Speech #550026539

The Senator from Texas . in a very able speech a few days since. made a powerful and eloquent plea for the "forgotten man." He said that everybody was ready to help the farmer with chin music. Indeed. it seems to be so. But I want to ask him and his side. when they appeal to us to vote for a 6 cent duty per yard on cotton cloth to protect the manufacfurer and then vote to leave the farmer to struggle under free trade. to compete with the pauper labor of the world. if they are not robbing him by the same method that our Republican friends do? The other day. when the amendment to pay the farmer an export bounty on wheat and cotton so as to put him on equal footing with the manufacturer was before the Senate. every Democratic Senator but three voted against it. Today you are ready to vote a protection of 6J cents a yard on cotton cloth for the manufacturer. but when you were asked to give the farmer an export bounty as long as the manufacturer has an import duty. you say no. it is against your principle.