Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-01-17

Fl.
SENATOR GALLINGBR SPEARS.
He Delivers an Eloquent address In
which He Attacks the Wilson Tariff
BilI.
WAsarHeroN. Jan. 16.-The vice prssi-
dent laid before the senate this morning
the message of the president Transmitting
the Hawaiian correspondence. ssnator
Hoar gave notice that ct the conclusion of
the morning business he would address the
senate upon 1t. When the morning busi-
ness had been concluded Mr.. Hoar took
the floor and criticised the action of the
president in sending the Hawaiian message
to congress ON Saturday while the senate
was not In session.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Hoar's remarks
on the Hawaiian message that matter was
allowed to remain on the table a. 0 basis
of further speeches, and Mr. GAllingsr, rsp.,
of New Hampshire, addressed the senate
on the tariff question.
He began by saying that nsver since the
year In which the president of the United
States was born-ths terrible year of 1887
had there been such suffering, sorrow
and restitution In the land as existed to-
day. From every state of the American
Union and from all Glasses and conditions
of men the CRY for relief came. From all
the great industrial csnters and from the
laboring masses of the people came the
plea to congress to leave the existing tarif
law intact. In that plea democrats united
with republicans and the employees with
their employers.
But in the very face of 1t all democratic
leaders seemed intent upon overthrowing
the high protective principle and substitute
While the poor man begged for employ
ment and his children suffered for bread
the democratic leaders coolly proposed to
enact q law that would necessarily reduce
both the amount and the price of labor in
this country, and bring the American
workipgman In direct competition with
the labor of foreign nations, from which
an army of toilers fed every year 10 the
United States. 1t was an astonishing and
an alarming condition of things, which
had already wrought untold misery upon
the workingman and brought incaiculsble
less and suffering to the manufacturers of
the north.
The interests affected by the proposed
tariff legislation were numerous and va
| RED. They were found everywhers
throughout the north, and upon their con-
tinuancs depended the happiness and
prosperity of intelligent and industrious
communities. They had built up msgnif-
cent cities and interprising village; they
had given employment to the people; they
had established and maintained Q high
| rate of wages, and they had created home
market for every dollars worth of surplus
nroduok hat the IA had IN aa1 R1t
all this was now to be changed.
These numerous and varied industries
were advised by the president to rsmsin
silent while they were utterly destroyed by
the democratic party, In pretended fulfill
ment of a monstrously absurd promise in
political platform. Possibly they would
remain silent, but the indications were
that the lion of labor was being unleashed,
and the party that passed the tariff bill
which the president so strongly com
mended would have abundant leisure, after
the sceptre of power had been wrested from
1t, to regret Its folly.
After discussing the point of "free raw
materials" and declaring that the term
''rsw material" was q fsllscy and that
there was nothing In the universe that
could properly be called Q raw material,
Mr.. Gsllinger said:
American labor has Q right to demand
its full share of protection. New England
ssks for neither free coal, free iron ore,
free lumber, dor free wool. In them all In
represented the toll and sweat of honest
men-toil and sweat which have right to
demand adequate protection from the
cheaper labor of Canada, Nova Scotia,
Australia and South America. Free raw
materials and reduced tsrif duties will
primarily injure the workingman by les
aantnn MA and aaaapdarilv he
facturer, because the lsboring classes will
have practically nothing with which
to buy the products of our mills. 1t
has been our boast that as q nation We
consumed per capita more than any other
country on the face of the earth (twice or
three times as much as some), but all that
will change when wages are reduced and
the poor man finds 1t difficult to earn
enough to procure food and shelter for his
family.
Mr.. Gallinger read several passages from
letters of manufacturers and from t.sde
reports pioturing, in advance, some of the
evil results OF the passage OF the Wilson
tariff bill, criticizs ID aome of the statements
in an anti-protection speech delived In the
senate by Mr.. Berry, dem, of Arkansas,
and said that not only manufactured goods
as a whole, but the most important farm
products wers now 80 low that producers
found little comfort In the outlook.
What (Mr. Gallinger ssked) was the ma
turs of the relief proposed by the so called
Wilson tariff billi During tho month Of
December the expenditures of the govern
ment had exceeded the receipts $7,746,
| 1913 81, and for the six months since July
last the deficit was So, 1854 ,S29 II. Thii
| indicated that at the end of the present
fiscal year the expenditures would exceed
| the receipts at least $50, 00O, 600 and posei
| bly, SIS, 600 600. In the face of that CON
| posed changes in the rate of duties which
l they admitted would cause further deficit
| of at least $40 ZOO. 900. What sane man
| would support such Q proposition as that
| And how was that enormous deficiency II
revenues to be nett
The answer came that one of the wal
taxes, against which his democratic friends
were in the habit of declaiming, was to b,
revived. An income tsI Jaw was to b,
enacted. Tariff duties were TO be lowered
for the benefit of foreign manufacturer
and the inevitable destruction of American
industrial establishments. And then on
own people were to be directly taxed Il
| support the government. Such statesman
ship IS that had heretofore been unknown
in this country, and it remained to be seer
whether the congress of the United State
would approve Of the proposition.
This country had an income tax Law
from 1858 to 1873, when 1t was repealed
It had been adopted as war measure, ant
used to help repair some of the ravAges o
the fierce etrife of 1S61-65. It had beef
found to be inequitabie, unjust, inquisi
torial and offensive-a tax upon the pros
perity of our own people rather than upol
the products and profits of foreign govern
ments. Il was said that such tax woull
yield a revenue of $50. 000, 900 and thu
make 1t possible to take off or reduce Il
duties on some imported articles. Blu
how would this help the laboring man.
would not SIT q single American mill run
| ming or build q new one.
On the contrary 1t would, by encourag
ing increased importationr, eloee America
mills, degrade American labor, and bull
up foreign interests at the expense of on
J own country. 1t would punish the mort
for Its energy, enterprise and thrift, an
fasten upon this country . form of odiou
taxation, already once tried and repudiate
"a form of taxation denounced not onl
by republicans but by scores of proninsr
democrats and democratic newspapers 1
different parts of the United States.
was q momentous proposition, and 1t r,
manned to bs seen whether northern reprs
sentatives and senators would give the
support to such q sectional and upjuI
| scheme of tsxation-a law that woul
necessarily turn Q swarm of spies and II
L forros "a lonxa Drop fha anunfrv and nav