The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-10
LEADERS TALK.
The Closing Speeches of the Great
Tariff Debate.
Mar. Reed Champions tho Cause OF Protec-
t'on, While Speaker Crisp and MIR.
Wilson Urge the Passage
OF the Bill.
GIANTS OF DEBATE,

OF the Bill.
GIANTS OF DEBATE,
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Aside from
the great attendance and the Anal vote
ON and passage of the tariff bill. the
features of the session Of the house on
Thursday were the speeches closing
the debate, of Mr.. Reed '(rep., Mel,
Speaker Crisp, and Mr.. Wilson (dem., w.
Val the author Of the measure. Prompt
ly at noon the committee Of the whole
rose and the chairman (Mr. Richard
son), according to parliamentary for
mula, reported that the committee of
the whole had had under consideration
house bill 1884 (tariff billy and re-
ported it to the house with sundry
amendments. The speaker then an
nounced that three hours would
be allowed for closing debate.
He recognized Mr.. Reed, and the
republican leader rose amid the
wild cheering and hand-clapping of
the galleries and the huzzas of
his party friends about him. Mr..
Reed frowned and shook his
head as though the demonstration
We're distasteful to him. He waited for
the applause to cease. Standing in the
aisle, clad in long Prince Albert coat,
with head erect and defiant, he looked
physical and intellectual giant.
says the Bill Satisfies No One.
When the applause had finally SUBJ
sided MIR. Reed began his speech. He
said:
In this debate, which has extended over
Oeen reached, o result of tho deepest impor
tance to this country. The result is that the
bill before US Is odious to both sides OF the
house 1t meets with favor nowhere and COM
mands the respect OF neither party. On this
side we believe that while it pretends
to be for protection 1t does not afford
1t, and the other side they believe that
while itiooks toward free trade it does not ac
compUsh it. Those who will vote against this
bill will do so because 1t opens our markets to
the destructive competition of foreigners, and
those who voto for 1t do it with a reservation
that they will instantly devote themselves to
q new crusade against whatever barriers are
left
Ut Is evidont that thore is no ground for
the hope entertained by so many moderate
men that this BILL bad as it is, could be u
resting place where our manufacturing and
productive industries, such as may survive,
can reestablish themselves or have sure
foundation for the future, free from party
pickering and party strife. Hence, also,
there can be no foundation for that cry, SO
insdiously raised. that this bill should be
passed ut once, because uncertainty is worse
than any bill can possibly be. So utterly un-
disputed and SO distinctly visible to every
human beicg in this audience has been our
growth and progress that whatever the future
industrlal system Of this country may be, the
past system is a splendid monument to that
series of successful statesmen who found the
country bankrupt and distracted and left 1t
hrst on the list of nations
Advantages OF the American Market.
Mr Reed eulogized the American market as
being tho best In the world, owing to the high
wages paid here enabling workingmen to pur-
chase largely OF the comforts OF life Instead
OF increasing this market, he said, by leaving
1t to the steady increase OF wages which the
figures OF the Aldrich report so conclusively
show, and which have not only received the
sanction OF the members from New York but
OF the secretary Of the treasury and the demo
cratic bureau of statistics, by this action our
committee proposes to lower wages and 10
lessen the market and then divide that market
with somebody else, and all on the chance OF
getting the markets OF the world. Mr. Reed
continued.
TO add to the interesting impossibilities OF
this contention the orators on the other side
say they are going to maintain wages How
can that be possiblel All things sell at the cost
OF production. II the difference between cost
OF production here and cost of production IN
England be not eQualized by the duty, then our
sost OF prod uction mus go down or we must &c
out Our laws have invited money and men and
we have grown great and rich thereby.
'To Sum 1t up. II this protection gives us
money and men. and our vast country needs
both, 1t may show why we have 30 wonderfully
prospeSed. II 1t does I am inclined to thinl
that the way to have two Jobs hunting one mar
IS to keep on making new mills and try to pre-
vent the committee on ways and means from
pulling down old ones
But What About the Farmer?
'Butwhat do you say about the farmer
Well, on that subject do not profess amy
special learning, but there IL one simple state
ment wish TO make and leave the question
there. II with cities growing up like magic
manufacturing villages dotting every eligible
site, each and all swarming with mouths to b,
allied, the producers Of food are worse OF thai
when half this country was desert, abandon
sense In favor Of political economy
III the hope Of agriculturists is IN EnglsI
free trade they had better ponder on the fac
thst while the wages OF artisans have increases
IN England e. per week since 1850 the wage
OF agricultural laborers have only increased u
CENTS and while the Lancashire operatives u
the factories live as we'll - anybody, excep
Americans, the agricultural laborers are hard
.ly better on than the continental peasantry
Eugtsnd's example will not do for agriculture
When q Tariff Will Raise Wages.
Here let me meet one other question, an,
let me make It fairly. We are charged wis
having claimed that the tarin alone will rails
wages We have never made such claim Il
any such form. Free traders have set up tha
olsim for us TO triumphantly knock 1t over
What we do say is that whore two nations hav
equal skin and equal appliances and o marke
nearly equal and one Of them can hire labor q
one half less nothing but . tarin can msintai
the higher wages, and that We can prove.
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for we alone have In our borders the populat,o
aud the wages the raw material, and With
ourselves the great market which in
Sures 70 us the most improved me