Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

man by such coneealment and fraud of what should justly remain his. But this is what they do and have done, and that is what they are now quarreling about, be- cause we have undons it. [Applause.1
 of the jsws xs Eats andone~the civil rights bill and the election law. The re- publican party went on feeling secure ip an imaginary immunity of power, feeling and believing that the democratic party, perhaps, would not h twenty or fifty or perhaps 100 years, secure control of this, government, and especially that the dem- Qcrats would not at one and the same time secure the presidency, the senate and the house. They went on under this immunity until they Struck
 THE M'KINLEY BILL.
 He loomed up as the hero of injustice to the people in the house of representatives. They call him the Napoleon of tariff tax, and he presented bill which was not even formed by the committee of the house. My friends who occupy this plat form with me tonight know this to be fact. It was not formed by either the committee of the house or the committee of the senate, but it was formed by eau cuses held by different manufacturers, who met in Washington and dictated the terms of that bill, each one of them putting in as much protection as he could possibly get for himself, and balanced up the whole thing where there was con- hict among other protected manufacturers. That is the Mckinley bill. Now, that bill was distinctly and openly based upon the idea that the power was given to the con- gress of the United States to tax the people for the benefit of corporations and private Individuals who happened to be engaged in particular industries, as well as power to raise revenue for the support of the gov ernment. Samuel J. Tilden and other wise and great men, northern men, living right in the midst of this great power, Til den himself being 0 very wealthy man, knowing the habits and thoughts and feel ings and prospects and hopes of that class be brought upon the people of the United States, and that great democrat came out and denounced the pro- lection scheme as the worst effort had eyer found it's way to the statute books of the United States, as it had done in milder form in the Merrill bill. That was long before the passage of tue Mckinley bill, and at time when there was some pretense for saying that tariff taxes were being levied for the support of the govern ment and also for protection of mauu- lecturers. But it was in fact purely for the benefit of monopolies. He waged war upon it, and when they stole the presidency from him and he was finally silenced in the grave, I suppose they thought they had everything entirely their own way. Mo nopolists and benefciaries of protection sprung up all over the country and rode a high horse right over opposing opinions, and the result was they made the McKin- ley bill, an odious combination of protec- tion for monopolies and favoritlsm, to the utter destruction of the welfare and inter- ests of these people and also of the national revenues. They keyed up the protection of producing revenue sufficient to sus- tain this government, it has been found that it fell short year by year from $38, ,000,- 900 to $50 ,000 ,000. They had the prices on imported goods so high that as to many classes of imports none came in, and, of course, no taxes were collected on them. When Harrison went out of office de6- ciency appeared, but was hidden and kept out of the appropriation bills, but it loomed up after Cleveland came into power, and Cleveland had to borrow $50 ,000, 900 to pay off the deficiency that had been left to his administration by Harrison's administra- tion, and that deficit can be traced directly to the Mckinley bill, as one of the neces- sary and natural consequences, because it excluded from importation articles from abroad in order to give the market here at home to the American manufacturer. Now, we have repealed the Mckinley bill. 6Loud Iend enthusiastic appagsuss. a took .l-ssssaaai2 sI1.,ac1t, great deal
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