The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-24
records OF. congressional debate laugh
AN AMERICAN BILL.

nor northern or southern II Is AIhell-
con through and through (Applause.),
opening the doors Of opportunity to ev-
| cry section and to every state.
MY friend from South Carolina quot
| ed line from German newspaper Of
Berlin which said that this bill was
slap in the face of Europe.
Your committee, gentlemen. without
fear or favor towards any foreign coun-
| try, has conscientiously undertaken to
make this bill a patriotic act of good
will toward the United States Of Ameri-
ca. Great applause.) The farmers of
| the United States. my brethren, are Gag
er, not for the tabled markets Of the
world. They are longing for the music
of the old factory bell, calling back the
| Idle millions TO deserted workshops of
the United States. applause on the
Republican side.) The nose of furnaces
that are now closed, and of looms that
| are now silent. will mean good deal
to the working people of the United
States. II will mean not less TO the
scattered households on distant prairies
where. for four years. industrious men
have seen the fruits of their toll waste
in the fields that produced them.
NOT WORTH A CONTINENTAL.
Gentlemen, you may talk Of silver and
gold until your friends in an undertone
begin 20 express their alarm. You may
argue about bonds and mortgages and
banks and capital and labor until the
wheels in your heads begin to revolve
like ve.ocipedes, but you will never get
back prosperity In the United States ur-
/, +; ,or- Ia
the working wages they lost four years
ago. (Applause)
I'VE are told in histories Of the United
States that in Boston during the revolu-
ton corn sold for $50 busheL II we
have political friends out in Nebraska
ard elsewhere who are anxious 10 do
something for us, why do they not do
something handsome like that laugh
ter), but the historian gravely adds that
it was paid in continental money, which
was not worth a continental. Uaughter)
High prices, of course-exactly as if you
should make a foot out Of six inches.
Instead Of standing before you, timid
traveller 70 the tomb, 1 should look up
in this stately presence, a gigantic Popu-
ulist statesman ten feet high 0aughter).
Gentlemen, the farmers Of the west do
not want prices doubled by the cyanide
process.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1.-THE theory Of the present law was
that we were not only to hold our own.
bue we were to go out with our free wool
clothes and divide with Bradford and
Komnitz the task of clothing the naked
inhabitants Of the earth. 0aughter).
''That was the theory. What has act
uaily happened may be stated in few
plain words and figures. in sheep driven
to the slaughterer, eighty million pounds
of American wool displaced in our own
markets, the importations of cloth null
tiplied by two, half the wooler mills idle |
and loced up and the other half on scam
wages and half time. the treasury of the |
United States tWenty-one million shy
Oaughter), our choice and select gentry |
disporting themselves in German, Eng |
lish and French clothes and the rest of Us
shining around in overcoats purchased |
during the Harrison administration. |
applause and great laughter)
A ROBBER TARIFF LAW.
He concluded as follows:
"The Wilson law still stands, and has |
for three years stood, on the statute |
books of the United States, without |
friend and without a name stealing the |
revenues from the treasury, wasting the |
resources Of the government, stealing |
away the earnings of American labor, |
taking from American farms the market |
Places Of the United States and of the |
world. The law stands on the statute |
book today and brings this congress to- |
gether in extraordinary session. Now, |
ordinary sessions Of congress do not at |
tract any public interest except cheerful |
expressions of satisfaction. sometimes, |
when the session is at an erd. The |
American people in ordinary times look |
to congress very much as the shipwreck- |
ed mariner looks to Providence in a |
storm, not particularly expecting any |
thing, but becaue everything else has |
been washed overheard. Gaughter)
Nor is this slim and feeble faith of the |
people in congress entirely to be reprov- |
ed: for in the world in which We i've, |
whatever we politicians may say on the |
stump, the most that is done for us-and |
who will pardon the fgure-we have got |
10 do for ourselves.
THE ADVANCE AGENT.
eff the American people ever get their |
prosperity back, 1t will come by their OWE |
individual enterprise and courage, not |
by edicts and proclamati tons, but by the |
honest and careful settlement OF condi- |
tons favorable TO industry and invest |
ment. If William Mckinley has been |
described as an advance agent, Fastening |
TO the seat of government If order to dis |
tribute prosperity from the east portico |
of the capitol in few wei chosen words |
the conception belongs TO the world of |
dreams and not TO the earth on which |
we live. No man bears any such relation |
to the prosperity OF a great people: but |
the mar may stand, and I reverently |
believe that William Mckinley does !
stand as the chosen instrument in the /
hand Of Providence. to restore 10 the /
United States public policy which has |
never yet failed 10 enable the American
people. by their own horest. hard work. /
10 secure out OF their own resources. a |
fair leve. Of prosperity. a reasonable re- |
ward for their labor and a rea sonable /
dividend on their investment" CAP !
plause on Republican sidel
At the conclusion OF his speech Mr.. /
Dolliver was besieged with congratula-
tons.
A VOICE FROM VUHGINNY.
Mr.. Swanson dem, Val a member |
Of the ways and means committee. COM /
menced mis- speech by referring 10 the |
gIes, political revolutions which have /
occurred il this country for the last /
twelve years al every national e.ecti0n. .
He claimed that Il did no; show any /.
hckleness on the part OF the people. but |
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