Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-29
THE NEW TARIFF.

tariff law, drafted on Protection principles
became law, having been passed by both
Houses OF Congress and at the hour stated
above. signed by the President. The Re
publican party has full faith that the new
law is to bring general prosperity to the
country increase the wages of labor, in
crease the profits of the manufactures, in
crease the vaIue of the products of agricul'
ture and give back to the fields of the hus
bandman their old time value.
This opinion is not shared by those who
by vote and voice opposed its enactment
From the many speeches in opposition, We
quote at this time from that of Senator
Teller, former leader OF the Republican
party, on Friday last.
"He said he did not favor the pending
bill, and did not believe it would accom-
plsh the purposes of its friends. Its pas
sage however, would dispose of the question
and enable Congress to devote its attention
to other subjects. He regarded the money
question as the paramount one. The last
campaign was not, in his Judgment, an in.
dorsement of the gold standard. A great
many people who voted for the Republican
candidate did not believe in the gold
standard, but felt that the tariff question
was more important than that affecting
finance
Mr. Teller turned his attention to the
political methods of the last campaign. Ii
was the most remarkable contest in onl
history, he said remarkable for the
agencies set at work and the methods EN-.
ployed for the first time. A system of ter.
rorism, of deception, of fraud, the like Of
which had never before been seen, was put
in operation. And, having been successful
in this, the Senator expressed the fear that
such methods had become permanent
part of our political system, until the peo-
pie were aroused and repudiated them.
Mr. Teller spoke ironically of Republican
promises of prosperity, first during the
election, then preceding Inauguration, then
when the Tariff bill was framed. None Of
these hopes had been realized, and none
would be- The Senator said he had not
found a man in the Senate who was satisfied
with the pending bill, except, perhaps, the
Republican members of the Finance Com.
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those who approved the measure. 1t was
a caucus bill, the caucus ruling as never
before, and in only 4wo instances being
overruled. The bill was, he asserted, full
of absurdities and inequalities, if not oil
crime. 1t was a vicious, unfair, extrava-
CANT and unsatisfactory bill. And yet, if q
measure had bsen brought btf fore the SEN
ate in proper form, just bill, and rot one
for trusts aud syndicates, there were enough
votes in the Senate to pass it, even if every
Democratic vote was recorded against it.
Great sums of money had been used in
the last campaign by the successful party
he said. He had heard it stated that the
Republican party had spent more money in
the last campaign than in all the previous
campaigns since its origin. However this
might be, certain it was that every great
industry was taxed that every great
financial institution was taxed, and they
all contributed.
The world would never know what these
sums were, and they could be judged only
by examining this Tariff BILL These great
contributing concerns had come here and
in substance said: LAS we helped you to wiz
that fight against Anarchy and Socialism
what are we to haYe to recoup our advances
Only on that basis could hundred things
in this bill be explained.
1t would be worth a mint of money
exclaimed Mr.. Teller. " if we could know
what the Sugar Trust gave; what the
Standard Oil Company gave, and what the
great financial concerns gave. | suppose
the Finance Committee know, and thai
they understand what measure of benefit
must be melted out to them"
The Senator then went into the detailG
of the bill, in particular criticising its pro
visions as to agriculture and labor, and
severely commenting on the action of the
tax on stocks and bonds.
After examining the annual expendi
lures of the Government Mr.. Teller de
clared that the Tariff bill would not pro
duce sufficient revenue, and that it would
fail in Its purpose of being revenue
measure. The distress of the country
could not be remedied by the tariff, he
said.
Whenever the Republican party. or the
party in power, recognized what the rea
trouble was !; when they learned that il
was not more taxes, but more money, that
the people need, there would be no diff
Guilty in finding the remedy. He wOulC
not discuss the financial question, for. he
said, he awaited an unansuerable argument
in the failure of the pending bill
Mr.. Teller spoke sarcastically of the re
rorts that the President would recommend
the creation of a Currency Commission
The House and Senate were commissioned
by the people to legislate, and he intimateC
that the President was discourteous Il
Congress to ask that it be taken out o
their hands.
REFERRED TO ANDREWS RESIGNATION.
Mr.. Teller next referred to the enforced
resignation of President Andrews. becaus'
of his advocacy of the free coinage of silver
which be denounced as one of the mos
shameful acts of abasement the world haC
ever seen.
"Thank God,n said he in impassionei
tone, that President Andrews was biz
enough to refuse to be stifed The trustees
Of that university declared that Presiden
Andrews was not in accord with the VIEW
of the great patrons of that institution"
This demonstrated, said Mr.. Teller, thu
methods which these millionaires who haC
grown rich by robbery and jobbery, pur
sued. Their Influence compelled the trus
tees of great educational institution t.
force from the head of the institution 81
eminent educator because his continuance
might ALLEVIATE some of the patrons of thu
college.
There was not big college in Europe
Mr.. Teller continued, that did not have
one or more professors who were to-day
teaching economic doctrines which Presi
dent Andrews held. He made this state
ment, he said, Cd the authority OF profes
sor of Oxford. "In no other country of en-
lightment and deceney save this could suct
a thing have occurred, said Mr.. Teller.
He characterized it as one of the mos
infamous chapters in 100 years of our his
tory, not because a famous educator had
been turned out, but because it showed th'
trend of public opinion in the direction
of destroying that free dom of thought upor
which our Government was founded.