The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-26

offer some additions to the DILL, but
| WHISTLER ar not he was able to s6Cdfe
their adoption, be would bow TO the
will of his party and vote for measure
as they ordained il should be. 1t was
stiCgly party measure and had been
a party measure from the foundation
OF the gOyernmet and from the tOunOa'
ton and organization OF the Demo
cratic parry. If he had been CHOSEN
to construct it, and Bland had the "A
mem bers of the Democratic
party in accordance with his views
he would have constructed it on diff
terent lines. He would not have lett
coffee on the free list, and would not
have put cotton, coal and iron on the
dutiable list. He would put on the
free list metals, wool, cotton tiber5,
iron and steel in pigs and all yarns
everything which required to be man
utactured He would do this in order
that the manufacturers of the country
might manufacture their goods at the
low est possible prices so that they
could go into the mark cts of the world.
The Repu blican policy, he said, was
to provide home market, but there
were S5,000,000,000 worth of goods
made in this country. Where were
the people to come from to consume
them? 10 order to carry out the Re
publican policy people would have to
be imported to consume our surplus
OF agricultural products. 1t
would require 114000,000 people
to consume these products and would
require the importation of Chinese,
Japanese, Singales, Maltese and CHM
I 70 ip;t Tnunp1u TI.ot1nh +
er Emancipate our people," he
said, give them chance to show
their skill and their genius. Give
them back the ocean and then the
work mon will no come to Washing
ton tor the government to do some
thing for them. Their proper recourse
was not to come to Washington any
how but to turn back home and ap-
peal to the ballot box"
Mr.. Mills devoted a large part of
his speech to discussion and defense
of the income tax. He lauded the &C.
ton of the committee in reporting q
tax on incomes. "W by should wealth
be taxed? The object of all just gov.
ernments was to secure to all its sub
jects all the rights with which
they were endowed b. nature, and
protection in the enjoyment of those
rights which they were guaranteed
by their government. 81 would like
to know" he said, ION what principle
the owners of millions insist that they
| should not be taxed.
He said that the opponents OF the
income tax said it was inquisitor ial,
anarchistic, socialistic to lay tax of
two per cent on incomes, but when a
poor fellow wants a shirt and is taxed
100 per cent, nothing is said about its
| being sOcialistic or anarchistic.
He enunciated the principle that q
! tax should be collected in proportion
to the Taxpayers ability to pay it, and
upon the amount of protection he re-
ceived. IL was said that the income
TAX was unjust and iniqDitOus, and the
senator from New Nork Mr.. Hil) in
his speech a few days ago, had called
| it by all kinds OF vile names, yet
when lie Was governor of New York
tor six years, he had never told the
legislator that the income tax that
was on the statute books was unjust
and iniquitoua. 1t was useless to de-
uOunce the income tax as ubiquitous,
unjust, etc. 1t was useless to make
any suphistical remarks about the
difficulty OF collecting the tax. The
law was going to be passed, he de.
clared, mphaticaIly; II not by this
congress, then by the next.
The toTcible way in which the SEN
ator made this statement elected APP
pIause from the galleries which was
checked by the gaval of the pre-
siding officer.
"Mr. PRESIDENT" continued the
senator earnestly, there 3 duty
devolvipg on this body which can not
be evaded. We must pass this bill,
make it as good as we can first, but
pass it we must. We must not only
pass it but we must stop talking about
it. They did not send us here TO hear
arguments for new theories. They
sent us here to drive the criminal out
of the country, and to restore the
country to its natural rights. | do
DOT care whether the traditions of
this body are observed or not. L am
in favor of limiting debate. In the
early Days of the country there was
no such thing as tilibustering, but it
| is here now in full force. | say that ii
"A senators on this side OF this cham
| Der and the 45th in the presiding
officers chair, with like opinion as
1, we would pass the bill in As hour.
The people want this bill passed now,
they do not want to wait until they
are starving to death, they do not
want to wait until the whole cOuDtry
Is paralyzed, but they want to do it
J now. Then the business prosperity
of the country will revive; then the
condition of things will be changed;
night will disappear; darkness and
distress will leava the land, prosperity
will come to our borders, light and
sunshine will Tighten up all our faces
and the country will once more res
sumo its career of prosperity.
The close of Mr.. Mills speech was
greeted by a hearty round Of ap-
plause from the galleries and his
Democrrtic colleagues crowded around
him to extend their congratulations
1t had been expected that the speech
would be much longer. 1t consumed
just two hours and IL minutes. The
Republicans who expected the Demo-
Gratis would consume the entire day
were not prepared to go on, accord
n T..