The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-23
TARIFF AND SCOTT TAXES
Clear Statement of the Republican
Position on These Questions.
Illustrations of the Beneficial Working Of
the Tarin-Repubiicans VIII Firmly
support the Scott Law.

Foraker Republican candidate for Governor,
addressed an audience of 1000 persons in
this city tonight. In the course of his ad-
dress he said:
The whole Nation is watching the fight in
which we are engaged, and this outside Interest
Is due to the fact that the whole Nation is to bs
anected by the result. The next House of Rem
resentat1yes is already Democratic; the Senate
is almost equally divided, If Ohio goes against
us in October, the future administrative policy
ofthe country is unsettled for year TO come,
with dangerous menace hanging over us of an
absolute change to follow.
What must be the consequence of such a re-
sultl The incoming OF the next Congress is at.
tended with The threat that there is to be re-
vision OF the tariff laws in the interest of free
trade. need not tell you people who live in
this thriving manufacturing city of the effect
this has already produced. Capital is sensitive;
IL snrlnks from the very appearance of danger:
It always was so, and it always will be SO. 1t is
Shrinking to-day. 1t has been shrinking from
the moment the present political situation
nnue to shrink until we are relieved from t.
need not resort to argument to support these
assertions when / am making them TO men who
are carrying on such industries as you have here;
to men who are operating foundries, factories,
mills and machine shops; nor when am address
ing farmers VINO ma here at their very doors
by reason of these great industries, better mar
ket for all their products than Is afforded at any
of the commercial centers of the country.
You are all informed about the subject-some
OF you from personal experimental of you
from that study and thought which every intel
ness and the influences that affect it.
Nevertheless. you will allow me to cite you ona
pTactlcal TACT as proof; know gentleman IN
business, HIS establishment is a credit
to the city. He, employs more than two
hundred men, and manufactures more than
10000 vehicles annually. He sells them, not
only all over this country, bat all over the orld.
He told me few days ago that within the last
month he had filled orders from Japan, the West
indies, Australia and Liverpool. I congratu-
lated him upon having such a business HIS
swer showed that he knew something else be-
sides now to make buggies. for he expressed
fear that his business was far larger than pru.
dence justified, inView Of the political situation,
and he went on to say, as he expressed it, that
he was already "takinr in sail until he
Ohio go Republican in October next, and was
thus assured that there was no need TO fear the
ascsndenoy of free trade in 1884.
And that was an Englishman, born and bred
In The heart Of London; brought up on free trade
and as firm a believer in its doctrines Adam
Smith himself, until he came to this country and
learned better by practical experience
But what this one man is doing prudent men
are dong everywhere. The whole country IS
taking In SAIL" and all are watching Ohio to
see whether or not they can put it out again.
Ihe consequence is that, Notwithstanding we
have a SOUND currency, fruitful and abundant
harvests and all the other conditions that favor
trade and prosperity, yet there is a feeling of
sensttiveDess developing itself in business CIR
cles that is making itself felt in declining prices
for iron and COAL for wheat, corn and hogs, and
all the other products of manufacture ana agri-
culture and this means less production, less de-
mand for labor and lower wages for the labor
that is employed.
These results are neither prospective nor epeo.
ulative they are present and actual; they are
accomplished facts. But If the mere prObabili-
ties that grow out of the present political situa-
tion can effect such results, what may not
expect If Ohio increases the distrust by her ver-
diet in October9 We cam OF o yerestimate theim.
portanoe of this question.
1t affects every kind of trade and business; IL
comes directly home to every Merchant and
manufacturer, every mechanic, every farmer
every laborer of every kind; how is it met by the
partiesl
No one need TO be told where the Republican.
party stands. The declarations of its platforms
from the first moment of its existence are all
consistent. clear, plain and explicit Every man
VINO reads them can understand what they mean.
There has never yet been any occasion for any
candidate OF the party ia his "key-note' speech
to interpret or explain them All who read may
understand, but there is no necessity to read
party declarations 10 understand whore the Re-
publican party stands on the tariff question
spoke a while ago about CINCINNATI car
riags establishment. They have a similar estab-
lishment in Toledo for the manufacture of wag-
ons. 1t covers seven acres of groMtA, employs
500 men aud turns out q completed wagon every
five minutes. That is the way Toledo, on the
Maumee has been dying for the last twenty
three years, since the Republican party came
into power; and that's the way the whole coun.
try has been dyihg-aad that's the way the
country wants to keep on dying and intends to
keep dying for the neXRGwenty- three years to
come.
And that Is what the Republican party means
by the declaration of its platform in favor of a
tariff system that will provide u revenue for the
government, and at the time protect
American producers and American labor. I need
not argue TO intelligen5 people about the neeessI-
w of this kind of policy for its necessity is
apparent and more urgent 'to-day than ever be-
fore. Ocean steam navigation and railroads
have so Implied the difficulties and cheapened
the rates of transportation that all the nations
of the earth, who go into The markets of the
world. are brought face to face i'll competition.
For whatever OF products they may have in COM
mon, Toledo on the Maumee and Toledo on tho
Tagus must be as much competitors, II driven
into the same market, as Cincinnati and Cleve-
land can be.
This ben z so, 1t behooves us to know not SO
much what caused the downfall of Toledo OF
Spain, what is its present condition. The one
Is important, the other not so. We want to know,
too, what is the present condition OF other cities
in that kingdom. How about Malaga, BARGE
Iona, Madrid? We want TO know the condition
of the whole kingdom. We must know, too,
about Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium.
Russia, England, ireland, Scotland and Wales.
We must know their facilities for manufacture,
and particularly must we know that greatest
item of cost In all manufacture-the cost OF
labor
Until we know these things we cannot know
whether or not we can compete with these pa
But we do know them-Judge Hoadly knows
them, If he had stopped at any of the factories
or manufacturing establishments of Toledo
of Spain, aud inquired what wages were paid
to the labor there employed, he would have
been told that a good, stout, healthy and
efficient man could get anywhere from 40 to
60 cents day for his wages; cripplee, women
and children half price And If he had been Gu
rious to know how they subsisted on such wages,
he might have learned that laboring man in
Spain don't eat meat twelve times in year, and
that his regular daily diet for himself and FAM
lily consists of nothing but bread and oil and vim
egar-his wages being insufficient to allow him
thing more or better.
Labor is better off in most of the other coun-
tries of Europe than it is in Spain, but it is ev-
erywhere from one and half to three times
cheaper there than here. The consequence is
that we cannot compete with that kind of labor
unless reduce our labor to ,the same level.
The Republican party is not willing to do thar.
Tue aborer of this country is part of the gov
Arnin He ia n VOter II has a voice in
the government. Aside, therefore, from ali hui.
manitarian reasons we want him to have
chance for self-elevation. We want him to eat
meat and be comfortable. We want him to he
able to take of his family ana educate his
children. We want him to gather knowledge
and be a good citizen, love his coun.
try and be able and willing to take care
of it. And for this reason IL is that we say
II we cannot 20 INTO the markets. of tho world