The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1894-09-13
OTHER STOCKHOLDERS.

where free trade and the law of sup
ply aud demand prevails. Trade aud
commerce is the exchange of com.
modities.
A protective tariff prevents Us
from exchanging Our surplus of cot
ton, corn, wheat, meat and other
farm products for the surplus of
msnufactsd goods abroad. We free
ly export our product. but that for
which We exchange is so heavily tax
ed as to make the exchange unprofit
able. Commerce ceases when gain
is gone; one can net buy unless he
can sell. nor can he sell unless hs
can buy. Commerce and agriculture
60 hand in hand; when one ceases,
the other lsnguishes. The laws
which destroy the one make the
other Improbable Taxed crude
materials injure and depress manu-
featuring. 1t wants the markets of
the world,but under protective tariff
has not been able to enter them. A
protective tariff fosters and builds
up trust and monopeliss. It Greats
no wealth, it only prevents it's natur-
al and just distribution. Thirty
years of such a system did much to
produce the conditions existing
when the Fifty third Congress met.
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE.
What has that Democratic Con.
gress SO far done for the people!
The first matter considered was the
tianadcial question. What should
or could be done on the silver ques
lion We had pledged ourselves
against the makeshift Sherman law,
and in favor of both gold and silver
as the standard money of the coun
try. By an agreement arrived al
between Democrats we determined
to take the sense of House on the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at several ratios. After debate sepa.
rate vote was had on each, and on the
repeal of the purchasing clause OF
the Sherman act. The result you
know. While not protesting to un.
derstand the question fully in all its
bearings, 1 have always been in fav.
or of the free coinage of silver--I am
in favor of it now. The fears of those
who oppose it are largely imagi
nary. and / believe the enactment oi
such law would afford great relief tc
the people of the country. So feel
ing need not say that to me per.
sonaliy the result Of the vote on free
coinage of silver was great disap
poiutment. This question is no
settled.
With our great struggle for tarif
reform, you are familiar. Thirty
years of class Legislation has built uE
in this country large trusts. larg'
monoplies, aud large combinations
of capital ALI these interest wer.
arrayed against US, and in the bitter
contest through which we passed
were earnestly and actively aided BY
compact Republican minority. Al
that wealth, all that energy and al
that great intelligence and capacity
could do was daily and hourly don,
to defeat the cause of the people
Under these conditions our progress
was slow. The House framed anc
passed tariff bill. This went to tn,
Senate. After long and tedious
struggle the Senate passed this bill
With amendments. Finally the ques
was presented in such n fashion ,ha
we must either accep. the Sena,
amendments or have no bill, thu
permitting the odious Mckinley lay
to remain upon the statute books
When we were convinced such wa
the true situation we did not hes
tate q moment; We accepted the Sen
ate amendments, and so the bill be
came q law.
This bill is not all We hoped fol-
It contains provisions We deplors
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