The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-04-14
MITCHELL HEARD FROM
The Oregon Senator Talks On
The Tariff.
THE WILSON BILL DIssEcTED.
Reasons Why the proposed Tariff
Reductions will Injure the
Wool Industry.
Associated Press.

Washington, April Ex-senator Mitchell
of Oregon, spoke against the Wilson
bill today. He declared the passage of
the bill would be a legislative recogni-
ton of most dangerous economy and
constitutional heresy. He condemned
the ad valorem system and dis
cussed wool at length, pronouncing the
schedules arbitrary and unjust, because
they protected the manufacturer and
not the producer and favored foreign
ers He said the placing of wool on the
iree list was a most visionary fallacy,
and that clothing was now cheaper
than before the passage of the McKin-
ley bill. Barley, hops pums and prunes
also received attention. All agricultural
products, he said. fell under the blight.
ing influences of the Wilson bill. and
quoted from a speech of voorhees, de-
livered in 1881 proving him once a pro-
tectionist He said the bill was based
on no definne policy of customs taxa
ton and was sectional, un-American,
un-Democratic and un-Republican
A great part of his speech was givar
up to a discussion of the wool schedules
which he declared were arbitrary and
unjust, placing this great industry on a
sacrifcial altar and Offering it as a sac.
rlhce to the averice of foreign wool
growers, and to some extent the greed
pr eastern manufacturers. and trans,
ferring to their Golfers the bulk of tbe
F5OO,OOO,OOO invested in sheep and wool
such a bill, which vouchsafed nrotec-
ion to manufacturers and refused to
extend 1t to those engaged in the sheen
industry, which favored the foreign
producer at the expense of the home
PRODUCER was one which discriminated
lnJustly, unnecessarily mercilessly and
'ruelly against the agriculturist and in
avor of the manufacturer. against {
america and in favor of the foreigner
No state in the union had, in nronor.
ION to its population, so much money
invested in sheep and wool as Oregon /
as it did to over $31. to 7 IA
cad of sheep and to As pounds of
7ool for each man, woman and child
the state. He argued that no greater !,
allacy was ever entertained by Wis. q
mary theor1st than that of placing a
'ool on the free list. The clothing of z
ne masses of the people would be
heaper. That was the sole reason as.
gned by the Democracy for its ac-
on. Arguing against this assumption
Iitchell said; THE whole history of G.
octrine and the practical effect of f
octrine, and doctrine of protection af- :
'rded conclusive answers to this here :,
z. And the very fact that all kinds Of al
oolen clothing are today infinitely Il
reaper in this country than they were 1T
'ior to the levying of the Mckinley n
riff on woolens in $780, That is OF m
self sufficient answer to this argu. 81
ent. but the real answer is to be :
und in the logical economic deduc. :
m which must follow, and which in
iriably does follow, in the wake Of a "
'licy which subordinates the great ~
Dol industry of this country to that of WI
reign producers of wool. whether in tn
istralia. Argentine Republic, South m
a Islands or elsewhere" u