Show A RINGING SPEECH benjamin Butter wortis ee marks on the tariff issue THE SILVER tongued SENATOR jones of heyada on the tion of silver bully for the bonald senator from our regular correspondent TOX D C M ay iy ag 1890 the of tiie M eek m congress baia the speech ot hon benjamin butterworth republican member trim he said j reat deal and u more than he said he lias out of the republican on alie tann iague and will not be shipped back it r courage for A man to step of ane party lines for the of stating wholesome truth but mr was equal to the occasion and laile he has no doubt invited ane displeasure of the blind party press the people vh become tired of the buich ot the party basli will applaud his mr Buner woith faaiu eliat atie price ol 01 an article aa not reduced on account of competition aloff it was reduced on account of the improve a methods of manufacture the committee had tried to do thy best it could in raming the bill but it was not always safe to work applause on the democratic side fie had indicated his belief respecting the proper function of j tariff act and would sooner resign his seat than depart one hairs breadth from that belief of course he respected the wisdom of alie committee but eliy was paul favored and peter turned down why increase the profits of certain classes he could name capitalists 11 hose profits had exceeded those of all the in any state of the union democratic 1 applause if when we had protected equally and lifted up all our industries and the time should then come when we could not hold our own bein tho most intelli gerit the freest and ablest people on earth then we had better retire from the field democratic applause mr butterworth then proceeded to expound his views touching reciprocity with canada he said that we were to cultivate relations with people to the southward and yet were afraid of canada abraham lincoln and ulysses S grant were not suspected of lack of patriotism yet they favored reciprocity there were some things in the bill he did not like he had known of the industry that had been able to make dividends on a capital of protection why the country could in such cases better afford to keep these men in the fifth avenue hotel pay their board and expenses and set them up in the banking business he favored proper protection but these men held the world in their grip when lie said that he did not favor that kind of protection he was told you are not sound on the tariff the time is come when some little concern should be shown to american homes and american fi resides A graat body of employed emp loyes in this country was foreign in some factories in the east they were known on the ros by numbers because of unfamiliar ity with their names he did not be lieve it was wise or prudent to make such a sweeping reduction in sugar to be supplanted by a boutty what he wanted tu avoid were bubli features as he bad pointed out in thid bill there was a thing aa paying too much or an industry the csire ath tinplate the duty would be a tax on every farmers on every can of goods the tax won d amount to 50 before the manufacturers of tinplate could declare a dividend he was anxious eliat his party should not take a balse step the t ilver tongued senator jones from the erstwhile silver state of nevada a five hours silver speech in the senate this week and demonstrated to ilia own satisfaction at least that the cloud had a silver lining I 1 will give you some of liis jingle balver and activity will replace stagnation movement will supplant inertia courage will banish fear confidence will doubt j hope will supersede despair the act of congress which shall happily solve it will constitute a degree of emancipation as veritable as any that ever freed serf from thralldom but more universal in its application it will proclaim the freedom of the white race the world averit will lift the bowed head of labor it arill hush the threnody of toil it will inaugurate tho true renaissance renaissance of which industry learning science literature art are but apples of sodom bully for the bonanza senator no sophomore could have done prettier A bill in which the country is greatly interested was introduced in the senate yesterday by mr edmunds it is to be ed here the university of the united states and the bill provides for a corporation to be governed bv a board of regents the president secretary of state secretary of the treasury secretary of war secretary the attorney general postmaster Port master general secretary of the interior secretary of agricultural chief justice of the united states and twelve citizens of the united states all branches of education are to be tausha |