Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-04-12
DEFEND THE BILL.
Senators Cullom and Depew on the
Porto Rico Tariff.
Consider II "a Liberal Measure and
Good for the People and the
Industries of he
Island.

VI ~
Island.
In discussing the tariff bill for
Porto Rico in the senate April 2. Sen
ators Cullom and Depew spoke in part
as follows:
Some of our friends on the other side
of the chamber, because the government
first collected this sum from the Porto
Ricans. put 1t in the treasury, and then un-
der act of congress, authorized the presi-
dent to take il out and give it back to them,
complain and criticise the performance
"If ii went back to the same parties who
paid it, who were, in fact, part of the
sugar and tobacco trusts, it would seem to
be a useless performance. The fact is, it
was paid by a few persons, importers con-
nected with the sugar and tobacco mo-
nopoies One of the firms who paid
part of this tax of s., 900, 900 is now suing the
United States to recover the amount paid,
which suit shows that those great corpora
tions trusts and monopoies, instead of
being in favor of the proposed tax, are
really opposed to ii and advocate free
trade between Porto Rico and the United
States.
The fact is, this amount collected on
the imports from Porto Rico, which was
largely paid by the bankers and agents of
the American Sugar Refining company and
the tobacco trust, as | am informed goes
back to relieve distress and help build up
that country"
Says the Bill Is Liberal
Further along Mr.. Cullom said:
mo man can truthfully say that if this
bill shall become a law congress is not deal
ing most literally with the people of
Porto Rico. 1t imposes no hardship upon
these people; it provides the least possible
rate of duty upon a few things in order
to raise little money to run their gov
ernment, and that little only for little
while. until they can get a start in taking
care of themselves by their own system of
taxation, at which time absolute free trade
is established between the United States
and the island.
LET the truth be known. This whole
free trade scheme is nothing on earth but
a deception, delusion and a snare to make
our people believe that we are depressing
poor Porto Rico. Let the truth be known,
whatever may happen. Any candid man,
I think, must admit that this bill is in the
interest of the people of Porto Rico.
81 am amazed to see the wave of misin-
formation which has swept over the coun-
try as to this question of a Porto Rican
tariff. 1t is high time to call a halt to this
wild Misrepresentation, backed up as it is
by the direct personal insistence of rep
resentatives of the monopolstic interests
Depew Defends the Tariff.
Senator Depew then asserted that at the
outset there was no dispute among repub-
means 99 " tilt C"i9 Sii' Vi IL oi'e
'oisreSS 10 leElSiatc LOT foito rico ne
tolitciilIoil lndl no .allil ~ uutieS Cal can We IN
loSeu Is confined ehtlrely 10 the deihocFdtS'
he said. The opposition among the people
to the imposition of such a tariff. he
ciaithcu' Is pdSed on mistaken lueaS Oh the
Eituatioii anu :" HcH'llil'i.'"l l''iii's t'I'''
lorlo iNco' haNins Sousht Aherlc'n RUE
should be treated with especial consdcra-
'ioI, ~
loilo hico ma" pceh plctuIeu dS II ~
were Il MdSSachuSetts OF an IOWA: rt'"S
no." 70 "SSul"c tiie opIS"'loi'9 ol 9'd'c-
hoou' III lac'' II Is leltlle' ueHSeIE popu-
i"lGu iHiiIiu' WIN ho yes eHCePt ! ON
5Iioui'"iS' an d IoI"i"tio 20 S'lE y,
''i'' ~ ll t''tS l,'Oi' " 80 itii :" PNP"
rrroes o5o n0o of ,,,iyeJ Linod o,,d tbo "a
noairdar of white ooo ooo can rnither ,o,d
nor ,Urite or mi. I 0no ooo Of inbolita,ts
500 Ono derive thir Ii,,i,,r from, oCric,,Iturai
n,,re,,fts ard arc ,l,,ost al II, dira no,o,t,,
r,,ho has+ ,,,,,.ra., ,oid ,,ra % oa,,ts ~ az,
while tho cost of ii,inar ofto,, &c &C low, ss
6ya 'e % u - 10 ~" 60
."rba ,,roG+s ~, ,oio,,,+,,., 1,,, e. H.,
cbeanraes ~ Iabor a,,d fartilit,. of ~
coil arc yrco+ VIII noon t,,acbi,So,,. ,,ld
na,,in,, tl7a ,,,icas. oF tba Tirofa,, Iii ~,
Ia,,t - ~ ''', I'M, ~ ;
iron, IN to .5 ,,o, Govt i+rat TN l,,9 ,,
yaIne of tho exnorts Of tho island for tLa
1ost G,,a ,.r.re b.. t,, ste ann nao . - ~ 49,,
~ iaih eIo ooo 600 @ 900 6
s,,c,ar e-no onG tat,aoo ,,1 ~, ,,,t I,
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sta,ta a,,d -. ~ .,,l,,,od ,a,,ifs II,
IL Comes II, frao -
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t w., " IL, 'ou7,i 'iu NJ, -
J"t., .i e.. ~ s Sum III ''ie He>t Oiol'' hI
~, 20 So .. -, az ~ "i,o' iSIicNcu
Lt $3.50 " ~. ~ -. iLi'i7 9i,voy'90V VI {: !. ~ FIi
i,,iIiS NJ q .I''.i Ivy Iui.,', ~ II Voc
1870 49, " ~ D'leS IS i"i iotiu9' No''i -
p,It tLiooio tii;, vi otl'el nce"Gu PulPoSr7.
~ VI ''.lS .oIuitioli caiile tile i!cNcSal'S
- ~ i'iC,ii 20, Vi ieNGilue, anu III II was
'''' ie"9'II ioi 'he PeHulilS piil.
purposes OF thc bIil.
I'VE come naturally now to the question
OF hardships upon the Porto Rican people
aho OF cruelty TO the inhabitants OF our
lation W. were toId Nth u,nndarfuI e.
quence and passionate rhetoric that it was