron and steel, because, in that
way, while raising revenues for the gov
ernment four or five times as much went
to the favored classes.
DECEPTION OF THE FARMERS.
He charged the republicans with bav-
ing deceived the farmers by the promise
that under the protective system home
market would be built up, that non-agri-
cultural classes would be brought into
the country to consume the surplus wheat
OF the northwest. And yet, the surplus
product of this country, which had either
to go to waste or to seek a foreign market,
was enormous, AS to competition from
India, he declared that q bushel of
wheat could not be produced in
India and laid down in the city
of New York in competition with a
bushel of wheat raised in Dakota or any
where in the United States; and that
even the cost of TRANSPORTATION to London
md ct
would compete there with the wheat
from India. He had been told by
farmer from California the other day
that he could gather 1900 bushels of
wheat in one day at labor cost not ex-
ceeding cents bushel. And yet the re-
publicans got up "scary talkr to frighten
farmers about the competition with
india, where ploughing was still done
with the fork Of tree and reaping done
with small hand hook. They had been
singing TO the farmers of the United
States the little song, Hush, hush, hush,
the bogy man is coming; you've got no
show you'd better lie low: he'll catch
you if he can" They had been thus try
Ing to frighten men who produced ten or
twenty times as much wheatas the farm
ers in India, and at labor cost five or
six times less.
AN ABSURD DOCTRINE.
The republican doctrine was opposed to
trading with foreign people, and wanted
TO build up home market. But here
was $1,000, 100000 worth of agricultural
products to be consumed at home. How
was that going to be consumed?
In order to carry out the republican
doctrine people would have to be imported
to consume these products.
The democratic doctrine was to export
the products all over the world, where
the people live and where they should re-
main The republican doctrine. on the
contrary, was to import people to con
sumo the surplus agricultural products,
and it would be necessary to import 33,-
100000 of people to do that. The repubi-
cans would import Chinese and japanese,
and Soudanes and Maltez, and Chin
pansese to Join Coxey's army among the
aborgines. Laughter.
He had been taught by his pious mother
TO read the Bible, and he rememb bered'
reading of Elijah where he attacked the
400 false prophets of Baal and slaughtered
them. IL was thought then that all the
false prophets were dead, but il seemed
that some of them got away. And they
had come down TO the present time, and
had told the people sophistries in order to
sOOthe them.
THE PANIC OF LAST YEAR.
The United States would have had in
1891 the agonies which it was passing
through now, if it had not been that the
crop of 1891 had been more valuable than
that Of 1890, and the crop of 1890 more
valuable than that of 1899. The crop of 1891
had increased by 100000, 600 or $500. .0O0-
600 in value and that fact kept of the
panic. The panic had not come, as was
charged, with the advent of
the democratic administrat The
storm signal had been hoisted
before then. The people had been ad-
monished to look out for squalls and on
Nov. s, 1892, the people had felt that tho
squall was coming. The crop of 1892 had
fallen below that of 1891 to the amount
of 5000 600, ,000 and the crop of 1894 had
fallen below that of 1892 to the amount
of 5000, 900, 900 in value. And the country
was now where it had been In 1889.
And still they were told by
the republicans that the democratic
administration had brought on the panic,
and had filled the streets with wretched
people But it was the exhaustive taxa
tion under the Mckinley bill, and the ex-
haustive distractions in it, that had pros
trated the farmers of this country; and
when the farmers felt the strain they
stretched out their arms, and like Sam
son, pulled the whole fabric over the
heads of all.
ENGBAND's WHEAT IMPORTS
Great Britain imported wheat from
all the counties Of the world-from Rus
al.