The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
PLEA FOR DUTY ON COTTON
MIR. M'LAURIN. 4 SOUTHERN DEMO-
Graf, DESERTS FREE TRADE,
And Boldly ProcIaims Himself I'm Fa-
vor of Protecting the Great staple
Product of His People.


speech of Mr.. Dolliver. of Iowa. was dis
tihctly the overshadowing feature of the
day 1t shone out through the weary.
monotonOus gloom which has so far per-
Vaded the debate like a locomotive head
light in a fog. Mr.. Dolliver is finished
orator and his speech to-day was a mas
terpiece OF forensic eloquence. Replete
with art and glowing periods. IL alternate
ly aroused his Republican colleagues to un-
bounded enthusiasm and convulsed the
House with laughter. Mr.. Dolliyer is quick
and adroit in the of the foil and the
Democrats refrained from interrupting him.
Mr. McLaurin. a Democratic member of
the ways and means committee from South
Carolina, created mild sensation by bold
ly proclaiming himself in favor of a duty
on cotton, and it was noticeable that when
he repudiated the free-raw- material doc
trines of Cleveland and Carlisle, ''and those
who had prostituted the name of Democ-
racy," fully three-fourths OF the Demo-
Gratis on the floor sustained him with hand
and voice. The other speakers during the
day session were Messrs. Gibson. Dockery
Newlands. Lacey Swanson and Cochran.
In beginning his speech Mr.. Dolliver said:
Mr. Chairman, propose TO state. in the
time allotted to me. some of the reasons
why the pending measure will, i'm my judg-
ment. meet the approval of the American
people. First about the bill. like its name
For the first time since the first act of the
First Congress a protective tariff bill has
had the candor and openness TO state its
purpose in its title. And they may be taken
very ample evidence of the complete
ascendency of the protective tariff doctrine
in the public thought of those times and OF
the general acceptance by the public of the
old-fashioned Republican idea that the true
way in this country to produce a national
revenue is to protect the national indus
| tries.
THE PEOPLE UNITED ON ONE THING.
For the first time since 1916 every great
employment of the American people is
united in common recognition of the i'm
portance and value of reasonable discrim-
| ination by laws i'm favor of our own
people-the farmer. because nearly every
! thing that he has for sale must be sold here
| or not sold at all: the manufacturers. be-
cause he has found it impossible to sell
| homemade goods i'm a market place that
has already bought itself poor at the bar
| gain counter of Europe and Asia: and COM
merce, because nation like this that goes
past the closed doors and broken window
| lights of its own factories to the ends OF
| the earth for what il buys. is in condition
! that Is completely fatal 10 all commerce,
I'm the early stages of the tariff con-
| troversy il was the custom of the mercan-
| tile classes 10 push the farmer forward to
| the front of the battle for free trade. The
| farmer of the United States got out of that
| line of battle two generations ago; and for
| fifty years he has been a most resolute sup
| porter OF the protective tariff system. He
stood by the side of Henry Clay through-
out his great career and he was found with
William Mckinley i'm the decisive contest
of the last campaign. tApplause on Repub-
| lican side.) On the very day when the MIL
| lionaires of the Rocky mountains were rid
ing in their carriages to the voting place
| TO give In their ballots for the poor mans
| money the farmers OF the Mississippi valley
| weary and burdened. under the weight OF
| four miserable years, walked in The rain 10
| the polling place and cast their ballots for
/ the integrity of American business and the
tariff policy of 1890. applause on Repub-
| lican side.D The appeal made 10 them was
a masterpiece OF shiftIess and unscrupulous
| politics. No such effort was ever before
| made to capture the passions and prejudice
| of the burdened and troubled men. But the
| farmers of the Mississippi valley again VIM
| dicated the credit of the American farmer
! by choosing rather to suffer affiiction with
the people that pay their bills than TO en-
dure the advantages of 1e TO J. U4aughter.)
| EOY ORATOR AND PROF. WILSON.
They did not have TO go TO Chicago TO
| find out what the issue was. They femem-
bered that curious spectacle in the House
which most of us here present saw, when
| Professor Wilson. had finished his Speech
on the tariff law, which. for want Of COM
| petition. will probably always hear his
name Qaughter). and a young Democratic
champion OF free trade from our Western
country. who has since monopolized nearly
the entire visible supply of Democratic en-
! thusiasm. plunged down the aisle amid the
| enthusiastic yells of his associates. lifted
| the exhausted statesman 10 mis- shoulders
and bore him, kicking and protesting. to
| the seclusion OF the cloak room, so that
| a few months afterwards. when The same
gallant young leader came among our peo-
| pie and beamed Denev0lently on them from
| the platform of his advertising car, offered
! them new and untried remedies foT their
/ troubles, warranted 10 Kill or cure-tSod on
] ly knew which-the farmers IF the middle
| West, again illustrated their wisdom and
sagacity by being able, without losing
sight of the paramount issue. TO perceive
the somewhat diminished figure OF Prof.
| Wilson still kicking and protesting. but
| still on the boy prstors "ack.
| II am only sorry that the broken and
| crumbled argument of free trade has man.
! aged to escape from the tomb to which slav-
| cry was committed 10 find a more comforts
able grave. a more perfect repOse In the
| speeches of the gentleman from Alabama
| and the gentleman from South Carolina,
preserved i'm the records of congressional
| debate. Laughter.)
/ Mr. Chairman I like this hill because
| IL is neither Eastern nor Western nor
| Northern nor Southern. IL is American
through and through tapplause). opening
the doors of opportunity TO every section
and to every State. My friend from South
| Carolina quoted "A line from "A German
| newspaper of Berlin saying that this bill
was slap in the face OF Europe. Your
/ committee gentlemen. without fear or IA
| vor towards any foreign country, has con-
| scientiously undertaken To make this bill
a patriotic act of good will towards the
| United States of America Great applause-)
WHAT THE FARMERS WANT.
THE farmers of the United States. my
brethren are eager. not for the fabled mar
kets of the world. They are longing for the
music of the old factory bell calling back
| the idle millions 10 deserted workshops OF
the United States. applause on Republic
an sideD The noise of furnaces that are
now closed and of looms that are now ST.
! lent will mean good deal 10 the working
4 people OF the United States. IL Will mean
not less 20 the scattered households ON
distant praires. where. for your years, In
dustrious men have seen the fruits OF their
toll waste in the fields that produced them.
.Gentlemen. you may talk OF silver and
gold until your friends IN an undertone be-
gin To express their alarm. U.aughter)
! You may argue about bonds, and mort
cages and banks. and capital. and labor
| until the wheels In your head begin 20 re-