The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-03-25

Applause on Republican side. On the
very day when the millionaires of the
Rocky mountains were riding in their
carriages TO the voting places to give in
Their ballots for the poor mans money
the farmers of the Mississippi valley,
weary and burdened under the weight
of four miserable years, walked in the
rain to the polling place and cast their
ballots for the integrity Of American
business and the tariff policy of 1890.
[Applause on Republican side.l
"They did not have to go to Chicago
to find out what the issue was, They
remembered that curious spectacle in
this house which most of us here pres.
ent saw, when Prof. Wilson had fin,
ished his speech on the tariff law
which, for want of competition, will
probably always bear his name, laugh.
ter and young Democratic champion
of free trade from our western country,
who has since monopolized nearly the
entire visible supply of Democratic en-.
thusiasm, plunged down the aisle amid
the enthusiastic yells of his associates,
lifted the exhausted stateman to his
shoulders and bore him kicking and
protesting to the seclusion of the cloak.
room, so that few months afterwards
when the same gallant young leader
came among our people and beamed
benevolently upon them from the plat.
form of his advertising car Offering
them new land untried remedies for
their troubles, warranted to kill or
! cure, God only knows which, the farm.
ers of the middle west, again illustrated
their wisdom and sagacity by being
able, without losing sight of the para
mount issue, to perceive the somewhat
| diminished figure of Prof. Wilson still
| kicking and protesting, but still on the
| boy orators back.
"Mr. Chairman, | like this bill be.
| cause it is neither eastern nor western
| nor northern nor southern. 1t is Amer.
ican through and through (applause),
opening the doors of opportunity to
every section and to every state. My
| friend from South Carolina quoted q
| line from German newspaper of Ber.
lin, saying that this bill was slap in
the face of Europe.
"Your committee, gentlemen, with.
out fear or favor toward any foreign
| country, has cOnscientiously undertaken
| to make this bill patriotic act of good
will toward the United States of Amer.
;ca. [Great applause.
1.-The farmers of the United States,
my brethren, are eager, 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 Republican side.
"The theory of the present law was
| that we were not only to hold our own
but we were to go out with our free
wool cloth and divide with Bradford
and Komnitz the task of clothing the
naked inhabitants of the earth. Laugh.
| ter. That was the theory. What has
actually happened may be stated in a
few plain words and figures; 10000, 900
sheep driven TO the slaughter, 80, 200, 900
| pounds of American wool displaced in
our own market, the importation of
cloth multiplied by two, half of the
woolen mills idle and locked up and the
other half on scant wages and short
| time. The treasury of the United
States S2l, 900, 900 shy (laughter) our
choice and select gentry disporting
themselves in German, English and
| French clothes. and the rest of us
shining around in overcoats purchased
during Harrison's administration. Ap.
plause and great laughter.
"If William Mckinley has been de-
scribed as an advance agent, Fastening
to the seat of government in order to
distribute prosperity from the east por-
tico of the capitol in few well 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 great peo-
| pie but the man may stand, and rev.
erently believe that William Mckinley
does stand, as the chosen instrument in
the hand of providence, to restore to
! the United States public policy which
has never yet failed to enable the
American people, by their own honest
hard work, to secure, out of their own
resources, fair level of prosperity, a
reasonable reward for their labor and q
reasonable dividend on their invest.
ment." Applause on Republican
side.
Mr.. Swanson, Dem member of the
ways and means committee, argued that
depressed conditions of the manufact-
uring industries had not resulted from
foreign competition, but that the home
manufacturer had lost his market not
because the foreigner had taken it, but
because his customers were too poor to
make purchases that relief could not
come to the manufacturer until the
price of wheat, corn, oats, tobacco and
Of other products increased.
He insisted that the low price of these
resulted from the appreciation of gold,
which would continue so long as silver
was demonetiZed. He said that the
committee had left the impression that
the sugar trust only received differ
ential of one eighth of cent per pound
but asserted that this was not true, anC
that the differential in favor of the
trust ranged from one-fourth to seven.
eighths of cent per pound.
i conclusion he characterized thu
bill as the most exorbitant in its exac
tions, the most prohibitory in its char
acter and the most iniquitous evel
sought to be enacted in this country.
Mr.. Cochran dem, Mo- while de
nouncing the Republican policies pro
duced burst of applause on the Demo
cratic side by referring to Mr., Cleve
land as that great Republican leader
This bill, he argued, was an effort Il
evade the real issue before the country
Mr. Howard rep, Ala.) delivered
speech reeking with denunciation o
, capital and charges Of corruption ant
, jobbery against all branches of the gov
ernment. Mr.. Sperry (Rep., Conn.
in the course of his speech, presented
( petition from the president and facult
of Yale college in favor of placing book
on the free list. The other speaker
) were Messrs. Adamson Dem, Ga.
Clardy (Dem., Ky), and Kelly Pop
! S. d..
A POPULlST DEMAND.