Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-02
SENATOR MILLS HEARD FROM.
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In speech on the tariff last week
Senator Mills spoke on the general
features of the bill.
Give months, he said, the Con.
grcssional committees had sought to
adjust and readjust again the tariff
law i'll the interest of the monstrous
trust fund which this bill is intended
to raise. He came, he said, to speak
for the forgotten man, the taxpayer
from whose labor and sweat was to be
wrung, by legislative rapine, this vast
fund for distribution among favored
beneficiaries. Here was bill of con-
fiscation, he declared, proposing to
take the property of those who were
not favorites, the forgotten man. who
is laboring in the streets and fields,
and yet when an explanation was
asked for the exorbitant rates of
this bill, no answer was given save
what are you going to do about it%
"Senator Mills warned those on the
other side of the chambar to remem-
ber that Biblical injunction, For all
these things God will bring you unto
Judgment
"The process of framing this bill
proceeded against the fundamental
principles of the Anglo-Saxon doctrine,
that every man shall have a hearing.
But there was tribunal whose doors
always stood open, and before that
tribunal the projectors of this bill
would be summoned. In 1890 a
similar act had fallen like the bubonic
plague on the country and the tribunal
OF the people had put the Republican
party in quarantine.
Turning to the Democratic Sena-
tors who had voted yea for duty on
cotton, Senator Mills showed how the
delegations from Georgia, South
Carolina and Utah had supported un-
equivocal declarations in national con-
ventions against protective tariff.
"Senator Mills turned his attention
to the daughters of millionaires,
fatted like heifers,' and sent abroad
in quest of titles. When the vast
fortunes had been built up by unjust
taxation, then, he said, these daughters
were put on the market, hawked and
peddled, sold for princesses and
duchesses and countesses and mar
chionesses and other "cesses," and
here was Congress legislating the
money to pay for these trips abroad.
If the American people accepted this
condition, then they were not worthy
of self-government.
"Senator Mills gave table show
ing the fortunes of few individuals,
who where, he said, to receive the
benefits of this bill.
"After reviewing many States and
national Democratic platforms, Sena-
tor Mills declared that a man could
not be q Democrat who did not sup
port the doctrine that tariff must be
limited to revenue only. But new
doctrine of democracy was now pro-
claimed, inviting Democratic Sena-
tors into the camp Of the enemy to sing
hosannahs to the monstrous bounties
of this bill. But fortunately, the
Senator said, there were no 'Elishas'
here to smite the Democrats with
blindness.
"Senator Mills closed with an
ominous prediction that the abandon
ment OF Democratic simplicity would
bring forth, out of the dark, some
historian to write a chapter on the
decline, and fall of the great Ameri-
can republic"