The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-15
WELLINGTON, LoRAIN COUNTY, OHIO, AUGUST Is, 1883.

to-. IaoUUry # could crush MN IN an instant.
We protected ourselyes by levying this tariff
consumer, as Judge Hoadly contends, what
ought the Bessemer steel rails TO have sold
for In the American markets after that tariff
was levied2 They ought to have sold for $50.
plus S2s-Sl1S is what they ought to have sold
for, according to Judge Hoadly, who says that
But what did these steel rails sell for i'm
eighteen months from the time that the tariff
steel rails was started at Troy, n. Y; another
at Pittsburgh and another Mt Cleveland /
the time ai fe ar of 81 swo fo years from @
posed-whtoh- according to Judge Hoadly.
ought To, have increased the price to sr7s5
ing in this country at $50 a ton.
The other day came up the road from Gin
peritendent of the Cincinnati end of the Pitts
ourgh, Cincinnati st. Louis road, Mr.. Peters.
sation about the condition of his road. He
went on to tell me that he had almost the entire
Toad nov Ila WIN tnese pSsSoer & seeea ,d rms, Us
bought them at Observation-Disclosures manu-
fsc5nre er So yS1 90 faat att ,be askeS eSe.naT
and they are of better mRnufacture-at least
as good" And what do you pay for them, Mr.
s'why, the last we got few weeks ago we
paid for them in Pittsburgh, S36 ton" Now,
then. in the face of such facts as these, which
might be multiplied by ten thousand, how
does II look for a man to be running over the
state of Ohio. talking about the tariff being a
tax on the consumer? That surpasses any
thing had suRR9sed was within With M the 1 regi9n IN
all cases, but il does illustrate the working of
the principle in all cases-
Inasrnuch as that train is to start in few
minutes, win not pursue the argument on
the free trade and tariff question further,
except only TO call your attention TO the po-
sition that our Democratic friends occupy
with respect to it. l understand that the
DEMOCRATIC party was free trade party un-
paign. 1 did not know that they pretended
as party to be anything else knew, OF
the Democratic party, men who knew better;
men like Senator voorhees,, of Indiana; men
who had the manliness and courage to speak
out and say that they believed protective
policy was the best for the interests of the
people of this country. But the party itself,
Thought, prided itself on being essentially
free trade party. They used SO to declare in
their platform. But in 1876 and 1880,
however, they invented a new phrase.
nue. only" But that was interpreted to
meant mean ANYTHING eIse and Gy the peopie Of this
country, in 1880 when they came to give spe-
| cial consideration to that question and to
| it, voted mo" on that proposition. They
said: 1--WE don't want any more free trade in
is doing for the people of this country in the
| way of making home market for farmers,
| opening up the coalnlIneS. the ore banks,
starting foundries and machine shops, build
/ ing up railroads to connect all these different
a raiiroad to McConneiIsyiiie. Morgan Countyl
| And the people of this country said: in view
| of such results as these, in view of such
| wisdom as this, we will not make any change.
| We prefer TO keep on and pursue the policy of
! a protective tariff and enjoy these benefits"
that; and from that day to this, especially
! here in Ohio, where the tariff question is one
of great Importance, they have been extri-
| eating themselves from the position in which
| their attitude with respect to this question
had put them; Now in this campaign, they
that now, for said would and want to
keep my word If the time is short. And here
S1 10 rfra1 r lot form Thax- .atre
| which they go before the intelligent men of
this State to appeal to them for their support
"Second-We favor tariff for revenue,
limited to the necessities of government,
its application as to prevent unequal burdens,
encourage productive industries at home, af-
ford just compensation to labor, but not to
Now, If there is any man who can read that
platform, and give me an intelligent con-
If he would do it. My friend, Judge Hoadly,
undertook to do it in his speech ut Piqua, the
other day, and want TO follow the interpre-
tation that he gave of that platform. You
will observe as read that part of his speech
that he thought it was intended-ns have all
the time insisted-that it should be read by
sections, "here little and there a little"
And before he would branch off into a thing
followed ii, he would stop and interject some
question to his distinguished friend and
neighbor, Judge Foraker" and when he had
gotten the mind broken of from the connec-
ton, he would resume in the same impressive
d
stands: Here's the way he divided 1t up:
THE Democratic party is in favor OF a tariff
for revenue, limited to the necessities of gov
ernment economically administered
| And then he stops and asks his adversary
whether he has any objection to that
whether he wants anything more than that
Why, yes, Judge Hoadly we may want some
thing more than that, or we may not accord
ingly as the case may be. If we are to protect
American industries, IL we are to develop our
resources. if we are to protect the laboring
man and see that he has a just compensation
for the work that he performs, if we are to see
to it that he gets wages sufficient to support
4 himself and his family wages enough to secure
for himself education and culture and to eua-
BILE him TO qualify himself for the intelligent
discharge of the duties of American citizen
ship. we want him to have enough protection
to protect; we want TO protect our Industries
so that the American workman can stand up
against everything else that will bring his
compensation down to theirs. When you un-
dertalxe to levy tariff on the basis of only
sufficient to support the Government econom.
icaly administered, would like somebody to
tel me me how % you "a are re, going % to go about it.
1883 how much tariff this country will need in
1884? How are you to foresee the expenses of
ahead whether you will have an expensive
Government or an inexpensive Government
Whether you will be put TO great expense or
a little expense in administering the affairs of
this great Nation? And il you cannot foresee
tnat; now can yon tel now much duty to put
you may raise Just enough revenue to meet
the wants of the Government, economically
administered? And then another thing. Are
YOU to change this tariff every year? II
costs some years more than it does Others
! to administer the affairs of Government.
We have more pension bills to pay some
years than others. We have more In
We have more expenses of various kinds
some years than others. If we are to regulate
our tariff by the expenses necessary to be
duties that are to he levied on our imports
And what kind of an effect will that have on
buy product that is to be imported for him
from another country, to be used in his bust
ness in this country, how can he tell what
he is to pay for 1t when he does not know that
the tariff may not be changed i'm the time in.
tcrvening between his order and the receipt
of his article? Therefore. | say it does not
affect the objection l make to the duplicity OF
this platform for Judge Hoadly to turn and
ask me whether want a tariff levied that will
he more than enough to sustain the Govern
ment when it is economically administered.
| 1t only shows its weakness.
But Judge Hoadly says some other things
But must not take up your time. because ]
three talented and eloquent gentlemen TO ad
dress you after am DONE / will not stop to
Judge Hoadly did. 1t seems it was construct
ed in such way as to enable them 10 dodge
| this question. 1t was so constructed that they
can contend in one place that it mean:
free trade, and in another that it means
protective tariff, and In another that they
to make a Compromise, having the duty levied
without regard to protection and insufficient
Wen, how does that Kind Of thing come
about? You heard our platform: l called
your attention to its simplicity. Why should
there he this duplicity in this Democratic
platform? 1t is because, as have said, they
have got in their party such men as Daniel
| w. voorhees,, United States Senator, and OF
the other hand they have Frank II. Hurd, OF
Toledo-the one an uncompromising protec
ZIONIST and the other rabid free trader
| The trouble was they could not agree upon
any position. They could not agree upon
free trade, and they could not agree upon q
protective tariff. If they had agreed upon
the latter they would simply be doing what
they have been doing during the last genera
ton, coming up and occupying the ground
that the Republican party has been occupyinO
all the time; and they were not yet ready tC
frankly confess that the position cf the Re