Evening star., 1897-03-23

the adv vantage at nearly every turn. Be
sides, the pi ioducer of raw material Is not
consulted: he has no voice in determining
the price he is to receive for his product.
or the price he is to pay for the product of
others. He takes his cotton, wheat or wool
to market and the price is fixed by others.
and he has cnly the choice Of selling or
cartins his produce back home. When he
goes into the store to make a purchase the
price is named, which he must pay or go
without
He is absolutely in the clutches Of his
despoilers. who take his substance and re-
turn him the least remuneration possible
All receive certain profit for their labor.
which must be paid before the producer
can claim anything for his own effort
Take, for instance, the cotton planter. In
majority of cases the entire family, men.
women and children, work in the hot sun
to make the cotton crop. Their toll is al
nest unremitting, and yet there is no as
surance that it will be rewarded. Let US
follow bale of cotton in its usual course
First the cost Of bagging, ties and ginning
must be met, after which it Is placed upon
the market. The buyer gets his per cent,
the wegher his, the railroad it's toll. the
warehouse its charges, the cotton broker
his commission, and at last, after drayage
and other charges are met, 1t reaches the
manufacturer. He must have a profit. his
broker commission. the wholesaler
profit. the retailer another profit, and when
the manufactured cloth reaches the home
OF the cotton planter he finds. by a careful
investigation that the price of his raw
cotton was established by a minute calcu-
latiop of what the manufactured article
would sell fer after profit or commission
had been given all the numberous agents.
including insurance companies and money
lenders. through whose hands the raw ma
ter.al or manufactured product had passed.
In my judgment an industry placed in this
situation is more deserving the care OF the
government than any other"
Mr.. McLaurins demand for a duty on
80 f0,, hyyt VI. 9
heartily applauded by several of the demo-
cratic members from the cotton belt.
While Mr.. McLaurin was contrasting the
vast wealth of the manufacturing states OF
the east with the poverty OF the farming
states of the south, Mr.. Linney (N.CO ask
ed him what was to hinder the people of
the Caroiinas from building factories and
sharing in the spoils instead of 'cussins'
their more enterprising rivals.
4 Tilt With MIR. McLaurin.
THE state of affairs produced by the ex-
istence of the republicans and populists in
the Carolinas. replied Mr. McLaurin, "pre
vents the investment of capital"
rs not free raw material the pet doc
trine of the democracy? asked Mr.. Linney.
1T is the pet doctrine responded Mr..
McLaurin with emphasis ..of the democ-
racy represented by Cleveland and Carlisle
and those who have prostituted the name of
democracy and who were your aids and
allies in the last campaign
Fully three-fourths of the democrats on
the floor applauded this statement.
Did not VIM. j. Bryan vote for free
wool?
''Wm. J. Bryan retorted MIR. McLaurin,
was responsible for his vote to his con-
stituents and John F. McLaurin is re-
sponsible to his
Mr. Delivers Speech.
Mr. Dollver Uowa). a member of the
ways and means committee who was the
next speaker. drew the instant attention of
the members and the spectators in the gal
leries. Mr. Dollver is one Of the most pol
ished orators of the House. and his glow
ing words have often electrified the mem
bers and the people In the galleries
Mr.. Dolliver beG@n by saying that ne pro-
Fcsed to discuss some of the reasons why
he believed the pending bill would meet the
approval OF the American people. He liked
II, hrst, because, for the first time since
the First Congress, protective tariff bill
had the candor TO state its purpose in it's
title GAat fact marked the permanent
asc"ndancy of protection in this country
With graphic words he described how the
country had grown poor under the present
law, how agriculture had languished and
merchants had bought themselves poor at
the bargain counters of Europe. and com
mercc had passed by the closed doors of
our factories to seek cheap goods at the
fisrth=rmoSf ends OF the earth.
Mr.. DolllNcr'S speech aroused the repub-
Leans to u whirlwind of enthusiasm and as
he proceeded almost every sentence was
I,unct.iated with applause