The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-05
Senator Mantle Makes an Earnest
Speech for Higher Duties.
FARMERS ARE INDIGNANT
No Protective Tariff Can Endure
Which Does Not Guard the In
terests OF the Producer OF
Raw Material.


States supreme court against the anti
trust law.
Cullom. chairman of the interstate
commerce committee, resented this
statement, saying the pooling bill was
not being pressed with indecent haste.
and that such a statement was a mis-
representation of facts.
The senate met at IL a. m. Two
speeches were announced for the day.
one by Mantle on the wool schedule of
the tariff bill. another by Butler on his
Joint resolution to amend the constitu-
tion So as tn give congress power to im-
pose income taxes. Mantle was recog-
nized and addressed the senate for two
hours and said that there had been no
opportunity for presenting the wool
growers side of the contention in the
other branch Of congress for the reason
that owing To the brief time allowed
for debate the wool schedule had never
been reached in that body. He pre-
sented fully, and supported with nu-
merous tables and statistics the wool
growers side OF the controversy and
showed the enormous losses sustained
by wool growers In the depreciation Of
the value of sheep and wool during the
past six years.
He declared that by reason OF the
enormous importations In anticipation
of the enactment Of the tariff law. the
wool grower would not receive much
benefit from protective tariff for four
years to come. He asserted that when
ever a tariff law Is To be enacted the
powerful manufacturing interests of the
country are always on the ground
pushing their interests. while the farm
cis and wool growers are n scattered
class from the nature Of their vocations
and thus lacking effective organization.
hence had not received their Just share
Of protection. A great majority OF wool
growers of the country are protection
lists and republicans; most of them are
believers In the free coinage Of gold and
silver. but the question of protection
and free coinage having been divided In
the last campaign. the wool growers,
accepting the pledge contained i'm the
republican national platform in favor
Of ample protection for WOOL" and be-
lieving protection To be the paramount
issue, cast their votes In the doubtful
states for Mckinley and elected him.
The tarin bill, as II passed the house
and as now amended by the senate. ut
terly fails to meet the expectations of
the wool growers and Is regarded by
them as "A reputation Of the republican
pledge. The wool growers Of the coun-
try. he continued. are indignant over
this treatment and he warned the re-
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