The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-22
McKINLEY's SPEECH.
He Makes Long Talk on the Subject
OF Tariff

ATLANTA. Ga, August PA heavy
rain storm deferred many people from
going to the Georgia Chatauqua. to-
day, to hear the Hon. William McKin-
ley speak on the subject of protection.
Mckinley was introduced by Judge
Van Epps.
After acknowledging his thanks to
the Piedmont Society for the courtesy
and cordiality of the invitation Mr..
Mckinley at once Waded into the dis
cussion of the tariff question. He
began by quoting from speech de-
livered by Hon. j Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia. in the House OF Represen-
tatives May IS, 1878, as follows:
Therefore no higher duty ought to be
laid than is necessary and which will
bring the required revenue" Mr.. Nc
Kinley said his definition of revenue
duty was fair and frank one, and he
accepted it.
A REVENUE TARIFF,
he went on 20 say, is therefore such
one as will produce the largest revenue
trom the lowest duty. The lowest rate
OF duty will encourage importations,
diminish home production and newt
ably increase revenue. 1t will, of neces-
sity, check competition at home and
send our merchants abroad to buy. It
affords no prote ctiOn, not even incl
dental; for the very instant you dis
| cover that such protection favors home
industries, that instant you discover that
importations and revenue are checked
and that our own producers are able
to control the home market or part of
it,. Then, at once, the advocate of a
revenue tariff reduces the duty and
brings it down to revenue standard,
for it must not be overlooked, accord
ing to that
FREE TRADE MAXIMUM,
"where protection begins revenue
ends" and the question of revenue is
always controlling. A revenue tariff is
inconsistent with protection. 1t is in
tended for wholly different purpose. 1t
loses its force and character as genuine
revenue when it becomes to any ex-
tent protective. 1t has but one object,
it can have but one. that of opening up
our markets to foreigners and i'm
poverishipg the home producer and en-
riching his foreign rival. The speaker
referred to England as being more
nearly free trade than any other ma
| ton, and he then made statement
concerning that country's dutiable
articles. Passing on he said there was
another theory of taxation and it
was one which he believed es-
sential to American development
and national prosperity though it
was based upon exactly opposite
principles. 1t permits ell articles of
Inv r1o
only, which we cannot produce in the
United States, to enter our ports
FREE AND UNBURDENED
By custom house exactions. The duty
is to be imposed on the foreign
competing producEs-that is, product
which, if brought into this country,
would contend with the products of
our own soil, our own labor and our
own factories in our own markets.
Under this system, if the foreign pro-
Queer would enter our market
with a competing product, he must
contribute something for the privilege.
which he is to enjoy, and this some
thing in the form of duties, goes into
the treasury, furnishing a revenue to
the government, and these duties
ought to protect the JOINT products of
labor and capital against like foreign
products. An analysis of the protec-
tive side of the question here followed,
in which questions from Democratic
and Republican sources abounded.
Tariff legislation was followed up from
the birth of the American Re-
public to the present time.
The industries were paraded with
words of comment and criticism. He
closed his speech in the following
words: Men of Georgia, upon this
great industrial question. there should
be no north nor south. To the United
States of every section has been in
trusted the interests of our country,
our whole country. To others has been
con6ded the care of other nations and
other people. We will not interfere
with them, we bid them not to interfere
with US. Ny fellow citizens, in this
conflict, influenced by patriotism, ma
,ional interest and national pride, let US
be Americans"