New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-19
MR. MORRILL, ON THE TARIFF
THE VENERABLE VERMONT SENATOR
DELIVERS AN ABLE ADDRESS.

MrssRs r1.RPIE CAMERON AND QUAY ALSO DIS
CUss THE REVISED WILSON BILL"
Try rEIEeRApH TO TIE TRiBrxE.I
Washington. April IS-The chief incident Of
to-days debate in the Senate on the wilson
Tariff bill was the delivery Of a sxty-five minute
sneech bv Mr. Morrill, the venerable rather OF
Congrsss" The senior Senator from Vermont
celebrated only last week his eighty-fourth birth
day vet his interest in public questions remains
as keen and his participation in debate ana Ies-
islation as active as they could possibly nave
been a score Of years ago. To-day's speech was
In fact. the second which Mr.. Morrill, has made
at this session on the tariff question SHORTY
after Congress met in December he delivered
pungent and spirited criticism on the theory or
lack Of theory of tariff legislation disclosed In
the first draft of the Wilson bill-a draft in
which the present income tax section was con-
spicuously missing. This afternoon the Senate
revise Of the House bill was taken as a text
BY the ex-chairman Of the Finance Committee.
The Vermont Senator's ability to invest debate
on even the dullest problems of financial legisla-
ton with interest and attractiveness is uni
versally known and gratefully appreciated. and
his addresses in the Senate uniformly lis
tened TO by a delighted audience. The speech
to-day proved no exception to the rule which
has held good with all Mr. Mortlls public APP
pearances: for from the first line 10 the last 1t
was marked by a sparkling originality OF thought
and highly refreshing originality Of expression.
The speech, however, will prove its own quality;
and its main features reproduced below for
the benefit of the many admirers Of the Vermont
statesman who will look for this treat 10 the
columns of The Tribune.
MR. MoRRILLs SPEECH.
Mr. Morrill, said:
The financial and industrial crisis has not yet
passed away. and 1t is wondrOus pity that the
political interests of the Democratic party should
require its continuance BY veinglorious ant
clumsy attempt to practically carry out it's Chi
cago tariff platform. Surely the political tariff bill
now presented instead OF revenue tariff. Will give
more comfort abroad than at nome, even 10 its
tired authors. and the rather disintended notion OF
the people 1892 of Democratic craftsmanship and
infallibilty in the construction Of a symmetrical
tariff for revenue only has suddenly collapsed
Even their Mugwump allies openly jeer and sheer
at their work. The Democracy has the ellie habit
OF shaking hands with free trade with its elbow on
a level with the top Of the head but droops limp
and low when s. per scent protection IS demanded
and yielded rice. 1t embraces revenue reform
like a lover. and presto. sees revenue only" in a
IS per cent protection cuffs and collars. Free
trade swears eternal fealty the Democratic god
dess of free raw materials but forthwith the
goddess is dethroned by the Democratic provisional
government on the tariff and protection on coal,
coke and iron ore. graciousy reinstated. is
longer eliminating atrocity.' The ferocity Of
free trade against ten-million bounty on sugar
could not be muzzed but tax Of forty-one mill
Ions for the protection of sugar cane, veritable
white elephant is welcomed with smile slightly
puckered. The philosophy Of the present Tariff bill.
confessed by the chairman. is found in the dogma
Ahat concessions had TO be made 70 pass the bill.
that all government and every prudent act is
founded on compromise and barter by which 1t
will he explained how by one Of the foregoing
csprfcious favors crawed hurrledly into the tariff
bin when some Democratic Roman threatened 9TH
erwise 10 appeal unto Caesar If any Republican
begged for favors they were piously pted and then
piteousy crucifed.
The bill was reported March %. 1924 to the Sen
ate with vouminous and extraordinary amend
ments. Twenty days thereafter the same commit
tee presented litter of forty more amendments
There is little doubt but that a much larger num-
her will yet be a prime necessity. II the commit
tee will only labor and wait Their chief objection
to long waiting perhaps. would be that the COM
Inlttee might find the House of Representatives
then constituted with a Democratic majority any
more in favor of a killing double dose Of tariff re-
form than Of protection under "duress' in spots.
DEMOCRACY AND MANUFACTURERS.
Among the glores of the historic career of Ameri-
cans have been of greater splendor than those
displayed by manufacturers and inventors. Their
achievements have excited both the wonder and
the envy OF the Old World, but much esteemed
chairman of the Finance Committee (Mr. Noor-
hees unwilling TO aggravate our national self-es-
TEEN. did not seek in his opening tariff speech to
praise but sought bury these American manu-
facturers by a calm. deliberate and judicial pro-
nunciamento charging them and protective tariffs
with such infamy and crimes alternately as 'punder
and spoliaton." "spoliation and plumber. rob
berry" and "unbridled eXtortion'; as colossal task
masters" and that there have been millions Of
rkr nail leN-0l hN
again as sinister, perfidious and dishonest" "a
giant robber predatory monster Obstructing the
highways OF legislation and challenging legislators
themselves stand and deliver" and at last as
plckpocket thief
The increase of our manufacturing products from
s. 600 in 1880 TO $9OO0OOOOOO in 1880 eclipses any
progressive growth this or any other country in
all the worlds history, supplemented by the fur
Their facts that both the amount Of capital and
the number Of employees more than doubled
and while the average OF wages paid increased 80
per cent. the prices OF manufactures dimin-
ished 20 per centum In 1890, under Republican
regime the four and one-half millions Of employees
with many more millions of their dependents. were
happy and six thousand millions Of capital APP
peared safe and prosperous In 1894 the hslf-born
Democratic tariff bill. in the Senate, Ike Mil
tons
Tawny lion. paving to get free
His hinder parts,
threatens to MAIN and cripple the whole OF our
vastly extended manufactures. and much Of them
20 absolutely destroy by intentional and vicious
surrender to foreigners OF the American market.
EVIL OF AID YAIOREM DUTIES
The proposed general abandonment OF specific
tariff duties for the obsolete ad valorem system in
defiance Of the judgment OF the foremost statesmen
throughout the world, including nearly all our own
Secretaries of the Treasury indicates the decadence
somewhere OF enlightened craftsmanship. and Of
all the lessons Of ripe experience in handling great
national revenue measures. The Walker expert
ment OF nearly fifty years ago, fabricated by the
marvellous California output OF gold also by our
lavish expenditures in the Mexican War and by a
foreign famine. creating "A temporary demand for
everything had SELL had its Objectionable
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