The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-20

prOtectlOn lS the IOtiUuatlC,u prIucipicoi
the Republican party. The complaint
against Mr.. Bayard is not that he 10 a Tree
trader in home politics, but that, as an ann
bassador OF the American people, he TOOK
his home politics with him to a foreign
country and exploited them before Tor
e.gu audience.
.sIt is urged by way of extenuation and
Defense" said Mr.. Taft, ''that the address
was especially admirable on account of it's
literary merit. Standards of literary merit
vary greatly, but I venture to assert that a
vast majority of those who have read this
address aud of those who have attempted
TO read it would join issue on this point at
once.
Undoubtedly the proprieties of the occa-
sion required our ambassador to maintain
that the individual freedom of the English
man WAS as great as that OF the American,
but, in maintaining this, what right had he
in singing out his own people to say: I'm
my own country have witnessed the in.
satiab!e growth of that form of state So
cialism styled protection" Then followed
the statements and allegations which
ought to cause the blush of shame to any
American foreign representative publicly
uttering them in a foreign country.
He closed this part of his address by al.
leging that under the influence of protec-
ton "personal liberty ceases to be the great
| end OF the government"
What a monstrous libel upon his own
republic! And yet this is called a mere
discussion of an economic theory upon an
academic platform. 1t was the arraign-
ment of his own country before the Assem-.
bled culture of Scotland; it was proca-
nation to Great Britain that in the United
States, where protection prevailed, per-
sonal liberty had ceased to be the great
end of the government.
his statements. When the ambassador of
the United States has reached the point,
where he is willing 20 secure personal APP
probation at the expense of the dignity of
his own country and when his self import.
| ance has become 80 expanded as not to
| permit him to recognize that his own posi-
lion and influence in foreign lands depend
upon the support OF a united. dignfied and
proud nation, it is high time that this
house. in rejecting public sentiment,
should, by resolutions of ceuslre, COM
| mand him to maintain the dignity OF his
| own country and to subordinate his own
personality tc the interests and good name
| OF the entire American people,"
| When Taft concluded, he yielded for
| few minutes to Grosvenor, Democrat of
| Ohio, to reply to the remarks made by Nc
Geary yesterday about General Schenck.
| Grcsvenor referred to General Schenck's
distinguished service in war and peace.
| He could not understand the purpose of the
attack. 1t was not germane to the dis
| cussion. AS to the book on draw poker, he
had written out a few rulas of the great
American game on the request of friend
and he had bean very much chagrined
| when public reference to it had been made.
| He abused no confidence when he said
General Schenck told friend that he knew
| just enough about poker to always lose his
| money. He died. however, without leav-
ing unpaid poker debts.
Representative Pearson (Republican of
| North Carolina) said the good name of our
public servants constituted large part of
our national wealth and form Of wealth
! that he would not barter for all that lies
upon or beneath our soil. 1t gave him no
pleasure to join in the humiliation of n
lofty spirit or in the degradation of an
| iilustrious name. Hs could say in candor
| that he had been an adrnirer and n sup
porter of Thomas u. Bayard-a name that
| goes back spofless and shining into the
| mists of the middle oges. He wished that
! the executive by timely action, or the am
oassador by suitable explanation. or the
| Democrats of the house by suitable con-
| cession and non-partisanship, had relieved
the members of demanding the censure of
such a man. There were only two ques-
| tons at issue, the power OF the house to
| censure an ambassador, and does tbs
offense in this case justify such action.
These he answered in the affirmative and
| quoted authorities in support Thereof.
In the course of some remarks upon
protection, which Mr.. Bayard assailed, the
speaker said:
1.-The cause of protection has triunpLed
| in the last two eisrtions and it will triumph
in the one for which we are now preparing;
this doctrine is firmly lodged in the mind
| OF the American people and they have a
settled conviction that there will be no re-
| turn of genuine prosperity until there is a
return Of a genuine American protective
| Tariff
In closing. Mr.. Pearson appealed to all
| membore to DnsS the resolution.
! MIR. Tucker, Democrat, Virginia, mem.
| Der of the foreign affairs committee, was
the first speaker in opposition to the adop-
ton of the resolutions.
| hr. Tucker argued that the Republicans
| were delutiirg themselves with the idea
| that Mr.. Bayard's characterization of the
| American people was offensive. Person
ally he was proud of tho description of
them, "s'rong, self.confident and often
| times violent peoPie-men who seek to
have their own way" That was glorious
| description of the history OF Anglo-Saxons
~ Il people. He argued The American reo-
| pie were sometimes "violent.n He cite 4
the strikes ut Chicago and other places. the
mob violence ri New Orleans. the calling
out of the militia in kentucky few days
| ago.
Mr. Tucker, like Mr.. DinsrDore, referred
| to the Chandler interview, charging that
the protected Industries had been levied on
| by the Mckinley agents aud that those in.
| dustras would own him and make mer-
| cbanfilse of him, ii elected.'
| In the light of that interview, he asked,
did not tho words of Mr.. Baya,rl, that
"protection corrupted public life'' fall as
| gratefully on the ears as the sound of rain
! on the roof in time OF drought.
"Suppose all MIR. Chandler says in the
interview is trile," interrupted Mr.. NORTH
way Or. o. ''iS thar any reason why Mr..
Bayard should denounce his countrymen
| IN :, jOrptuO aIllenpec''
II call Mr.. Chandler," replied Mr..
| Tucker. ''as n witness TO prove my case,
and know Of no man better versed in the
inusr workings If Republican politics than
| William Z. Cnandier.''
| "You call him on the theory that he has
| turned states evidence and that there is
no other evidence?"
| "There 10 ample evidence" responded
Mr.. Tucker, "tilat the Republicans Try the
fat out of the manufacturers with becom-
ing regularity"
! "Have not the Democrats during the past
few years eifectuaily worried the fat out of
the manufacturers and everybody else?''
asked Mr.. Mccall, Republican of Mas,a-
! cnuset,s.
Not in the way you meau,' replied Mr..
Tucker,
Mr.. Tucker argued that these resolutions
meant not ing. The managers If the
house had decided on do-nothing policy
and sat around with more mischief still
for idle hands to do. He closed with a
magnificent tribute to Mr.. Bayard's per.
sonat character.