Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-10
HON. J.D. TAYLOR'S SPEECH.
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as you will, this is the problem of this
caIn npaigu, and We may as well meet il
face to face.
The fact that the Democrats in Ohio
and Pennsylvania stradile the question
and declare in favor of some sort of inr
cidental protection, does not change the
fact in the least. When Democratic
congress is chosen this kind of streaked
and striped Democracy constitutes a
very small minority of the Democrats
of the country. In this session of col
gress, when the Democratic party, un-
der the advice OF Speaker Carlisle anu
the press of the country, is on its good
! behavior, and is governed more by poll
cy than by principle. it took the solii
vote of the Republican party to prevent
a horizontal reduction of all duties, in
Guiding wool. When the presidential
election is passed the cloven foot will be
seen.
The Ohio platform on the tariff ques+
ton, like the plank last year and this, OF
the wool question. is a monster fraud
and deserves the contempt of every hJn
est man, whether he be a Democrat or
Republican. Hon. S S. Cox, of New
York, one of the most prominent Demo-
Gratis in the United States, when discuss
ing this question, said: The only differ
ence between direct and incidental pro
lection is, that one is highway robbery
while the other is burglary" This is
the Democratic view of this question
among the leading Democrats of the
country. And if Mr.. Cox is correct the
Ohio Democratic platform fayOrs burgla-
~. Robbery shows courage, and is done
in the daytime. while burglary is always
done in the night season, under the cover
of darkness. Hence Mr. Cox likens prot
tectlonists to robbers and incidental pro-
tectionists to burglars. Well, there is
good deal of burglary about the Demo-
cratic plank on the tariff. 1t is intended
10 accomplish just what the wool plank
last year accomplished; it is intended to
get votes no more.
Need l argue to any gentleman here
TO day, the value of a protective tariff?
These gentlemen whose locks have been
whitened by tie froSts of fifty winters
and more know better than / can tell
them how deeply the people of this coun-
try are interested in this great question
With these men it is no longer question
of argument but matter of experience
You have learned it at the plew, in the
field, at the forge, in the workshop, in the
citing cold of winter aud in the burning
suns of summer. You learned il when
your wheat was rotting in the field and
your fruit and vegetables on the ground.
You learned it when your houses were
unpainted and your floors uncarpeted.
You learned it when you were hauling
your wheat to the Ohio canal and selling
it for 40 cents bushel, and when you
were going without the comforts and
necessarieS of life in order to save this
money to pay your taxes. You learned
it when your homes were mortgaged and
when the ten per cent. interest came due
and found you without money or market.
| have come through all this, and no man
need talk to me about tariff for revenue
or incidental protection. l want a pro
tective tariff-a tariff that will protect
the men whose toll and brain are build
ing up the industries of this country.
In twenty years our protective system
has doubled the number of farms, has
tripled the acres of improved land, and
has quadrupled the quantity of wool.
The value OF farms, live stock and agri~
cultural implements have doubled since
1860. Under our protective system we
have made greater progress than was ev-
er made by any other country on the face
of the earth. The United States is now
the wealthiest country in the world. We
produce more agricultural products, anu
get more money for them than any other
country. The value of the manufactures
of the United States is greater er-twlce as
great as the manufactures OF Great Brit
ain. We pay the highest wages to labor
that is paid in the world, and our people
enjoy greater comforts than any other
people beneath the shining sun. These are
some of the fruits of protective tariff.
Do you want to abandon it! Do you
want to turn this system over to Demo
cratic tinkerers?
THE FARMERS FUTURE.
There is no class of men between the
two oceans so deeply interested in a pro-
tertive tariff as the farmers. If the man
ufacturers of the country are crippled.
and the hosts of operatives turned out of
employment, two things will follow:
first, they will engage in agriculture and
thereby cause an over-production; and
second, they will cease to be consumers
and purchasers of agricultural products.
Protection is followed by two things OF
great moment to the agriculturist; first,
it gives diversity of employment, and
second, it gives home market which is
the best in the world. If l am asked
why home market is the best in the
world, l will say in the first place, that
the seller gets the highest price because
the article is not consumed in transport
alton; and in the next place you can sell
articles that will not bear transport alton,
such as vegetables and fruits Only 81
per cent. of agricultural products will
bear expectation. And while the farmer
gets more for what he sells he pays less
for what he buys.
Mr.. Eaton, a Connecticut Democrat.
who is likely to be driven out of the par
ty for some of his recent utterances, said
in the House few weeks since:
There is not single article bought in
the South, from the wagon that draws
the farmers cotton 10 the market, to the
pin his wife uses, that is not 100 per cent.
cheaper than it was fifteen years ago. No
matter how wrong the principle of pro-
lection may be,the fact remains the same.
1t has cheapened everything under Gods
heavens that men, women and children
use in the land-everything."
He spoke of the South because the
South is constantly clamoring for free
trade.
This is true everywhere in this country.
Everything that the farmer eats, wears,
or usses, is made cheaper by protection.
A common illustration is the manufacture
of Bessemer's steel rails. The price was
$3.50 per ton before they had any protec-
tion, and now under protective tariff
they are $40 per ton, and we now pay
SlSO, 600 900 year to our own people in
stead of S45O,OO0,OOO to foreigners. and
by encouraging this industry we employ
on 000 A n1arisan lah0rprc