Show BILL DISASTROUS 1 OR fARMERS gator tor McCumber McCamber Asserts iller ke Have Themselves t I Chiefly y to Blames Blame s ITS COUNTRY COUNTY LOST I BALANCE LAST YEAR es iKes ires Bitter Speech in the Senate Condemning Reciprocity I. I n TON Feb 25 for tor the conditions with nth which Ii ire re now floW confronted was charged put to the farmers themselves by Mor McCUmber of ot North Dakota to to- rin a s speech in the senate against McCall bill which puts into form fonn into law the provisions A Canadian reciprocity agreement r folding iMing that tho the ratification of the thc thee e meat eest would woold spell pell disaster for the I Ii i interests the senator said baving harln loaned their ears to th the ent nt urged for lower rates of f dut duty time bf of tho the passage c of the bill and their having haing their votes otes in the tho ensuing elec clec- zO the orpo opponents of those memo mem- net cf who had voted with 10 the tho two to houses had been of ot the farmers that when a t crusade t r the bolo T tariff system was II St n in the press 14 natural natUm lost balance and Cry c Jj She he be tariff bi bill was conf conof con con- H of t f Tree Frea I t we needed the money he lie tied oed to torun tho the run government go 1 sight of and a aae wave wa of or free that would havo o destroyed e of p protection and left without t revenue swept wept is i country Cum Me er referred to the sec see i i that developed in the tariff and nd the desire desiro of one ono part of try itzy to have havo its own products I whilo while those of another part lart made to c compete with k brou brought ht in in from abroad z of of or lii tins tin's s t turmoil a new political born born j and the hero bero of each loiis lo lo- ns lie be who cried Protection of ofIK hiDi hing IK that we produce and free freeL i a 1 L everything the rest of the produces cs This is is tho I fos fOj ot of the present ke h e end to all an this madness hut out Mr McCumber was plain plains s The farmer had harl been poi by ty the virus irus with which tho po po- had been impre and he be in too many ins instances n alI the others turned against bo had labor labored d for his bis benefit Ither tr destroyed them or punished u greatly diminished majority majori ty ned fd ed for tor Voting With Aldrich 18 sufficient no matter what he ho hoye b ye ve e do dono no to protect tho interests own state for a senator or a n tati e to tot have e been cau caught bt pi li times voting the same sunie wa iva- way of the tho committee ou on oue e bad voted nt said Mr r. McCumber sot je bo censured for his ad cube the reciprocity agreement ut The Thc bad shown bv Lv their votes last t they had not wanted to rei rel re- re l i the thi representatives es who had do- do interests in tho tariff le leg leg- pa and that meantime the farmers ithe Mt earo ct-earo taro care whether they icy were pro pro- gor I not r e buti punishment however howe said sad was wab no part of his He did not believe in r pon the farmers by the enact enact- the McCall McCaU bur bill when theirs I n the mild offense e of ha having l' l by hy bythe the press and aud mn maga a. a of the countr country eaker heM held that no rio class were lly My ted bv by the measure as lie to dwelt upon the tho 10 to the farmers of the United that Hat lay lav in throwing open this 7 for tor the he free catty of farm farmis is ts from a a. territory so 50 rich in soil as northwestern Can Can- Not Needed PT r dt city saul said the speaker was M ed to increase this country's Canada anada it is increasing as asI asfor I for tho the farmer was made and k er r sounded sounder a note noto of warn warn- H Mid laid to those senators who ft the tho rep rep- great cities with j their onor- onor cry ery great is not deter In favor of him who strikes rikes the I ry said Mid ld f-ld Mr Mr- McCumber but O ot of him bim who strikes tho the last t ty y-ou y Ou strike the thc great reat cc ce n lid l o k interests of the tho north north- rill il 8 a staggering ta Peering terin blow but butan It TJ ar an and return that blow terest er |