The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-15
JUDGE FORAKER ON TARIFF.
AFuii Reply TO Judge eHoudiy-one ofthe
Important Issues of This Campaign
Ably Eypouudeu-Speech Mt Corning

Judge Foraker spoke ON the 2d at the coal
It the close of the Republican County
Convention. He was hurried for time, having
% leave by train soon nfter the convention
were over, but made n capital
mpromptu speech. Some Interruptions by a
Democrat in the crowd brought up the ques-
Se tos snd n,s a 10 b
Judge Hoadly in his Piqua speech. He saids
have eompetitor who asks me questions
kinds of questions. He asks me questions
that no other intellect under Heaven would
sSon S1 he a% sRd bsye
swered them. He has asked me some ques-
tons about the tariff; and inasmuch as have
orderly and logicai way here, / win at once
proceed to discuss 1t informally, and to answer
some of those questions that my friend Judge
he, made a speech few days ago over at
Pfqda. Th1t speech was in answer TO one
had made at Hamilton. In which had taken
Occasion 70 say something about the tariff
had talked about the benefit of it to all kinds,
Try. Ihad said, among other things that the
tariff was q benefit to the farmers especially
THAT it helped them TO q better market than
better prices for their products BY reason Of
the industries which were at their very doors,
industries that owed their existence to the
by this wise policy of a tariff, which the Re
publican party has been pursuing for the last
sue with me as to that He says In his speech
at PiQua-I cannot quote his exact language,
but bis argumentis is that the price of the agri-
cultural products that the farmer takes
into the market is not fixed by the
industries about him, but IN that great
pool, and he says that the farmer in Ohio
gets his price upon corn, wheat and hogs, less
transportation, insurance and commission
Liverpool. England. In the FIRST place, have
pot asked any questions about this here, but
know how Il Is in other mining districts.
Evarv0na knOIrs that the farmarS who imme-
diately surround these manufacturing and
mining districts get better prices for their
them 20 Cincinnati. L know how it is in the
Hanging Rock district-at jackson, Ironton
ane tbe same here BUT, for the sake of argn,
ment, let IL be as Judge Hoodly snys 1t is;
that Liverpool fixes the price that the farmer
gets for his hogs, wheat and corn. Let me
turn schoolmaster and ask Judge Hoadly a
question: If liverpool Axes the price here,
what is IL that fixes the price In Liverpool II
economy that supply and demand have some
thing TO do with priccs-that they fix the
Now, then, In this country we have about
10000 people engaged in agriculture, and the
balance Of us, more than t20Oo,OOO of people
manufacturing iron--in factories, mills and
foundries, as merchants, lawyers, doctors and
m the pursuit of other kinds of business every
kind of vocation and calling. All these men
who are not engaged. as are the 1,HO,OOO in
agricultural pursuits are consumers; they
which efTects the price. Now, in 1850, the last
year for which have been able to get my
aand upon the statistics st S there were produced
That amount only l53,252, 79o bushels were ex-
ported to other countries, Well, now. suppose
the whole OF the wheat produced in this coun-
try only about one-third was sent abroad in
1850, supposing we had free trade; what THAT
place. we would soon lose most Of our home
markets. Your people would not stay here
very long mining coal.
people in the towns of Shawnee, Straitsvillo,
and Corning, as there is to-day, to be fed by the
quit, and II you were not here to buy their
Products, they would have to find market
Elsewhere The exports would be increased.
doubled, trebied, until ali of the products
possible were sent abroad. And not only
that, but you men here must find something
pig iron or to mine coal. you must find some
thing else TO do. Factories, mills and machine
shops will stop at the same time. Nothing is
left you but to go into competition with the
100000 of farmers to raise corn, wheat and
hogs. not to feed people at home but to S send ,
Old world What is the effect on LlverpoolT
Instead of getting from us 153, ,000, 900 bushels
oo,Cooooo to 4oo,oO6.OoC bushels Of wheat a
year. The supply might be increased beyond
And the farmers of this country, the farm.
ers of Ohio, as they did In the States of the
west before the Republican party came into
n.
their corn for fuel, because they had nc
market in which to sell it. Don't tell me, in
face of such plain proposition as this, that
the industries that surround the farmer have
nothing to do with fixing the prices he realizes
upon his produce. In the hurry of the mo-
ment will let what have said be my answer
70 that question of Judge Hoadly. When ]
have more time I can answer more fully.
