Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-18

ppon with scorn and is considered doubtful investment by the legislature 5f the United States.
 III addition. Mr President. it is very poor argument, when yon have been robbing some man for years and Inc asks you for justice, to say thas ven propose to continue to rob him of more and say that you do not know where you are going to get flies money with which to restore that which you have unrighteously taken. It is the very first. duty -ef the congress of the United btates to provide q till which shall not Ionly be honest in it's present arpliea-E tion, but which shall pay back some portion of that which has been taken from the pockets of the toilers of this land
 have talked with the farmers in 20 states of the Union since last fall. and I firmly believe that this tariff will no longer endure than until the farmers of the United States can have U chance to revise 1t at the polls. if you do not give to them some portion of it's benefits.
 The farmer is bending beneath a bur den which he cannot carry longer. He has been the backbone of tie integrity of the United States, but there comes in l the place of the freeSand independent farmer of this country q race of tenant " to reap servilely where he sowed nobly, men who receive their opinions from others instead of giving their own independene voice at the polls and in all tlseir declarations to their fellow men. -sA
 The senate of the United States can afford to be absolutely just. l believe the amendment should be adopted.
 Mir. Chandler-May Task the senator from Utah question?
 MT. Cannon-Certainly.
 MT. Chandler-I heard the senator speak of robbery little while ago with reference to the tariff Does the senator mean that the farmer has been robbed all these years by the tariff? Is Chat the senator's argument?
 Mr. Cannon Yes. sir, decidedly.
 MT. Chandler-When did the senator first think that the American tariff sys- tenn 5wass robbery of the. farmer?
 MT. Cannon-Just so soon as the sen- ator gave sufficient attention to the sub ject to understand the truth of it. I ad- vocated Republican tariffs as earnestly and as faithfully in my humble way as the senator from New Hampshire, and I believed exactly what I taught
 Bnt l am not disposed any longer to advocate q system by which one portion of the population is taxed for the benefit of another portion of the population. think that it is unfair to cherish only one class, and that the class which has already the most power Of self protee= tion. If the senator from New uanlp- shire will go acrogsthe p1ains of -Katnsas, as 1 have gone, and across the plains of Nebraska, 1 believe in him sufficiently to think he will come back and say that this bill is robbery Of the American farmer
 I have stated that I am in favor of U protective tariff system. I stated that in the guilelessness of my soul, being Republican, l went out and advocated the Republican idea of protective tar if. never was brought quite so close to responsibility concerning it before as 1 am today. Heretofore have discussed it on the stump, advocating it in gener- al terms. but as soon US l am confronted with responsibility which obliges me to look more closely into its application to all the people 1 am simply discharging my duty when I seek to amend this measure so that it shall be honest to all
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