The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-08
Senator Butler Here to Con-
suit With Committee.
WILL SPEAK IN THE WEST
CoNNITTEE CALLED so FIND
OUT wHRRH TT Is AT.
MONEY AND moNoPoLlEs THE ISSUE

Tells Why He Did Not Vote on the Final Pass
az Of the Tariff BiIl--Fayors the New
School Law and Calls on Popu-
lists to Vote for Il.
Senator Butler is in the city. Ne came
Yesterday afternoon and win remain unit
a&ter the meeting of the Populist State
executive committee Wednesday
Then he will go to the Western part OF
the State to open the Populist campaign
! HE sefst appointment is at Wadesboro
where he speaks Thursday. From there
he goes to Newton { turday. Concord
Monday and Lenoir II sday.
"What will you speak bouty' l asked
the Senator yesterday sc n after his ar
rival. ~.
patriotism" was his laconie reply.
Then when I vehtured to suggest that
there were those who considered patriot
ism a lost virtue, he confessed that his
speech would, TO very great extent, out
line the future policy and platform of his
party. He could, however, say nothing
with regard to that now, he said, as the
Site executive committee would meet
Wednesday to consult with regard to this
very matter.
"Aftel that" he added, x can speak
with more certainty and perhaps have
something to say that will be of interest.
"Perhaps you would have no objection
10 telling me why you did nc vote against
the tariff billw 1 suggested.
HIS VOTE ON THE TARIFF
sIf you will look at the record" said the
Senator quickly, "you will see my vote
recorded, on every roll-call against every
Injustice. discrimination and iniquity in
the BILL A tariff bill is shaped and put in
the form in which it will become a law
when it is being voted on by sections. My
vote will be found reco -. on the side OF
the people on every ballot on every Sec
tion. The vote on the final passage of
the tariff is simply question of accept
ing it as a whole, after the battle has been
fought on each separate par' AT
ter having done everything cweI
to help improve the bill. / ref-aino IN
voting on the final passage of the me-
are for two reasons: First, because my
vote would not have affected the 1esuh
enc way or the other, the Repub cam
having secured the votes of F,sel 4 Il
NcHenry, of Louisiana, and of Sen Ni
Jones, of Nevada. Second, and the caI
trolling reason under these eiscumstap
I refrained from voting to emphasize il
fact that the tariff is not the real is ue
in American politics.
81 took this course to impress upon -.
American people the fact tso far as il
was for my voice and action to do so
IL 4. II nI
by other and greater evils than any and
all Of the worst tariff legislation that the
country has experienced, all combined
And further, to emphasize the all-impor-
tant fact that no tariff legislation, howev-
er wise and. just, can restore prosperity
In short, that with onr present financial
system, and with the present domination
Of trusts and monopolies, the country
cannot realize any appreciable difference
fer good or bad with the passage of
either a Republican or Democratic tariff
law. That is, that the effect Of any tariff
law, whether good or E.d, will be very
small in comparison to the crushing and
biighting evils of the gold standard and
monopoly rule.
PHE RIAL ISSUES.
"These are the real issues. Therefore
l desired to do everything In my powel
70 brush aside minor questions in order
that these vital issues might and should
be the overshadowing questions in the
next campaign. When they are made
the overshadowing issues large major
ity of the American people win vote on
the right side and then and then only
win prosperity be restored"
H.
that You consider that the money Ques
tion and monopoly question will be the
leading issues. Don't you think the
question of trusts will play an important
partw
"Why, certainly. Trusts are the issue
Trusts are the logical and inevitable re
suit of falling prices and monopoly OF
transportation. Trusts can never be de
stroyed by passing antitrust laws, any
more than you can destroy nut-grass by
cutting off the top and leaving the root
in the ground. Increase the amount o1
legal tender money, which will cause
prices to rise and stop rebates and dis
elimination in transportation and every
trust in existence viii vanish as fos
before the rising sun.
''This is the only remedy for trusts
Until this remedy is applied trusts will
spring up every day and night like mush
rooms. Trusts do not make the hare
times, but the causes that produce trusts
are the causes that make hard times
Trusts feed ON hard times. They canno
exist il prosperity is restored"
THE sCHaFoL ELECTION.
Then the coz rsatio1 md dritted t., to stat' tt
e,.l. ~ result tf next Tuesday,
S,sdIian Se though won15 III be. and whether or no
eieclIon Wouia .ae new law providing fo
w. 70 public schools.
Q rsa - / favor it. 1t seems to M
ou lr man must who believes il
sehools and the education of tn
I'VE always favored an increas
,t;on for public schools and
school term.
was a cardinal doctrine of til