Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-17

tariff?
Mr.. Gray. You can not levy reys-
nus tariff on any article that comes
into this country without raising the
price to the consumer.
Mr.. Stewart, Certainly.
Mr. Gray. OF course that is true;
but because it is, thore is no reason
why, for the sake of protection. you
revenue. II one justifies the other,
will hear the Senator some time when
he gets off the free-silver question and
can devote a little time to It. | do not
believe in tariff for revenue with iu-
cidental protection any more than be-
lieve in virtue aud incidental prostitu.
tion.
Mr.. ,Hoar. Does the Senator believe
in either OF those things?
Mt Gray. No, sir; / do not. can
understand that revenue tariff may
result, as the tariff 90 sugar, the great
suits, % advantage to the sugar growers.
There is no reason why we should dis.
card that great revenue producer from
the tariff list because of the incidental
advantage. Suppose you were to put
ReoitS ohiibihEs al hbNoiutc
public necessity. near the land of my
friend the Senator from Massachusetts,.
There is no doubt he would derive an
incidental advantage from the increase
in the value of the land he holds by the
erection OF this great public imprnve-
inent. The building would be put there
for the sake of the public; it would not
he put there for the cake of improving
the land OF the Senator from Massa.
chusetts but will not refuse TO put it
there because 1T happens in that way 10
work to his advantage.
1t is, only by preferring the interest
of class TO the interest of the whole
people that you can defend the protect
i've tariff, and j believe 10 those wise
and pregnant words OF Mr.. Gladstone,
which i read aone years ago on the
floor OF the Senate. and are as true now
as they were when they we're uttered in
his address to the voters of Midlothian.
He said:
Now is the time tor every true friend
of this country to remind the masses
that they owe their present political
elevation to no principles less broad
and noble than these: Love of liberty
for all, without distinction of class,
Greco or country; and resolute prefer.
ence for the interests of the whole peo.
pie to ans interests of narrowar scope. :"
try, 10 far as /, am able to under
stand 1t. to place myself upon that
broad and noble declaration, and when
i can discover that the interests of a
whole people are to be subordinated to
the interests of class, and think that
! perceive it,, then must refuse to
lend the sanction OF my voice or vote 10
such a proposition.
Mr.. President, the gifts of bounti.
ful Providence TO the people Of the
world were not meant to be segregated
or confined for the benefit of few and
TO be made difficult of access to the
mapy by artificial means.
Mr.. Hoar. desire to ask the Sena-
tor from Delaware a question ip regard
to the quotation from Mr.. Gladstone
which he read where, il understood
him. Mr.. Gladstone said that the peo-
pie ought to fe governed by the in.
terest of entlre humanity, and not the
interests of few. or something Of that
kind. Is that in the same letter or
speech in which he says, England
ought not to join In any proposition for
| tine restoration of silver to its place at
| coinage, because England is creditor
| hutibus uuu ~ tuo puTGtub VI Iub UbDIOT
nations of the world should constantly
be Increased, it would only be benefit
to us!''
Mr.. Gray. I will leave the Senator
from Massachusetts and Mr.. Gladstone
TO settle that between them. | admire
the genius and the eloquence of my
friend the Senator from Massachusetts
but he can not, by that rather imperti.
nent intrusion into my speech, keep me
from giving my need of homage and
praise to the noble sentiment uttered
by that great English statesman. What
ever he may have said at other times
and On other occasions and in regard TO
different lines of thought, the Senator
from MASSACHUSETTS, can in his own
time and in bis own way produce and
comment upon it.
| say that as far as am concerned
try to stand upon that proposition.
may fail to do it. / may fail to appre.
ciate fully and widely and highly, per-
haps, the situation in which We find
ourselyee now, but it Is because think
| hate found that there is in the propn.
sition of protection throughout the
pending hilh and especially in the
schedule AZ TO which we are now con
corning ourselves, a subordination oil
the interests of the peopleto the in.
terests Of the few that have interested
myself as much as have and have tres
nassed upon the patience of the Senate
so long.
MIR, President, the commercial activi.
ties Of a great and free people ought
not to be trammelled without an excuse
and without an explanation that can be
given reasonably to reasonable man.
The great reproducing resources
OF the world ought to be omen every.
where to the eudeavor of man, ana
every legislative obstruction ought tc
he removed. Suppose the Canadian
border had been brought down $50 oi
200 miles, paralleling it's present border.
suppose the advocates of protection
would then think it Just as suicidal,
just rs dangerous, to trade with tht
people who live in that belt as they
now think it is TO trade with the peo
pie of Canada, aud yet we all know that
factor OF enormous magnitude in tht
prosperity Of this people is the perfect
freedom of trade that reigns and hal
sway from ocean to ocean and from the
lakea TO the gulf.
Ii II is wrong economically to trad'
J with Canada, il We are to be injured
by it, then il is wrong for the people o
Maryland and Delaware and Virgini,
to trade with Massachusetts, ami New
York and New Hampshire, for the salnt
reason exactly applies; and KNOWN!
that the prosperity of this great coun
} try, which is the largest cDntiguou.
area over which free trade relpna in th,