The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-11

hits were vociferously applauded. Among
other sa wings with a JOhnsonian flavor was
his assertion that he was a thOrOugh-gO
ing monopolist, and he believed in max
ing as much as he could out of business.
''But our duty here, he said, lis TO at
tack them 1.-THE mOnopOles. ~ The chair
man had great difficulty in checking the
laughter which followed this sally.
THE DEMOCRATS TOO SLOW.
This was his exordium: eve, of the
Democratic party. went before the coun-
try in 1892, asserting that the existing
tariff was wrong in principle and unjust
in operation, declaring the policy of pro
lection a fraud and robbery, charging II
with creating trusts, sitting commerce,
thrOttling industry, causing enforced idle
ness, lesseuing wages, impoverlshing Ia
Dor and creating a few mOnStrous for
tunes and pledging ourselves to abolish
1t if the American people gave US au-
thority They did give US authority,
and-then-Our haste TO repeal oppressive
taxes subsidized. and instead of flying at
the throat of the protected barons and
rObber trusts, the great Democratic
party began, as ii were, to wag It's tail
and look for crumbs. II was the duty of
party coming into power on such pledges
and at such a Coujuncture TO have pro
ceeded without a moments delay TO the
WANTED AN EXTRA SESSION.
eff Mr.. Cleveland had shown the sa-
gacity and courage the situation de-
manded, the ink would not have been dry
on the commissions of his secretaries ere
congress would have been called into
extra session to relieve the country Of its
burdens Of taxation. But, instead of that
we proceeded to rest on our laurels and
divide the spoils, and the ma
ton was treated to the spectacle
of a President and congress
having power to remove crushing burdens,
devoting their energies to the discussion
of personal claims to petty places.
And as the climax of this delay come the
shameful days we have just passed
through in which the House has stood
paralyzed, because, despite our over
whelming majority, we democrats would
neither furnish a quorum to be counted,
nor count the one that was really present.
But at last the committee charged by this
House with the duty of bringing in a bill
for the abolition of a system which the
majority of US have declared fraud and
a robbery, have been heard from. They
have given US a democratic report and a
republican bill. The voice is Jacobs
voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau.'
WILSON'S BILL TOO MILD.
The American people, say the COM
mittee after the fullest and most thor
ough debate ever given by any people to
their financial policy, have deliberately
and rightly decided that the existing
tariff is wrong in principle and grievously
unjust in operation And then the com
mittee go on to present to US a bill based
upon this same wrong principle, and per
petuating this same grievous iniustiCe-a
bill for which they have taken the Nc
Kinley bill as a model and of which the
hoe hat no 1u hot SC Il,
Kinley bill shaved down; or a redistribu-
ton of the spOils of protection. | am like
the man who could eat crow will vote
for this bill, if can get nothing better.
But do not like it."
HURTS ONLY NE TRUST.
Mr.. johnson proceeded to show that the
bill If enacted into law, would iniure
but one trust, the sugar trust. The fail
ure to touch the steel rail trust was par
ticularly eXasperating to the speaker he
is manufacturer of steel rails himself,
and he declared that the duty fixed in the
bill. albeit reduction of 80 per cent
from the Mckinley rate, would enable the
trust to maintain prices as snugly as did
the present law.
But it is useless now to take up the
time of the House with details. | pro-
pose at the proper time to offer some
amendments to the bill in the effort to
get some of the protection out of it, and
some real reduction of taxes into it.
object TO its whole spirit, TO the timidity
and cowardice that breathes through it,
TO its tenderness with trusts, and its re-
luctance to reduce protection.
PROTECTION BUNCoMBE.
''All this talk about inluring industries
and depriving worl5ingmen of employ
ment by reducing taxes too fast is pro
lection talk, and the true place for the
man who believes it is in the Republican
p arty. We heard it all before election,
and If we did not believe it then, why
should we believe it MOVIE The majority
of the American voters did not believe il
then, or Mr.. Cleveland would not be in
the white house, and we would not have
a majority here. | believe the result of
the next election hangs on the action of
this House in this matter, What would
the result of a similar election be to-mor-
row. The November elections have told
us we would be beaten out of sight And
the reason Of this is that VIC have done
nothing to redeem our pledges, nor shown
any disposition to do so"
JoHNsoN's PATENTS ON RAILS.
In the course of Mr.. Johnson's remarks,
while he was pleading with the House TO
put steel rails on the free list, Mr. DalzelI
of Pennsylvania, interrupted to ask if he
lJohnSonl, was not manufacturing rails
under the protection of patents.
MI JOuuoOll dul Rlau you asked that
ques tion, for otherwise l could not have
got the facts into this discussion | did
have three patents upon processes used in
our mills at Johnstown. The courts very
wisely, l think, declared two of them
void; the other has been rendered useless
by change in the fashions
Mr.. DalZell--Is not Mr.. Moxley presi-
dent of the company with which the gen
tleman is connected, and does he not pos
sess 1902 patents2
Mr.. Johnson-Mr. Monkey is president
Of our company, but l think the gentle
man underestimates the number of
patents he holds. 1t is nearer POP than
lO2, l should say. But not one of them
has been taken out abroad, and there is
nothing, so far as they are concerned,
which would prevent any rail whatever
made abroad from coming into direct com
petition with our product.
PAYING employees IN SCRIP.
Mr.. Dalzell, displaying a certificate,
asked MIR. johnson if his company was
not paying its employees in scrip
Mr.. Well, l will answer that
question. We pay our men higher wages
than they can get elsewhere, because we
believe it pays US to have the pick of the
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