The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-23
SPEECH BY ALLISON
IOyvA's SENATOR DIssECTs PHASES
OF THE TARIFF III
He Shows that Democracy Has Sac
rifced Farmers of the North and
Aided Planters of the South.

I'LL RNil1 liz
by delivering a speech that was literally
applauded.
The Senator first reviewed the work OF the
Republican party from the time it came
into power. in March, 1863, until the 4th OF
March, 1893, when it lost control OF all
branches of the government. He followed
this with a statement showing the country's
rapid increase in wealth. most of which
was due to the wise legislation enacted by
Republicans. Then he said:
''Our our manufactures and
our agriculture have grown side by size.
OF these latter products 80 per cent nave
found a market at home. Our manulac-
lures have grown from a productlOn Oh 3D.
600, 600, 900 in 1880 TO 50, 200, 100000 in 1880. Our
internal has grown almost De-
You'd computation. We nearly doubled our
railway mileage, carrying by rail eight
times as many passengers as the total pop
ulation and moving 640, Co., 900 tons OF freight
in 1880. Our external mme mas IN
creased year by year, reaching It's maxi
mum Of $1,000, 000, 900 in 1892, under the Nc
kinley law.
''Our laborers nave received better wages
face of the globe, and twice as much as
most of them in Europe. These wages
steadily advanced, whether measured In
money or in purchasing power of the COM
forts of life, until and during 1891 and 1892
all were employed at these wages who de-
sired employment. Farmers received be-
TWEEN lcoU anu 1872 lair pilCcS " uCl
crops, with the exception of 1888 and 1888,
when corn and wheat were low. A careful
estimate of the total value of the wheat,
corn, oats and barley crop of 1881 was ST.
COL 900, 600; meat products approximately
$500, 000, 600; cotton, $500, 600, 600; butter, $780,
000.0 600; eggs, $500, 00,0 600. and so on. All this
was a natural prosperity growing out OF
our public policy and from the fact that
this sixty-two millions of people, or that
portion of them capable of doing work, eS-
timated at 24,OO0,0O0. were all at work earn
fnn fnfr. MO ~ III HING thai
found a ready and remunerative market, as
in proportion to work and wages, is the
consuming power of the people. Thus the
farmer in his field, the mechanic in his
shop, the toilers in the factory, the mer-
chant in his store, the men engaged in
transportation, the domestic and the day la
borer were all occupied and all consuming
the products thus created. and all contrib
uting to the aggregate of prosperity. This
was the situation in outline when Grover
Cleveland again became President of the
United States and a Democratic Congress
convened"
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
The Senator then spoke of the financial
and business distress that came with the
advent of Democracy to power, and showed
conclusively that the depression was due
to fear that the ruling party would carry
out it's threats to paralyze the industries
OF the North to appease the free-traders
of the South. Mr.. Allison next took
up the present tariff law and the events
leading to it's enactment. He said:
THE body of the party in the House and
the President d~enounce the bill because il
d. es give protection in spots to the Ameri-
can producer, permitting our laborers to
continue work on a reduced scale or wages,
and they promise that this war on our in
dustries shall go on until their plans and
purposes are executed. But neither the
House bill nor the Senate amendments were
constructed upon the principle proclaimed
in the Democratic platform of 1892. Favor
itism ran through every feature of the bill
as it came from the House. Every South
ern industry except sugar had the element
of protection in its framework; and sugar
was protected by q bounty, wherever a
Southern industry was touched a gentle
hand was laid upon it or no hand at all.
In the Northern States special industries
were selected for slaughter. As respects
every agricultural product of the North,
such duty and rates of duty were provided
as would enable the farmers of the Do
minion of Canada to bring their products
duties even, and without protection to our
agriculture, and resulting in great loss OF
Wool, an important agricultural produc-
ton of twenty-one States, was placed On
the free list. Rice and the agricultural
given a protection of 50 per cent. Tobacco.
largely produced in the South, was left
practically unchanged, although its manu-,
with trusts and agreements to maintain
prices. The duty on barley was reduced
malt was increased ii per cent. Duties
were levied upon raw materials and fin
ished PRODUCTS were put upon the free list.
9TH great industries of the country such
as iron and steel. cotton fabrics, except
those made in the South. were placed at a
rate of duty to encourage the largest i'm
portations from abroad and the smallest
production at home. Many of the wooden
manufactures wese so reduced as TO close
their mills, whilst manufacturers of boots
and shoes, of leather. and of paper in all
it's forms. remain practically as provided
for in the act of 1890. with sufficient pro-
lection to enable the producers here to
Cotton ties were placed upon the free
list, although the iron or steel from which
per cent. ad valorem in the House and in
creased to 80 per cent. in the Senate. Du-
ties were reduced all along the line on
spirits, wine and malt liquors imported,
making an aggregate reduction of more
than $500, 900 in the revenue. The revenue
from laces. embroideries. silks, pushes and
kid gloves and kindred articles of luxury
were reduced to the extent of 50, 0O0,0 00
So that this bill. as it passed the House,
was full of Inconsistencies and ~incongrui-
ties, whether as a measure for revenue or
protection. They marked many industries
for absolute destruction, and others for
gradual decay, and others were preserved
without change. But in all this adjustment
they reduced the revenue seventy-five mil
lions. creating a present deficit of that sum
and a permanent deficit Of from SO. 0NO, Og
to 50,000,0 600.
A COMPLETE CHANGE OF POLICY.
These are some of the details of the
House bill before it reached the Senate,
They went beyond any public declaration
heretofore made as respects the method of
raising revenue to support the government
. > 1t was said over and over again
on the stump that duties sufficient to meet
the expenditures OF the government. SUD-
plemented by excise taxes upon distilled
spirits and tobacco. would incidentally give
the American producer all the protection he
needed. as also the required revenue. and
it was not contemplated that internal
taxes would be increased. except. perhaps,
an increase on distilled spirits. So that
without the sanction of any party and
without previous debate this House bill
completely changed the policy of taxation
which had uniformly prevailed. whether
levied on the basis of free trade or nro.
lection. from the foundation of the govern
ment up to this time"
1T has been truly said over and over again
! in the Senate debate that this bill. want
ing in consistency. and falling in revenue
could have at no time received a ma iorifv
of the Democratic votes i'm the Senate
The Democratic Senator's from the eraat
producing States like New York. Ohio and
New Jersey. and even Maryland. Alabama
and Louisiana. all Democratic except Ohio
were not willing that this House adjust,
on the subject of revenue, and aItboneh
there was a great difference of opinion I'm
the Senate among Democrats. there beinc
extremists there. as in the House who
would gladly have accepted the House hill
or made it even more radical in the direc-