The herald., 1897-03-24

der the weight of four miserable years
walked in the rain to the polling places
ard cast their ballots for the integrity OF
American business and the tariff policy
of 1890 applause on the Republican
side.)
THE appeal made to them was
masterpiece of shiftless and unscrupu-
| lous politics. No such effort was ever be-
fore made to capture the passions and
prejudices of burdened and troubled
men. But the farmers of the Mississippi
valley again vindicated the credit OF
the American farmer by choosing rather
to suffer affiction With the people that
pay their bills than endure the acVan-
tages of IL to l." Oaughter)
Continuiug he said: I'VE are told In
the histories of the United States that in
Boston during the revolution corn sold
for 81 so a bushel. II we have political
friends out in Nebraska and elsewhere
who are anxious to do something Tor US,
why do they not 90 something handsome
like that? Gaughter) But the his
torian gravely adds that it was paid Tor
in continental money, which. was not
worth a continental cent. Laughter.
High prices, of course. exactly as II you
should make foot out of six inches. In
stead of standing before, tinid traveller
to the tomb, | should look up in this
stately presence, a gigantic Popuilst
statesman ten feet high. daughter)
Gentlemen, the farmers of the west
do not want prices doubled by the cya-
ni6e process The theory of the present
law was that we were not only to hold
our own, but were to so out with our
free wool clothes ard divide with Brad
ford and Komnitz the task of clothing
the naked inhabitants of the earth.
daughter.)
That was the theory. What has
actually happened may be stated in 4
few words and figures: Ten million sheep
driven to the slaughter sc, 000, 900 pounds
of wool displaced in our own market,
the importation of cloth multiplied by
two, half the woolen mills idle and
locked up, the other half on scant wages
and half time; the treasury of the Unit
ed States $21 100000 shy daughter; our
choice and select gentry disporting
themselves in German, English and
French clothes and the rest of us shinn-
ing around in overcoats purchased dur
ing HariSons. administration" (Ap-
plause aud laughter)
He concluded as follows: '1f the
American people ever get their pros
perity back, it will come by their own
individual enterprise and courage. not
by edicts and proclamations, but by the
honest and careful settlement of con-
dilions favorable to industry and invest
ment. IL William Mckinley had been
described as an advance agent Fastening
to the seat of government in order to
distribute prosperity from the east porti-
co of the capitol in a few we'll chosen
words, the conception belongs to the
world of dreams and to the earth on
which We live. No man bears any such
reputation to the prosperity of the agri-
cultural people, but the man may stand
and l reverently believe William Nc
Kinley does stand. as the chosen instru
mert in the hand of Providence. to re-
store to the United States public policy
which has never yet failed to enable
the American people by their own honest.
hard work TO secure out of their own
resources a fair level of prosperity,
reasonable reward for their labor and
a reasonable dividend on their invest
ment," applause on Republican side)
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Dolliver was beseiged with congratula
tions
Swanson of Virginia, Democrat, a
member of the ways and means commit
tee, followed. He referred to the great
political revolutions which have oc-
CURED in this country for the last twelve
years at every national election. He
claimed it did not show any fickleness
on the the part of the people, but was
an honest effort on their part to obtain
the prosperity they sought. He Insisted
that the present evils could not have
arisen from deficient revenue, nor from
the impaired credit of the government.
He argued that the home manufacturer
had lost his market, not that the for
eigners had taken it, but because his
customers were too poor to make pur-
chases; that relief could not come TO
the manufacturer until the price of
wheat, corn. oats, tobacco and other
products increased. He insisted that
the low prices of these resulted from the
apprecia tion of gold, which would con-
tinue so long as silver was demonetized.
Cochran of Missouri, Democratic, the
last speaker of the day while denouno-
ing the Republican policies produced a
burst of applause on the Democratic
side by referring to Mr. Cleveland as
that great Republican leader" This
bill. he argued, was an effort to evade the
real issue before the country.
Representative Evans of Kentucky to-
day introduced a resolution requesting
the president to give notice of the desire
of the United States to terminate at the
end of twelve months the existing COM
mercial reciprocity convention with the
Hawaiian republic.
At o'clock the house, under the order,
took a recess until s O'Clock.
THE NIGHT SESSION.
The night session was given over to
set speeches There were not over forty
members on the floor, but the galleries
were crowded to the doors.
Howard of Alabama, Populist. dellv-
cred a speech reeking with denuncia-
tions of capital and charges of corrup-
ton and jobbery against all branches of
the government.
Sperry of Connecticut Republican, in
the course Of his speech. presented a
petition from the president and faculty
of Yale college in favor of placing books
on the free list The other speakers
were Messrs. Adamson of George Dem
ocrat: Clardy of Kentucky, Democrat,
and Kelly of South Dakota. Populist.
At 1890 the house adjourned.
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