The Somerset reporter., 1894-03-08

able speech To The discussion on the vii
son bill in the House OF Representatives.
january 30rh. We would be glad to usc
the speech in full, but arr unable to do
30 and give our readers eNtrHct- from il.
which wc know they vii appreciate.
Mr., Nillken said:
do not know that any discussion Of
the taritl question can be useful. \
Democratic Congress. joned 10 its idol
OF free trade can hardly be expected 10
profit bv it. and the people do not want
il. The former. like the Bourbon,
whom Napoleon said meyer learned any
thing and never forgot anything. will 90
on in its career of smashing American
prosperity. whatever enlightenment may
be brought before it, gaze. and the lat
ter are having an experience more i'm
pressivc in lis teaching, than the most
graphically stated prccepts could posi-
bly, be, Wrecked fortunes. ruined es-
Gates, bankrupt business operations,
idlenc>s, poverty, and starvation where
Il few Years ago there was thrift and
comfort, are more eloquent in their de
nunciation of Democratic policy than The
Tongues of all men could be. They are
the most earnest and effective advocates
of protection to-day. and they are grow
ing more forcible every hour. Their au-
dieuce is the entire nation
\ tariff for revenue only. which they
declare to be the only constitutional tar
in that can be enacted. j. one which
raises the largest revenues with the
smallest duties. II must be laid upon
articles which we do not producr-such
as tea. coffee. and sugar. But the vii
son bill leaves all these articles on the
free list. 1t repeats or reduces duties
sufficiently to destroy homc product ion
aud impoyerish American Workingmen.
and then seeks to tax the people through
the internal revenue to make up the de-
ticit which it creates.
The Democrats abandon the nriuciple
upon which they were elected. but pro-
pose to legislate so a. To surrender our
American market to foreigners. ard en-
ploy foreign laborers To do what our
own people are clamoring To do in order
to caru the necessities of living.
What has the Mckinley bill done and
what has Democracy done: Let each
be known by the fruits which it has
borne for the good people of our beloved
land.
The Mckinley bill did ali its friends
predicted for it, and more. 1T WAS
enacted us an American measure. lis
purpose was to foster American indus
tries. to develop American resources.
employ American labor, and pav Ampri-
can wages. To do this WAS simply To
continue the policy of the Republican
party. Which had made us PROSPEROUS
hoyoud precedent for thirty-two wears.
knowing that of all nyurirs idlcnesS
is the most costly. and that in tine ponpr-
al industry of the people applird 10 the
dormant resources Of the country i ia
ne found the only prospcritv which can
be achieved. we sought in the Mckinney
hill to protect our people in the ulrsuit
of every useful yocatioil.
And the result has proved The wisdom
of our effort. Immediately upon the
enactment of that law. new enterprises
>prang into life all over our land. Old
ones received new strength and yipor.
An impetus was given 10 business ol
every character. Confidence was inspir-
ed bv the assurance that the connection
of foreign pauper labor could not lay "A
DESTROYING hand upon the Industries of
our people.
From then until now the ppoplo have
had before them the promise, contained
in the national Democratic plai form. of
a complete reversal of the economic pol.
lev under which we had lived for "A
generation. The British policy of i:
tariff for revenue ,uly was 10 take the
place of the American policy Of pro-
lection to the industries of our people
and the wages of American worliiupmrn,
What has been aud what is to be the To-
suit? II is the fool only who asks To-
day what will be the effect of the Wilson
tariff bill if ii ,hall become II law. That
question has already been answered. 1t
is case Where .scoming events east
their shadows hrfore.'
Was eyer a bill introduced into Con
gress against which So many remolI-
strances from every corner of the land
were sent 10 the Capitol? This House
is Hooded with Them. They come from
all classes Of our people. They rc,,re-
sent nearly every avocation in the ma
ton. They are the earnest. intelligent
expressions of merchants. manufacture
erS, miners. farmers. mechanics. and
more than all others. men who nut THEN
hands to daily toll and eat their bread
in the sweat nl their faces.
Indeed. they know the truth of the
statement of America's rrandest states.
man. Mr.. Blaine. in his Twenty Years ot
| Congress. thai the tariff is almost en-.
| ttrrlv n .,Wlcstion of wages" our spin
dies NAV Turn. our mines may be oprr-
ated again. our mills may turn out theil
prndlcf. our Farmers may still till thcil
fields. aud business may again be rcsum.
ed under free trade. buf il can not come
about under n tarifl for revenue only.
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