River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-18
M'KINLEY'S LOGIC.
The Ohio Statesman Completely Captur
Large siixed Audience.

The Ohio Statesman Completely Captures
Large siixed Audience.
Major Mckinley discussed the tariff
question before an immense audience az
Bryan, o., the other night. HIS speech was
without dispute one of the greatest ever
made upon this question, and the Majors
brilliant. logical and practical presentation
o. this subject completely captured his
audience, many of whom were Democrats,
while he left no peg upon which free
trade. could hang an idea. He sale that
President Cleveland in his mes sage and
in his letter of acceptance says that the
consumer must pay the duty. There vas
never a greater fallacy, never a more
absurd statement promulgated. If Presi-
dent Cleveland had been acquainted with
the history q his own country he would
never have made such a statement; if he
had been acquainted with the history of
his own State he could not have pro.
pounded such fallacy. The Major then
instanccd the soda ash mandatory in the
city of Syracuse, n. Y, showing the re-
suits OF protection in that industry alone
in New YORK. Thus, With iilGstra
ton after illustration, he cony need the
Democrats of the absuriity os the PROPOSE.
tion of the Executive Then he added:
"Supposing | admitted that protective
tariffs are paid by the consumer, wherein,
ask, is a revenue tariff any better! A rev
enue duty IS always paid by the consumer,
and, if protective duty was also paid by
the consumer, the latter has the advantage
Of the former in that it protects home labor;
but the Democratic party say that
the people are murdered by war taxes
Lei us sec There have been three
general tariff revisions since the warm
lS1o 1872 and in 1881 III o. revenue FIR M
customs in 1887 had beer collected upon
the war tariff il would have been 65 per
cent greater than the amount collected
under the present law or over $500 900
greater Between 1866 and 1855 twenty
two years, TIE Democratic party mas been
in control of the Lower House of C0ngre5
eleven years, and the Republ can party
eleven years The House alone has consti
tlticnal author ty to introduce bills to re-
duce taxes. During eleven years Of I,eput'
lican control we reduced the taxes 1905,
900 00J annually During the eleven year
of Democratic control they have been re.
duced by 90 900 0lJ. Who made the Mills
bilia Mills did not make 1t. Who did!
Nobody knows Its paternity has neves
been revealed. But who are the gentle
men who compose &c majority of the
Ways and Means Comm ttee; Mills, Of
texas 1Ch III OF N lbuChN DltChGu-
ridg D, of Arkansas; Breckenr dge, Of Ken
lucky; Turner, of Georgia, and Wilson, Of
Virginia. These six men control the ac-
tion of the COMMITTEES, the other two DEM
ocrats from the North being ia the minor
ity The six districts which these six gen
tlemen represent together do not equal
manufacturing interest, wages paid labor
and pital invested my own Congressional
distr ct Out of the 1862 votes cast for the
NJ "a bill in the House, l01 votes were
from sixteen Southern States, and the
total manufacturing interest of these six
teen States represented by these l0l votes
is only 2l2 per cent. of the entire manu-
featuring interests of the country. Yet
these men representing the pig per cent
say to the 91l2 per cent. of manufacturers
of the North: We are going to pull down
the bulwariS of your strength and open
up our markets to foreign laborers and for
eign manufacturers II is for the laborers
of the whole country to veto this taeory by
their votes on The 9th OF November"