The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 6, 1894, Page 2

a it NeARMMOND ON THE TARIFF The democratic conferees upon the part of the house, as well as those of the same party representing the senate, all true tariff reformers, real- izing from the first that it would be useless to agree upon what could not be adopted by both houses. Long ago it was discovered that the nominal democratic majority in the senate are and were men who are not with the democratic party on the | tariff issue. These few persons are really protectionists and therefore upon the tariff issue are really Re publicans. No such agreement as tariff reformers earnestly desire would be safe where these marplots could lay their hands on and destioy it. At length these conspirators against tariff reform, still wearing democratic livery, showed unmistak ably that they but await the oppor tunity to join their allies, the repub- licans, and by killing the bill which they voted for 40 days ago, defeat all tariff legislation for this session of congress There is but one way to put any tariff bill into law this year and that is by the concurrence of this house in the senateamendments. To again trust the bill to the unholy senatorial alliance of Republicans, unsound Democraes and the bounty seeking Populists is to lose it. I long for the dawning ot the day when nothing reasonably necessary for use in the family at the workshop or on the farm of any of the good people of this republic shall be made higher in price or more difficult to procure because of any tariff or other legislation,when congress shall never again make laws fo: the wealthy protectionists instead of the strug- gling poor; when out of the incomes of the rich instead of the necessities of the poor, shall arise the revenues of the Government. Indeed I would go so far for the relief of the masses that I was constrained to say of the Wilson bill last January when it was pending in the house. It is but a beginning, a first step on rough ground; but it starts us in the right direction by the right road, for we shall travel fast and journey far.” And so eager was I for athorough democratic reform of the tariff that ina letter which appeared in the St. Louis Republic a few weeks after our great victory at the polls in 1892, expressed the hope that congress might be called in extraor dinary session in the spring of 1893 to begin its work of reform, as the people had directed. It was my firm belief then, and has been ever since, that a grand opportunity was presented to Mr. Cleveland to begin lost for many, many vears. may we learn from our political eni mies to avoid the course which for their exhaltation and for our bumil-| iation they long to see us take. The demoentis party must do the} best it can do now for the good that must ensue immediately, greater good which doing our best to-day will enable us to secure in the future Any fair vince the that the law which we may now se comparison must con- most skeptical democrat cure the only one within reach, the house bill with the senate amend. ments, is incomparably better than the McKinley law. The average duty under the Me Kinley law is 47.10 per cent; under this bill as amended it is 38.68 per cent. The rate under the Mills bill was On an average 30.51 per cent. Under the bill which we now can make law, plows, harrows, reapers, mowers, planters, cultivators, horse- rakes, threshine machines, cotton ties, wool, lumber, salt and many other necessities now heavily taxed will be admitted Woolen goods, blankets, metal goods, glass free. ware, chemicals, carpets, hats, caps, boots, shoes, and very many other things, without which our people could not livein a state of civiliza- tion, will bear much Jower rates of duty than under the McKinley law The duty on lead and zine products is reduced one half and on coal and iron is almost one-half. A And then the bill carries the in- come tax not to punish the rich but to relieve the poor and equalize the burdens of .the government, many millions of dollars into the treasury this source How pluetocracy did struggle against this just tax, and how vain was the Neither greed nor treason could rob the plain peo- ple of the land of the relief which it will afford them. Some talk about the house sur- rendering to the senate erats of the house aud will pour each year from struggle! The demo- know no such For the good of the party, the good of the people, irrespective of party, we bow to the inevitable. We have no right to re ject that which will be of great ben- efit to our people merely because in this crisis we can not get something better. Wetuke this bill for the good it contains, and hope to legis- late away what is not good. Hence we camp at the close of this great battle—camp as victors on the field from which we have driven the ene- my. It is true the enemies have failen back upon other intrench ments. a word as surrender. and complete tariff legislation before its enimies could mass their forces by convening congress immediately after entering upon the presidential office in March, 1893, He