Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-04-26

against the measure were forcible and he
was given strict attention by Chairman
Voorhees,. Mr.. Morrill, said
No matter how far-reaching the import
Hnce of the subject under discussion may
be, know how vain it would be for me, at
| o'clock in the day, to seek to deprive the
cigar symposium of its usual quorum in the
coat room, and l shall only hope, by com
parative senatorial brevity, not to weary
the unoccuped mahogany chairs of sena-
tors with merely "wise saws and modern
instances"
The financial and Industrial crisis has not
vet passed away, and it is n wondrous pity
that the political interests of the democratic
party should require its continuance by
vainglorous and clumsy attempt to practi-
cally carry out its Chicago tariff platform.
Surely the political tariff bill now present
ed instead of n revenue tariff, will give
more comfort abroad than at home, even to
its tired authors, and the rather distended
notion of the people in 1892 of democratic
craftsmanship and infallibility in the CON
struction of symmetrical tariff for
revenue only has suddenly collapsed.
Even their mugwump allies openly jeer and
sheer at their work Their bill was barely
launched before the very able senator from
New York, a skillful and courageous navi-
gator on stormy seas, declined to sink or
swim on the unseaworthy craft. Surely
the crew should now feel warned to jump
ashore and refuse to 60 down with the keel
broken bill.
Tho democracy has the elite habit of shak
Ing hands with free trade with its elbow on
n level with the top of the head, but droops
limp and low when 50 per cent protection is
demanded and yielded on rice. 1t embraces
''revenue reform like lover, and presto
sees revenue only in SO per cent protec-
ton on cuffs and collars. Free trade swears
eternal fealty to the democratic goddess of
free raw materials, " but forthwith the
goddess is dethroned by the democratic pro
vsional government on the tariff, and pro-
lection on coal, coke, and iron ore gracious
ly reinstated, is no longer eliminating
atrocity.' The ferocity of free trade
against SIC, 000 900 bounty on sugar could
not be muzzled, but tax of Sal, 0OO, 900
for the protection of sugar cane, a veritable
white elephant, is welcomed with smile.
slightly puckered The philosophy of the
present tariff bill, as confessed by the chair
man, is found in the dogma that concessions
had to be made to pass the bill, that all
government and every prudent act is found
ed on compromise and barter" by which it
will be explained how one by one the
y
ly into the tariff bill when some democratic
Roman threatened otherwise to appeal unto
Caesar. If any republican begged for IA
vors they were piously
Pitied and then Piteously Crucified.
Concerning the rates of duties reported il
the tariff bill, it is no violation of the conf
Dental relations of the Senate committee or
finance to state now that they were all tixed
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publican members, and against even the
votes of any hesitating or divergent minor
ity Of the democratic members. Thus many
of the most important questions may have
been determined by the small fraction OF
three or four of committee Of II, but
while the process of evolution was a grea
novelty it will not be controverted that al
the rates of duty are of the purest demo
cratic origin. Tariffs ''for revenue only
prove to be only political tariffs, valid onl,
until after the next election.
The honorable chairman of the finance
committee, however, in his opening speech
declared with real sadness that some part
of the tariff bill he presented we're consente
TO under "durcss." Legally and consttu
tionally, therefore, this was such bald coer
cion as to invalidate the whole bill, and til
committee are entitled to relief FROM tn
fraud, which should be promptly granite
by the Senate. That is. the bill must b
wholly ignored or unanimously rejected.
know of nothing less that will redress tn
ignominious "duress' imposed upon tn
committee.
The items inserted under 'duress" shout
never go to committee of conference be
tween the two Houses of Congress to EN-
barrass the Senate conferees, althoug
their action might not be unlike that of tn
boys cousins, where he went for an after
noon visit. Coming home very hungry, an
being asked by his mother if he wasn't il
vited to supper with them, he answered
''Yes, but they weren't no hands to urge,
tell ye.' Our conferees will certainly /
"No hands to urge" and the ''duress
amendments may be doomed to u shol
shrift.
But | have other reasons why this hi
should be rejected The bill was reporte
March 20, 1894, to the Senate, with volun
nous and extraordinary amendment
Twenty days thereafter the same committ'
presented litter of 10 more amendment
There is little doubt but that much larg
number will yet be a prime necessity, if Il
committee will only labor and wait. The
chief objection to long waiting, perhaI
would be that the committee might not fiji
tuted with democratic majority any mo
in favor of killing double dose Of tariff 7
form than of
Protection Under ''Duress" in Spots.
Among the glores of the historic care
of Americans none have been Of great
splendor than those displayed by manufn
turers and inventors. Their achievement
have excited both the wonder and the en-
of the old world, but our much esteem
chairman of the finance committee IN
Voorhees,, unwilling to aggravate our n
tional self-esteem, did not seek in his ope
ing tariff speech to praise, but sought
bury these American manufacturers by
calm, deliberate and judicial pronunci
mento, charging them and protective tart
with such infamy and crimes alternately
''plunder and spoliation," or ''spoliati
and plunder,n robbery" and "unbridl
extorton;" rs Colossal taskmaster, " Il
that there have been "millions of blat
mail levied by American manufacturers
again as sinister, perfdious and disho