Smyrna times., 1894-06-20
WHOLE NO. 2.O47.
The Tariff Debate IN the Senate.

Inc AdIIH OeDaCe IN the Senate.
The Senate is spending weeks ebat-
ing the new Tariff bill, the difficulty
being that while nOminally opposed 10
protection, each Democratic Senator ia
trying to get protection for the in.
dnstries of hls own State. The Re.
publican Senators jlbe them for the in.
conslstences between their platform of
principles and votes, as the following
part OF a speech from Senator Hoar
will show:
Mr.. Hoar addressed the Senate on
that part of the bill which changed
existing duties on lenses, with general
reference to the benefits derived from
protection OF our manufactures. He
held up the little town of Southbridge,
Mass, some twenty miles from his own
residence, as an object lesson. He
stated that in 1884 the manufacture of
spectacle lenses had been commenced
there on capital of less than $4,000.
which had now been increased to con-
sIderably over a million. He stated
that while the wages of the working
people had constantly increased, the
cost of living had gone down, and that
the tables he had showed that a man.
with wife and four children, getting
double the foreign wages, in this very
town of SOuthbridge would not nav
more than $50 year for his support
for articles whose prices could be on
any theory in the least enhanced bv
the protective tariff. But what did this
bill propose? 1t practically struck off
from ten to twenty per cent. of his
wages by reducing the duty on foreign
made lenses. He made humorous al
lusion to the recent speech Of the Sena-
tor from Texas Mr.. Mills, saying Mr..
Mills had visited that neighborhoOd
two or three years ago, and had prom
ised to be the Moses that should lead
them into the land Of Paradise, flowing
with milk, honey and free coal.
THE Senator from Texas" he con-
tinued, "professes to be personally in
favor of keeping his promise. But he
tells US he is between the devil and the
deep sea. / suppose the devil of Demo
cFacy and the deep sea of popular in
dignation. | do not think he is in any
danger of drowning. | think, from the
wall ofanger and rage which he uttered
when the word sugar was pronounced
the other day in his ears, that it is
quite manifest who is getting him, and
that all the use he will be able to make
of his good intentions is to make a
pavement for his future dwelling place.
| am afraid, however, that the New
| England manufactures who were led
to vote the Democratic ticket by his
Establishments will be entirely indifier-
ent TO the fate of the honorable Sena-
tor from Texas, and will make no large
contribution to rescue him from either
alternative"
Amplifying the remarks of Senator
Sherman the other day, he said:
How curiously an article which is
produced at the South and consumed
at the North seems to our friends on
the other side to be an excellent SUBJ
! jeCt for raising revenue. The shellfsh
which the fishermen of Maine gets of
that stormy and rock bound coast, even
| if it is canned, is to come in free. The
sponge, which comes from the Florida
reefs, has duty of 10 per cent. The
fax of the Northwest is to be on the
free list. The sumac of Virginia has a
protection of 10 per cent. The chain
which the northwest workman manu-.
facturers has duty as protection of
80 per cent. The pig iron of Alabama
and Tennessee, of which it is made, has
protection of 81 per ton, equal to per
cent. ad valOrem. The freestOne and
sandstone and limestone of Rhode Is
land, Ohio and Connecticut and of
Berkshire county, Massachusetts, rough,
are to come in free, and the manufac-
turer's are to have a duty of 20 per
cent, while rough marble of Tennessee
and Georgia is to have 80 per cent.
(specihc) per cubic foot and IS per cent.
per cubic foot manufactured. The
sugar of louisiana is to have 40 per
cent. raw, with its addition to the re-
finer, while wOol-the great product of
the North-is to come in free. Live
animals of the West and Northwest are
to have 20 per cent, while the great
Southern grain, rice, which the South
grows and the North consumes, is to
have 81 per cent. protection. The
grains of the North, of all kinds, are to
have but 20 per cent. The tie for ball
ing cotton is free, the Loop iron for the
hay bundle of the NOrth-a crop more
valuable to this country than the whole
Wanted cotton crop of the South-is
to have so per cent. ad ValOrem,"
"The power which is to pass this bill
is coalition between the aristOcrat
and the Populist; between the spirit of
old slave master and the spirit which
would make war on property, ON
frugality, on honest labor, on honest,
moderate earnings. The alliance is be-
tween the spirit of socialism of the
South and the spirit at the North which
never has known the impulse of a true
nationality. 1t protects by enormous
duties, upon which it piles enormous
, bounties, the industry of the South and
, the illgOtten gains of the trust. It's
, warfare is upon the savings bank, upon
, the life insurance, upon the yeOman,
upon the farm and upon the workman
in the mill The power which is be-
hind it may seem to secure for itself a
brief victory; but the men who are
, welding it kLOw we'll that it is doomed.
Its success will be as short lived as it
is mischievous. 1t may last for a day,
for a year and perhaps for a Presi-
dental term. But in the end the issue
of this contest can not be doubtful.
The stars IN their courses fight against
it. The spirit of honest labor, the spirit
of honest manhood, the spirit Of Ameri-
can liberty, are on our side. And in the
: future, as in the past, God giveth to
? liberty nothing but victory.