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The Tariff

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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air. Diurno canea up iuö ruHoiuuun leclaring tuut aiiy radical cbange in our ariiï at, this tube would bè inopportuuu, ind said tbat he did so íor tlio purpose sf having a vote thereon. Mr. Bock objocted, and said tbat lic iroposed to discusa the resolution as ully as ho could. A debato' followed 8 to when the rcBolution of Mr. Blaine should be conBidered. Mr. Beek said tliat all the troublcp now oxiating in tlio country grew out of ;he fact that wo liad built a wall around om'selvcR aud (ionfined our traile to ourselves. Under our present tariiï systera ïfwas impossible for us to compete with any other nation for the trade of any other pcoplo. Uutil tho system should bo cbanged thero would be no prosperity in this country, no matter what might be done abont gold, greenbacks, or anything else. Tho country -was growing poorer aud poorer evcry day on account of this tariiï. He read the resolution of the St. Louis Democratie Convention in regard to tariff. Mr. Wal lace asked if the same party at its previous Natior al Conventiou, did not remit the samo subject to the Congre88ional districts. Mr. Sargent - Did not the oonvention remit it to the CoDgressional districts beoause it norninated the chief of Protectionists - Horaco Greeley ? Mr. Beek, continuing his remarks, denounced the present tarilï, and said the other day a great parade was made wheu tho steamship City of Para was launched The President and Cabinet went to the launch, and Representativos and Sena tors were in attendance. Mr. Koacl may ]iave built lliat ship as cheap as i could be built in Eugland, and an En glish vessol laden with similar good might sail side by side -with tho City o Para to a South American port - Valparaíso, for instaiice. Upou arriving there tíie Englishman would Bell bis goods and take those of the peoplo of Valparaíso in exchange. He would land them free in England, where they would e manufacture;!. Mr. Roach could not sell his goods, because the peopie had no inoney, and he could not take their goods in exchange, because it would cost him f rom 40 to f 0 per cent, in gold to land them at any of our porte. We might build ships and send them out with cargoes, but they could not bring cargoes home on account of our protective taxiff. The time -was coming when men on this floor and il the other end of the Cnpitol must cease to legislate to protect monopolista, or other men would be sent in their places. He reieired to the works of R. J. Walker and other writers on this subject, and said he proposed hereafter to refer to them more at leugth. JJcloro concluding his remarks he yielded to Mr. Blaiuo, who replied to his argumente, and said he tbought it one of the anomalie of American politics tttat the sent of Hemy Clay in the Senate was the place from whicli a free-trtide argument should be mado. Blaino argued that it was the sentiment expressed by the Senator from Kentucky (Beek) in his remarks which held back the advancoment of the Southern country today. The Senator had referred to the tariff of Kobert .T. Walker. Did he know it led to bankruptcy and ruin ? Ho (Blaine) was glad to seo developed a littlo eulÜMon nmoug his frienda on the other sule of the subject, lieferring to tlio argument of Mr. Beek, that our ships could not get a return cargo, he said the Senator -was mistaken. It was weli known we took n great deal more irom South America than we sent there. ïhere was no more agitatioa iu tliat country than this m regard to the tarilï.

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