Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-24

gone ut home, he has to transport h IB |
wool 10 thy English and German and
French markets and pay 10 per cent cost
TO compsfe with the foreign woods in |
their own markets. Is that the policy !
which is commended to us? Thsy say,
No; that will not do. You nauet put
a duty on the wooen goods OF the Briton
and the Frsnchman ana every other. y
What for? To compensate she manu-
| facturer for what he has advanced to
| the wool grower OF course you will
| have 10 do il. and put back in his
| pocket the "A cents that be expended
| for tie duty on his pounds OF wool.
| Now. then, you leave him exactly as he
| was at tho beginning. Then what have
4 you got TO dog To put him on equal
forms with the wonlgrower. you have to
| protect him to the extent OF IL cents
| pound. There are two taxes. double
taxes. And it ia SO as you go on with
| the Bchedule, as all know who have
| Investigated the subject. and nnne
know it better than the two distin.
| guished Senators who are SO ably repre-.
| senting our party in this controversy
| iMr. Vest and Mr. Jones of Arkaneaaj. A
| Every step we advanca toward the
finished product we have to increase
taxation.
Mr.. Gray. Who compensates the for
gotten man?
4 Mr.. hlilla Nobody cumpensates him,
and nobody cares for him but Demo-
Gratis. Frotectionists tell him he is
getting rich when he is poor. They tell
him that the advance agent of pros.
perity is coming on horseback, Eut he
never appears. They tell him when he
is plundered with taxation that he is
better oil than any other people 10 tho
world. But he is forgotten, badly for
gotten.
MIR. Mills quoted literally from the
\ platforms of the Democratic party to
show its consistent pusition with rs
spect TO the protective tariff. From
1876 to 1860 theae platforms favored
progressive free trahe." From 1876
! to the present time they declared in
favor Of a tariff for revenue only. " lie
also quoted from numerous State Demo-
cratic platforms Of recent years, to show
that they also were uniformly in favor
of "a tariff for revenue only" In con
Guiding his admirable speech Senator
Mills said:
We are casting our pearls away faster
than our enemies can gather them. We
; 1 u
come to US from massachusetts, and
Virginia that our government is for free
men, for the preservation OF our natural
rights, for the security Of our happiness
and we'll heing, and not for the profit of
, any one man, or family, or class of
| men. Our ship is driving upon the
rocks aud unless We seize the helm and
change it's course, the historian will
+ emerge from the darkness to write the
IN melancholy pages of the decline and
fall uf the great American Republic.
! Further extracts from this trenchant
speech follow:
Look at your tax on iron ore one raw
material; your tax on coal, another. 1t
takes coal and iron ore to make pig
8 iron. You tax pig iron. There are
three faxes on one prnduct. When tbs
. pig iron is converted into steel, bar
steel or any other, it is taxed again.
There arc four taxes When the bar
s steel is converted into cutlery it 10 taxed
again, aud there are five taxes-taxes
i piled on top nf each other like Ossa
!, upon Pelion-all to be paid by the for
gotten man.
i Then what does it all amount to? II
amounts to keeping our manufactures
= from going into the world. 1t keeps u,
Q from the employment of our labor to
II the best advantage. 1t denies work Il
It every laborer in this country who il
q out of employment, because il is fact
J. beyond question that with free trade
10 with all imports on the free list, witt
70 this government supported by taxatior
'r on wealth--as it ought to be, like tn,
n State government--or by tho tax aloni
re on the last finished product that goe
~ into consumption, and that light one.
=; We could manufacture the four to iivl
IN hundred million dollars worth of cottoI
10 goods that Great britain is shipping t.
e, the world, fur she shows by her owt
ID statsticians that we have cheaper labo
o. and better machinery. We have tn
vi cotton ut home and we 60 not have i
N pay any cost OF transportation to Grea
10 britain on IL.
OF Tne two-tbird5 of our crop of ., 600,
w 600 bales could he manufactured n
home and give employment to thre
~ times az many people as we employ j
a. manufacturing one third OF it at home
40 Would they not be more prosperous
nd Would they not make more money
iy Would they not have more wants, an
IL would They not want more bread
TO Would they not give a higher price fl
by wheat? Would they nat, by thu il
no creased demand for broad, raise III
bJiIG1'd tN'l "huht w tiD lul llClb vi ~
ers country? Would tGey not cat MOI
'Pt meat? Would there not bn an increase
M demand for that meat? Would it n
ow increase the price of meat? Would NJ
OF tho wealth made by the labor OF OF
ne people distribute itsh!f all over oil
IL country, in the pockets of all o'
hg people, by II natural God given Law
na Unquestionably it would. All agr
not cultural products would rise in vau
tell All manufactured products and otbe
the now raised by law wou!d fail to ii
'na level of the worlds markets, al
ID wealth created by labor would rema
around the homes of the laborer
4 Il x * 4; Il
sr Everybody knows that the increas
rnt rates in this bill do not maize up
arr difference III labor cost, which
a n cheaper in this country than unywhe
! if else. Everybody knows that there a
ase no infant industries in this cnuntr
saa when our product was 80, 372, 600, 0U0
1880 anu over ten billions to-day: as
+b. said the other day, leaving Engla
to out, almost equal to the entire produt
,,vs Of the balance of the world, on accou
IN of machinery and the inventive geni
NO. of n frse people standing by their natul
2o rights and believing that their high,
On material development comes fro
=, ireeGom, anu that, standing fast by
az and defcnding it on ali occasions, II