Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-13
HILLDRAWS THE LINE
OENOUNCES THE ADMINISTRA.
TONS POLICY

, DENOUNCES THE ADMlNISTRA'
TONS POLICY
For Its MugWumPism, and Its
Hawaiian POlicy-C0nservati
Required in Tariff Reform-Con-
!, demns the Income Tax.
The Senate galleries were crowded
Monday in anticipation of Senator
Hills speech. After swearing in
Patrick Walsh, the newly appointed
Senator from Georgia and offering a
few resolutions. Hill took the floor.
He said:
"The political revolution which
commenced in 1890 and eliminated
in 1892 was an emphatic expression of
the popular will on behalf of certain
governmental politics" He summar-
ized these measures and said: 1t
is not denied that some mistakes have
occurred. Our foreign policy, es-
pecially that relating to Hawaii, it
must be admitted has not met the ex-
pectations of the people" This blum
der. Mr.. Hill considered, was the
natural consequence OF placing the De-
partment of State in charge of a Re-
publican statesman. He expressed
regret that the President should not
have been able to find Democrat in
whom he and his party could have
placed confidence enough to fill the
position.
Coming to the question of tariff re-.
form he drew contrast between
1887 and 1890, and said an extreme re-
duction of tariff duties at time when
the treasury was swollen with a sur
plus of hundred million dollars,
when all our industries were in mo-
ton, assumed different aspect when
proposed now with large and grow
ing treasury deficit, our industries
hazarded and followed upon the heels
of one of the most disastrous financial
panics in our history. He assailed the
Presidents dilatoriness of action in
the matter. He said: "This is no
time for partisan reproaches. The ex.
treme provisions of the Mckinley bill
must be eradicated, but patriots alike
demand that extremes in the opposite
direction must be avoided" Referring
to the condition of the treasury he
said, in his annual report the Secre-
tary informed Congress OF deficit for
the current fiscal year of $28 900 600
but the Wilson bill underwent no ma
terial change during its progress
through the house.
Coming down to the income tar,
Hill said, Against such scheme,
enter the protest of the people of the
State of New York. They utterly dis
sent, their dissent is practically unani-
nous and altogether implacable."
The exemption OF incomes of four
thousand dollars he regarded as indie
iensible. He asked whence came
this recent and unnecessary claim for
the imposition of the income tax"
He declared that Its approval was
limited to the platform of the Populist
party and its advocacy restricted to
Populist orators" The substitution
of internal or direct taxes for customs
duties he declared meant the reduc-
ton Of the wages of American work
men. He asserted that not one dollar
of tariff taxation should be imposed
except for the actual necessities of the
government.
Speaking of the European advisers OF
the United States, he said the pro-
fessors with their books, the socialists
with their schemes, the anarchists
with their bombs are all instructing
the people. II McKinleyism is social
ism for the benefit OF the rich and in
come tax.is socialism for the benefit of
the poor, American Democrats will re-
ject socialism Of both kinds. Refer.
ring to the sugar tax he did not ques-
ton the wisdom of the action of the
Senate Finance Committee but its con.
clusion with regard to sugar should
have been followed by an elimination
of the income tax. He vigorously de-
tended the wealthy of New York from
the charges Of "narrow and coercing
selfishness," hurled against them by
Senator Voorhees, from Indiana. In
conclusion he said II stand ready to
support any reasonable measure for
tariff reform framed within the lines
and based upon the principles which
have here partially indicated"