Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-03-31

DISCUSSING THE TARIFF.
Republicans Of the House Raklng their oppo-
nent Fore and AT.

nent Fore and AIT.
| Among the notable speeches in the
house on the tariff debate were those
Of Dingley, Grosvenor and Dolliver
of Iowa.
the necessity of speedy action in the
matter of tariff legislation, going
over the ground relating, as he ex-
planned it, to the bankruptcy of the
treasury, the enormous expenditures
in excess of the receipts OF the govern
ment and the undesirability OF bor-
rowing money In times of peace to
carry on the government. He drew
a parallel between the conditions Of
the country on Nov. /, 1892, which he
declared to be one OF unparalleled
prosperity, and on Nov. 2, 1895, when
enterprise was at a standstill, and
doubt, fear, uncertainty, every
where"
| He declared that ''this great calam-
ity had come upon the country SUBJ
stantially by reason OF the repeal OF
the Mckinley law. 1t was the Nc
kinley law as reported, and misun-
derstood, that aided our overthrow
in 1892, but it was the Mckinley law,
with the blessings we received from
it during it's short life that became
the talismanic word that swept Nc
Kinley into nomination and carried
the country in 1896. 1t was the dis
carded Mckinley law of 1894 that be-
came the battle cry of a triumphant
people in 1896.
| 1--WE are here" he declared, ito ex-
ecute the peoples demands. The
demand of the intelligent people for
a protective tariff system comes not
from partisan utterances, but from
the men of all parties, and from
every section of the country"
| Grosvenor paid attention to the
statement that, although Mckinley
was elected, prosperity has not yet
come" There was no better doc
trine in all the range of human
thought than that, that the blessings
that follow repentance come only
when "works meet for repentance
have bee DONE"
"There stands upon the statute
books today the accursed law that
was put there by the blinded bour-
bon Democracy. While it stands
there the curse will remain" Con-
tinuing, Grosvenor said: "It has
been the purpose of the committee to
put a measure here that would bring,
first, an abundance of money into
the treasury, and, second the employ
ment of the laborers of the country.
This country shall be in a position
to produce it's own sugar and it's
own wool and it's own commodities
Ofevery character that God, i'm his wis
dom, has made it possible to pro-
duce on this continent"
Mr.. Dolliver said in part: 1--WE
are told in histories of the United
States that in Boston, during the
revolution, corn sold for $1.50 a
bushel. But the historian gravely
adds that it was paid for in continen.
tai money, which was not worth a
continental. But instead OF standing
before you a timid traveller to a tomb
should look up i'm this stately pres.
ence gigantic populist statesman
10 feet high. Gentlemen, the farmers
of the West do not want prices
doubled by the cyanide process. The
theory of the present law was that
/ en- haI hr,t
4 we were to go out with our fret
= wool clothes and divide with Brad
ford and Komnitz the task of cloth
ing the naked inhabitants of tn,
earth. Uaughter.) What was th'
: theory? What has actually hap
: pened may be stated in a few plail
q words and figures: 100000 sheer
e driven to the slaughter, $4,000, ,OO
/. lpounds of American wool displaced
a in our own market, the importation
+ of cloth multiplied by two, half tn
r wooden mills idle and locked up, tn
: other half on scant wages and hal
+ time; the treasury of the Unitet
States twenty millions shy; ou
lchoice and select gentry disportini
n themselves in German, English an,
French clothes and the rest of u
n shining around in overcoats pur
N chased during Harrison's admins
If tration." (Applause.)
10 He concluded as follows: ''If tn
II American people ever get their pros
4 perity back it will come by their owl
individual enterprise and courage
, not by edicts and proclamations
a. but by honest and careful settlemen
of conditions favorable to industr
;. and Investment. II William McKin
=. ley has been described az an advanc
"a agent, Fastening to the seat {
government i'm order to distribut
- prosperity from the east portico {
!. the capitolin IA few well chosen words
the conception belongs to the worl
of dreams and not to the earth o
:, which we live. No man bears an
:. such reputation to the prosperity I
- the agricultural people, but the ma
=, may stand, and / reverently belle,
- william Mckinley does stand as I'll
chosen instrument in the hand
"a Providence, to restore to the Unite
States a public policy which hs
- never yet failed to enable the Amer
- can people. by their own homes
a. hard work, to secure out of the
:. own resources a fair level of pro
perity, a reasonable reward for the
-, labor and a reasonable dividend {
- their prosperity" (Applause.)