The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-05-25
CLEARLY DEFINED.
Extract From Milrs Great
Speech.

The tariff speech delivered in the
Senate recently by Roger Q Mills
was great one-so good that it Is
worth a place in the limited spaos
o. every country newspaper, and the
careful study Of every citizen OF
the United States. Below is a por,
ton of the report of the speech as
published by the oourier-J ournal
"Mr. Mills addressed himself,
mainly, 10 the tariff as it affects the
farmer, and especially the wheat
grower. He took hold Of that
Reed.Iodge speech, for they are
one, with the grip OF a giant aid
rended it into ten thousand tatters.
The new tariff lights Of the Reed
Lodge school declare that our sur
plus wheat Of 250,000,000 bushels
per annum is to be CONSUMED by
the importation Of non-agricUltural
classed from Europe, who, going
into our shops and receiving Amer
lean wages, will thus have money
enough to buy the wheat Of the
American farmer. Mills showed
that to consume the present sur
plus wonld require the importa-
tion Of 100000 people the first
whack. AS we now have less than
100000 population, that would
make a good deal OF material for
the new Know Nothing p9rty which
is only republican side-show to
work on. Mr.. Mills showed that il
would require all the armed and
mercantile vessels ahoat on all the
waters of all the seas to transport
"a, 100000 people to our shores in
one year. Then he continued,
But that does not make any dil
ference. 1t is a beautiful thing,
aud ought not to be marred by any
such commonplace considerations
! | suppose our friends were going
to let The immigrants provide the
vessels for themselves. But "a,
100000 people have to come here,
according to that prophecy, and
they have got to come in one year,
and they have got 10 come IN time
! to consume that crop OF wheat, and
they have got TO come with money
enough to pay tor it, or it will do
the farmers no good. What will
they do, Mr.. President, when they
come here to make the money to
buy the wheat from the farmer? II
will not do to bring agriculturisls.
The committee were too sharp for
that. They said that they must
be 'non.agriculturists," that they
must be miners, manufacturers
persons engaged in transportation
laborers, mechanics and Others,
"Now. of the non agricultural
population of the Uuited States
one-third are manufacturing labor
ers. Let us assume that one.thirl
of these will be. 0ne.third 0! 81.
100000 will be 100000, who hay
to come and be supported by man
ufaeturing labor. That include
men, women and children.
Again, by the same division {
our population, one-thisd of thg
number are laborers actively er
gagged in the shops. That max
100000 laborers who have to CON
=. here IN one yeai. Six million {
manufacturing laborers have I
be brought by the Mckinley law I
: Til is country. Very well. WIS
will they do? They will 90 int
manufacturing, of course. Ho
much will they mske2 II 4,250,0J
operatives Of ours made $9,970OOt
!, coo worth of manufactured pr
: ducts in 1890, how much WI
100000 make? 1t is a mere sui
in arithmetic that an ordinary R
publican ought to be able to cipht
cut. Somebody else will cipher
: out if they do not. They will tuT
g out If they work as well as OF
people, S13,O00,G00 worth Of pro
ucts. We consume $3.50 per hea
: of our manufactured products.
n will be fair to assume Of that pro-
j uct $S,000,000,000 worth. Tn
would leave $5,000,000,000. VII
is to be done with it?'
. The above Is sample brick fro
) this powerful speech, speec
. which, if read and studied by c
VI cry wheat-grower in the Unit
States, would settle the tariff que
ton for good and all. and settle
Is right. Then be goes on to she
n that according To the Republics
doctrine the S. ,000,000,000 Give b
lions worth of surplus manufa
turing products must be consume
at home, aud there would be a mo
s. delightful kettle Of FISH. The Der
o. oeralic pc Icy would be to expI
lie the goods the Republican policy
d to import the people TO consut
them, and if that policy were iuI
carried Quito import people
consume our surplus breadstu
&c and provisions and manufactu
Or our raw materials, including C
Or ton, in a few years Europe wou
Re be depopulated and then it wor
: only be question OF time beic
a.