The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-03-26

ished his spe- / on the tariff law
which. for wa. OF Ompetltlon- VIII
probably alvay lear Is name. Ilaugh-
teri ana youi Dem cratic champion
of tree trade from our western country,
who has since mOnOpOllZed nearly the
entire visible supply or Democratic en-
thusiasm. plunged down the aisle amid
the enthusiastic yells of his associates,
lifted the exhausted staJeman to has
shOuldess and bore him kicking and
protesting TO the secluslOn OF the cloak
room. so that few months afterwards
when the same gallant young leader
came among our people and beamed
benevOlenUly upon them from the plat
form of his advertising car offering
them new fand 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 SagaClty by being
able, without losing sight OF the para
mount issue. to perceive the somewhat
diminished figure of Prof. Wilson stllI
kicking and protesting, but still on the
boy orators back
s.Mr. Chairman, l like this bill be-
cause 1t is neither eastern nor western
nor northern nor southern. 1t Is Amer
lean through and through (applause),
opening the doors of opportunity to
every section and 70 every state. My
friend from South Carolina quoted
line from a German newspaper of Ber-
lin, saying that this bill was slap III
the face of Europe.
s'Your committee, gentlemen, with
ont fear or favor toward any foreign
country. has cOnScIentIOusly undertakeu
TO make this bill patriotic act OF good
will toward the United States OF Amer
2ca. Great applause
THE farmers of the United States,
for fnp
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
few plain words and figures; lO,OOO.OOO
sheep driven TO the slaughter, SO.OOO,OOO
pounds of American wool displaced III
our own market, the importation of
cloth multiplied by two, half of the
wooden mills idle and locked up and the
other half on sCant wages and short
time The treasury of the United
States S2I 100000 shy Qaughter) our
choice and select gentry disporting
themselves III German. English and
French clothes. and the rest OF Us
shining around in OvercOats purchased
during HarrisOn's administration. [Ap-
plauSe and great laughter
III William Mckinley has been de-
scribed as an advance agent, Fastening
to the seat of government in order 70
distribute prosperity from the east pOr-
ticO of the capitol III a few we'll 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 a 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 a public policy which
has never vet failed TO enable the
American people. by their own honest
hard work, to secure, out of their own
resources. a fair level of prosperity. a
reasonable reward for their labor and a
reasonable dividend on their invest
ment." Applause on Republican
side.
Mr.. Swanson, Dem a 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 1t, 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
Df 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 a differ
ential of One-eighth of Il cent per pound,
but asserted that this was not true, and
that the differential in favor of the
trust ranged from One-fOurth to seven
eighths of a cent per pound.
| conclusion he characterized the
bill as the most eXOrbitaut in its eXac-
tions, the most prOhibitOry in its char
acter and the most iniquitOus ever
sought to be enacted in this country.
Mr.. Cochran Dem, Mo- while de-
nouncing the Republican policies pro-
duced q burst of applause on the Demo-
cratic side by referring to Mr.. Cleve-
land as that great Republican leader. F"
This bill, he argued, was an effort to
evade the real issue before the country.
Mr.. Howard tRep.. Ala delivered a
speech reeking with denunciation of
capital and charges of corruption and
jObbery against all branches of the gov
ernment Mr.. Sperry (Rep. Conn },
in the course of his speech, presented a
petition from the president and faculty
of Yale college in favor of placing books
on the free list. The other speakers
were Messrs. AdamsOn Dem, Ga },
Clardy (Dem., Ky.), and Kelly Pop,
s. DO.