Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-01-26

to $35 900 900 year and she took from us, un-
der this enormously high tariff, 50, 504, PAL worth
OF our breadstutfs. equal TO $2,376,060 per year
we, under the high tariff, taking about half as
much Of her goods, and she taking one hundred
times as much of our breadstufls. Yet the Secre-
tary and President say that low duties ALWAYS
have and always will increase the expectation of |
our breadstuffs! Yet the Secretary saws that if |
we 10 not take more British goods in pay for our
6readstutts, "England will have 10 pay specie for
our breadstuAs and, having it to spare, she will
take less or pay less for our colton.''
les, let the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr |
helmes) put these amounts down and disprove
them If he can. Let him take il to MIR. Walker
IL ne docs rot will send it TO him, and call up
on hun TO vndicate himself from the charge of hav-
Ing given his official sanction and the weight of
ms nigh station to these gross misstatements cal
euiated II not intended 10 deceive the people, He
mas stuffed every page almost of his report full of
oreaostuiis. But am mistaken if he will not be
sick OF his breadstuifs before all is over LAUGH I
In 1880 we imported cigh,y-six millions worth of
british goods and she took from us in breadstufls
the heavy amount of 81 ,6Sl that is we take Si6O
from her in her manufactures to every single cent
she takes from us in the form Of our breadstutis
And let 1t not be forgotten that of those very man
ufactures more than eighth part of the whole
value is made up of British breadstuils consumed
IN the making of the goods. (Nhen say Britain,
mean England Ireland, and Scotland, not her
dependencies
The gentleman from Illinois Mr.. McClernand)
congratulates himself very highly on the repeal of
The tariff of 1872 Now, he probably forges that
his own district consumed, in 1886, 1919. 0I3
worth of British goods TO every 1892 she took of
its agricultural Notwithstanding that his dis
rict consumes In proportion to all others. Yet we
are congratulated on the great increase in the ex-
port OF breadStulfS under low du,ies
What have here stated hold myself bound to
maintain. The statements cannot be successfully
contradicted They will not be contradcted
doubt whether it will be attempted. They may
reply, but they cannot and will attempt to dis
prove these facts. They are afraid TO denv and
ewered, probably, by a personal attack. Well,
so be 1t. j am used to personal attacks, but they
have not and cannot deter me from the fearless dis
charge of my duty on this floor.
Again: the Secretary says another thing. He
says that by the tariff of 1916 duties have been re-
duced from 100 and 200 Per cent. down TO 20 and
81 per cent. and three lrths Of the duty has been
taken of oil iron; and more than one half the duty
off of coal: and yet he says the price Of iron is
higher than 1t was before, and OF coal too. Well
SIR 1t the fact is 50, who then is benefited by the
reduction of the duty! The foreigner. most clear
ly, and the foreigner alone American consumers
pay more for their iron than they did before The
amount of the change is this, that the foreigner
brings his iron into our market, and the Treasury
loses three fitls Of the former duty. On such
c'o'c VI tn!S HlOtCI OF secretary cOnTTittl-
ates Pennsylvania and alludeS TO the result of the
late elections as speaking her approval Of his nan-
ciering!
will tell You one way in which he lowers dn-
ties He takes Off onehall tho duty On brandy and
puts 1t upon tea and coffee. He relieves the rich
mans brandy and burdens with heavy hand the tea
and coffee Of ''the toiIing millions" And for this
ne got the votes Of Pennsylvania! He takes near
Iy half of the duty off Of hats and fifty and thir-
ty per cent. Off Of cloths and shoes What for p
10 increase revenue. How will this increase rev
enue? BY increasing imports. He says he has
reduced the duiies onetlird, that now he must
import one hundred and fifty millions worth of
goods to get the same revenue that one hundred mil
lions gave under the tariff OK 1872 and he must
send fifty millions of dollars to pay for them. So
the foreigner sells us fifty millions to dspacc fifty
millions now made at home, without paying our
treasury one cent more Observation-Disclosures have
all the benefit and Americans bear all the loss.-
That is the beautiful policy of model President
and his model Secretary and pretty pair OF models
they are! laugh But there is a shadow O.
yer them! Old Rough and Ready is coming TO
correct all this anti American policy and sec Justice
done to the American people. Under this procious
doctrine of MIR. Walker must import six nil
lions more OF foreign iron 10 Get the duties we did
and leave So much Of our iron under the ground
Why must we take SO much more Of British iron
while England will not take any more Of our cot
ton?
Once more: this Secretary tells us that the uni
form effect Of high istooppress labor and that
OF low tariffs is to favor it. Ii will soon he saws.
become ''an automatic ruth" that ALL TARIFFS
are TAX upon LABOR. A tax on foreign goods
tax on our own labor Indeed | will adopt the
maxim, but with an amendment. move TO insert
the word ''foregn." All tariffs are a tax on TO-
reign labor. So they are when foreign labor comes
In competition with our own. But, to encourage
the latter, MIR. Walker takes the duty off Of foreiTn
labor and puts it on own The reduction in
ures to the benefit of the foreigner and the Trca-
ury loses the revenue
He says that low duties are always followed by
pnbhc prosperity; and he very modcstly says it
was the effect of his report of 1915, which was
published for the use Of Parliament, that produced
the repeal Ok the British corn laws Sir. the corn
laws are not repealed; they never were repealed
They were temporarily suspended, it is true and
IN a very few weeks they will again 90 into effect
The Secretary says it is susceptible of malhemaii-
cal demonstration that, in all countries, this and
every other, the public prosperity is advanced by
low duties. deny it. / say the very reverse is
the result of the whole experience of this country,
and will proceed TO prove it by the Secretary's
own official reports.
Here the Charman's hammer fell, and Mr. S.
resumed his seat
MIR. JOIINSON'S SPEECH