Smyrna times., 1897-03-31

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is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton.
Kentcn, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. A rate of so
cents an inch per month will be charged for
transient advertising. A special reduction on
all semi-annual and yearly advertisements.
THE most interesting thing nation
ally the past week has been the debate
in the House of Representative on the
Tariff question and which that body
expects to take a vote on to-day be-
fore the bill goes to the slow going
and conservative senate. The debate
on the Dingley Tariff was ably pre-
sented by those who championed it
and attacked with equal force by those
who opposed it. These speeches have
attracted great deal of attention, both
in and out of Congress.
The opponents of the bill are seri-
ously handicapped when they take a
retrospective view of the subject of
tariff legislation, for the monuments of
their own doings confront them on
every hand; and when they offer pro-
phecies their offers are not accepted or
regarded Besides, they are divided
among themselves. One faction con-
tends that the chief cornerstone of
tariff reform ''untaxed raw materials"
must be dug out and cast away in
order to save the edifce from destruc-
ton, and another faction contends that
if the cornerstone be removed the
whole structure will fall. The OPP
ponents of the bill also complain and
the complaint is by no means wholly
unreasonable or unjust that sufficient
time has not been allowed to formulate
their objections and prepare their
arguments against the provisions of
the pending bill
Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee de-
livered the longest and perhaps the
most violent speech against the bill
The speech took well among the Demo
Gratis who listened to it, and was liber-
ally applauded by them. One could
imagine that it would have excited
wild enthusiasm in a Tennessee aud
fence composed of McMillin's consti-
tuents, and have been regarded by
them as logical AMI unanswerable.
ARGUMENT IN DEBATE.
Mr.. johnson rep, n. d., a mem
Der of the Committee on Ways and
Means, spoke in support of the bill He
addressed himself, in beginning, to the
financial necessities of the Government.
1t required $500, 0,000,0 900 a year to pay
the ordinary expenditures of the
Government, and unless some great
calamity befel the country which
should destroy its capacities and its
powers no Congress would ever as
semble in these halls that would be
other than a billion-dollar Congress-
1t was agreed on all hands that most of
this money should be raised by a tariff.
But what kind of a tariff should be
levied made the difference between the
parties. 1t was a sharply defined diff
ference, and upon the adoption of one
or the Other-prOtective or revenue
he believed depended the prosperity
or depression of the business interests
of the country. Mr. johnson pro-
ceeded then to argue as to the bene-
fits resulting from the operation of a
protective tariff-the rule being, he
said, that such tariff operated to re-
duce the price of the article protected.
Mr.. McRae Dem, Ark. is that
the reason why you put duty of %
cents bushel on wheat? Laughter
and applause by Democrats
Mr.. Barlow pop, Cal. You say
that in a Democratic tariff the CON
sumer pays the tax. Who pays it in
your tariff?
Mr.. JOhnsOn-In the matter of the
great staples of production, agricult-
ural and mechanical, the foreigner paws
the tax. In other articles the foreigner
pays part and the unpatriOtic, foolish
purchasers who are willing to pay two
or three prices for foreign goods paw
the rest. )Republican applause
This bill, Mr.. johnson said in CON
eluslon, was as patriotic as the flag; as
broad as the country. applause
Mr.. McMillin Dem J, the Demo
cratic member of the Committee on
Ways and Means, opposed the bill in
speech OF more than an hours length.
lie asserted that there was no necessity
Tor imposing additional taxes at this
time; that with even ordinary economy
there would still be a large surplus in
the Treasury when Congress should
assemble IN December. Let us now
and here resolve anew that the prin-
clples OF Jefferson, of Jackson and of
Polk shall be the principles of the
democratic party now as they have
been IN the past, and as sure as the dav
succeeds the night it will return to
power and restore the Cover nment TO
constitutional mOOrings from which il
has been wrested by such mal-legisla-
ton as that which is being forced upon
us to-day"
Mr.. GROsvENOR's ARGUMENT.
Mr.. GrOsvenor (Rep., Ohio BEGAN
by referring to the necessity of sDeed Y
action IN the matter Of ftarih'Ic-isjgtiou
Speaking Of the condition of the
country IN November, 1896. he de-
elared that never in the li.4.r,- "A
the United States was tU... a,
terror, fOreboding and ..e
minds Of men as on that date. This
great calamity had come upon tbe
country substantially by reason of the
single act of a Democrat CONGRESS-
the repeal Of the Mckinley law. The
Issue of 1896, upon which the battle
had been fought and the victory
won, was the issue of protec-
tive tariff. Every intelligent man
who participated in the campaign and
went from one State to another was
conscious now of the fact that more
than million voters who had been
humbugged by the specious cry of the
communists Of tax upon wealth and
enterprise and the hope for the better
times through a debased currency
nevertheless voted for William McKin.
ley because of his position on the tariff
question. 1t was the Mckinley law
mlsrepresenteda and misunderstood that
aided our overthrow in 1892 but il was
the Mckinley law, with the BLESSINGS
received from it during its short life.
that became the talismanic word that
swept Mckinley into nomination and
carried in 1896.
Speaking of the provisions of tbf
Dlpgley bill, he said; "We have pro.
yided IN this bill for the expenditure IN
the United States of ultimately more
than $500, 200, 900 per annum to fbe
Iaborers Of the country above tbai
which has been derived heretofore
Under the operation of this bill s125.
O0,OOO now sent abroad to buy supaI
VIII, every dollar of it, be expended IN
the United States. We look for thai
time. and shortly vvban 49,. -