The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-30

from the existing tariff of March, 1883.
On May 9th, 1884. a motion was made
to strike out the enacting clause OF tht
J bill, or in other words, cut its head OIL
The vote stood in favor of killing the BIZ
Republicans lis, Democrats Al, total 159
Against killing the bill, 1872 Democrats
and 3 Republicans, total 155, or 81 pei
!, cent of all the Republicans voting vOteC
to Kill the bill and sustain the present
tariff, and 10 per cent of the Democrats
voted to prevent its decapitation, or in
other words, in favor of a reduction Of
existing duties 20 per cent.
During the time this bill was pending
the manufacturing and commercial inter
ests of the country fairly held their breath
The business of the year opened gloomily
and when this new, element of uncertain
ty, as to the proposed tariff tinkering, was
added, it unsettled everything; Nobody
knew what to expect. The bill did not
pass, but great mischief was done to the
material interests of the country.
Had this 20 per cent reduction bill be-
come law, a very large increase in the i'm
ports of foreign goods would have surely
followed. Many American industries
would have been destroyed, all would
have been crippled, for the time being, or
until wages could be reduced to cores
pond to this new Democratic dispensa-
ton. Either that or shut up shop and
let the English have our market.
This is the recent official record of the
parties on this question of protection, and
1 defy a'ay man to challenge its correct
ness.
These votes show that about out of 10
Republicans favor protective tariff, and
about out of 10 Democrats are opposed
! to protective tariff.
And yet l am told that the Democratic
stumpers hereabout are claiming that
there is no substantial difference between
| l., ~ fhn oriff hot
free traders in the Republican party, and
protectionists in the Democratic party.
| Well, this is true in limited sense, as the
votes given show, but it is a source of
| joy to me that our free trade Republicans
have left us and gone over to the free
trade Democratic party where they be-
long. In the present canvass they are
supporting Cleveland, purity and "Re-
FORM and I trust the Republican party
will not again have to apologize for their
tariff principles.
And you Democrats who believe in pro-
tecting American industries and labor,
will have to join and act with the Repub-
lican party if you would give effective
expression to your views. There is no
other medium through which you can do
it. So long as you continue voting the
Democratic ticket, whatever you may
individually think on the question, you
are in fact aiding and abetting the free
trade cause. Leave your party until it
gets converted on this question. Judg-
ing the future by the past, conversion
will come to it in due time. Some time
the leaders of the party will realize that
continued advocacy of European policies
and methods is unpopular, and that elec-
tionS are not to be carried on that plan;
then they will declare for protection.
Then, if the Republicans have not treated
you well while acting with them, it will
be safe for you to return to the Democrat
ic party.
But promise for the Republican par
ty, that it will treat you well. You will
feel at home there at once. 1t will do you
good to be on the winning side once be-
fore you die, for the Republican party is
going to carry this election and all subse-
quent elections, so long as it continues to
be right on the great questions Of the
day, and the Democratic party continues
to be wrong.
I understand that some of our leading
Democrats here claim to be for protec
tion and advocate it on the stump. That
may be so, but care not if every Demo
crat in Muskingum County favored pro-
lection, it would have no appreciable eff
feet upon either the Democratic partv
or the legislation of the country. We
have to deal with the party as a whole.
not with its fragmentary parts. The par
ty is hungry and thirsty" and wants of
flee and wants it bad, and this will re-
main long felt want with them, unless
they reform their practices and methods.
As party they have no principles unless
free trade, or an approximation to it, can
be called principle, and this they do not
think it prudent to avow. They would
cheerfNlly DO SO if they could be quite
sure that the votes to give them the oftic-
es could be had in that direction.
| have enaeavofed to show you that the
Republican party is now, and has been
throughout its history, a consistent advo-
cate, friend and staunch supporter of a
protective tariff. The acts of the party
question, can safely be left to speak for
I have shown that the Democratic par
ty, during these same years, has been op
posed to aprotective tariff-nQt to go back
any furthr-that it has, as a party. con-
sistentlY favored and voted for reduc-
tion of duties from the protection to the
ing toward free trade. The Democratic
party has been more consistent on this
question than any other-stuck to it long
er and more persis tently than any other
article of faith. That party has been on
beth sides, may say all sideA, of every
leading question aimee the close of the
pointed toward the free trade pole. This
is history simply,
Now Jet Us see how We are interested
in this question OF tariff on imported
goods. The ocean is studded with sailing
vessels and steam ships. Communication
with Europe never before was so rapid as
now. Ocean freights on iron, per ton,
range as follows: On steam vessels from
Glasgow to New 7 ork, from 2 shillings
and cd. to 3 shillingsi from Liverpool to
New York, 5 ShillingS; from London to
New York, I shillings and Cd. to 9 shil-
Iings. or an average from all points Of
of SIPS in our money. Presumably,
freights are cheaper by sailing vessels.
Pig iron has often come into this country
from Scotland at absolutely no freight at
all-vessels bringing it for ballast. In
fact the present freight by steamer, of
from 81 to Is cents per ton, does not
amount to any protection to the Ameri-
can article, practically speaking. So that
it follows if the duty on pig iron be re-
moved, American manufacturers must
make it at foreign prices, plus the before
named freights and inland transportation
to where used, or blow out their blast fur
naces and let the 400 id e furnaces of En-
gland blow in, and supply our market
There is no getting away from this logic.
1t is ineXorable. In order to keep our
blast furnaces running to make the pig
iron for the American market, in the face
of the before-named dconditions-the tariff
all off - every coal miner, every
ore miner, every lime quaryman,
who mined anything for a furnace every
man working ON a railway train that
transports this stock, and every man
working at the furnace where it is work
| ed up, would have to accept lower wages
than he now gets, because the cost of
ton of pig iron is 95 per cent labor, in
some form and somewhere, and when
manufacturers have to produce the arti-
Gle at English cost, if at all, they must
haIe We an Il Rbs tr TO EHgsh wages
! true of bar iron, and great many other
| articles which l might name, and pig iron
is chosen simply as furnishing an easy il