People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-10
TARIFF REF0RMERS.

Mr.. MILLS GIVES HIS oPIN-
ION OF THE SENATE
TARIFF BILL.
Grover Admits That He VIII Take
Sugar In His'n.
AIhere is no manner of doubt but
that Senator Mills and Grover Cleve-
land are regarded as the greatest
tariff reformers in the democratic
party. 1t is always a matter of inter
est to know what they are doing, or
what they have to say on any pending
tariff measure. We have insisted all
along that there was but little if any
difference between Metropolitan and
democratic parties on the tariff ques-
ton. We are now able to sustain our
position by eminent democratic au-
thority. In speech delivered in the
senate BY Roger Q. Mills May 10, 1894,
he said:
Mr.. Mills: Mr.. President, some days
ago in addressing the senate when in
CURED of by my friend from Rhode
Island Mr.. Aldrich as to how l could
support, not this measure, but the one
that was then pending before the
body, l did say was between the devil
and the deep sea. But the devil was
represented by the Mckinley law, and
as between the two having to make
choice, l should 60 to sea rather than
go to the devil. A change has come
over the spirit OF the situation, not
over my spirit. l am a little nearer
to the devil now than l was when l
made that speech. Laughter. l
have not as much sea room as had
on that occasion. l find that the bill
pending before us is not the Wilson
DILL but a bill which, perhaps, ought
TO bear the honored name of the senior
senator from Maryland Mr.. GormanI
or the name of the senator from Ohio
Mr. Brice.
No name can torture me into the adj
mission that the bill pending before
this body is in any respect response
to the pledges made by the democratic
convention to the democratic people
OF the United States. have said sir
and expect to say as long as / keen
my understanding that takes levied
upon value is the only honest system
OF taxation; taxation as it is imposed
in all the states, in all the
municipalities, taxation imposed
everywhere instead of that system
taxation imposed here, not for the
purpose OF concealing and defraudinp
the taxpayers and robbing him of his
money to go into the pockets of a
favored class l stand there to-day
and shall stand there as loa ,sI
live.
l rise, sir, to say that l do not in
tend to vote for single one of these
amendments that change the duty
from an ad valorem to specific duty.
l am Inundated enough, sir, to have
to be drawn nearer and nearer to the
Mckinley law in the rates fduty and
in the amounts of robbery inflicted
upon the poor working people of this
country, who are being starved to
death under this system of taxation.
without being compelled to bow down
IN humiliation and take even the
badges of protection. The very first
duty that confronts us in these amend
ments is simply a change of badge
from democratic system of taxation
upon value to specific taxation that
conceals from the taxpayer what he
pays. Running along through the
bill we have had to surrender at dis.
cretion at every point until it is a
question now between the Mckinley
protective tariff law and the present
protective tariff bill, with very lit
tie margin Of difference between the
two. Congressional Record, vol. 90.
page 5439.
We bow to Rogers decision. We
insist that there is "a very little mar.
gin of difference between the two"
Not nearly so much as the democratic
majority in congress and the brilliant
chance" the democratic party has
got to redeem its pledges.
Grover Favors Sugar.
But how is it with the President |
the great apostle Of. tariff reform? |
Senator Dudley Avery of Louisiana
was a member of the delegation from
that state that went to Washington
for thepurpose of securing protection