Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-08-16
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InaSmuch as that train Is 70 start In a
few minutes, l will not pursue the ar
gumeHt on the free trade and tariff ques-
tion further, except only to call your at
tention to the position that our Demo
cratic friends occupy with respect to it.
| understood that the Democratic party
was free-trade party until we found
ourselves launched into this campaign.
L did not know that they pretended as q
party to be anything else. l knew, of
course, that there were few sensible
men in the Democratic party, men who
knew better; men like Senator Voorhies,
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 essential
ly free trade party. That's so!'l
They used SO to declare in their plat
| form. But in 1876 and 1880, however,
they invented new phrase. They were
i'll favor OF tariff "for revenue only"
But that WAS interpreted to mean free
trade. Nobody thought it meant any
thing else, and the people of this coun-
try, in 1880, when they came to give
special consideration to that question
ard to exercise their right of suffrage
with respect to it, voted No" on that
proposition. They said: 1--WE don't want
any more free trade in this country. We
see what a protective tariff is doing for
the people of this country in the way of
making a home market for farmers,
! opening up the eOal-mineS, the ore-bankS,
starting foundries and machiAe shops,
| hrnll a dc ff.f oil
different counties In the course of
time We will have railroad to McCon-
nellsville, Morgan county, And the
people of this country said: "In view of
such results as these, in view of such
wisdom rs this. we will not make any
change. We prefer to keep on and pur-
sue the policy of protective tariff and
enjoy these benefits"
The Democracy were made to under
stand that; and from that day to this,
especially here in Ohio, where the tariff
question is one Of great Importance, they
have been eXtricating themselves from
| the position in which their attitude with
respect to this question had put them.
| Now, in this campaign, they make this
| platform; | must not forget to read that
now, for said | would, and l want to
keep ing VI ord if the time is short. And
here is the kind of platform they make
on which they 60 before the Intelligent
men of this State to appeal to them for
their support in this campaign:
Second-We favor tariff for revenue,
limited to the necessities of government,
economically administered, and so ad-
justed In its application as to prevent
unequal burdens, encourage productive
industries at home. afford just cOmpen-
satien to labor, but not to create or fos-
Ter monopolies.'
Now, if there is any man who can
read that platform. and give me all in
telligent construction of ii, as a whole,
| would be Obliged if ha would do it.
Ny friend, Judge Hoadly, undertook to
do it in his speech at 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 in
tended-a | have all the time insisted
that it should bs read by sections, "here
little and there a little" And before
lie would branch off into thing that
was in direct opposition to the one that
followed it, he would stop and inlprject
oOllC W Hlo hIoGliIS l!ISlcu
friend and neighbor,J j udge Foraker, ind
when he had gotten the mind broken off
from the connection, he would Resume
in the same impressive wAy to read from
this platform, upon which he stands:
Here's the way he divided it up:
"'rhe Democratic party is IN favor OF
ii tariff for revenue, limited to the ue-
cessities of government economically
administered.
And then stops and asks his adversary
whether he has any objection to that
whether he thinks anything more than
that! Why. yes, Judgs Hoadly, we may
want something more than that, or we
may not, accordingly as the case may
be. If we are to protect American In
dustIies. If we are to develop resources,
if we are to protect the laboring nan
and see that he has just compensation
for the work that he performs, if we are
to see to it that he gets wages sufficient
to support himself and his family, wag-
es enough TO secure for himself educa-
tion and culture, and enable him TO quail
ify himself for the intelligent discharge
of the duties of American citizenship,
We want him to have enough protection
to protect; we want to protect our in
dustries 80 that the American workman
can stand up against the competition of
the Old World, and against everything
else that will bring his compensation
down to theirs. I"Good" !" and loud ap
plause. When you undertake to levy
tariff on the basis of only sufficient to
support the Governn ent, economically
| administered, | would like somebody to
tell me how you are going to do about
it.
How are you to tell in this month of
August, 1883, how much tariff this coun-
try will need in 1884. How are you 10
foresse the expenses of Government
How are you to forsee a year ahead
whether you will have an expensive
Governments, or An inexpensive Govern
ment? Whether you will be put to a
great expense or little ex bense ia ad-
| ministering the affairs of this great Ma
tion? And if you cannot forsee that,
how can you tell how much duty to put
on this, that or the other thing, 10 the
end that you may raise Just enough rev.
enue to meet the wants of the Govern
m snt, economically administered And
then another thing. Are you to change
this tariff every year? 1t costs some
year more than it does others to admin
| lister the affairs Of the Government
We have mere pension bills to pay some
years than others. We have more In
dians to feed some years than others
We have more expenses of various kinds
some years than others. If We are TO
regulate our tariff by the expenses ne
cessary to be met, we must, necessarily,
each year vary the duties that are to be
levied on our imports. And what kind
of an effect will that have on the bust
ness of this country? If man must
buy product that is to be imported for
him from another country, how can he
tell what he is to pay for it when he
does not know that the tariff may not
be changed in the time intervening be-
tween his order and the receipt Of his