The times., 1897-07-20

wares lc people WITHOUT money 10 Duy
the present output at existing prices.
He declared that it is not undemoeratic
TO raise a proper share of the revenue
by tax on wool, sugar, hides, lumber
and ether produces OF che South and West
but denounced the efforts of those who,
claiming to be Democrats, sought TO add
TO the enormities of the bill by taxes on
products OF their own sections and eX-
port bounties.
III game of grab all and steal all by
protective tariffs the South and West
would go to the wall, as the products of the
East Were such as the world had for sale,
while the products of the South and West
Were such as the world must buy.
The most hrdefens:he roicy, he declared,
was tuat of those who de nounced the bill as
infamous and ii hotbed for trusts and yet
declined TO vote for against It,
That q desiIe to emphasize the money
| question as the paramount issue would not
: justify such course, DIS even the free coin
8 ge of gold and silver would not restore
prosperity under laws that enabled the few
| 10 gather the fruits of the toll of the many
The Democratic party was great enough
! and good enough for every lover of the
country. and every friend Of silver, but
must never surrender cardinal principles
to make new converts
1t was fundamental among Democratic
! doctrines that tariff taxes could not be
laid for other than revenue purposes A
man VINO believed otherwise, whatever
| else he might be, was not a Democrat.
When this bill is passed your gold stand
ard Democratic allies will say that a cam
| paign won on the money question has been
converted into a feast of tariffdebauehery
Mr.. Lanham Of Texas began to discuss
| the bill from the standpoint of its being
| an aggravated continuance OF war tax
! alton" and this, too, in the dawn OF
/ the twentieth century. The word greed
WAS sufficient commentary on the whole
! bill; It perrneoted it. 1T may be- he
said, that IN certain localities temporary
+, and sporadic prosperity will ensue, special
interests may be protected, but that the
masses be made prosperous through
its conditions and operations is, 70 my
! mind a logical impossibility.''
/ He was not pessirnist, nor an alarmist.
but he believed that very evil consequences
would follow Il law like this, which meant
| more labor for the laborer and less FOR the
! capitalists. The Israelites might be ex
! pected to revolt against the task of making
! bricks Without straw. Mathematically,
! scarce money plus high taxes could never
! equal prosperity. (Applause.l Mr. Ian
| ham said that he believed the extra ses-
sion was called to distract the public
| attention from the considerati tiou of the
| financial question. (ippIause.l. }. In a trib-
/ ute to the power of the press he said that
/ one of the most remarkable things OF late.
! days was that all Of the press had been
| forced TO pay tribute to the force. power
/ and genius of the late matchless leader or
/ the Democracy. (Applause)
Mr. Fleming OF Georgia argued that
! tax upon Imports was tax on exports,
| because every obstacle to the incoming
! stream must be an obstacle to the out
flowing stream. Mir Fleming then took
up and discussed statistically the fact
| that one Of the misfortunes of the sit
uation was that agriculture was pay
! ing trihute TO manufactures. He also
| traced the gradual increase in the tariff
eNactions from the general average of :
| per cent in 1889 until the present Of
/ about 81 per cent. He was proud of
course, Of the Increase in the manufac-
( lures OF the country, but he could not
/ forget that they all rested on the sub
/ structure OF agriculture, and that agri-
ct.lUure appeared TO he suffering most
/ Mr.. Fleming attacked the bill from the
! point OF view that one OF the Inherent
defects of every tariff bin W as its classistn
and secdonalism. He also considered a
! great many Of the evils which flowed
! from that fatal defect
Mr. Handy of Delaware made one Of the
! brightest speeches of the day He said
/ that the campaign was not fought on the
/ need of revision Of the tariff That
I victory, too, it must he remembered, was
/ secured largely by the gold Democrats
| The gold Democrats We're not tariff men:
| they stood for tariff reform or free trade
! The Republican party had now, however
! betrayed their allies by giving them a
high tariff Again there was no popular
demand for new tariff laws This bin de-
| mands its own revision, and so the ooun-
| try must suffer until it is changed under
the Administration OF the Young Ne
brasEan Land is the source of wealth.
labor, working on land develops it: and
4 not hing can bring prosperity except that
/ which keeps labor IN production Far
| from doing this, the bill evidenced the
/ reyelry Of corporate power 1t was pitv
that Wiliam Shakespeare did not know
ofthe Dingley bill He would have enBrner-
| ated 1t among the things that could not
he improved daughteD. He described the
Republican method of adiouruinzs three
days at time as the perfection eflegisIa-
tion. The chaplain said PRAYERS: the Jour
nal was read; Mr. Dingley moved TO adj
iourn; Mr.. Simpson Of Kansas protested,
and the days work was done Cap
piauseD
Mr. Kelley Of South Dakota protested
against the duty of 1 1-2 cents q pound
on lead ore, which meant an ad vaIorerD
rate of 15O per cent; on pig lead the
duty was SO per cent. All this was an
tagonistie 10 the wages and other in
tertsts Of the miners The whole thing.
he said, was evidently done in the in
terest OF the GugenheiIner mills of Mexico
Mr.. Kelley warmly defended the PEOPLES
party and himself from the charge made
10y one Of the speakers that those be
failed to vote against the bill were moral
towards
Mr.. Grosvenor replied to this argument
by saying that the lead tariffs were
suggested by Populist Senator's
Mr.. J. Hamilton Lewis asked Mr. GTps-
venor if it was true that the lead trust
would clear something like $4,000, 600
Oh the deal.
Mr.. Grosvenor-I Go not know and / do
not care. (Laughter)
Mr. Lewis--A remark whichis clara cter-
istic and pioverhial of the party to which
the gentleman from Ohio belongs nauch-
ter and applause)
At p. m the House took a recess until
p. m.
The argument of the Dernucratic marty,