The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-05-06
T|LLMAN SARCASTIC.
LlKENS CARNEGIE AND ScHWAB
TO HOGS IN TARIFF
SPEECH.
RAPS INFANT INDUSTRIES
Says Protection Given Them Is Like
the Feeding Of Pigs Until They
Are Ready for laushter-Mecum
Der Makes Reply.

Washington. May 1.-Senators TILL
man and McCumber had lively set-to
in the senate yesterday. Mr.. Tillman
became excited and used characteris-
tic language. Mr.. McCumber retained
his composure and told Mr.. Tillman
precisely what he thought of him.
Mr.. McCumber referred to the
scramble of Democratic senators to
get into the protection camp. He de-
clared that every tariff which pro-
tects, do not care to what extent II
protects against foreign importation,
is protective tariff, and upon that
principle my southern friends agree
with me and cannot make a better
protective tariff speech than | am
able to make myself"
Mr.. Tillman finally said:
81 am afraid before we get through
there will not be trough enough for all
the hogs to get their snouts into 1t.
have observed that IL is the desire
and ambition of his life on the part
of the senator from Rhode Island (Mr
Aldrich) to inyeigle. or bamboozle, or
persuade, or whatever instrumentality
he may use, enough southern Demo
Gratis, so-called or actual, to clamor
for protection on some little item in
the bill which will give them some
little part of this swill.
Feeding the Pigs.
81 am reminded of a scene which
nave witnessed in the past, when l
was on the farm and was feeding pigs.
The pretense of protective tariff is
that we must have our infant indus
tries protected against foreign pauper
labor. That we will all recognize the
truth of. that is, all of us who are ac-
quainted with farms and farming, that
the young pigs do need little help
about weaving time, and that a good
farmer will provide a trough apart
from the herd of hogs.
THAT is protecting infant indus
tries. If he is a good farmer he will
continue to feed the pigs along until
they have reached a period when the
greatest profit going into the meats
will have arrived, and he will then
slaughter them.
"Will the senator from North Dako-
ia contend that ii is wise policy and
craftsmanship for us, as Americans, to
continue to feed the hogs Just because
they are hogs? In other words, to
protect these fellows, with tusks as
long as my arms, like Carnegie and
Schwab and that crowds"
An.A.,aas TiIInaan
Mr.. Tillman persisted in obtaining
an answer to his query, II hog ever
becomes grown. Finally Mr.. McCum-
ber became impatient and said:
Whatever the hog may have to say
about his growth is not question for
me. The American people, II you
want to apply that to the hog, will
say, have not got their growth yet.
The only Simon-pure honest American
in the world is the senator from South
Carolina. | have discussed and other
senators have discussed this question
very often with the senator from
South Carolina, and again and again
he has spoken from his seat chal-
longing the integrity of every senator
who may possibly disagree with him,
and do wish that for once In his life
the senator would get 1t out OF his
mind that the Lord Almighty has
placed all OF the sincerity and honesty
in the world and has tied them up In
his hide. 1t is not true. There are
other men that can be sincere. Mr.
President. who disagree with the SEN
ator from South Carolina"