The Butler weekly times., 1894-04-05
TARIFF DEBATE HAS BEGUN
Chairman of Finance Committee
Voorhees, Launches the
Question.

-Ai1 - 1iNSoAAis 4 uAA DUN
on the Floor and in the Galleries
and the Indiana Senator was Given
Warm Greeting-He Occupied
Nearly Two Hours With His Ad-
dress.
Washington, D. c., April The
principal interest in the Senate to
day eeutsred in the speech of Sena,
tor Voorhees,, the chairman of the
committee on fuance, who thus
launched the tariff question upon
the sea of Senatorial debate
| SENATOR VOORHEES, ADDRESS.
Mr. President: Great abuses in
government, strong by the sanction
an growth of years. embedded in the
powerful interests of privileged
classes, created. fostered, encourag
ed and protected by the laws them
Ives. have rarely, if ever in any age
been promptly and totally eradicat-
ed, except by forcible revolution and
bloodshed. Such is the concurrent
and unbroken testimony of history.
The spirit of peaceful and practical
reform, on the other hand, Is reas
oning ard progressive spirit, moving
forward, step by step no matter how
radical and thorough it's ends and
aims may be, and overcoming the
most gigantic evils with patient wis
dom and courage, rather than by
violent and wholesale assault The
prott ctive system of tariff taxation
as developed and fastened upon the
business and labor of the American
people, especially during the third
of century past, growing worse at
every stage, is system of indescrib-
able injustice and oppression, and
yet vino will contend that all It's VIC
ious principles and workings, rarifi
ed as they are through every branch
of trade and commerce, can be anni-
hilated by single Legislative enact
ment? For the bill now under con
s,deration no such claim is made, but
in its behalf can be truthfully asser
ted and will be successfully maintain
cd that it accomplished vast work
in the field of tariff reform, embodies
a great relief to the people from in:-
quitious existing burdens and con-
stitutes long stride, though not a
final one, toward the approaching
DAY Of full and perfect deliverance.
Sir, I challenge the attention OF
the Senate and the country to the
great aud commanding fact that by
provisions of this bill the same time
an increase of public revenues will
be reconeiled when it becomes law
/ will not stop to consider At this
point the vast individual robberiss
CO .nmitted in protected markets, the
untold and iucalculable millions ol
blackmail LEVIED by American manu-
lecturers for their own pockets OF
their own enforced customers wher
cut off from all oui side competition
it is enough for my present purpose
to say that We have liberalizea Amer
lean markets, made them more acces
sible to the traffic of the world, and
while not establishing free trade, w
have made trade freer and more evel
handed between the manufacture
and the consumer. But over an
above aud beyond this wide and wei
known field OF extortion and injus
tice, it will be found from the sched
ule of this bill that tariff taxes no,
officially ascertalned and paid unde
existing law, on the want,necessitie
and daily consumption Of the labor
ing men, women and children of tn
United States have been reduce
more than $76,OO0,0OO per aunun
These reductions are as follows: O
chemicals, $1,OO0,000; on potter.
ID 81, 100000; ON glass, 100000 @
u !. metals, Sl2,5OO. 900; on wood, $500
h 900; on tobacco, So, 100000: on agr
, cultural products, S3.300,000; c
st spirits, wines. etc, $1,5OO,OOO; c
id cotton manufactures, So, 900; {
'' fa1, hemp and jute manufacture
,g Sc, 900, 900; on woolen manufacture
IS 1913. 500, 900; on silk manufacture
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