The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-10-25

an elegant imported switch. She
asked the salesman, Where did you
get that switch ?" And his answer
was, Imported from New York"
I Laughter If men and women
want any Of those silks and satins
and ribons who cares?
Brandy, liquors, champagne and
perfumeries paid last year $780,
900, but Kelly's Island champagne
is good enough for the poor man.
Tobacco and snuff paid s4,700,000,
but no man was obliged to pay any.
thing and from the cigars that have
been given me since | came to the
city, Pittsburgh doesn't pay any of
it. Laughter.] Carpets paid $780,
600; laces, $4,000; opium for
smoking, s460,000; glass, s3,300,-
600; manufactured marble, $780,
000-sS5, 100000 in addition to the
$4,000 raised by internal revenue,
and have not named any tax yet
that single man in Pittsburgh was
compelled to pay, and yet the Dem
ocratic party asserts that the tariff
places the burden of the Govern
ment on the poor man. The Dem
ocratic party would take off all in
ternal revenue taxes. Why? 1t is
because Kentucky is interested in
the manufacture of whisky and Vir-
ginia is engaged in raising tobacco,
and the Southern wing of the Dem
ocratic party in consequence favors
the repealing of the tax on whisky
ald tobacco. | am in favor of get
ting all the money possible out Of
whisky, tobacco and the luxuries of
life.
Suppose it is repealed and free
trade policy is adopted. We must
still have s300,000,0O0 for the expens-
es of the Government. The only
other way to raise it is by direct
tax 1t would amount to Sc apiece.
There are 100000 of people in
Pennsylvania and her share would
therefore be s24, 100000, regardless
of all state and other taxes.
ENGLAND AND FREE TRADE.
There is cne nation on earth that
wants free trade in this country.
That is England, and yet England
was the most pronounced protec-
zionist in the world for years. When
Ireland began to build ships she de-
clared that they should sell to none
but English shippers and the ship
building stopped. When she went
10 raising cattle England said you
shall ship nowhere but to us. She
did precisely the same with US. Our
hills were full of iron and coal, but
she said we should not develop it.
We should ship nothing except to
England. We rebelled and England
lost the brightest diadem in her
crown. [Applause,] England pur-
sued the policy of protection until
she had mills enough to supply the
world with iron, and then suddenly
she turned around and became the
greatest advocate of free trade. To
my personal knowledge the Golden
Club of England has been fighting
for free trade in Congress during the
last thirteen years, and the New
York Free Trade Club is but
branch of the Golden Club. If
England should succeed in having
free trade adopted and secure the
fifty million people for her manu-
facturers to supply she would secure
a greater triumph than she has ever
had on land or sea with her armies
or her navies. Well may she work
for it. The Democratic party is
working for this end, and it is sing
ular that four out of every five in it
are working-men and every time
they 90 to the polls they cast vote
in favor of cutting down their wages
one-half.
IRELAND AS A FREETRADER.
There Is one country on earth that
enjoys absolute free trade and ac-
cording to the Democratic theory it
ought to be the most prosperous and
contented country in existence. That
country is Ireland. Did you know
that Ireland was once a centre of
manufacture of silks and linens and
carpets? Did you know that she
once had protective tariff and col
lected great subsidies from England
annually ? Did you know that Dub
lin once had tens of thousands of
spinners and weavers. England saw
all this and England said to Ireland
You have better soil and climate
than we. We will manufacture and
you can devote yourself to agricult-
ure. Ireland consented and by the
act of union agreed to give up the
tariff. A census was taken a few
years later and 200 were found in
/ Dublin where there were thousands
before. Ireland was placed under
the upper and neither millstones.
England named the price of the raw
material and the price of the manu-
factured product as well. A few
years elapsed and millions OF Irish
men starved to death. What caused
it? Free trade A few years more
and millions came to this country
driven away by English free trade.
And the most amazing feature of the
case is that four out of every five of
these men when they get here go to
the polls and vote for the same free
trade that starved their fathers. If
England had rope around their
necks on election day and could drag
them to the polls, she would compel
them to vote for free trade. How can
bright witted Irishmen do such a
stupid thing?
The revision of the tariff cannot
be finished in the short session OF
Congress, and the Forty-eighth Con-
gress will have to settle the question
of the revision of the tariff. If it is
Democratic, so sure as there is sun
shine-outside of Pittsburgh [ap-
! plause] just so sure will your iron
workers 90 to the knife first of all.
know what am talking about. L
have been member of the Commit
tee on Ways and Means, and | know
that the burden of the complaint is
that the iron and steel industries
are too well protected, and if they