The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-24
TAKING FARMERS To DEATH
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forbodlng and doubt in the minds of men
as on that date. This great calamity had
come upon the country substantially by
reason Of the single act Of a Democratic
Congress the repeal OF the Mckinley law. =.
The issue of 1896 upon which the battle
had been fought and the victory won was
the issue OF protective tariff. Every in
telligent man who participated in the cam
| paign and went from one State to another
was conscious now of the fact that more
than million voters who had been hum
bugged by the specious cry OF the COM
munists of tax upon wealth and enterprise
and the hope for the better times through
a debased currency, nevertheless voted for
William Mckinley because of his position
| on the tariff question.
1t was the Mckinley law msrepresented
and misunderstood that aided our over
throw 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 Mckinley
! into nomination and carried the country
in 1896. The fruit grower of Cali
fornia robbed and ruined by the Wilson
/ bill cried loudly to the Republicans for as
sistance, and from Alabama and Georgia
and conspicuously from Louisiana came
the earnest demand for the passage of this
bill.
| If the members of the Republican side
| of this House should see fit to publish all
| the letters they have received from the
cotton, hemp and tobacco-growing States
| of the South in favor of this legislation,
surprise and astonishment would be upon
| the men who, with their backs to the
| rising sun, were seeing, hearing and know
| ing nothing but the inadequate Bourbon
| doctrine OF bygone day. He taunted the
| Democrats and their allies on the floor of
| the House with making a pretext that they
| had not had time to prepare substitute
| for the peading bill.
Why" he asked, do you not offer
the Wilson bill? If you did not blunder
in its passage; if its passage was not a
crime; If its passage was not curse;
if its introdution into the business af-
fairs OF the country did not create dis-
turbance, why do you not offer that
as a substitute here? Why do you not
take its specific doctrines, its ad va
loren duties, it's protection to special
classes of industries. its abandonment
of others, its uncertainties, its bad Eng
lish and worse politics, and cling TO it?'
Speaking of the provisions OF the Dingley
! bill he said: I'VE have provided in this
bill for the expenditure in the UnitedStateS
of ultimately mere than $500 100000 per
annum to the lahgrers of the country above
that which has been derived heretofore
Under the operations OF this bill $125,-
600, 900 now sent abroad To buy sugar will
every dollar of il be expended in the United
States We look for that time. and shortly,
when under the operations OF this wool
schedule, every spindle in the United states
will turn, and the enormous payments for
labor, the end Of which passed in 1892,
shall again be a part of the heritage OF the
laboring man.
I'VE look forward to the time, not far
distant, when a million wool-growers in
the United States, a million men who
voted, u million men who worked to pro-
mote the sheep industry of the country
will receive rich and permanent reward
and when the flocks of the country will
increase in value di Tectly by the opera
tion of this bill $50 900 ,OU0 i'll a single
year
We believe that the farmer on the
mighty farms OF the West and on the allu-
vial soil OF the South and everywhere viii
be benefited by this bill Ignorance comes
and SAYS, What good does IL do TO put n
duty on farm produCts?' 1 submit in this
connection table that will enlighten those
gentlemen who do this talking, and show
them how much has been introduced into
this country Of farm products under the
ruinous rates of the Wilson bill and then
I shall have one consolation, | have been a
successful teacher in a political kinder
garten We propose To the MEN OF the
United States engaged in farming this
great proposition: Under this law you may
diversity your industry, you need not ex-
haust the soil OF your farm by the endless
repetition of cereals and vegetables.
I'VE propose to build up the industry of
sugar growing and thus devote to that
great industry many tens of thousands OF
acres of the rich land of the United States
and take that land out OF competition with
the farm.
I'VE propose the same thing in the
sheep industry and send hack again to the
production of wooi and sheep and cattle the
tens of thousands of acres Of land that
under the ruinous policy of the Wilson bill
have been stripped of everything and
turned hack to competition with the other
farming lands of the country.
1--WE propose that the United States OF
America shall not be found disarmed and
poweriess in the face OF a foreign enemy
in case OF war. What do you think of Il
country with all it's boundless possibili-
ties Of sheep culture which produces less
than 300 900 900 pounds OF wool per
annum, when its consumption in time of
peace must be $50, 900 900 pounds? We
propose that this country shall put itself
upon a war footing, for the purpose of
maintaining itself. We propose that 1t
shall be in position to produce its own
sugar and it's own wool and it's own COM
modities of every character that God, i'll
His wisdom, has made t possible to pro-
duce on this contin ent."
Replying to the eulogy of the Democratic |
party delivered by Gen. Wheeler, of Ala |
bama, Mr.. Grosvenor arraigned it for all |
its past deeds, and closed by saying:
And it is the Democratic party here to- |
day represented by a heterogeneous mass |
of conflicting political opinions that prey |
have no policies for the future, no pride OF |
political ancestry, no hope of political pos |
terity, that stands
"A wandering mass Of shapeless flame,
painless comet and curse"
He congr atulated his "distngui she'd |
leader" that his name was to be asso- |
ciated with another act OF redemption. |
Lincoln's name, he said, had been for