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Senator 81 ansbrough Delivered Speech
. L1l on Tariff I3 Years ADO

Senator 4 llansbrough Delivered Speech
F. S. on Tariff sl3 Years Aqo
Thirteen years ago, Senator Hans
brough made 9. speech In the senate
regarding the tariff. The speech will
show; the senator's consistency, which
he has maintained throughout his con.
gressional career. He has stood by.
the American farmer ever since, and
has firmly championed their protec-
ton. The speech was delivered June
Is, 1894, during the. special session
called by Grover Cleveland to consider
the question Of revising the tariff. At
the time the speech was delivered,
provision for putting wheat on the
free list was contained In the bill.
Evidently note. was taken, Of what the
senator said, for when the bill finally
became law 1t contained provision
imposing a. duty Of 20 per cent ad
valorum. ~. y
The speech: :..-,.#-s.>.S..' 49,. -
s"Mr. President, although I am a
firm believer in the principle of pro-
lection, and want to see that policy
sustained and perpetuated, l am OPP
posed to the protective tariff bill now
before the senate. I am opposed to it
because of its discrimtn ations, its Sec
tional inequalities and its false pre-.
lenses. -. :,
1T discriminates against the people
Of the northwest by placing wool upon
the free list, and in favor of the pee:
pie of another section by giving rice
a duty of 80 per cent. It further dis
eliminates against US in, that it levies
a duty which has been estimated at
more than SO per cent. upon sugar,
and almost on the next page provides
that Canada and all other. grain-pro.
ducing countries in the world may
bring their products here free of any
duty whatever. '.~. *
''Its other great inequality. is the
general principle which 1t established
of, placing the raw materials, of the
west upon the free list and giving
protection to those institutions of the
east and the southeast that can no
longer lay claim to being +"infant in
dustries." In view of this discrimina-
ton against our raw materials, the
trifing reduction provided nor in this
bill upon the manufactured articles
does not remove tho burdens that our
friends on the other side claim were
imposed by the act of 1890. 4
There, is reason in MY opposition
when we. know that the industries
which sustain the people Of North Da.
kota are to be subjected to open, &un-
restricted competition from every
quarter OF; the globe, while coal, iron,
steel, clothing, and in fact all Of the
primo ipal necessaries Of life. which
they must buy are subjected to duty
ranging from 40 to go per cent. Near
Ily 40 per cent. duty is levied upon
wooden clothing while raw wool comes
in free. ct: r. .1 Is & VS. f s. ;. -.
Mr.. President, under this bill wool,
wheat, wheat; flour, oats, corn, corn
meal buekwheat, rye and rye -four
are on the free list-wool absolutely
SO; and the other articles win be, SO
soon as foreign countries take the
hint and remove the duties upon our
expectation Of these articles. ssss Is
~ 1.-THE most serious shock TO the A.
situations Of the West Will BE- caused
by the removal ofs the duty on r;aw;
WOO: When asked Why this should
be done, the theorists responsible for
!tttlhlssp posed station. answer that
we cannot produce I'M this country tho
wool necessary to carry pn the BUSH
ness Of manufacturing certain lines of;
iyypolen 500 DIS. HIS unn patriot pro-
position has been refus repeated lysI
If it were true, VIII not except from.
the provisions of this discrimi nating
measure the classes off wool we can
produce The best authorities on this
subject say that every class Of wool
required for manufac turing all kinds
and GRADES Of wool H. inelad ding car.
pet. Il produced II the United States,
and that adequate protection, contin.|
ued All the policy Of this govyernme
insuring safety of inyestn tent ii sheep
raising would result the nroducs
ton of an abnn ant supp of wool for,
home stump lon
Here is an item showing the import
lance of the sheep industry IN thisi
country AN the date Of the republisi
can ietory Of s8Ss there were perl
haps 80, 900 head ofs sheep Ia the statesI
III North akota The exact figures
are not known, because the ndustrys