The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-11
AT TACK BY
Mr.. MILLS.
Hurls Denanclation at Republicans
and MiIIionaires.
SOME DEMOCRATS ARE INCLUDED.
PENDING TARIFF MEASURE DE-
CLARED TO BE DESIGNED PRI-
MARILY TO BUILD UP FOR DIS
TRIBUTIoN AMONG THOSE AL
READY MILL1oNA1REs GA MON
sTRoUs TRUST FUND. wRUNG
BY LEGISLATIVE RAPINE FROM
THE LABOR AND SWEAT OF THE
POOR TAXPAYER"

washington, June lU.-SenatOr Mills
had his say on the tariff bill yesterday.
1t was the most severe arraignment of
the Republican measure that has yet
been heard in the Senate chamber. He
denounced it as Il class measure, designed
to build UP II vast fund for distribution
among the privileged few who were to bc
beneiiciaries of the bill, and all at the ex-
pense of 'the forgotten man," the tax
payer. Indirectly he also criticised those
Dem ocratic Senators who voted for the
amendments to the bill putting tax on
cotton and other articles, contending that
their course was II radical departure from
the tenets of Democracy.
"a new doctrine of Democracy is now
proclaimed, 'said the Senator from Texas,
Inviting Democratic Senators into the
camp of the enemy--to sing hosannas to
the monstrous bounties of the bill For
tunately," he added "there are no
Elishas here to smite Democrats with
such blindness"
Senator Rawlins, of Utah, was inclined
TO take ofrense mt this. He had voted
with the Republicans the day before, and
now inquired:
''To whom does the..Serator allutleY"
Every man may wear the garment If
it fits him." responded Mr.. Mills. eff it
does not he may throw it aside -
The philippe by Senator Mills abound
ed in smile, metaphor and Biblical quo.
tations. He began by denouncing the
intent of the bill as being to raise "a
monstrous trust fund.-" wrung by legis-
lative rapine from the labor and sweat
of the taxpayer, for distribution among
favored beneflciSries.
''It is Il bill of confiscation," he declar.
ed, land yet, when an explanation is
asked concerning these eXorbitant rates,
the only answer given is, what are you
going TO do about it?'
81 warn YOU" continued Senator Mills,
impressively, "that for all these things
God will, bring you into Judgment.
There is II tribunal whose door is always
open. In 1890 similar tariff act fell
like bubonic plague on the country,
and the tribunal OF the people put the
Republican party in quarantine
The effect of this bill, Senator Mills
declared, would be to swell the value of
manufactured products to the extent of
Billions of dollars, which would be taken
from the pockets of the masses. He
hoped this protest would arouse the in.
dignation of the American people. Re
curing to party platforms, he said many
efforts had been made to lead Democracy
away from it's fundamental opposition to
q protectI%S tariff and to make it "walk
blindfoldaef n b the Republican party as
the ADVOCATE of class legislation
Democf,ibic Senators who had voted for
duty on cotton were next arraignetl for
opposition to the uEequivocal declara-
tions Of delegations from their States in
national conventions against n protective
tariff, and after reviewing many State and
national Democratic platforms, deslared
that man could MT be q Democrat vino
mr. ,,,k no. -, <l,ot -
must be limited to revenue only.
"Freest application of natural laws"
he continued, "free trade, free men, free
press, free religion, were the aspirations
of our early fathers. With this freedom
of trade realized, with taxation on wealth
as it ought to be. then'there will be the
real, prosperity of natural, God-given
laws. But instead of that has come the
gradual building up OF plutocracy Of
wealth. E3ai "A -
The Senator also gives tables showing
the vast fortunes of few individuals,
who were. he said. to receive the benefits
of this bill. This led him to speak of the
daughters of inilionaires tatted like
heifers" and sent abroad in quest of
titles. When. the vast fortunes had been
built up by unjust taxation, then he said,
these daughters were "put on the mar
Noo: hbWkeu anu peuule1, SOlu Irr Irln-
cesses and Duchesses.and Countesses and
Marcnionesses, and all other 'esses' And
here is Congress legisating the money to
pay for these trips abroad
If the American people accepted this
condition, he said, then they were not
worthy of self.government. He closed
with the ominous prediction that the
Abandonment of Democratic simplicity
would biing,forth out of the dark some
historian ito write the chapter on the
decline and fall of the great American
people,
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