The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-28

fast The letters from all over the country
are 'oally pathetic, and the appeals from
the farmers often sound like "A wall
hay never known time of such general
dis, utont in the farming regions, accom-
paI ed with so little hope. Why, even in
the darkest days of the war the people did
not despair rs they do now. They seem
inn essed with an idea that this slow and
me Hess contraction Of prices must 60 on
for ears. They ask what we are doing,
or { wing to do, or what can be done but
it /. Ilain that they do not see any imme-
dia remedy
Vow, you heard what this Chicago man
SAID and you notice that, like all the oper-
ate in grain, he says the farmers will be
I'M by this bill Well, the farmers say
tina they want to be injured in Just that
way but these men have got to the point
tina, they are not even willing for the
farmers to decide as to what remedy they
will attempt. There is not line in this
bill to prevent any Legitimate dealing in
futures. All we aim to do is to stop these
wind sales and short selling, which go
away ahead of the crops and depress the
pric5 Of the grain before it is harvested,
and % per cent Of the farmers are in IA
vOr Of the bill
4 Piece of Deliberate Legislation.
Now | want to call your attention to
the history of this bill and show the per
siste Mt demand for it, because it is savage
lyateackcd on the ground that it is a new
and uncalled for thing. This is my eighth
cons ,cutive term in the house, and l have
been "a member of this committee from the
start and chairman Of it in five of my eight
terms From the first there has been de
manl for such legislation, and it has stead
lily increased In the Fiftieth congress we
began the discussion and investigated the
matter with labor and patience Of which
our opponents know but little In the
.Fiftv-ilrst congress we reported a bill, and
in the next it passed the house by to !,
but was amended in the senate and came
back in the closing days Of the session,
when l could not get it considered.
"Once more we have gone carefully over
the whole ground, have thoroughly consid-
cred every actual and conceivable objection,
have lis 'rned with unwearied patience TO
every man who had anything to say on
the subject, and the result is that this COM
mittee has voted in favor Of the bill by II
to 2. The opponents were Mr.. Apsley Of
Massachusetts, and Mr.. Baker of New
Hampshire, both Republicans, though 1
don't know as that makes any difference,
as the eastern Democrats would probably
vote against our farmers just the same.
Now, If a bill which was asked for through
several years, then carefully studied in two
congresses, discussed in the public prints
and all possible defects pointed out and
then discussed and improved and adopted
by nearly unanimous yote-if such a
bill, / say, is not deliberate legislation,
the word has no meaning Yet denuncia-
tion and sarcasm are poured upon me, and
l am held up to ridicule for striving TO
carry into effect what is practically the
unanimous wish of the farmers, and by
measures most carefully considered.
The Depression In Agriculture.
"DO you consider these wind sales as
you call them, the leading cause OF the de
pre- ION IN agriculture
On no. Jhere Il combination oi
causes Inc uehionellzauloh oI sllNer II,
80 many states ana nations was lolIo"ou
In IT. successive step' py decline ia Iarin
produce IL Is luio 10 say tHaU IL nau hu
enc, me CORRESPONDENCE IN uecllhlng
pHS ana successive NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "aA
emu ely TOO close ana REGULAR 90 DC mere ,