The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-10
THE SENATE TRAMPLEs ON JUSTICE
AND HONOR.


publican paper of the west.1
BY vote of 40 to 81 the United States
senate has passed the Puerto Rican
tariff bill, which begins by denying
Puerto Ricans allegiance to or free trade
with the United States, and ends by tax
ing them without citizenship and with
out representation. Six Republicans
Davis and Nelson of Minnesota, Mason
of Illinois, Proctor of Vermont Simson
of Oregon and wellington of Maryland
were present and voted against this
iniquitous measure Senators Hoar and
Pettigrew We're paired in favor of the
Davis amendment. AS for senator's
Cullom, Elkins, and McCumber, they
surrendered their expressive convictions
to the false delusion of party harmony.
Thus has been consummated, so far
as one house of congress can, the most
remarkable departure from unvarying
American precedents, the most unac-
countable violation of American good
faith, the most insoent affront to almost
universal American sentiment.
Let us recapitulate some of the incon-
trovertibly sound American principles
or promises which the senate vote has
overridden or broken:
A FREE ADMISSION OF HER
PRODUCTS TO UNITED STATES
(WHICH IS NOW ACCORDED TO
EVEHY OTHER STATE AND TER
RITORY AND TO ALASKA, NOT OR
GANIZED IN INATERRITORY) WOULD
GIVE HER RELIEF. 1T WILL NOT
HURT US; BUT, ON THE CONTRA
RY, WILL GIVE US A MARKET FOR
$40, 900, 900 ANNUALLY, LARGELY OF
THE PRODUCTS OF OUR FARMS,
WHICH WILL INCREASE AS AMER
ICAN PROSPERITY COMES TO POR-
TO RICO. / AM HEARTILY IN FA-
VOR OF EXTENDING THIS RELIEF
TO PORTO RICO, WHILE / DON'T
IN ANY WAY COMMIT MYSELF TO
EXTEND THE SAME PRIVILEGES
TO EITHER THE PHILIPPINE IS
LANDS OR TO CUBA.-Chairman
Payne of the house ways and means
committee explaining the original bill
extending free trade to Porto Rico, Jan.
26, 1900.
BELIEVE THE PUERTO RICAN
TARIFF BILL is UNCONSTITU-
| TIONAL AND VIOLATES ALL OUR
AGREEMENTS WITH THE PIED
GES TO THE PUERTO RICANS.-Ex-
Senator Edmunds.
REGARD THE PUERTO RICAN
| TARIFF BILL AS A MOST SERIOUS
DEPARTURE FROM RIGHT PRINCI-
| PLES.-Ex- President Harrison.
| THE ATTEMP TO MAKE THREE
QUARTER CITIZENS OUT OF THE
PUERTO RICANS IS CERTAINLY
ORIGINAL.-Ex-Sp Speaker Reed.
ALL DUTIES, IMPORTS AND Ex-
| CISES SHALL BE UNIFORM
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED
STATES. M
NO TAX OR DUTY SHALL BE
LAID ON ARTICLES EXPORTED
FROM ANY STATE.--Constituti OF
the United States.
WE HAVE NOT COME TO MAKE
WAR UPON THE PEOPLE OF A
| COUNTRY THAT FOR CENTURIES
HAD BEEN OPPRESSED; BUT, ON
THE CONTRARY, TO BRING YOU
PROTECTION, NOT ONLY TO YOUR
SELVES, BUT TO YOUR PROPERTY
TO PROMOTE YOUR PROSPERITY
AND BESTOW UPON YOU THE I'M
MUNITIES AND BLESSINGS OF THF
LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS OF OUT
! GOVERNMENT.-G Miles's procla
nation to- the inhabitants of Puert'
Rico 'in the cause liberty. Justice ant
, humanity" Ponce, July 28, 1898.
| THE HIGHEST CONSIDERATION
OF JUSTICE AND GOOD FAITH DE
MAND THAT WE SHALL NOT DIS
I, APPOINT THE CONFIDENT Eek
) PECTATION OF SHARING IN OUI
PROSPERITY, WITH WHICH TIL
PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO 81
: GLADLY TRANSFERRED THEIl
5 ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITEl
STATES. WE SHOULD TREAT TIL
INTERESTS OF THIS PEOPLE A
/ OUR OWN. WISH MOST STRONG
lily TO URGE THAT THE CUSTOM
} DUTIES BETWEEN PUERTO RIC'
{ AND TIE UNITED STATES BE RE
!, MOVED. D.--Secretar Root'in his annua
: report, Nov. 20. 1893,
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