Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-24

traduco Us"
The president, he continued, had said
II would be dishcnornale 60 tax coal.
and iron and the house repeated the
cry. Men VINO set up high stand
ards snid the senator. SHOULD come
10 us with clean hnnds.r lie urged
that the house. n Il had been conaist-
ont. would have placed all raw mater
lals on the free list. lie enumerated
other raw materials which the house
had iundc dutiablc He denied that 1t
wac cither Democratic doctrine or in
accordance with Democratic form OF
declarations to place coal or iron on
amount OF the tax on coal placed by
diitcrent Democratic congresses
"'The same bills you speak Of. inter-
rnptcd Mr.. Hill. placed wool and lum-
Der on the dutiahle list"
They did. p replied Mr.. German, lie
proceeded 10 declare that the Demo-
cratic platform did not demand free
raw material He went back 10 the
platform OF 1884, ON which he said Mr.
Cleveland was elected my the grace
of God md a groat deal OF hard work"
1t did not provide FOR free raw mae
terlnls. The bill prepared by hik dis
tinguished radical friend (Miils) placud
90 cents duty on coal
u was In the sains situation thcn."
Interrupted Mr. Mills. Chat / am now.
was in the bands * hnlf DOZEN men
who forced a duty on conL II was not
my choice"
~ am not attacking YOU" said Mr..
German. deprecRrlngiy
You said l prepared a bill which
taxed coal in 1t" replied MIR Mills,
hotly.
MIR. German then gave the history
OF the convention OF 1855, whore he said
the radicals were In The saddle 4
resolution was adopted indorsing the
Mills bill taxing coal. Mr.. Cleveland
accepted Il and stood on IL. He referred
10 the platform declaration Of 1892 pre-
pared by MT Clevcland's friends come
mundlng the house FOR going IN tho
direction OF free raw materials" Tho
radical resolution sprnng In the eonven-
tion was pushed by those who dcsircd
90 defeat his nomination. tiut Il did
not defeat his nomination. No one cN-
pected MIR. Cleveland 10 stand on that
radical plank. Mr. Clevelandis letter
was looked forward TO With anSioty,
In It Mr.. Cleveland declared speeih-
cnlly against the destruction OF any
Industry and I'm favor OF "frcer," not
free raw materials. That lettor Mr.,
German said changed the tide and
elected Mr. Cleveland president, Re-
vertlng again TO the duty ON cont
MI Afnlinhn Nlkhth Nhtl Abltl wits ~
ton was purely q revenue only Free
coal would give to single foreign corr
poration all the coal trade from Boston.
Free coal would not benefit n single
man or woman IN the country. VINO
demands IL? he asked. The profess
sional. Theoretical tariff reformer said
Il would cheaper the cost OF manu-
featuring. Free coal would not give
the New England manufacturer more
than thrce-quarters Of one per cent OF
manufacturing. There was but one
great conetrn on the face OF tho Garth
that wanted free coal. In Nova Scotia
there was a deposit OF coal AZ broad ~
any on the face OF the earth The
government Of Cnnada mud controlled
/ Il. Five years pgo tho Domlhnn gov
| eminent was Induced TO change It's
| policy. The small leases were wiped
I out The Canadian Pacific, that great
| artery OF Great Aritain. together with
men from the United States, associated
themselves together and secured q
ninetyenine years lease OF these coal
neids ON condition that they should
pay into the Canadian treasury twelve
cents a ton royalty. II coal was free
The coal of Nova Scotia wo,lid dis
place that of the United stgtes IN New
England and the treasury OF Canada
would ibe enriched by money that
ought 10 10 Into tho treasury Of the
United States.
"God knows we have enough trusts"
said Mr.. German. ~ Will never con-
sent TO allow tAis mammoth foreign
corporation TO invade our territory and
take the substance away from our
people"
Mr. Germans reference 10 the sugar
schedule was In the following words:
'Mr. President, there Is only one other
serious proposition as | undersiand II
Involved IN this controversy, ana mat
Is the subject OF sugar. Our friends
on the other side, with great general
ship naw the weak point In our line
from the beginning. i.s the constfuc-
tlon OF the Mckinley bill they made
free sugar the pivot, 20 that they
might Increase the duties ON their own
ware aud the output OF their own
factories. They attempted TO seoura
free sugar by Fighting us when We at
ton,pted 10 reyerse thoir Mckinley act,
outwltfing us by going back and put
ting upon the dutlablc llat an article
which they put upon the free list. .hsy
managed Il wen. They knew how 70
stir up the animositics and the fcellnss
which nre natural with rs nBalnst
duties on anything whatever. Ihey
used the press OF their party TO charge
an sorts OF bad motives against the
mon who were IN favor OF putting
sugar on the dutiabie list They
twitted US upon the floor and upon
the streets. You had scarcely gotten
into the confederation OF the Pill he
fore they wanted TO Investigate Us and
see whether we were not selling out
to a trust The men who male the
trust became suddenly ciftupts tDr The
purpose OF killing our bill. They man
aged Il 80 aatutely that the bill really
lost many honest men inside and OUT
side or the chamber. This was q battle
brtween the two sides. You have con-
Quoted H.. II not upon the highest
planes, MS wen as o Modoc Indian ever
conducted campaign Oaughtorl that
You demorailzed some OF our forces
and made them run to the bomb-proof
houge where they might be safe. -
true. / have seen honorable mon de-
nouncinR, or rather correcting In the
papers, The horrible statements which
have been put forth 70 demoralize
THEM, and Il is but natural that they
should have done 40. But the majority
OF us are accustomed 10 shot and shell
but have never yet nlnched because
we knew that no matter how dis
tasteful &c US personally the vote Of
the Louisiana Senators was necessary
to US We know more than that a
fair duty on sugar was the nrst con-
alteration Of the treasury. Your ieKis-
latlon has left rs bankrupt. until We
have been compelled 70 sen bonds. We
DO not Intend when we get our bill
through 10 increase the bonded debt.
II we do not got our bill through that
msy and probably win happen. Then