Show SHORT TARIFF LESSONS Whilst the Republican members of Congress Con-gress are filling tho Congrcssional Record with the brochure From Plymouth Rock to McKINLEY extracts from the American Economist and other arguments and quotations quo-tations in favor of the perpetuation of a tariff for robbery only there aro little gems they should not emit from some of the great minds of their party For instance along with other extracts there might be given the following from speech by JAMES G BLAINE delivered in the House of Representatives Rep-resentatives Juno 10 1S6S During the entire far when we were seeiing everything on earth and in the slues and in the waters under tho earth out of which taxation I could be wrung it never entered into the conception con-ception of Congress to tax breadstuffs Never During the most pressing exigencies of the terrible ter-rible contest in which we were engaged neither breadstuffs nor lumber everbecamo the subject of one penny of taxation a Now as to the articlo of lumber I again remind the House that there never has been a tax upon this article ar-ticle I say that whenever the western frontiersman front-iersman undertakes to make for himself a home to till the soil to carry on the business of life he needs lumber for his cabin he needs lumber for his fence he needs lumber for his wagon or cart ho needs lumber for his plow ho needs lumber for almost every purpose in his daily life James G Blaine June 10 18613 from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives Representa-tives |