The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01

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manufacturers. [Cries of 1--WE know it,
and applause. In 1861, when the Southern
Democrats tried to get out of this Union, they
framed a constitution and put in it that there
should 'he no tariff levied to foster any indus
try,r and You remember the result. For the
purpose OF having free trade, these Southern
States had ammunition, guns. cannon, and ev-
erything almost furnished them from England.
She did all she could against this government,
and whyl Not on account of slavery, for she
was always opposed to it. England did it on
account of their free-Jrade constitution, and so
to-day. When rebellion was put down, the
Southern people reioined the Democrats of the
North, and what is the resulti The result is
that they control the Democrats in Congress,
and controlled them in their national conven-
ton. What did they dol They put almost the
exact words that were in the C0ntederateC Con
~stitution into the Democratic platform, and to-
day, in order to prove to the world that their
platform is recognized as a free-trade platform,
you can examine any paper in England, and see
that they favor the Democratic party. Why
is it, 1t is because the Democratic
party advocates a policy that is satisfae-
tory to England. and because the Republican
party are not advocating such a policy, but are
the advocates of a policy to benefit the people,
this country, and the industries of the American
Republic. They are the advocates Of a policy m
favor of protecting our laborers, and notify
England to attend to her own business and we
will take care of ourselves. lGreat applause.
/ suppose our friend Hendricks must have been
thinking of this free trade that the Democrats
are trying to get US back to when he talked
about bare-footed people. Why, we have had
three periods in this country under the Demo
cratic party-and | hope nobody will feel it a
disgrace for me to mention it, for | went through
all three Of them mysef-we had the period
Mr.. Hendricks speaks of, not only in Indiana,
but everywhere else. That was the bare-footed
period. Laughter. The next was the brown
jeans period renewed laughterl. when we used
to 60 and pare walnut bark, and bring it to our
mothers to dye WOODEN yarn to make brown
jeans here. WhyG Because England sold goods
so high we could not afford to buy them, and we
could not manufacture them at home.
Following that, we had another period. 1 lent
know what you would cali it. A period of
poverty and distress, when your corn brought
121 cents and Is cents per bushel. pork
$1-50 per hundred, eggs 4 cents per dozen,
and everything in proportion. When women
paid for seven yards of calico, manufactured in
England, which was the amount put in a dress
at that time, 40 cents per yard, and to-day, IN.
der the high tariff the Democrats talk about,
you can buy the same caticoy manufactured in
the United States, for five cents a yard. ZAP
plause A woman would not think of taking
less than fourteen yards now for a dress.
daughter and applause. A voiee-"They wear
silk now,
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Now, my fellow citizens. / desire for q few
minutes to call your attention to what the pro
tective tariff, as established by the Republican
party, has done for this country. The Democrats
III lO4O DHSSGu u Ldflu "a y bA6 GCOHOill1NdA
administration of the government, a tariff for
revenue only. and out Of 500 and odd furnaces
then in blast in Pennsylvania, 240 odd stopped
and never went in blast again until after the
Republicans passed the protective tariff of 1861.
Now in 1860, under that tariff of 1876, you had
in this country 144,000 manufactures
but only a part of them running.
You had never manufactured a complete car
riage; you had only manufactured a few watches.
You had never manufactured a steel rail. You
did not manufacture rails until laws were
passed compelling railroads to use American
iron. which caused capital to invest, stimulated
the industries Of the country and produced
what2 Why, up to 1860, in this country, as has
been said thousands of times on the stump, and
in letters, and elsewhere, your whole ae-
emulation amounted to fourteen thousand
millions Of dollars. Your accumulation
in 1880 amounted to forty-four thousand
millions of dollars. How did this Gomez
The Democrats say because of the richness
Of the soil and the intelligence and energy of the
people. We'll, l am sorry that the soil was not
rich while the Democracy controlled the gov
eminent. [ am sorry they say the people were
not Intelligent. L am sorry they had no energy.
l dc not say any such thing myself; but that is
the clear inference from their
What are the factsl The facts are these. If a
man cannot sell his corn, pork or beef what will
he dot He will only raise the amount he needs
himself; for any more is useless. So it
was under free trade in this country. The people
only raised what they used themselves and a
llIJle surplus lOT brdutHS purpOSeSI y llSTc vas
no market that would pay them for their labor.
How is it now? The energy of the people has
been stimulated bya protective tariff which has
found them O market for their produce, and
they now produce five times as much as they did
before, and find sale for it. You have never
raised a bushel of corn, wheat or potatoes, or
had an egg or chicken that you could not sell for
some price from 1862 up to the present
time, and get money for it and good
money at that, and that never existed under the
tariff Of 1876. Voices, you are right" and ap
plause Let US see what this wealth consists
in. Why. my fellow-ceuntrymen, they say a
great deal of it is in railroads. l suppose it is.
That is part of the wealth of the country. Rail
roads could not be built to the same advantage
in Democratic times. Whyf Because their
shinplaster money would not employ labor so
readily. 1t was worthless. A man did not
know whether the dollar he got one day would
be good the next morning. How is it now?
There is not a man IN this crowd
that knows on what bank the FIVE dollar bill in
his pocket is. So it is with ten, twenty, fifty
and even one dollar bills. 1t is the denomina-
difference whether the bank fails or not, your
money is good. But in those days the people
would not work, you could not employ them,
they would not sch their property for
that the money would be good
until they could get to the next store to buy
domestic or calico. LApplansel You had thirty
one thousand miles of railroad in 1861. How
IS 1t tO-Qdyf GOu nave one nu0ureQ anu twenty
thousand miles Of railroad thus far built by sell
ing bonds and paying out the money obtained
for them to Iaborers, which has gone into cir
c~ulation among the people fthis country. What
else2 Why, You have to day two hundreda and fifty
three thousand manufacturing establishments
in the United States that have a capacity to-day
six times greater than it was in 1860 under the
tariff of 1876. What has been the RESULT The
result is that last year you manufactured and
sold s., 250, 900. 600 worth Of manufactured arti-
Giles. What does that prove? 1t proves this,
tina the majority of these articles were sold to
the American people. Suppose, under the tariff
of 1876, when these articles were near
ly all manufactured in England, you
had to purchase them. do you believe
it would have left a dollar in tins counuy3 Would
you have been able to buy those a~rtlcies2 If
you had it would have drained this government
Of every dollar in it How is it nowY You
manufacture them at home, and sell them to