The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26
HARTER's SPEECH.
coNrINUEp FROM THE THIRD PAGE.

or fraud practiced on the farmer. Pro-
81 faction rObs the farmer in every form
and in every manner. 1t does nothing
for him, while it taxes everything he
puts into his house, OF on his back. IL
taxes the wagon he uses, the plOW ne
holds, the pitchfOrk he wields, the reap
er he follows, the bags he puts his grain
into. the salt he feeds to his cattle, the
harness he puts on his horses, and gives
him nothing.
The price of W hat he sells does not de-
pend upon protection, because that Is
fixed in England; the price OF his wheat
in Ohio is fixed by the tick of the tele'
graph which records the changes IN
Mark Lane, London; the price OF ms
pork and of his cattle, of his oats ana OF
his corn, is fixed in the same manner,
and not content with burdening him In
every way by tariff taxes at home, the
prOteetionist has actually arranged tOr
robbing him of part of the price of ey-
erything he raises, first by the exOrOl-
tant charges which railroads are COM
Delled to make in getting his grain TO
fideWater. because of the enormous TAR
iff on steel rails and the hgn IarlH Oh
all articles used in building cars; ana
second, when he gets TO tldeWater tney
tie him in a bag and throw him into the
laws of the British lion and let this AMI
NAL take as much out of him in the way
of ocean freights as possible, because Oy
protection American shipping when
used to compete with Engllsh, anu
which, if on the ocean would To-Day
largely reduce freights, has been driven
off the seas by protection, and the marine
stars and stripes are laid ASIDE, IOlueG
and musty. Truly, the farmer mas nara
road to travel, and if he should conclude
20 90 to Washington and hang rev
choice selections from our Republican
congressman, mean in ethgy, OF course,
1 believe that few honest men on jury
could help declaring that instead Oh pun
ishment he should have pension. How
a farmer can vote for any but Demo-
erat, or some clear headed ReVenue-Iar-
iff Republican, for there are such among
the abler men in the party, Is more IMAM
human wisdom can account tOr. pre-
dict that the farmers vote, which Is al
Ways an intelligent one, will gradually
but surely come over to the Democratic
party, for what are lOcusts, grasshOp
pers, ehintz bugs, weevil, II ian flies,
TTOsTs, floods or hail TO farmers compared
to a Republican Protective TARIFF The
former come occasionally, but the curse
of protection is always with him and
will ride him like a nightmare so long
as the Republican party is in power.
But protection bears almost as heavily
baker, the candle-stick maker, the mer-
chant, the lawyer, the preacher, the doc
tor, are all made to stand and deliver, as
all they consume, except what the plum
dered farmer produces, costs more by
reason of tariff robbery, and every Gus
toner that they have nearly is rendered
poorer and less of source of income so
them by the same dishonest and uncOn-
stitutiOnal agency; so that they, too,
T.. Ill oil lii
at all times and under all circumstances.
Even the Door seamstress is selected as
a target for tariff robbery, and she Is
charged more i'll Ohio for her sewing ma
chine than the same machine built under
a protective tariff costs the British sew
ing woman. ] tell you, gentlemen, the
tariff rObbeT allows no fish to get thrO'
his net. If there is any man we should
feel sorry for, and the prOtectiOnlst
should have sympathy with, 1t Is the
Door artist who brushes his life away in
order to shed the blessings of art upon
a people too busy to even thank him for
it., and so the prOtectiOnist has had a
protective tariff placed upon pictures,
and then, with the wealth stolen from
his neighbOrs through the ever convent
ent tariff, he goes to Europe, buys pic
lures there, cuts them out of the frames. |
smuggles them into this country, and |
brags to his crOnies about how "deVillsh |
sly" and how "deucedly clever" he was |
in getting ahead of the custom house |
officers. You say man like this would |
rob blind dog of bone, but | tell you |
that man who is willing to rob his |
neighbOr through a protective tariff |
does not long hesitate to get the better |
of him in other ways. 1t Is sometimes |
said that the money taken from US by the |
prOtectiOnist remains in the country and |
is distributed again among us by those |
who rob us. This is good; we know that
Robin Hood occasionally plucked fat
bishop and gave part to the poor; that |
even Captain Kidd helped poor widow
now and then, but nevertheless the mem
Ory of Mr.. Hood is not embalmed or his
body entOmbed in Westminster Abbey,
nor do we keep Mr.. Kidd's birthday as a
national holiday. | present another
claim advanced for protection, which is
that the country reaps a benefit from it
in its results. Just how it is hard to
see, as we find it causes the country to
lose revenue and it is a tax upon the pro-
the labor of the people. They tell us
that the country is more prosperous un-
der tariff, but never show why or how.
Let me show you why this claim cannot
be true. 1t is certain that while every
individual is making the best possible
use of his capital, labor and talents, the
country as whole does best. This is
as Gel Itainly true as that one and one
make two. Now under a constitutional
tariff, such as the Democratic party ad-
VOcates, every man, guided by that sell
fishness which God for wise reasons put
into US all, places his labor and capital
into the business which he thinks will
reward him best. If he finds it loses,
and is Improbable instead of profitable,
how quickly he gets out of it. He finds
it does not pay him long even before his
neighbOTs do, and long before his Con
gressman at Washington knows he is
in business at all. The natural result
is that finally all the labor and Jcapital
of the country finds its proper and prof
liable place and occupation, and of
course the country as a whole makes
money and attains the highest possible
degree of prosperity. This is measured |
and proven by the high rates paid for
the use of capital and labor. But along
comes prOtectiOnist engaged in an un-
profitable business, and says, Protect |
me by taxing the consumer, and my bu-
siness will become profitable to the coun.
try" A tax is put upon imported goods
with his which excludes
them, the governments revenue disap-
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