Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-12

the Senate have given up 81 900, 900 yearly
| from foreign importaiious, and have with
ruthless hand placed every form of lumber,
with the exception of trivial portion known
as plsned lumber, upon the free list.
This not is made the more unreasonable
and cruel that the Mckinley bill, in dealing
Aith this great product, instead of incress-
ing the duties largely reduced them, in
many cases 10 the extent of so per cent,
BE- fore the bill was made up.
Later on when | came to consider the
provisions of this bill, which our Canadian
neighbors, if they did not formulate, have
at least most gratefully accepted. shall
speak more fully of this q Ieat industry.
The provisions of the bill which strikes
down the whole SCENE of reciprocity, under
which additional trade has been growing
mp with foreign countries, strike most ad-
yersely at the Northern wheat grower and
Northern miller, and will at one blow
| destroy the trade which has grown up with
Cuba, and will besides shut out from the
German arket the already established and
increasing expectation from the Northern
packing.
| Briefly referring to the revival of the war
income tax with all its offensive features of
!
salaries of federal officers, of enforced
visits of the tax collector with its induce
ments and invitations to frauds, the senator
then proceeded to consider his proposition
that the bill is made wholly in the interest of
our Canadian neighbors and rivals; but
speaking generally, he claimed, tho portions
of the bill that relate to the manufacture of
cotton and wool, including the production
lnf tt,,r. 4
| plate and tinware, leather, knit goods, iron
and steel, glass snd glassware, pottery, and
numerous others, all show the abandon
ment of our own labor and the pref, renee
! given to the foreigner.
A.! "The utterances of English newspapers
he said, and the English approval of the
| Wilson bill when its provisions became
known in Europe, show clearly how these
things are regarded"
| Reference was made to the effect of the
bill on the conntry's manufacturing interest
as found, he said, in the general blight that
hal fallen upon them, and he made special
mention of the closing of the King Philip
mills at Fall River, Mass, as showing the
fate of the largest mandatory of
fine cloths in the whole coun-
try. He continued upon the ''calamitous
effects of the bill upon our general relations
present and prospective with the Dominion
of Canada and remarked: "No man can
acquaint himself with the conditions of life
found upon the two sides of the line which
separates us from Canada without becom-
| ing convinced that at no distant day that
line must disappear and the two countries
be made one. The United States will alb
sorb Canada. Seventy millions of people
will not go to 5000, 900. In the near future
| should desire to see the con-
summation of this union. l think this is
the general feeling of intelligent and patri-
otic men in the United States, and am en-
trely confident that this feeling is growing
with the business men and the industrial
classes of our Northern labor.
| | incline to the belief that the middle
aged men of this body whom l now see be-
! fore me, will witness the extension of this
republic northward to that impene-
trable ice barrier into which no life
nor industry can make its way. But this
union ought to and will result from natural
causes and by peaceful possession. There
will be no war. There will be no invasion
of Canada. There will be no strife and no
battlefield where Anglo-Saxon will meet his
brother of the same blood. 1t will be an
nexaii0n desired by Canada, based upon the
sentiment of all her people, and the place
holding class being the last to give way
and the sentiment will be founded upon the
spectacle of a-greater prosperity upon this
side of the border which the Canadian peo-
pie will cesire to share and enjoy.
So il has heretofore been the work of the
craftsmanship in dealing with this question
TO give no present advantage to Canada's
interests, but to apply the protective system
to all Canadian products by such scale of
duties as would stimulate the industries of
our own border and shut out those of Can
ada, thereby bringing in day by day with
added force to the minds of the Canadian
the consideration that only by political
nnou, and the advantage which the United
States would derive from it. could Canada
be given the open markets of our own great
people.
So it has come about that reciprocity
treaties which have been negotisted with
Canada, and which had at their bottom
what has been called commercial union,
have proved failures and have been abro-
gated or allowed to die by expiration Of
law.
The provisions of the Mckinley bill were
based on this theory, and whoever has been
in the Dominion in the last three years
must have seen the effect of these provi-
sions on public sentiment therein.
The bill, he proceeded to state, pitilessly
| legisIated against all the interes SITS of the
State of Maine and in favor of her Canadian
rival. don't think, said MIR. Hale. that
such an instance of the oppression of the
industries of state by legislative enact
can be found in any tariff bill that has ever
been adopted in the United States.
The House and Senate committees have
bewn to the line and nothing is left. Lum-
ter, in all its divers forms, Iulp,
granite, fish, starch potatoes, lime,
horses, sheep and horned cattle,
wool, buckwheat and oats; these, Mr..
President, when TO them are added woolen.
cotton and plush manufactures, cover ST.
most all the occupations of the people
hom my colleague and l represent upon
4 this floor.
| In some Of these items the oppression of
the till is very marked, and considei j 'g thst
| both in the House and before the commi tee
| of the Senate all the facts were presented
/ il is difficult to see how the conclusioFs ar
rived at 10 the bill in either branch have
| been reached"
| The sneaker recited somey hat in 4 |. ii