But Judge Hoadly has asked me some other
questions. In my Hamilton speech referred
TO the fact that there was a carriage manu-
facturer in the city of Cincinnati who Is sell
ing his vehicles not only all over this country
but very largely all over the world. He ha:
been filling orders from Australia, the West
Indies. from Liverpool and from Japan, ant
in that speech that that carriage manufactnrel
had told me that he was taking I'm sail" with
a view of putting himself in a safe condition
in case the Democrats, with their free trade
were successful in the election of 1884.
Judge Hoadly undertakes to ridicule thai
idea, saying that If that man can sell his good:
abroad he has no earthly use for protective
tariff and has nothing whatever TO fear from
free trade, -
The answer to that is even more simple thar
the other. A man must depend for marke
for his goods and for the success of his bust
ness, not simply upon what he can sell abroad
but much more particularly upon that which
he can sell ut home. And while IL is true. rs
i went on to say ut Hamilton, thnt through
the carrisge manufacturer had been enabiet
to cheaper his goods SO that he could sell then
abroad, yet 1t was true that the success of hi
business depended on the surroundings of hi,
business at home, as Judge Hoadly himself
pointed out, and therefore he must depent
upon a policy for the success of his business
business that is represented In his-to everl
| other kind of business that goes Il
make up the sum-total of that pros
perity in the benefits of which we rejoice
Judge Hoadly went on to say that a protec
tive tariff operates most injuriously and un
| Justly as against this carriage manufacturer
| pointing out that he paid two and one-hal
cents a pound upon every set OF steel axle,
per cent. upon all his leather; twenty-fiv,
cents gallon upon his varnishes and paints
and other things In like proportion that he MAJ
the buggy which he sells Well, now, Judg,
Ikoadly had a very fine argument; but, unfor
Judge Hoadiy would take the trouble to in
luirc, he would find that the carriage manu-
| facturers of Cincinnati do not import singh
yteel axle; that they don't use n pound o
| imported leather, or Il gallon of imported var
hish or OIL or scarcely any other commodit.
hat is imported. That which is used is tn
| product of our own manufacturers here II
his country. Take, for instance. the case o
Iteel axles, and that illustrates the benefits o
matter up for me only yesterday. Just be
lore started here. He told me that eigh
Tears ago they paid for steel axles 81 an and -
| " $3.50 a set Their iron aXlcs were $3.50
Jet eight years ago and to-day they are 81 set
iecreasine M in price in ike @ proportion. Now
| What is the occasion of this? How do you &C
.0eeobounder the protection m of this taritf W.
| ,ave steel manufactures started up in thi
| lountry where axles are made, We have then
| tt Auburn, New York, NJ Pittsburgh, at Chi
| .ago and many other places throughout thi
| country. The result Is they are in competi
Eon with each other. They are .perfectiai
heir machinery, they are getting skillc,
| abor. they are providing themselves with al
| :he facilities OF the cheapest manufacture
| md the result is that the duties levied on tn
imports are not taxes but a security behin
| which the home competition is cheapenin2
| sheapening, cEeapening until IL has brough
| Down the price of steel axles from Si1 and 81
| 10 $3.50, as stated moment ago, n diferenc
| IN favor of the consumer which is more tha
| twenty times the amount of the tariff whic
| Is levied on these articles, which Judge Hoadl
| lays is tax on the consumer, and all thi
without oheapening labor. .t-
| And that suggests to my mind to answe
| another proposition of Judge Hoadly's. H
| PAYS tariff works in the interest of monopc
| hes, and he descants In very vigorous lar
| kuage about the provisions of the Democrat
| resolution with respect to monopolies. sal
| In my Hamilton speech that instead of a pro