The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-10-31

articles which our people require. on the
free list. [Cheers] But TO foreign man
ufacturers who wish to put articles on
the market that We produce here, you
must pay for the privilege Of doing it.
lCheers.l And why not2 Who made the
American people We cannot call upon
any foreign nation. either in war or
peace. lCheers.l They are beyond our
jurisdiction. The only way you can reach
a foreign nation is to put the burden, the
tax, on the prodncts they send here TO
displaee the products of American labor.
[Cheers.l
PiryIsG Nh. cLEvELASD's IGNORANCE.
But Mr. Cleveland has said that the
trouble about protective tariff is that it
is all paid by the consumer. A voice
lie don't know any better" and loud
cheers.I That remark, though uneoln-
plimentary, is true. There never was a
greater fallaey. There is not single ar
ticle Of home manufacture that has not
been cbeapened by the stimulation Of
American industry by the protective tar
if. Grover Cleveland doesn't know the
history Of his own Nation or his own
state The very pen with which Grover
Cleveland wrote that economic failacy
was a complete refutation of its truth
When We used to get our pens from Eng
land We paid from 20 to 60Per cent more
for them. If Grover Cleveland knew
the history Of his own Administration be
would not nlake such a blunder
You have heard Of the blanket transac-
ton. r. Yes, yes7l called the atten-
ton OF the country 70 that transaction in
a speech l made in the House ICheers.l
did it for the purpose Of controverting
the economic position taken in his mes
sage. The Government wanted 2000
blankets for the Army II advertised for
them in New York paper, and in the
London Tames. The English bid was
S4,J04 without any duty The Govern
ment can import anything for its own
use without paying duty. With the ad-
dition Of the duty the cost would have
been 81 500. If Cleveland is right, and
the duty is always added 70 the cost,
then the American bid should have been
exactly the foreign bid with the duty
added But S, ,l20 was the American bid.
just g, 400 less than the foreign cost with
the duty added and the Government Of
the United States went over 60 England
and bought supplies for the army to save
80 cents on pair of blankets.
The American market is the prize Of
the world Foreign manufacturers can
well afford to pour their millions into the
lap of the pro-British party to help them
to win this election let US hold what
we have. [Cheersl To lower the tariff
viii not decrease revenue. There were
other ways Of disposing Of the surplus
open to the President, but to divert pub
licattention and provoke an outcry against
the tariff he did not take advantage Of
them. He failed. [Great cheeringl Who
made the Mills bin Only the Democratic
majority Of eight in the Committee Of
Ways and Means, and six Of them South
erners, know what was going into that
bill. In New York State alone mercan-
tile interests are vastly greater than that
those six represent, and New York State
had no representative on the committee.
The majority Of the Ways and Means
Committee would give no hearing TO
representatives Of manufacturing and
labor. That Is not Democracy 1t is
Tyranny, the servants Of the people re-
fusing to let their masters be heard
ELECT 4 REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
You'll have an opportunity to be heard
on the 9th of November. lCheersl If
you want to be saved from u Democratic
Tariff bill there is just one way to do
it-save yourselves from a Democratic
Congress. Leheersl Who wants the tariff
oyerthrown2 Why, the men who are in
terested in defrauiing American labor.
They cali me high P.otectionist ! am
just that high that wish to make the
tariff high enough to make up the differ
ence in good, sound, wholesale measure
between the price paid to labor in Amer
lea and the price paid in Europe.
[Cheers.l
This IS altogether question Of labor.
Il is the question Of the dignity and the
independence Of American labor. Eeh
mao has an equal voice with every other
man in the Government Of this Republic
Cheap men do not make good citizens.
lCheers.l Poor, deluded, degraded hu-
manity are not fit sovereigas in a free
Republic, and We don't intend, AMI if
the people Of this country understand
the question, they do not intend that
free trade wages shall prevail in America.
The thing 10 do, therefore. this year, is
to go and vote f,y that party headed by
Ben Harrison. lgreat cheers. seconded by
your own great citizen Levi. +. Morton
[cheersl and emphasize your devotion to
n system that has made this country the
greatest manufacturing country in the
world, that has given US our matehless
prosperity, that has given dignity and
character to labor. Vote for that ticket
and after November you will never
hear of the Mills bill any more. Loud
and prolonged cheering