Show senator cannons position the congressional record con tain ing senator cannons proposed ex p rac bounty amendment to the tariff bill and his comments thereon as at hand the speech is a little remarkable as the telegraphic report indicated fora professing protection ht to utter he argues that the dingley bill affords no protection to agriculturalists tura lists and gayy the 25 cents a bushel on ia a delusion and a an are the farmer he argues is made to bear the whole burdens of the protective system in support of the manufacturing industries the burden is more than he can bear then speaking of the remedies for this condition senator cannon says that there are three one alie restoration of money conditions the second remedy and one which I 1 as a believer in protection would be ready to accept rather than to hold to and vote for an inequitable bill would be absolute free trade and the third would be an export bounty restoring a portion to the farmers for the higher price he is compelled to pay in protected markets As the dingley bill in its present shape is called an inequitable qui table bill senator cannone Cannon 8 threat is that he will vote against it unless his export bounty idea is adopted it is estimated that if the proposed export bounty is adopted it will take to pay it based upon the exports of the last fiscal year senator sewell wanted to know where that amount was coming from how was it going to be raised senator cannon replied that friends of the pending bill predicted a surplus and acme of that surplus could be asod or if no surplus be on hand then the billion dollar appropriations he thought could be cut down a hundred million dollars senator chandler then said may I 1 ask the senator from utah a question certainly replied senator cannon i mr chandler I 1 heard the senator of robbery a little while ago with reference to the tariff dues the senator mean that the farmer has f been robbed all these years by the that the senators argument mr cannon ats sir decidedly mr chandler when did the senator first that the american tariff system was a robbery of the farmer mr cannon just so soon as the senator gave sufficient attention to the subject to understand the truth of it I 1 advocated republican tariffs as earnestly and as faithfully in my humble way as the senator from new hampshire and I 1 believed exactly what I 1 taught I 1 believe in a protective tariff system in the united sates today because I 1 think that any nation which will not guard its own must perish and I 1 believe the world ia at this time in a the of which will be the survival of the un fittest if america does not pro tact herself but I 1 am not disposed any longer to advocate a system by which one portion of the population is taxed for the benefit ot another portion of the population I 1 think that it is unfair to cherish only one class and that the class which has already the most power of aeu protection if the senator from new hampshire will go across the plaine of kansas aej have gone and across the plains of nebraska if he will eee the leopla there who toil from early morn till dewy eve seeking to build up those states if he will witness their struggles if he will bee farms abandoned because mn can not pay the mortgages thereon I believe in him sufficiently to think h ewell come back and say that this bill ia robbery of the american farmer mr Chandler Mr president I 1 sympathize the cla sa to whom the senator has referred 1 l have al ways believed that a properly nd austed tariff would help them instead of harming biem but I 1 did not know until today that the has tf t f t K advocated the tariff all this time thought all ahe while that it was rob bery of his people mr cannon why mr president the senator from new hampshire is scarcely fair I 1 have stated that I 1 am in favor of a protective tariff system instated that in the guiltlessness of my being a republican I 1 out and advocated the republican idea 0 a protective tariff I 1 never was brought quite so close to responsibility concerning it before as I 1 am today heretofore I 1 have discussed on the stump advocating it in general terms but as soon as I 1 am confronted with responsibility which obliges me to look more closely into its application to all the people I 1 am simply discharging my duty when I 1 seek to amend this measure so that it shall be honest to all the senator ought to know if the agricultural classes of the united states do not thrive in contentment there is no safety to the lic there was another nation in its day as mighty as this republic the greatest upon which the sun then shone and its people engaged in agriculture sunk lower and lower until the freeholder who was obliged to borrow money had to give a mortgage not only upon his land but upon laid crops and upon himself and wife and his children and the unborn child in its mothers womb in order to satisfy the when the time came the roman eagles were unclouded clouded en in the middle ages and uness we 5 do something to arrest this robbery I 1 say it deliberately mr president the robbery of this bill for protective tariff we too will have our bitter lesson |