The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-04-19
So SAYS CLARK
OF MISSOURI
HE coNeRATuLATEs Mr.. BRANT-
LEV ON His EXCELLENT
SPEECH AND SAYS MORE WILL
BE HEARD OF 1T.

BE HEARD OF 1T.
1T CAN BE CALCULATED THIS
FALL AS A DEMOCRATIC CAM
PAleN pocuMENT-rEW YORK
PAPER COMMENTS.
he speech made by Congressman
Haf sntley. on the Cuban reciprocity
Tuesday is being discussed by
leading democrats Of the county
Ais glao receiving much layo able
'Mh democrats ael re
lgton correspond
Mines wired his
Bthe speech:
speech delivered
Srocity debate which
culated this fall as a demo
sssApaign document 2 said
OF Missouri, one OF
gratulated William G.
eorgia, at the close 0
~ favor of thu Cuban re-
#lty Dill In the house today
Brantleys speech is the drst
lat has been delivered from the
Fpoint of the southern men who
n trying to harmonize the demo
ic party on the basis of a policy
VIII be satisfactory to New York
the east. He is one of them.
is laboring to make the tariff
&stion the principal issde in the con
kssional campaign The first part
shis speech was presentation OF
ts and igures to show the urgent
bd of doing something for Cuba
51t after that he turned to the po
Slitical phase Of the question and de-
livered talk to his democratic breth-
rem that evoked round OF applause
1t ls. true, he said, that the
democratic platform of 1872 condemn
ed not reciprocity, but the sham re
ciprocfty Of the Mckinley laws, but
this bill calls for a horizontal reduc-
tion OF 20 per cent on everything. For
my part, cannot decline to accept
free trade with one country h~cause
cannot get 1t still freer. and because
cannot get free with all countries
II we are to nave free trade there
must be beginning. The beginning
IS now. and as | cannon get more
am ready to accept this. II the dem
ocratic party stands for tariff reduc
ton. as | have been taught to be
lieye. 1t is not clear TO me how the
party's position on that question wli
be made plain to the country, If it
refuse to vote for this bill. the only
D.n before this body with single
item OF tariff reduction II It. 1t is
not clear to me now we can sustain
ourselves by refusing to accept
slight reduction OF tee tariff on the
ground that we cannot get com
pfete reduction. Results as well as
principles are involved.
Il know that those who are respon-
sible Tor this bill diseIaim that it even
hints at tariff reform, but no repub-
lican leader would call any bill re-
ported by him IariR Reform bill
II this bin is really a protective meas
ure. 1t IS intended to still more tight
" bind the American consumer, why
has the republican ways and means
committee waited four long months
before presenting it? Way did they
spend night after night in sweat and
turmoil. trying to find enough repuD-
lican votes to pass it? Why do stall
wart. protectionists refuse to support
# on the ground that :. is in strict
accord with the principles OF ne dem
ocratic parry7
Those OF the republican leaders
who are wise and far-sighted enough
to read the handwriting on the wall
that if the greed and rapacity Of the
protected classes are allowed to stand
in the way Of the just and humane
performance by this government Of its
duty to Cuba, it viii mean the over
throw Of protection and the downfall
of the republican party. This is wny
ley have labored so earnestly to pro-
cure enough republican votes to pass
the bill. They do nor wish the atten-
tlon Of the country called to their hui