Evening star., 1897-03-24

damage and condemn the business Of the
country. why do you not offer that as
substitute here? Why do you not take its
specific doctrines. its ad valorem duties. its
protection to special classes of industries.
its abandonment of others. it's uncertain
ties. Its bad English. and worse politics,
and cling to 1t?
I'VE stand here indicting you for the
passage of this bill. We stand here de-
nouncing you for the passage of this bill:
that is orr complaint Why do you not get
rid of ii? Why do you hang on to this dead
body? While the people of the country are
shouting VINO shall deliver us from the
body of this death? you are fastenin., the
solid and wretched ropes to tie upon the
shoulders of the victim Of your laundering
the dead BODY that is causing the body
polite to tester and rot. So these two
great conditions are here. One l have al
ready referred to. and the other is the non.
employment of the abor of the country. 1t
has been the purpose of the ways and
here that Woul6 bring a change in both
these directions; first an abundance of
money III the treasury, and second the en-
pioymeEt of the labor of the country.
Looking Backward.
1--WE want to go back to 1S,2 1t was
the battle cry upon which we carried the
country, and we want to stand by that bat
tie cry, and we have struggled with all the
care and patriotism and devotion to duty
that we are capable of to make it possible
for the labor of this country to be employed
protitably. We want to see what we have
not seen since 1892. contented laborers
well-fed families. children going to school
with good clothes, good houses, good books
aid good prosperity in the future. We be-
lieve we have accomplished it.
I'VE have provided in this bill for the ex-
penditure in the United States ultimately
of more than $500. .OOOOO0 per annum to the
iaborers Of the country above that which
has been derived heretofore Under the
operation of this bill we look for Sl25 ,OG0-
600 now sent abroad to buy sugar will
every dollar of it be expended in the United
states. We look for that time. and shortly,
when under the operations of this wool
schedule every spindle in the United States
will turn and the enormous payments for
labor. the end of which passed in 1892. shall
again be a part of the heritage of the labor
Ing man. We look forward to the time not
Tar distant, when a million WOO! growers in
the United States, million men who
voted a million men who worked to pro-
mote the sheep industry of the country
and when the f1ocks of the country will in
crease in value directly by the operation of
this bill s5e.ooo,Do in single year.
Benefitfng the Farmer.
We believe that the farmer on the
mighty farms of the west and on the al
luvial soil of the south. and everywhere
will be benefited by this bill Ignorance
comes and says What good does it do to
put a duty on farm products? l submit
IN this connection a table that will en-
tighten those gentlemen who are thus talk
ing, and show them how much has been in
troGuced into this country of farm products
under the ruinouS rates of the Wilson bill
and then l shall have one consolation. |
have been a successful teacher in a political
kindergarten. We propose to the men of
the United States, engaged in farming this
nIa hjs lou
diversity your industry, you need not eX-
haust the soil of your farm by the endless
repetition of cereals and vegetables. We
propose to build up the industry of sugar
growing, and thus devote to that great in
dustry many tens of thousands of acres of
the rich land Of the United States and
take that land out of competition with the
farm. We propose the same thing in the
sheep industry and send back again to the
production of wool and sheep and cattle
the tens of thousands of acres of land that
under the ruinous policy of the Wilson bill
nave been stripped of everything and
turned back to competition with the other
farming lands of the country. Upon this
wool question l shall have more to say
curing the five-minute debate