The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-07-24

had Intimate connection, Of course, win
this measure throughout. Therefore ]
shall not ask him to-day TO givo tho coun'
try tho benefit of his statement, 80 that
all the truth In connection with this mat.
tor may 90 to the people. As have said,
sir, this 10 most extraordinary proceed.
| ing for democrat, elected to the highest
place in the government, to traduce tho
| senate Of the United States, to blacken
the characters OF tho senators who arc as
honorable as he dare to be, who are as
patriotic rs he can ever be, who have done
as much to serve their party ~ tho men
who arc now the beneflciaries OF your
labor and mine, to taunt and jeer Us be-
fore the country as the advocates of trusts
and as being guilty Of dishonor and per.
fidy.
ut Is timo to speak. The limit Of
endurance hasecen reached. The senate
owes il to itself. Every senator here who
10 q part of this democratic majority, owes
II to himself. There is no power, no
matter how great, in this country, not
even the president with his patronage,
that would keep me silent longer under
tho charges, under tho imputation SO
fully made from such distinguished quar-
tiers. hurl il back to him and say this
treatment of his fellows is infamous. II
10 destructive to the government that
men In high positions should attempt to
lower this body, body conservative, con-
sisting OF IS great representatives OF the
| states. No man can reach here by dcvi.
GUS ways and remain long.
"The senate is composed Of mon who
represent the best thought Of the country.
men who have stood and battled for tariff
reform when the towards in higher places
dared not show their heads; mon who,
whom another place was oyerrun and they
had not the courage to stand and fight Q
tyront. stood here at the risk Of health, Il
tho risk OF fortune, Of oil that Ia dear,
and saved the liberties Of the country,
when these towards could not be scen.
We will not be traduccd longer.
"Mr. President, the facts must come |;
we have seen how this bill passed the sen.
ato; how only 1t could pass tho senate; no
man, whether in this or another place, no
matter what his position may be, who
styles himself democrat, who believes
In his party. can change materially this
measure without defeating II. Who dare
take that responsibility? can imagine
no man will dare do 1t unless he was con.
sumod with vanity and desired to set his
judgment above that OF his fellows, or de.
sire to keep an issue before the people
that no might ride into power, rather than
give content and peace and labor and
prosperity to his fellow countrymen."
As to tho duty on coal. German argued
that 40 cents ton was purely revenue
duty. FREQ coal, no said, would give to o
single foreign corporation all the coal
trade from Boston north. FREQ coal would
not benefit any man or woman In the
country. Who demands il ? he asked. Az
tho professional, rs the rhetorical tariff
rerormer said it would cheaper the cost Of
manufacturing, yet, mathematically, free
coal would not give tho manufacturer
moro than thrce-iourths Of per cent. Of
manufacturing.
There was but one great concern on the
face Of the earth that wanted FREQ coal. In
Nova Scotia there was deposit OF coal az
broad and as high rs any on tho face OF
tho earth. The government of Canada
had control Of II. Five years ago the do.
minion government was induced 10
change lis policy. Small leases were wiped
out. Tho Canadian Pacific, that great or.
terry Of Great Britain. together with men
from the United States, associated them.
selves together and secured q 99-year lease
OF this coal land, on condition they would
pay into the Canadian treasury IL cents q
ton royalty.
"If coal were free, tho coal OF Nova
Scotia would displace that Of tho United
L a.. In, us.1 ~rI
of Canada would be enriched by the
money that ought TO go into the treasury
of tho United States. God knows We have
enough trusts; l will never consent to al.
low this mammoth, this enormous for
eign corporation to invade our territory
and take the substance away from our
people,"
Gorman's reference to the sugar qucs.
tion was IN the following words: "sir.
President. there In only one other serious
proposition, rs understand II, involved
in this controversy, tho subject of sugar
Our friends on the other side with great
gcneralship saw the weak point in ouI
limo from the beginning. In the
construction Of the Mckinley bill
they made FREQ sugar tho pivot SO they
might increase tho duty on their own
wares and the output Of thcir own fac
tories. They attempted to secure free
sugar by fighting us when wc attempted
to reverse the Mckinley act, outwittinc
us by going back and putting on the duti
able list an article which they put on the
FREQ list. They managed il well. They
know how to stir up animositics and feel.
ings which are natural with US against
duties OH anything whatever. They used
the press of the party to charge all sorts
Of bad motives against the mon who were
In favor of putting sugar OH tho dutiable
list. They twitted us on tho floor and you
found 1t on the streets. You had scarcel,
gotten into consideration OF the bill be
fore they wanted to investigate u,
and see whether We were not selling ou
TO trust. The men who made the trus
became suddenly virtuous for the purpos,
of killing our bill. They managed it SC
that the bill actually lost many men in
side and outside of this chamber.
"This was q baltic between two sides
You have conducted it II not upon til,
highest plane, as well as Modoc Indiar
ever cond ucted campaign. That yot
demoraiizcd some Of our forces and made
them run to boom q proof-house where
they might be safe, is true.
havc seen honorable men de
nouncing. or rather correcting in
the papers, the horrible statements
| which have been mt fort "A tn dcnoraliy. 2.