Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-18
under the argument, will

remedy, unQer Lne argument, VIII
restore that consumption to its nor
NAL figure; and if there be any virtue
in protective tariffs, this will give to
every man bread enough, because a
sufficient tariff on wooden goods will
give him clothes enough.
Mr.. Butler. Mr.. President, the Sena-
tor from Utah said he was in favor OF
about $13,0OO,O00 export duty on
wheat at ten cents a bushel. If we
pay an export bounty of ten cents a
bushel, that viii raise the price of ev-
cry bushel of wheat, whether export.
ed or consumed at home, that much,
will it not9
Mr.. Cannon. Certainly it will.
Mr.. Butler. Then, for an sinvest-
ment of $13, 100000 which the gov
eminent would pay out in the shape
OF an export bounty, the wheat farm.
ers of the country would get their
protection of sixty or seventy million
dollars, would they not?
Mr.. Cannon. They would, if there
be any truth in the protective prin-
ciple.
Mr.. Butler. That would be very
good investment.
Mr.. Cannon. 1t would be very
good investment if it were to be made
in behalf of any manufacturing in
dustry or any trust in the United
States, but anything in behalf of the
farmer is looked upon with scorn and
is considered doubtful investment
by the Legislature OF the United
States.
Mr.. Sewell. Will the Senator allow
me to ask him where this $49,O00,O00
will come from? In what schedule
would our friend from Rhode Island
[Mr. AldrichJ put it? Where are you
going to raise it?
Mr.. Cannon. Mr. President, ac-
cording to the statements made con-
corning this bill by its friends, it will
raise sufficient surplus to enable the
Treasury of the United States to bear
this comparatively small charge. If
it shall not, under the ordinary ex-
penditures of the government, /
would recommend that congress limit
the amount of money paid for armor
plate to an honest figure, and the
amount of money paid out for other
expenditures to an economical basis,
and thereby the treasury will have
enough means with which to dis.
charge this debt of honor.
In addition, Mr.. President, it is a
very pc or argument, when you have
been robbing some man for years and
he asks you for justice, to say that
you propose to continue to rob him
Of more, and say that you do not
know where you are going to get the
money with which to restore that
which you have unrighteously taken.
1t is the very first duty of the con-
/ gress of the United States to provide
a bill which shall not only be honest
in it's present application, but which
shall pay back some portion Of that
which has been taken from the peck
cts of the toilers of this land. 1 be-
lieve we can cut the billion dollar ex-
penditures of this, country down to
5000, $1,000 for each congress, and
that will provide ample means with
which to discharge the obligations
raised by this amendment.
4 l have voted most cheerfully for
war-ships, for armament, for all kinds
of expenditures desired by the East.
ern Representatives and Senators in
congress, but, rather than to leave
the farmer of the United States much
longer without hope, would be will
ling that we should skip two or three
years in the ordering of warships.
+ would rather see both the Carnegie
and Bethlehem armor-plate works
closed down than to see a million
, FERNS sold out in the United States.
l think, Mr.. President, that if we
shall adopt this amendment, and il
the House Of Representatives shall
agree to it, the wise financiers con
. this body and the ways and mean'
means committee of the House O
Representatives will devise pla1
whereby, without taking anything
from the necessary appropriations 70,
ships of war aud other proper anG
sacred expenditures of the govern
ment. this little obligation to thu
farmers may be met.
If we do not adopt an amendment
of this character, or if we do not give
to the farmers of the United State
. some remedy, he will at the first OPP
portunity overturn thisttarie.
The distinguished Senator frou
Rhode Island made plea, which
= believe every man in this chamber
= echoed, as believe that the sam,
= plea is echoed FROM every industrial
], center of the United States, that w
should, SO far as possible, establish a
!, this time tariff which will endure
so that the country may not be agi
: tated by the shock of tariff revision
every two or three years. / hav
: talked with farmers in twenty state
!, of the union since last fall, and
: firmly believe that this tariff will NJ
= longer endure than the farmers Q
the United States can have a chanc
to revise it at the polls, if you do no
| rive them SOmo norton 0f IFS hane