The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-24

you give him none Of this money which
you proprose to wiring from the peopl,
by this taritl bill, he will settle will
you The sooner and the more etfcctual
Somebody will ask, and all of you are
asking In your minds now, what right
nave you 10 take money out OF the
treasury and pay Il bounty to anybody
what right have you to raise money by
taxation and pay it out in bounties
You IL pnblicans can answer that when
you explain by what right you took
money out Of tho Treasury and paid n
bounty to the sugar planters of Louisi
ana, not on EXPORTS but on what thew
produced. But | want To ask you who
dispute the right to take money out OF
the treasury and pay it out in bounties
what right have you to levy taxes
whlch take money out OF the pockets OF
tne people and pay 6Ounties to the man.
ufacturer You may call it a turilY.
put 1T Is bounty ON manufacturing
ana the farmer has to pay one half o.
| III. what | mean Is that the apricul-
tural population OF this country beiDe
about one-half Of it, therefore, in pro,
portion to consumption, they pay one.
nal OF tho tariff duties of this country
and they get nothing in return. What
right, II we come to the question of
rlght and wrong, have you to take
money from these poop o and pay it a.
bounty to manufacturers
| believe that it has been ass, rte0
here by almost every Democrat who
has had anything to say about tho in
quitics of this bill that it proposes a
scheme Of robbery by which the people
are to be mulcted, robbed, not so much
10 put money into the Treasury, but in
directly by raising the price OF all that
Is consumed in the country. | think
the Senator from Texas Mr. Mills cal
cuiated yesterday that for one dollar
paid IN revenue the bounty to tho man.
ufnctul ing industries would be somo.
thing like twelve hundred million dol.
lars. The figures were staggering.
70 take the most conservative osti-
mate, If tho benefits to tho protected
industries by means Of the tarin
| amount to $3 to the manufacturers and
| their employees as compared to 81 re-
ceived by the Government, it would
still be an enormous amount.
Is it not robbery? Will some Demo
crat dare say that he does not think it
is robbery? How many of you have
stated that it is robbery? We'll, my
colleagues, my follow Senators, my
brethren OF this party, who stand uD
| rights for all and special privileges to
none as the cardinal principle OF Dem
| ocracy, if it be robbery in this bill to
take from the masses Of the people
these hundreds OF millions OF dollars
| and pay it into the Golfers of tho manu-
tacturers and into the Golfers Of the
Government, how will you face your
constituents and vote against prOvi
sion In this same bill which will restore
d minimum amount, u very small pro
portion OF the amount that they have
been robbed Of?
1t Is not u question Of whether it /
Democratic policy or not to pay boun
ties, because you are not responsible 70
this measure. You have got TO take i
whether yon like it or not, and yo,
have an opportunity by this amend
ment, with the help OF fewIs epnhli
cans over here who are not lost to al
sense Of shame and decency and pa
triOtism, to put the farmer on some
basis, however small, on an equality
! with the balance Of tho country; ana
you can not be accused of having de-
serted yo II party policy or your party
platform or anything else if You try t..
amend the bill SO as to do Justice to
your own State, to your own cOnstitu-
cnts, and to the farmers throughout
the country, without regard to politics
or section.
You can not get around the PROPOSE
Jion thnt ii IL is robbery TO take it away,
1T would be honesty and patriotism and
Democracy to restore it. 1t is not q
question OF party policy. 1t is not d
question of whether you would favor
bounties per Sc as party policy If you
had the framing of the bill, but it is
simply question as to whether you
will endeavor to amend this bill in q
way to DO Justice to your people.
| Ihls may be "a heW Democracy
which seeks to lead some OF US into The
camp OF the enemy," al the Senator
from Texas twitted us with yesterday
IT may be "a new evangel Of Democra-
| cy' to ask you to amend this iniquilous
| tariff measure or vote to amend 1T 30 as
to restore to your people that which you
say they have been robbed of but to
my r.lnd 1T ls the essence of DemOcra
cy to proclaim equality, the cardinal
doctrine OF our party, rather than to
offer your constituents the dry husk
and the Sodom apples Of party plat
forms for 'revenue only"
| 1t is not g. question of how YOU are
going to get the money. The money is
there They proclaim that they expect IL
surp us; they are prOclaiming tn at they
want to increase the gold reserve to
$l50, ,0U0, 900, so as to absorb some Of this
prospective surplus. They have pro-
claimed a desire to retire the green-
backs by locking up this money in the
Treasury. You have tho opportunity
to force them to show their hands by
voting to pay out $40, ,000.O 600 to the
farmers who make wheat and cotton,
who have been robbed in every sched-
ulc OF this bill, and you say, mo will
not do it because it is not Democratic
it Is not for revenue only" Great God
such Democracy They ask you for
bread and you offer them o stone they
ask you for an adherence to your prin
clplcs and you put up mummy label.
cd ''Tarin for revenue only" The
question ls with You gentlemen. NJ
doubt you will vote in accordance with
what you believe is your duty.
say this as q farmer who has fel
the iron enter his soul by reason OF th'
injustice and iniquities practiced b,
the protective tariff and in the nam
OF the cotton and the wheat growers,