| Show HOW SENATOR CALL WAS CRUSHED AMONG the strongest and most moat consistent opponents of the force bill is senator call of ef florida his speech in the senate on the of De december oember was logical forcible and full of facts and figures which demonstrated both that the bill to is unnecessary so far as an its pretence predence pre tence of protecting the colored people in the south to te concerned and that it to is a party scheme intended to subvert instead of promoting that govern ment of the people which is essential n to true republicanism the liberal organ in this city atten attempted apted yesterday to make it appear that the able senator from florida was crushed in the debate by mr aldrich of rhode island this crushing catastrophe was waa brought about so the organ asserts by the statement that the operatives of Rhod eIsland have in the savings banks enough to buy the whole state of Flor florida lda this in answer to the declaration of mr call that the operatives of rhode island were more poorly paid than the negro laborers of florida PY reference to the debate as published in the congressional record shows that instead of being crushed senator call rose above the interruptions of his rhode island opponent and effectually pounded the padding out of that gent lemans threatening bag of sophistry Senator Call alluding to the pretended sympathy of republicans public ans from the north for the poor colo colored men of the south read from the report of the interstate commerce commission for 1889 which showed the condition of the farming and laboring people of a number of the northern states where the land Js Is mortgaged at ruinous rates of interest and whre wh are re the laboring people receive starvation wages one passage of the report states that the returns of actual wages paid to M I 1 employed emp loyes including both se selea aes being 6 per cent of all the persons employed in the manufacturing grid and mechanical industries of massachusetts show that per cent of all males receive less than 6 per week per bent 5 but under fa 6 and per cent 6 but under 7 11 the report goes on to say that thoe males principally minors who comprise 2061 per cant or about one fifth of all males average less leas than 1 per day of all belales females employed per cent whether minors or not are paid daid similar wages on the other hand 1111 per cent ot oi all males receive 9 but under 10 per week 1371 1871 per cent 10 but under 12 1937 per cent 12 but under 15 and na 1949 per cent 15 or over I 1 mr call was interrupted repeatedly by wilson of iowa hoar of massachusetts spooner of wisconsin aidrich Aldric hof of rhode island and others but with his usual courtesy and gentlemanly forbearance he be yielded to their intrusion upon his time and met their queries with such directness and force that their intended shafts fell harmless and he rewA remained ined master of the situ aaion the debate showed that while the actual money wages paid the colored men of florida appe appeared areil to be even less than those of massachusetts and rhode island yet their circumstances were so different and their perquisites so valuable as to i rend render tr their condition vastly superior to that of the poor underpaid toilers boilers of the north that the negroes had bad houses to jive in a of land 1644 to ull till and food suM supplied fled and their money wages were net gain while obtaining these common necessaries absorbed all the wages of the laborers of the north therefore this clam are not the owners of the amounts in the savings banks for their small earnings are insufficient for a bare living senator call not only dug deep into the question loo of wages but he proved that the nonvoting non voting population ot of the north was of greater proportions than in the south aud that therefore the claim that the bill was vas to meet the necessity of protecting the colored voter was a a vain pretence predence pre tence we have not space or inclination to take up this question as presented by y mr call in detail but simply reply to the untruth that he was crushed either in person or in argument by the rhode island senador or any others of his fierce and rattled ambi assailants lants the liberal or organ garil winds up its diatribe on the distinguished senator in this way by the way senator call is one of the ment gentlemen lemen who has always maintained a withering fear that any effort to make the sovereignty of the united states supreme in uta utah h would be trenching drenching tren ching on religious liberty he lost interest in the sovereignty of that government thirty years ago and not like many who took the same view then mn he has aa been a fraud ever since Inde edhe was born bora IL a fraud in that paragraph lies the excuse for this liberal Lib fral attack upon the senator from florida he is a champion of religious liberty and would extend it to the cormons mormons Mor mons as well as all ail other worshipers in christendom that to is sufficient to grouse arouse the animosity of the liberal vipers that would sting to death all who dare to differ with them in religion or in politics senator calas arguments on constitutional freedom which is guaranteed to all people alike are simply unanswerable they have never been refuted or even met by his adversaries ver saries calling him a fraud will not affect him or his position coming from such a source it is ie a to his talents and hie courage to show how bow he was crushed in 11 this debate on the force bill we connot do bettor better than to dip from the bee kewra the closing sentences new of his able speech are senators whose states and people created chattel slavery with its commercial features are senators from whose states a slave trader the importer of slaves from africa as aa in the state of rhode island was sent here to represent the slave siave trading interests of of the commonwealth are senators from states tha banished and exiled the colored people and sold them and put the money in their pockets and I 1 understand my friend from delaware be delaware laware mr higgins who expressed so mu munh much nh indignation against the rhe slave holders and slavery is a member of a slaveholding slave holding family famil grown up with the institution to speak in terms of condemnation of toe the people who were forced by circumstances against their own protest and against their will to receive these slaves driven from massachusetts who were exiled by their law which made it an offense for any negro to go into the state for these southern people who under the influence and tavo favorable rable conditions of soil and climate received these people and under whose fostering care as members of the same f family amily they were protected in their personal rights and subjected to less of of cruelty than today prevails in all of our great commonwealths in the north cruelties cruel ties in the domestic relation murder heads out off wives and husbands poisoned for these people who in their relations with these southern states are in abundance and comfort protected in their property interests with the GOB gospel preached too to them members of the church growing relations of mutual comfort and mutual dependence into a people numbered by millions for these people for whom even the disasters of the war and the freed mans bureau and the intermeddling of politicians seeking their own promotion seeking their own wealth seeking their own party advantage for these people whom even these adverse causes could not divorce from their friendship and their dependener depend enee and their confidence and on the other hand could not separate from the affection and the friendship of the whito white people are these people to be assailed and a bill of this kind fro proposed under the pretence predence pre tence th that at ft I 1 is necessary to enable the negroes to vote when in the state of oregon in the state of connecticut in the state of massachusetts in the state of rhode island in all the republican states there is zevahere reVa t today y by the statistics which I 1 will read here and publish which were prepared by my colleague mr pasco and I 1 give him the credit for his careful observation and accurate cu study of these statistics more complete than can be found sn n the previous speeches upon the subject t say sav mr president under these cir with this record of re republican klicar states qualified male voters not voting and in the democratic state 1484 including the southern SM states with fth this thin census lepor record is 9 athla bill to DO be propose proposed U and advocated oca on the theo theory of hardship haro hip as the senator from wisconsin us in M mr r spooner neej said because some som 0 J judge u dge had sent some negro to jan jail for failing fidlin ir to perform his contract to borki wor work these them idle pretense a are put forth to herald alfr and sustain a bill in the interest of capital and aristocracy the twin sinter of the ley bill which pours its ite tribute by the the hundreds of millions million of dollars into the pockets of individuals tribute taken from the poor 0 0 r ana mans home and from the blosl clothing n of hi his wife and children and from tee e wares which are necessary to eat his humble food upon aggregating in the maw mass not hundreds of millions but thousands of millions of dollars and supplemented ted here by a bill to forbid the people I 1 0 of f th the country from brom ever relieving reig r and rid p protecting themselves it looks as if the great farmers alliance demanding free money and cheap money demanding cheap transportation which is practicable ana aad demanding now new financial measures which are practicable and open tair fair discussion should be accorded them it would seem as if this were a bill thrown in the very teeth of this demand of the people for relief and designed to perpetuate as in my ani judgment it is the imposition and the tribute which great bounty fed monopolists nopo lists have fastened upon them |
