Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-03-25
Hon. j. +. Stevenson,in Il speech
the House of Representatives,, on
the 18th iist.t on the subject OF the
tariff. thus oayc his yicws


the 18th inst, on the subject OF the
.tfrifT, thus gave his views.
" vhcrc and how shall VIC relieve them as
tptW ~ iif: hiay guar in the posi- ion
J .is,..lmc I" occupy. that of "A ncutral between
tw" "l ,shas sections Of our paroles but rep
neiEs ny c)nstitu ntS IL Onsuners, of II c
!r c.cS cniDia-c in this bill, i ask that we be-
III our reduct on with the neccssarics of life
a d the raw materials of manuiscture. And
fst, tea, coffee, sugar tho. u articles which
,.icertic spiri., s-re" st.,cit the frame, aud
srasify the palate Of the MASSES of the people
J .cy enter beneath every mans roof from The
,,.ub. palace 10 the thltched c.lbin from the
l,auaion OF the mil lliohatirs to the frecdman's $
hdm!ic hc.nc LetCs relieve the people by
,ou.ntsoc Of Ways and Means appreciate the
t.' hi:ss ofti" people and gin wl:h tea and
'oflee but they DO not go far enough. These
tnen' are taxes upon the necessarics of life
They are taxes about equally levied on the
IL, aieh and the poor; an that is inequality :
These taxes. touch the poor mans penny
and the widows mite. I.-inoye them.
hid thought .hat we mi Ght afford also to
hi.s sugar Tree; .'ut US the rcven nc from tlat
artihle is 50 large. and rs Cuba appears to be
coming Ln,.er the flag, and v hen she comes
..t soiye the question for us, am willn. to
} la, somewhat my views Oh this question in
Ind atXt We want coal free. AS we are told
ever anil over again bv the eloquent Repre-
scatativcs of he noble Stale of Penus ylyaI1ia
co;il is one of the prime necessities OF life
Ciytl!z.Si III can IL iJL ,;r Il, wftho 1t It, 1t is
necessity for fuel 1t is the source of the
power that driN Ne5 III tchinery which repre-
>cn.> more labor than the men who Use it,
We are toll that the duty Oh coal is not
nccted BY its producers; that Pennsylvania is
at last able to do without protection on her
coal. am gla to hsIr it. But may be ask
cd, why shall we not let the tariff remain to
ihake our own producers the masters of the
and let whoever viii come in with coal
cno!sh, perhaps, to prevent anybody monop
',lizing ;as mSrket Perhaps they can bring
30! purpose.
Thcn wart salt free. It is ith pain
f.a upon this subject, because sit SO near
II ni ighbOr to my estimable and ami iable friend
from Kew YORK (Mr. Mccarthy, whose heart
s;cin: p ac preserved in salt. tLanghtcr.l
am am Willing, ;,s however, to compromise with him
bounty ON their discOvc, by his enterpris
ing constituent; but | cntrcat him to set sal
free. / may be somewhat supcrstitious, b,i1
there seems a kind of DISSERTATION in laying
the hand of taxation upon this prime article
oI human life to tax the salt of our bread in
q country where salt flows freely from the
earth and 10 ribbed in rock-likc cliffs; and
siy to my friends on this side of the House II
there Was nothing else iii the question except
The political considerable II y ould be better
Tor us as party to Ray out Of our Treasury tC
N.w York all tic bounty She asks and give
lac country Tree salt But my friends from
t.cw ork wish to 90 to tif!c-Water. The bus.
iness IL so p, os pcr0us that they can actually
20 to sea and compete with the foreigner il
supply Ing tue nardy fisherman and undersel
hinr III wnUsc favor we remit the duty; nv
tney have grown SO strong that they cross tfle
Lakes and att .ck the foreign producer on hi.
own soii apd undersell him. yet they mus
have u premium from us.
We want cheaper pig iron. AS coal drive:
the machinerr, so iron forms it. Civilian ion
coul'l neither stand nor move without these
two elements. Why is it-let some man learn
cd in the irtlicaeies of the tariff system an.
swer-wby is it We import SD much Of the
i2her forms Of manufactured iron, and so lit.
tie pig iron? 1t must be eithe, that the tari1
On manufactured Iron is too low, or the tari1
ON pig iron Is too high.
But, say gcntiemen. We want a tn riT In thu
interest di labor. There is more labor in !:
poi nd OF the finely manufactured article oil
iron Than in u ton Of pig iron. Let us brinf
in the raw material at u reduced rate, and le
ourown skilled labor work it up. when here. -
And we haye not enough skilled labor le
more come TO us from foreign countries ir
trcater numhtr. Let the fcrcign Labor
siaye," as he is called, dig under ground. an,
niue in the earth whiic our people work W it'll
Industry in the air, and in the light.