Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-03

Eecessary because we could sci this splen-
i'd revenue from the sugar gs;ts, reve-
Tue that came from the people of the
United States who used sugar in their
households
That sentence answers every Republican
peech that has been on the tariff IN the
asst twenty years It comes right down
o the Democratic position, and I thank
God that the Republicans have gone even
his little step toward Democracy. Thorn
is Jefferson said in his first inaugural adj
dress which has become a classic, I'VE
are ali Federalists; we are all Republic
ans IF he were delivering that GRAFTON
today. in the charged nomenclature of
the times. he would say. We are all Re
publicans we are III Democrats, and it
really looks from this performance here
that we are going to be all Democrats
That is not all of that wonderful para
graph. He continues;
Under the Wilson bill we had fallen
behind in the revenue, and the object Of
Republican bill always is to produce reve-
nue. as well as protection.
It is a work of supererogation, but
am going into that thing once more.
was really surprised to hear a man or the
eminence of the distinguished gentleman
from New York, the chairman of the COM
mittee make any such declaration as
that.
/ will tell you what produced the def
cheney in the revenue. The Mckinley
tariff bill produced it, and the Wilson
tariff bill, while it did not suit me. would
have produced enough revenue to run the
government if the income tax section had
not been declared unconstitutional by the
supreme court of the United States when
it reversed the precedents of an entire
century to render that decision. The gem
tleman from New York speaks of the
Wilson's German bill as a tariff for rev
enue only measure, when, as a matter of
fact, it carried an average tariff of thirty
nine and a fraction per cent on about
/ 1900 articles of everyday consumption.
What / am going to read to you is not:
original at ALL l owe it to the industry
and courage of the Hon. John Wesley
Gaines of Tennessee. He thrashed out
that question very thoroughly once. and
at the risk of boring some of the old mem
bers and for the purpose of carrying on
that school of instruction which my friend
from Pittsburg [Ddr. Dalzelll started yes
terday ] will read you a little correspond
ence. Brother Gaines took it into his head
one day that he was going to find out the
truth about this business of how that
deficit came. He went over to the bureau
of engraving and wanted to get Secretary
Fosters letter. He could not get the let
ter until he went to the secretary of the
treasury and got an order from Mr.. Gage
to give him a copy of that letter
Here IS the whole of the Gaines-Gage
correspe alence which is a valuable thing
to have in the Democratic family and
which proves beyond a peradventure that
| the Mckinley tariff bill created a deficit
in the revenues some eighteen months be-
fore the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill was en-
acted into law:
House Of Representatives.
Washington. D G., March 25 1897.
Sir--I desire to procure the original LETT
ter or certified copy thereof written by
Mr. Secretary Foster, Feb. 20, 1885, adj
dressed to the chief of the bureau of en-
craving and printing, Of which the fol-
lowing purports to be a copy:
Treasury Department,
Office of the Secretary,
Washington, D. c.. Feb 20. 1898.
Sir You are hereby authorized and di-
rected to prepare designs for the 3 per
cent bonds provided in a senate amend
ment to the sundry civil bill now pending.
The denominations which should first re-
ceive attention are zoos and COOS coupon
bonds and l00s I0O0s and 100O0s of the
registered bonds The authority is given
in advance of the enactment, in view of
pressing contingencies. and you are di-
rected to hasten the preparation Of the
designs and plates in every possible man
ner. I inclese memorandum for your
guidance in preparing the script for the
body of the bond Respectfully yours.
CHARLES FOSTER. Secretary.
The Chief Of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
The original is now in the hands Of the
director of the bureau of engraving and
printing which / called for ana read this
morning. ! desire to use the original letter
or certified copy thereof this evening and
will be especially obliged if my request
can be complied with at once. Yours very
respectfully, JOHN w. GAINES.
Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Secretary Of the
Treasury
Treasury Department,
Office Of the Secretary,
Washington ID O. March Dc 1887