lost for himself and his party the greatest political opportunity for a genera- tion. The republican party is the party of protection. Protection and tariff reform are implacable foes. Per- haps we may judge of the merits cf the bill as it passed the senate by noting the attitude of the Republi cans toward it. How do they re- gard the matter? What is their choice as between it and the Mc- Kinley law? No man who has been here or who has read the newspapers during the time of the tariff struggle need wait for an answer to these questions. All know the bill which by our vote we can now make law (for what mind outside of an asylum is so diseased as to harbor the thought or fear that the president would veto the best tariff bill that cau be passed at this time?) has had and still has the deadliest opposition to the republican party in and out of congress. The protecti onists, the mouopo lists, the founders and agents of trusts, desire no greater good for- tune than the failure of this bill and the continuance of McKinleyism. If we suffer this measure to be lost monopolists would hold high carti- val; protectionists would celebrate the peoples overthrow with bonfires and illuminations: poverty would groan in its hopelessness; idleness | would find promised labor vanishing a disappointed, disgusted people would turn deaf ears to those who) might essay to preach tariff reform: misery would become a national her- We democrats of the house shall at once amend the bill which we are about to adopt in so far as we can amend it by passing bills to put iron sugar, coal, and barbed wire upon the free list. And we shall follow these amendments with others until if we can have our way we shall have a tariff law that shall gather revenue from the people in proportion to their ability to pay and shall give trusts and monopolies their death blow. Republican protection has created and sustained and made powerful these trusts and monopo lies and it is not our fault nor the fault of our party if these public en- emies have found in one branch of congress a few friends who do not profess to be republicans. The pa- triots of the American revolution are not to be dishonored because Bene- dict Arnoldwas a traitor. If we do not now destrey the trusts and monopolies that oppress the people, it is because the Repub lican party has made them too strong to be overcome in the first battle. But when the bill now under consid- eration shall become a law, these foes of good government shall be less powerful. Even the Sugar Trust, about which we hear so much will see a sad day when its creator and benefactor, the McKinley law,is wiped from the statute book. Re- gave the people free sugar. | The claim is false. They gave the, trust free raw sugar and for the ben- efit of the trust taxed the people 60 cents upon each 100 pounds of re- fined sugar. Itis only the refined our people, and that, [ repeat, is not Well | and for the | publicans have pretended that they) sugar which enters into use among strong for us to throw off entively | | until the good people strengthen the | Democratic ranks in the Senate. And this is not all the Republicans jdid about sugar. They gave the | sugar growers of Louisiana and Ne-| braska about $10,000,000 in bounties. from the House on the first day of last February gave the people free | sugar in fact as well as in name, the a year| Now this bill as it went | 60 cents per 100 pounds given the/ McKinley law being wholly taken | jaway—left in the pockets of the peo | ple. | ‘The Senate amended the bill so as to take a little more money from the | | people as a sugar tax, to lessen the | extortious of the trust nearly one} half, and to keep ic the Treasury the! 310,000,000 of the people's money which the McKinley law takes out! yearly and gives away in bounties. And besides all this, the Senate] amendments will put into the Treas- ury over $40,000,000 yearly from the tax on sugar. What the people pay into the Treasury in sugar taxes is saved to them many times over by lower taxes or no taxes at all on many other things. And, as Ihave already said, the House Democrats will not let this day close without} passing through this body a bill to free sugar from all tax and make it cheaper than it eyer yet has been. | Surely, we shall not be expected to answer for the Senate, especially | for the undemocratic membership in that chamber. We have done the best we could do to give the people the full meas- ure of tarnff reform. We are today the best that can be done for the neople; and to their sound | judginent and sense of justice we appe:l for our to the | end tuat the Democratic party may carry doing | vindication, forward to triumphant ac-! comp ishinent the great work upon} which it has entered in earnest, and in which but few have faltered. Republican Policy Outlined. | If the Hon. Thomas B. Reed cor-} rectly outlined the policy of the Re-| publican party in his Orchard Beach | speech the other day, the Democrats | need have no apprehension of losing | their majority in the House as the | result of the coming The! policy of the