Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-18
SURPLUS GONE.
AND WITH IT THE REASONS cLsVE-
LAND GAVE TO REDUCE TARIFF.

Buhchhs AbAkhBI EEOEtCtlOu-ln ne OOLl
dition Has Failed.
Governor Foraker in the course Of his
speech at the great meeting in New York
IN September said:
'TNow, as to the surplus That, the
president charged, was the ground that
constituted the condition that made nee
essary such legislation. They formulated
the Mills bill and brought II into con-
gress to debate it. They did debate it,
too, through the spring months and
through the summer months and into
the dog-days, until finally while they were
going along, everything being predicated
on the condition that their president
stated, the treasurer of the United States
threw up his hands and cried, Hold
on! the surplus is all gone
THE SURPLUS.
''The condition had failed. Thence
forth it must Of necessity be a theory
could not be otherwise He stated
officially that the total receipts OF the
government estimated for next year
could not exceed Sif5, 900, 900, and that
the appropriations already made exceeded
1920, 600, 900. So far, therefore, as ne
cessity for legislation of that character,
predicatea upon this alleged surplus,
may be concerned, the necessity is gone
What other reason may there be for it,
In other circumstances l should be glad
to take up and discuss in detail every
one of the reasons they have so far
alleged. l can, however, under the
circumstances that attend US this even
ing, but barely INDICATE with a word,
what are their objections to protection
and what the answer to those objections
may be. They allege that tariff duty is
a tax on the consumer; that It increases
the cost of his product to every buyer of
every product on the importation of
which a duty is levied, and without
regard TO whether the product is manu-
factured abroad or at home. In an
swer to that 1 want to say, in the first
place that the man who makes that state
ment must be blind OF he must inten-
honally disregard the magnificent ex-
perience which we have had under this
system during the last twenty five years,
for instead OF being supported by our
experience, our experience is Just the re-
verse; and l say here, and challenge
scornful criticism from any Democrat,
from Grover Cleveland down to the high
est private in the rear ranks, that In
stead of the price being increased on
manufactured products by the inlpos-
ition of tariff duties, in every instance,
the price is lessened because of the
home competition that is brought into
existence by it.
TARIFFS MAKE THINGS CHEAP.
''That is true ss to salt, about which
they talk So much. That is true about
woolen material That is true about
steel rails aad as to hundred other
articles which they have on the free list
and to which might refer in detail If
circumstances had been otherwise. They
are not 80 much for free trade now, how
ever, as they were. They have petered
out and fallen very fiat, and they re-
remained fat after they heard from Ore
gon, Vermont and Maine. Since that
time they have been claiming that they
reduction of five per cent on protective
tariff of forty-seven per cent. By this
famous Mills bill they are proposing TO
put more than one hundred articles on
the free list that come from the markl Is
of the other world. We will prove how
successful they viii be on the sixth Of
November. (Appl.use.)
f'There Is Just one other matter They
say that we must take possession Of the
markets Of the world and for that pur-
pose they have put in the bill free wool
and other articles. Let me give you a
sample and 1t will take but a few mo-
ments to show that their proposition Is
very abrupt. Roger @. Mills, the chair
man Of the committee on ways and
means and the author Of that bill, says
we want wool on the free list 80 that our
manufacturers can turn out an article
more cheaply, and by reason thereof we
can get our clothing cheaper, and
we can extend our competition across
the ocean and take possession OF the mar
kets of the world. By this, according to
the argument, by getting wool on the
free list you can buy your clothing
cheaper, and by reason thereof the de-
amplined. He wants to say that there will
be increased price to wool growers In
consequence OF this competition. Now
you see it, don't you' Naughter.)
''Now, why is It, my fellow citizens,
that we are called upon 10 meet such
and to meet and defend the
industries of this country against such
an assault. Grover Cleveland never
started it. He never busted himself with
the study Of political economy. The
attack came from the south, the same
quarter from which every assault upon
either the industries or the National
honor and integrity Of the Union has
come.
''It is our duty to save the south as we'll
as the north from the injury which they
were threatening to our common country.
It was our duty In 1S6l-l665 to rally the
men OF the Buckeye state and the EN-
pire state with the other loyal states OF
the Union in solid column against the
states south OF the Ohio and Potomac
rivers. As we then saved them and the
country, so IL is our duty now, with bal
lots instead of bullets, TO save them from
the harm they threaten themselves with
as well - US. (Appiause) II is cues
tion OF wages, pure and simple, that Is
in this matter. The Repub-
lioan party believes in upholding the
American standard. We believe that
the laboring man should have conlpensa-
ton enough to enable him to live, clothe
himself, educate his children, have him
something, love his country
and be ready to defend it whenever It's
1ag is in danger,ns he did so heroically n
1891. From what have seen in New
York have no fear OF the result here.
congratulate you upon the zeal and
you evince, and bid you
God d-speed and good night while we go
Ind talk to some OF the people on the
,ther stands"
CoNsIDERABLE noise has been made by
Democrats about the colored delegation
hat called on Judge Thurman at HIS res