The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-10

sEAr1LE. 1UKsDAH. APRIL -.
4 nxMARkAsLg srgECa.
The speech OF United States Senator
Davis B. Hill against the Wilson tariff
biu 10 Q remarkable uttsrance. Senator
HUI 10 mos only an exceedingly ahis ana
Sosrefui dehatsr. bat he 10 . man Of great
moral courage snd andacity. whether for
eoed or evil Uaserupulous In his moth
ods - gain and retain power. - Sss Ste
phsn A. Douglas. . man whom In bis
lack Of moral sagnestness h. greatly re-
eemhiss. Senator Hill has too robust snd
acute mind 70 discuss the tariff question
In the spirit Of demAgogy and faisehood.
. did senator Voorhees, the Other day
when he declared thst the enactment Of
the MeKiniey Law was followed BY . ~
dustion OF wages extending to al parts Of
the country and to almost every branch Of
misunderstanding industry.
Senator VOORHEES, knows that this state
msnt II actually untrue; he knows that Il
was eisariy and irrsfuiabIy demonstrated
By the report Of the senate committee and
b the concurrent reports OF various isoor
commissioners that instead Of reduction
there was IN actual increass Of wages.
Voorhees, knows that the decrease has
come with the paralysis Of industry, con-
ssqusnt upon the threat Of . revolution
asy rscasting OF the tariff; he knows that
70 this time under the Mckinley law
there WARM some cases IN increase Of rate
end In oil cases Of aggregate volume. vooF.
hsss. - . lifelong dsmagogus. defed this
plain fact with brasen falsehood. and hs
defended the income tax by m argument
that vs. worthy Of IN tncsndiary, hair
Drained Populist.
Senator Hin 10 q far more intellectual.
acute. astuts politician than voorhees,,
and he knows bsttsr than 10 discuss the
tariff question BY the uttsrancss Of dog.
matte fsisshoods. He sees clearly that the
Wilson tariG bill II sectional tariff which
makss the Democratic party, by its impo-
elton Of the income tAx. noshing but .
tail 10 the Populist kite: he knows that
such tarif win be rspudiatsd at the frs,
opportunity, II enacted. BY both the great
political parties OF the North. and he does
not propose to be pressed TO death
under the falling timbsrs Of the fabric
Of ths National Democracy; he proposes
30 talk % plainly against the Wilson tariff
bill asd its Populist annex. the income
tai. that the Democracy OF the Empire
state. when the day Of disaster and dsfeas
eomss, cannot shake their CORY locks at
David b. Hin and say You helped do IT."
He remembers and he reminds his Demo.
cratic colleagues that the same sectional
ism Of the south In is6o divided the Dem
cerasic party and came near destroying il
and he satsrs his solemn warning against
the reretition Of the political sectional
suicide Of 1850.
He frankly admits that Cieve,and's
Hawaiian policy Was . great hiunaer; he
thinks his selection of Gresham as secre-
tary Of stsss WAS q very serious mistake;
he commends the repeal OF the Sherman
silver purchase law Of isao. and then passes
10 the discussion Of the pending tariff
bill. which he denouuees for ito extreme
reduction Of tariff duties with "a large
and growing treasury deseis Instead OF a
surplus staring us in tho face. with our
industries psraIysrd, our manufactures
closed. our workingmsn Idle. and follow.
Ing upon the heels of one of the mos. dis
astrous financial ranses in history"
He denonnces the inrome tar without
clint a. nn-Defnoeratic and .oeiallstic In
it, tendencses, whose noisy supporters
were blatant and vitarerativs dem agogue.
who are abroad in the land loudly in-
Weighing against the wealth OF the conn-
try and impaaently demanding its con.
nseasioa through every means which their
devilish ingenuity can invent.
Senator Hill poiats cut that some po,.
ticn Of this income tsx paid "wili resm-
barse itself by an increase Of rsnts where
the Income vas derived from that sonrcs.
80 poor tenants may be affected In soms
degree - well - rich landlords. The bill
seriously affects tie rights and interests
Of building and loan associations through
cut The eoaairy Incorporated under state
laws"
Ia support Of his charge that the In.
GONE tax Was q nero lump OF sugar to
focus the fonnI!ss fiss and humbss h<ss
In favor Of ths bill. Senator HI! said !.
Nothing Was heard in IL. behalf on the
part OF the two great political parties in
the esmpaisa Of isa2 Neither the Re-
publican nor the Democratic platform rro-
posed any such method Q. raising fanas
No prominent Democrat or Republican
suggested any such measure. Its an
prevail vas limited TO the platform Of a. =
uniformed fopagiss party aud IL. aavocacv
Vas restricted 10 repuliss orater."
Senator Hili fasFly argued ,hat the Rub.
ssstssion Of taternal or dsree, taxes for
sasaams house txxssloa meant the 70.
aaesioa 81 the wages Of American work.
sasa 10 the European standard. II meant
,ks degradation Of labor. /, meant shs de-
gsssstlaa Of our warkmsn Of the comforts
SAD lasariss of liss which they hare eeea
SIS 9SsssGsa CO. /"
sesstss filli holds that nse one 'stoslsr
~ 1888 sss@sian should b inpos<d where
y = s@1sSsssssy tos the nssds - the gov