Tariff Speech of Hon. Nils P. Haugen, of Wisconsin, in the House of Representatives, May 12, 1888 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Tariff Speech of Hon. Nils P. Haugen, of Wisconsin, in the House of Representatives, May 12, 1888 History records no such supreme insight into affairs "not palpable or apparent" to the citizen or legislator since the days of "Good Queen Bess" until the reign of Grover the First. But the alarm seems to have faded away as gently as the last echoes of the Presidential message. While his fellow-partisans took up its sad retrain and carried it to every nook and corner of the land, the people of the United States, confident in the strength and stability of their institutions, refused to be convulsed. The public mind and business confidence are certainly as composed as at the date of the message. As a prophet of evil the President is a failure. Even this Democratic House betrays by its masterly inactivity its failure to appreciate the warning signal of impending danger, for, although the alarm note was sounded in early December, no remedy is proposed by the Democratic Committee on Ways and Means, the only source from which it could originate, before the middle of April. Suspicion might suggest that Democracy fears to meet the issue recklessly precipitated upon it by the President without first hearing from its nominating convention in June, and that the interval has Seen purposely bridged over by inaction. The next few weeks will disclose whether this is well founded. The bill before us, Democrats say, is intended to meet the danger of an accumulated surplus in the Treasury. I believe as firmly as any Democrat that no more revenue should be collected than necessary to meet the expenses of the Government economically administered. But parsimony is not economy. I would pay the nation´s just debts and moral obligations as well. I would at least make an honest effort to fairly, equitably, and liberally compensate the heroic veteran volunteer soldiery, whose prowess in its death throes preserved the nation´s life and integrity. I would consider with liberality, without wastefulness, the imperative needs of our internal commerce, and improve our great national highways, recognizing that to the interior portions of the country the navigability of our lake and river routes furnishes the surest safeguard against extortionate railway charges. The President entertains different views. He vetoed the dependent pension bill; as well as the river and harbor appropriation bill passed by the last Congress. It might well be asked, was there premeditated malice in this? Had he signed those hills, as Congress by its well-considered action said he ought, and the needs of the country demanded that he should, the excess of our income over our expenditures during the last fiscal year would not have added alarmingly to the surplus, and, what is of more importance, it would have been an act of humanity in the one case, relieving thousands of sufferers, and in the other would have cheapened the cost of transportation of every bushel or grain carried from interior and Western States to the seaboard. For some inexplicable reason - unless he considered it necessary to create a surplus, so that he might have some pretext on which to base his attack upon the protective system of the country - be failed to meet the reasonable expectations of his countrymen. Now, using this surplus, for which he is individually largely responsible, as a shield, he proceeds to launch against the enterprise, the genius, the thrift of the people the venomous darts of free trade by parading in his message the surplus us the necessary result of what he is pleased to term the "vicious, inequitable, and illogical tariff" And to his stubborn resolution his party bows in abject submission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.f
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