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OF Wood. Yet he has neither been ar
rested nor censured, nor called to ac-
count by the administration.
Discussing the Cuban tariff question,
Mr.. Hill said the present controversy
IN Congress over that subject served
10 illustrate the hypocrisy as we'll as
the unsoundneSs of the whole Republic
can position in the subject of tariffs.
Woods Administration Arranged.
Proceeding on this topic he said
The whole system of governmental
favoritism whereby the constitutional
POWER to tax for the purpose of provid-
ing revenue for the needs of the fed
eral treasury, is Improperly used to
build up one mans business at the ex-
pense of another's, by discriminating
in favor of one industry as against an
other, is a vicious system which has
long afflicted the country and which
has grown more and more intolera BILE
with years and against which the De-
mocracy have ever protested.
The country is now aroused to the
injustice and enormity of the Ding
ley tariff, especially in its application
to the sister republic of Cuba, and
public sentiment is apparently de-
handing that the whole wrong should
be righted, but instead of that being
proposed to be done, the subject is
being juggled with in the United
States Senate, and a tub is proposed
to be thrown to the whale in the
shape of an unsatisfactory compro-
mise with injustice, whereby four
fifths of the official robbery shall pc
permitted to remain. not in the in
terest of the country, but solely in
the interest of the preservation of Re
publican harmony
1T is not believed that it is the
province of the Democrats in Congress
to assist in the contamination of any
such inadequate and questionable
scheme.
Let the injustice be wholly or SUBJ
stantially righted not by piecemeal
legislation, but a complete and COM
prehensive measure based upon sound
Democratic principles and along right
lines.
Reciprocity n MisnOmer.
"A reciprocity measure is a mis-
homer which does not contemplate at
least so per cent. reduction of the ex-
listing tariff burdens. When the peo-
pie of Cuba are asking for bread we
should not offer them a stone"
Mr.. Hill said the logic of events had
demonstrated the soundness of many
Democratic contentious of recent years.
He recalled that portion of the Kansas
City platform which condemned the
Dingley law as trust breeding meas
IRE, and said this measure had not
only succeeded in creating more trusts
than ever before in the history of the
country, but it has also succeeded in
sitting competition to a greater eX-
tent than was ever known. 1t had sue
ceeded in unnecessarily raising the
cost of living, and had caused more
strikes on the part of workingmen than
at any period of our history.
A Friendly Fight on Trusts.
THAT there has existed for some
time q popular sentiment demanding
relief in some form from trust exac-
lions is quite apparent. Acting upon
the assumption that the trusts should
be prosecuted by their friends and not
their enemies, the national admins
tration was at last constrained to in
stitute some civil suits TO test the eff
cacy of the Sherman act. What has
been the net result? A few temporary
injunctions have been obtained, with
the tacit consent of the trusts them
selves, or at least, with little or no OPP
position, which in general terms re-
strain the trusts from violating the
Sherman act (Which they expressly
deny they have violated or are now
violating), and little or nothing else
has been accomplished, and the courts
will soon adjourn for the SUMMERTIME
business is continued and prices re-
main the same. 1t is a sufficient COM
mentary upon the whole proceedings
to say that no criminal prosecution has
been instituted, no arrest has been
made, and no indictment found any
where.
What the people want is immediate
relief from the present high prices ex-
torted from them. That relief can be
obtained by the application of a speedy
and effectual remedy in the repeal of
all tariff duties upon productions con-
trolled by the trusts"
Republican Folly.
"It has unreasonably increased pub
lie taxation for the benefit of private
interests " he continued. And, final
ly, it has promoted dangerous specu-
lation to an extent which the boldest
business gambler never dreamed.
whereby millions Upon millions of
worthless stocks have been unloaded
upon deceived, public upon the prom
Use and expectation of dividends which
cannot be earned and can never be
realized, creating an alleged prosper
ity which must necessarily be false
and fictitious; and when the bubble
bursts-as ere long it surely must-it
will inevitably bring disaster to the
business community, and the public
will have learned to their sorrow that
lesson of political economy which
teaches that a people can never be-
come rich by simply taxing them
selves"
what Democracy Is Agreed on.
Upon the subject of Democratic uni