Republican party, Mr. | will be on} McKin'ey | law, and the restoration of the Re- publiean party to power will result in the restoratien of the McKinley | law to operation. election Reed said in substance, the economic lines of the There are so many reasous ag gainst such a restoration that even the sug- | gestion of it is an insult co the in-| telligeuce of the people. That law is responsible for every trust and combination that has cursed the | country during the past three years. | It was the legalized process by | which the people were robbed of | over $200,000,000 a year. It was essentially the “culminating atrocity of class legislation,” which the peo- ple condemuedin unmistakable terms | in the election of 1890 and even! more emphatically repudiated in| 1892. It has been “weighed in the} balance and found wanting,” and if the Republican party will enter up-| on the campaign pledged to the res toration of that law, they stand de-/ feated at the outset of the contest. | Bui asa matter of fact there 18 | nothing else for the republican par- | ty to do but accept the defeat that is inevitable on that issue. During | the protracted session of congress the leaders of that party resisted by every available expedient the at- tempts to reduce taxes and introduce reforms in the revenue system. It is well known that but for this re.| sistance the new tariff law would have been passed from four to six} months earlier, and that the restora tion of prosperity would have fol- lowed then as certainly as it will en- sue now. In the face of this fact it is courageuos, if not altogether wise on the part of Mr. Reed to accept) battle on lines that make defeat cer-| tain.—K. C. Times. | eno eer ee te ae } | | | | | Clinton, Missouri. Mr. A. L Armstrong, an old druggist and a promiaent citizen ot this eater- prising town, says: ‘*I sel! some forty different kinds of cough medicines, bnt have never in my experience sold so| much of any one article as I hare ot | Ballard’s Horehonud Syrup. All who} use it say its the most pertect remedy | for cough, cold, consumption, and all! diseases ot the throat and lungs. they} | stands today king ‘ed the starters stand Robert J jas steady as a clock aud jword 4 and | county. hayeever tried.” It is a specific for) |free under the M>Kinley law, but) croup and whooping cough. It will re-| taxed 60 cents upon each 100 pounds; | lieve a cough in one minute. Contains itage and a great cause would be and the 60 cents is given to thejno opiates. Sold by H L Tucker, drug- jtrust. No wonder this trust is too| gist 3 ROBERT J. IS NOW KING. He Made the Fastest Mile Ever Paced in Harness.—He Lowers the Rec- ord to 2:033. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 31.—Mas- cot, Flyin Jib and Naacy Hanks have been aud Robert J.) f harness horses. The great son of Hartford, driven, by Ed Geers today made the fastest dethror |mile ever paced in harness, lcwering the world’s record of 2:04 to 2:033 In addition to the three events, the} card today cortained three specials. | The track was in excellent condition and the weather was warm with a) a light breeze, but not enough to in | terfere with good work. Lady Houk was the first to at | i . | tempt to beat her time of 2:194, ard she clipped off one-fourth second, | 2:19}. Then Alix. | The great crowd was deeply interest ed when Driver McDowell nodded to Starter Walker for the word, and away went the little mare at a clip oy making came |ping rate, and without a skip pull- ed in under the wire in her record time. 2074, next caused enthusiasm by palling off the half second and giving herself a new rec- ord of 2:07. | Then came the event of the day. | Fanutasp, 2 HEALTH i —ALTA COMFORT WORRY woRK FOR ALL WOMEN WHO USE -CLAIRETTE SOAP SOLD EVERYWHERE "> THENK FAIRBANK COMPANY. St.Lous. . J. HURLEY, P-evimest. /BUTLER, DEAL a Excitement was at a fever heat when | G ral n Seeds F i ced that Robert J./ ) ’ it was announced Geers was confident that he would equal his record yet not would go. anyone eX mination. down the track with a running mate banging on his wheel, but the silent | ~ }man was not fully satisfied and the | Again Geers }scored down the track, a3 he near word was not given. was going like the wind. the Geers nodded for Starter Walker and Robert J. started off like an ex- | press train On to the first quarter he sped in | 303; everybod watched the half and} when that was passed in 1:01) the) nerves of 5,000,000 | {wrought to the people was | tension. | a trifle, but | threequarters post was | passed in 1:334 all were certain the; world’s record would be broken | Geers again let the great horse out, | and as he swung into the highest Geers slowed up just when the home stretch down he came like the wind jand crossed the wire ir 2:033, ing the last quarter seconds. mak | in just thirty The crowd was almost! breathless until the wire was cross- ed. and as the time was caught by hundreds of watches, ove mighty shout rent tha air, and it was a most enthusiastic demonstrations that} |took place. 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