The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-24
said in thunderous tones, though a
thousand hirelings write us down and

| traduce US.
The president" he continued, had
said it would be dishonorable to tax
coal and iron. The House, parrot-like
repeated the cry, Men who set up high
standards" said the senator, SHOULD
come to us with clean hands"
He urged the House, If it had been
consistent, would have placed all raw
materials on the free list He enumer-
ated other raw materials which the
House had made dutiable. He denied
that it was either Democratic doctrine
or in accordance with Democratic plat
form doctrines to place coal and iron
on the free list. He enumerated the
amount of the tax on coal placed by
the different Democratic congressman.
1.-The same bill you speak off, inter-
Irupted Mr.. Hill placed wool and tim
Der Oh the dutiable list"
1T did," replied Mr.. German He
proceeded to declare that the Demo-
cratic platform did not demand free
raw material. He went back to the
platform of 1884, on which he said Mr..
Cleveland was elected, by the grace
of God and great deal of hard work !"
''It did not provide for free raw mate
rails The bill prepared by his distin-
guished radical friend (Mr. Mills placed
rs per cent. duty on coal"
| 81 was in the same situation then" in
Iterrupted Mr. Mills, that | am now. l
was in the hands of half dozen men,
who forced duty on coal. 1t was not
my choice"
Il am not attacking you," said Mr..
German deprecatingly.
you said prepared a bill which tax
ed coal in it" replied Mr.. Mills, l1otly.
| Mr.. German then gave the history Of
i the convention of 1888, where he said
the radicals were in the saddle
"a resolution was adopted endorsing
the Mills coaling bill.
Mr. Cleveland accepted it and stood
on it. He referred to the platform dec
laration of 1892, prepared by Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends, commencing the House
for going in the direction of free raw
materials
1.-The radical resolution sprung in. the
convention was pushed by those who
desired to defeat his nomination. But
lit did not defeat his nomination. No one
Expected Mr.. Cleveland to stand on that
radical plank.
The Letter Turned the Tide.
''NIr. Cleveland's letter was looked for
ward to with anxiety. In it Mr.. Cleve-
land declared specifically against the
destruction Of any industry and in ia
lvor of "freer raw materials"
THAT letter. Mr.. German said,
turned the tide and elected Mr.. Cleve-
land president"
Reverting again to the duty on coal,
Mr.. German argued that 40 cents a ton
was purely a revenue duty. Free coal,
he said would give to single foreign
corporation all the coal trade from Bos-
ton north. Free coal would not benefit
any man or woman in the country.
'.Who demands it?" he asked. 1.-THE
professional, the rhetorical tariff re-
former said it would cheaper the cost
iof manufacturing; yet, mathematically,
free coal would not give the manufac-
turer more than three-fourths of one
per cent. of manufacturing. There was
but one great concern on the face of the
earth that wanted free coal. In Nova
Scotia there was a deposit of coal as
broad and as high as any on the face of
the earth The government of Canada
had controlled it. Five years ago, the
Dominion government was induced to
change its policy. The small leases
that great artery of Great Britain, to-
gether with men from the United
States, associated themselves together
and secured a ,99-year lease of this coal
land on condition that they would pay
INTO the Canadian treasury II cents a
ton royalty. If coal were free the coal
of Nova Scotia would displace that of
the United States in New England and
the treasury of Canada would be en-
riched by money that ought to go into
the treasury of the United States.
God knows we have enough trusts"
said Mr.. German. 81 will never CON
sent to allow this mammoth foreign
corporation to invade our territory
and take the substance away from our
people"
Mr.. Germans reference to the sugar
question was in the following words:
The Subject of Sugar.
MIR. President, there is only one
other serious proposition, as L UNDER
stand it, involved in this controversy
the subject of sugar Our friends on
the other side. with great generalship,
saw the weak point in our line from
the beginning. In the construction of
the Mckinley bill, they made free
sugar the pivot, so they might increase
the duty on their own wares and the
output of their own factories. They
attempted to secure free sugar by
lighting us when we attempted to re-
verse their Mckinley act, out-witting
us by going back and putting upon the
dutiable list an article which they put
upon the free list. They managed il
well. They knew how to stir up the |
animosities and the feelings which are
natural with US against duties on any
thing whatever. They used the press |
of their party to charge all sorts of |
bad motives against the men who were |
in favor of putting sugar on the duti- |
able list. They twitted US upon the |
floor. and you found it upon the
streets. You had scarcely gotten into !
the consideration Of the bill before
they wanted to investigate US and see
whether we were not selling out to a |
trust. The men who made the trust |
became suddenly virtuouS for the pur- |
pose of killing our bill. They managed |
it so astutely that the bill really lost |
many men inside and outside of this
chamber This was a battle between
the two sides. You have conducted if |
if not upon the highest plane, as we'll |
as Modoc Indian ever conducted a
That you demoralized
some of our forces and made them run
to the bomb-proof house where they
might be safe is true. I have seen
honorable men denouncing, or rather
in the papers, the horrible
statements which have been put forth
to demoralize them, and it is not /
necessary that they should have done
so. But the minority of us are accus-
toned to shot and SHE'LL and have
no matter how distasteful it was to US
personally, the votes of the Louisiana
were necessary to us. we
knew more than that that a fair dutv
On sugar was the first consideration
to the treasury Your legislation has
left us bankrupt until we have been
to sell bonds. We do not in
tend, when we get our bill through. to
increase the bonded debt. If we do
not get our bill through that NAV,
and porbably will, happen"
Thought He Was "a Democrat.
Then reverting to the president. he
said:
Mr.. President, L speak of the presi-
dent of the United States with nnthinr