The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-26
industry would be destroy.

domestic industry would be destroy
ed.
Then we farmers will have to pay
to keep this industry going suggest
ed Mr.. Tillman.
The cotton growers and the corn
growers responded Mr.. Foster, will
have to help support this government,
and see no reason why they should
object to doing it through tax OF
this kind
No Trust in Louisiana.
Mr.. Foster declared that the indie
pendent sugar refiners were not in
collision with the trust and that the
trust had nothing to do with the sugar
production of Louisiana. Denouncing
the trust as having outraged every
principle OF honesty in trade, he still
appealed to the senate not to strike a
blow at the sugar industry in order to
punish the trust.
They should be punished" he said,
like criminals. Put stripes on them,
but do not strike down a domestic in
dustry."
Closely following his colleague, Mr..
McEnery spoke in support of the same
principles as had been upheld by Mr..
Foster Mr. McEnerv made no effort
to conceal his protective predictions.
"A tariff for revenue only he said,
was never contemplated by the build
ers of our great constitutional struc-
~ f4r
only has no place in our system OF
government No tariff can be levied
without carrying protection in any de-
gree"
No tariff, he contended, was ever
adopted by any democratic congress
or signed by any democratic president
without involving the principle of
protection.
The Wilson-Gorman law" he add
ed, was quite notorious for some OF
its protective features"
Calls Free Trade Absurd.
Raising his voice and for the time
abandoning his set speech. Mr.. Nc
Emery said:
TT Is gratifying that at this session
of congress we notice great change
of opinion among democrats who are
voting for duty on raw material. al
though at one time free raw material
was considered a cardinal principle of
the democracy. l hope that the con-
ditions of the country. its necessities
and the liberality generally that is
pervading all classes of the people
may dictate to the democrats the
abandonment of all the absurd theor-
les OF free trade and cause them to
come in with the great body of the
people and vote a liberal protection
for all the manufacturing interests of
the country, to make it as independent
as the fathers declared it should be
Of all foreign nations"
Mr.. McEnery stated that so far as
he could discover the Aldrich bill i'm
posed no injury to any domestic in
terest nor" he added. has there
been imposed in any of its schedules
any burden upon the people,"
After Mr.. McEnerv entered upon
his speech many republican senators
crossed the chamber and sat in rapt
attention nearby. Senators Aldrich,
Sutherland. Gamble, Scott, Page,
Smith (Mich.). Bristow, Root, Bradley,
Crawford, Burton, Johnson and
Stephenson closely attended upon the
words of the venerable Louisiana SEN
ator.
His remarks did not appear to be SO
popular among the democrats, as to-
ward the latter part of his address
only his colleague, Senator Foster, to-
gether with Senator Daniel gave him
special attention. Senators Overman,
Hughes and Bankhead occupied seats
on the outskirts of the democratic
side, but no other senators of the min
ority were within the chamber. Later
Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Bacon joined the
little group about the Louisiana sena-
tor.