The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-10
PRIVATE DALzEIL+s SPEECH
says We Are walking ia the valley o
DesoIatton-


WAsHTNGroN. Jan. 10-In the house
today ia the debate on the Wilson bin.
Dir. Dalzell, of Fennsvlv vania. saId-
sThe election Of 1892 which resulted
In the ascendancy ia all branches Of the
government of the Democratic party had
mo sooner occurred than q crisis ensued,
amongst the most appalling lis our eco
nomlc history. All our industries suffer
Ed immediate collapse trade. foreign and
domestic, became paralyzed, the ghost Of
diatrust stalked fhreateningly III all the
avenues of commerce and fear fell ON all
men-rich ana poor alike.
~A- q people we walk today in the val-
ley Of desolation. Furnace fires have
gone out and fires upon humble hearth
stones IS well. while throughout all our
borders factory and workshop and the
various imp ements and appliances OF in
dustry remain idle and unused
a Grosesque Foreign Policy
sin the few months THAT the dominant
party has held the reIgns Of governments.
it has proved itself picu0usly inc0m-
pctant to deal with single important
question presented Dv rle respOnsl bIlities
of civil administration.
s.Ihe executive. with an Ignorance of
the Limitations If his office, inexcusabIe
in an Intelligent American citizen has
usurpel the functions Of congress, not to
meet am aXigencr. or tor amy ustItiable
end. but to Undertake and miseraDly fail
in a foreign policy which would be gro
tesque, II It were not coltemptlal
ssIhis house has been organized on the
basis of ante bellum days, So thar the sec
ton of the country which IS least familiar
with American industry and enterprise,
dominates the policy ot the nations which
it deals out as of yore, to serve its north
ern contingent, the crumbs that fail from
their table.
"In this deplorable condition Of things.
clouds and darkness an around lis, what
viii those who rule our destinies propose
BY way Cf relief
AEamufssct trsr, Farmer. Laborer.
"a tariff bin that if enacted. I pre-
diet posterity viii pronounce the most
Infamous legislative crime OF our history.
Instead of relief. i'd brings aggraVation.
"Ihe manufactured whose idle capital
lis bringing him no returns. whose disused
plant IS depreciatings and whose income
has been sadly narrowed, or entirely cut
off, it offers the deceptive blur of free
raw materials and the lgnis fatuus of the
worlds markets. while it strips him Of
the ability "a compete im amy market and
be just % his employees
sslC the farmer it offers instead Of pro-
lection in enlarged competition from
abroad ia the products of his farm; i'm
stead Of vast and growing home mark
ct, market abroad in which his Increased
surplus cannot but degrade prices
80 the cry of the laboring man clam
oring for ork at American wage rates
to the end that he. his wife and his
children shall live like Americans. its
brutal answer is lower wages or war
with your employer.
s.And, for the empty American treas
ury depleted beyond the power to meet
current expenses, what raliefc
son, shame to tell II! Further depie-
tion by reducing national revenues from
seventy to one hundred miLlcn7Of dollars
per annums - be made h0wl BY an is-