Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-10
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manently adjust business to il. the party il
power would not have il SO. They have &C
declared with holiness and unanimity
This means, unfortunately, "A constant sgi
tation until the 4th day of March, 1885, al
least, and for two years longer after that
unless the people in the congressional cleo
lions this year make the House Republican
in which event no further wreckiDg of our
industries, or interference with the labor OF
our people can occur during the administra-
ton of President Cleveland.
What will your verde. be? A Demo
cratic victory means further and longer
steps in the direction Of free trade-ieeper
cuts and more deadly blows upon our in-
dustrial life. A Republican victory-a
Republie an House -means that duriog the
closing half of Mr.. Cleveland's sdministra-
ton the enemies of the protective system
will be unable to successfully wage war
upon the property Of the country. On
which side will you vote for more war or
less war? For further attacks on the home
industries that are still running, or for
m)re industry 1T homt2 IF it be true that
arevival of business AM general prosperity
are 10 follow the passage of the new law as
is cisimed BY our political adversaries, then
why should they interfere with the glad
prospect by still further changes in tariff
schedules orrtnewed agitation Of the sub
j ,ct.
Continuing the speaker gave succlnct
history OF the tariff bills.
The manner Of its making should condemn
it. II was Gtrad5d through" without RI gard
to prime pie ,.puDlic policy public interest or
public morals.
The senator from Arkansas hin5-l If be't
tells how it was done. Speaking Of the bill
of the finance committee, in open Senate a
few days ago, Mr.. Jones related:
ave know that to pass the bill in this
form at that time was impossible. With
that fact staring us ii the face, and sppre-
ciating the necessity Of passing come sort of
tariff bill while we lad power, that is
significant. They must make hay before the
storm camei-.'the senator from Tennes-
see, the senator from Missouri, myself
and other members of the committee,
and senators not on the committee, dis
cussed the situation freely. | began the
conversation with individual senators, one
after another. | carefully noted down
the objections and criticisms of each
and to each particular paragraph through
out the bill, and the objection made
to it. / went from the beginning to
the end through the bill, with man after
man on this side of the chamber, spending
DAYS and days in the work. After had
talked with each man who was opposing the
bill, and hid noted on the margin of the
bill what was said, | had every objection
presented BY each of them, and after | had
gone over the marginal notes and made up
my mind about exactly what were the small
est notifications which would at all meet
.GG, t1n
consulted the secretary of the treasury and
the President; and thus we made the bill"
That is to say, lie said to the several
senators
"What DO you want? What is your re.
quire ment for voting for this bill? We
must pass a bill while we have the power
What is the least consideration that will
get your VOTE
Not What Was For the Best
interests Of the people; not what would
carry out the pledges of their platform
upon which they gained power; not wha
was best for the whole country and its vas
interests not what the masses of the peo
pie wanted not what would give employ
ment to our thousands of Idle men and pro
mate the general prosperity; but "what dC
you want, what do you insist upon, and
WHAT IS llle leAhl JUu Will thhe' LEV us INV
your answer frankly, so that we can ar
range things and may count upon your vote
for the passage of some sort Of a tar,f bill
And the senator from Arkansas cheer
fully put.the requirements of them all or
the margin Of the Bill and added one VOTE
after another to his list until IS were Sc
cured.
The adjusting committee went through
the whole lat very patiently. They gave
Senator Murphy Ills duty on collars and
cuff, they gave the senators from Teaues
see, Alabama, Virginia and West Virgins
the duty they asked on coal and iron or
They gave to the senators from L0uieiani
and elsewhere and the great sugar trust o.
the country the dutv they dictated and de
manded on sugar They gave the Populist
the income tax. They did not give Senate
Btice protective tariff on wool for hi
Ohio constituents, for the senator did no
demand 1t. lie says he did not. He doe
not tell us what concessions were made Il
him nor .by whom they were made but thu
people Of Ohio looking upon their distressed
industries have fully determined that no
one of them received any consideration a
his hands.
And thus the great Tariff Reform bill
was made--a bill which Senator Mills o
Texas declared In a recent speech IN th
Senate ttdoes not receive the approval o
one thousand men in the whole Unite
States
1t gives some protection. Rice is care
fully protected BY duty of over so pc
cent, and sugar is not wholly neglected. |
has SOME free trade in it here, and som
there, but mostly here in the North. Their
is tariff on peanuts, but free trad
in cotton ties. There is a tariff OF
sumac, but free trade in wool. There
tariff on mics, but free trade in lumber
In every schedule there Is the erossest ex
hbition Of sectionaism and unjust discrim
nation.
1t il no wonder that the Pres dent, in hi
letter to Mr. Catchings, ssvagely declares
There are provisions in this bill whic
are not in the line of honest tariff reform
and il contains Inconsistencies sni cru
dities which ought not to appear in TART
laws, or laws of any kind. Will
influences surrounded it in its later stage
and interfered With its final construction
which ought not 10 be recognized or toler
ated In Democratic tariff reform councils"