Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-08
HAS NO PRINCIPLE
Senator Hoar's Characterization Of
the Proposed Tariff Bill.
mo GOOD AMERICANISM IN IT
Clauses Put in It Merely to Buy
Votes.
WHAT PROTECTION DOES

After asserting that the people meant
that the Senate should respond only to their
deliberate will. Senator Hoar said in his
speech against the Wilson bill in the Senate
| today, that it was now asked to enact into
law spasm that the people have got over.
The hasty action of excitement of the fall
of 1892. of which the American people were
repenting in sackcloth and ashes, was to
take effect In the infinite mischief and
misery of great action of legislation.
The Senate was to hurry and get the work
done before the people could get at them.
This democratic majority of two, said the
Senator made by the junior Senator from
North Dakota and the junior Senator from
Kansas, are expected to compel the Ameri-
can people to submit to a measure which
they have Enthusiastically condemned. and
which they loathe and hate as they tell us
on every occasion and in every form In
which they can utter their will. Idle fac
tories. extinguished furnaces, suffering
homes, armies of tramps, unprecedented
maJorities at the polls are clamoring in the
deaf ears of this accidental majority in the
Senate to walt and pause until the will Of
the American people can again find its con-
stitutional expression. When the demo-
cratic party let go its power in 1861 Sem
ator Hoar said, the credit of the country
was dishonored. and when the party came
back In 1888 1t found the country at the
high water mark of human prosperity. In
the fourteen months of administration of
complete and executive power, democratic
craftsmanship and the dread of democratic
craftsmanship had had their full effect.
The workman had left the mill for the high
way. The farmer and the merchant and the
manufacturer were alike unemployed. The
craftsmanship that lighted the furnaces had
been succeeded by the craftsmanship that
builds soup houses.
Founded Upon No Principle.
This bill," he said sis founded upon no
principle and has no legitimate parentage
1t is born Of an unnatural union between
two hatreds. that of section against section
and that Of class against class. The pres
ent bill was not a free trade measure" con-
tinued the Senator. ut contained clauses
In the highest degree protective, inserted for
the undisguised purpose of buying votes 1t
was not protective measure. either mod
crate or extreme. There was not scrap Of
good-hearted Americanism in the bill" Mr..
Hoar said there were eight democratic Sena-
| tors representing great northern constit-
uencies interested in the continuance of the
protective system. Five of them represent
ed states that have recently declared I'M
mistakably in the elections and now have
legislatures holding to the doctrine of pro-
lection. by large majorties. These 1--WE
Senator's said that they did not approve the
bill before the Senate, but they. defended
| their judgment and surrendefed theirf own
wishes not to the opinion of the American
people. but to the opinion of q majority Of
democratic subcommittee. -,~ s+s-l-
There u.s." said Mr.. Hoar, "a large ma
| jority of democratic Senators on the floor
who avow the doctrine that duties for pro-
| lection are gross violation of the Consti-
| tuition itself. And yet they bring to US a
| crowded dut faIl
| us that they are prepared to commit this
perjury and to be accomplices in this revo-
luton because they think their measure
| taken as a whole, Is better than existing
law. or because they think this revolution
and perjury are necessary to buy votes for
| measure that can not otherwise be pass
ed. l should like" said the Senator, ito
hear some of these honorable Senators tell
us how it Is that IL tariff of 80 per cent
| ad valorem on manufactured woolens be
| unconstitutional and robbery, how a
and just"
There was thing about the % per
| cent protective duty on rice which show
] ed the sectional and one-sided charac-
| ter of the bill. Senator Hoar said:
| Raising rice is an exclusively southern
| Industry. Cleaning rice is done in the
| Forth, largely In New York and San Fran
| cisco. The rice milling and grinding in
| dustry. and the machinery which 1t uses, Is
a northern interest. So this beautiful bill
which puts upon rice cleaned l 1-2 cents
| a pound, and upon uncleaned rice ! cent a
| pound. gives to rice flour and rice meal but
cne-fourth of a cent protection. They put
$S0OOO.OOO duty upon the poor mans sugar
| clearly a tax. They put $22,VO,0OO more
| upon his shirts, equal to 30 per cent ad
| valorem; also clearly tax for protection
| only"
Respecting what he held would be the
| effect of the passage of the bill on the peo-
pie engaged In manufacturing industries, the
| senator said substantially:
| This bill which means murder to some
parts Of the country, means crucifixion to
New England. There are nearly 5,OOO.OOO
men and women employed as wage earners
| in manufacturing industries In this country.
| I believe that the best authorities agree that
each of the earners of wages in the factories
supports directly or Indirectly at least five
people.
| Now, what are these people to do? You
| propose to increase your importations by at
| least 500 900. 900. So the men who make
this 500, 0OO.0OO worth of products in the
| United States are to be thrown out of that
| employment. Out of this production from
| 90 per cent to 95 per cent Is labor. If you
import s20O,0OO,OO0 worth from abroad OF
| manufactures which otherwise would be
made here, the one hundred and eighty or
one hundred and ninety millions now
| paid in wages must cease to be paid
| for the work now done here, but hereafter
| to be performed abroad These men must
| engage in other occupations or must be idle.
| Observe that in this suggestion l am taking
no account of the manufacture which Is to
| be continued here. but under reduced wages.
| Now in what work are these 1SOO00.0OO
worth of workmen hereafter to engage? 1t
| seems to me we are entitled to some more
precise and practical answer than any that
/ has been given, either from professor or
| a Senator's chair, before we be called upon
| to enact this proposed measure of yours into
| law"
The Senator then went on to argue that
| there are four things which come from pro-
lection VIZ, high wages, national indie
pendence varied employment and a stimu-
| liant to inventive faculty.
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