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Show SMrOT TELLS WHO IS REJOICING Duting tho recent discussion on tho tarlfC bill Senator titcd Smoot told tho people of tho United States Just who was rejoicing over tho Underwood tariff bill. Hero Is what Utah's Senator said: Mr. President, who Is rejoicing over the prifpect of tho passage of this bill? . Not tho Aiiieti'cnn manufacturer or the American laborer England Is rejoic.ng; Germany Is rejoicing; I'runcfi In rejoicing; every foreign country is lejolcln. I want to say to the Senators upon tho other s.'do of this Chamber I have a collection collec-tion of articles from all these countries nhpwing how their manufacturers are preparing to Invade the American market. Ilemember, every additional addition-al dollar Imported means that much less for tho American laborer to produce. I am not h calamity calam-ity howler. Thero never was a time ln tho history his-tory of tho country when you could put your tar-ilf tar-ilf rales Into force with ns little disturbance to business ns tho present. Prosperity Is almost unl-vernal unl-vernal The cost of everything Is high all over the world. In England, In Germnny, ln France, and In every civilized coutry men are well employed. em-ployed. There Is n demand for goods, nnd they .' command a high price. I hope to see this condition con-dition of affairs continue, but I know It will not do so fniever. It may for ono, two, three, or four jenrs; but I shy to my Democratic brethren now Clint vhenevcr tho tlmo comes that prosperity cerffs In Europe and hard times aro the universal co' dltlon In the world, ns was tho caseln J893, the foreigner, before he closes his business, is going to Invade the American market, and then Is the tlmo when our working men will be out of employment. Whether this condition will occur oc-cur r.txt year or the year after I am not prepared to sny, but I do know when It comes the result will 1)- the same as It was in 1893 and your party wll' bo retired from power for another quarter t." n century. j. j. j. |