The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14

EVANSVILLE, Ind, October 13.-About
5000 people assembled at Garvin Park
this afternoon to hear Hon. James G.
Blaine.
Mr.. BLAINE SPOKE
upon the tariff question, severely criti-
,cising the Mills bill and the arguments
used by Rodger Q. Mills in his speech
delivered here yesterday. In the course
of his remarks, Mr.. Blaine said: "Ao-
cording to the report of the Secretary
of the Treasury, the duties levied and
collected at all the custom houses of the
United States for this fiscal year,
amounted in the aggregate to
S12, 100000. 1t is this sum which
the free-lrader essail so bitterly,
and it is in this sumthat they
find the outrages and abuses
OF the protective system. OF these sg-
gregates Of 1912, 000,0 900, Mr.. Mills bill
proposes to take off an aggregate of
$49, 500, 900, which was 10 per cent of the
total dutiable importations for the year.
On the duties on silks and liquors,
amounting to $4,000 900, the Mills bill
made no reduction whatever, SO that
the whole of the reduction fell on the
$189,000,000 that remained. Of the
$1S9, 900 000 sos, 100000 were duties
levied on sugar, and from the duties
levied on sugar a reduction was made
of $11, 600 000, leaving the people of
the United States still to pay S11, 100000
annually on sugar. Deduct that $751;
900, 900 of sugar duties from S189 100000
and you have left $131 900 900 as the
total amount of all the duties levied on
all other articles in the tariff, and de-
duct the $11 600 900 which the Mills bill
took off sugar duties and you have left
$38 100000 reduction on the remaining
$131, 600 900 of tariff duties.
Gentlemen, you will please observe
that the sum of $131 600, 900 of duties
affords all the protection We have on
manufactures, except that levied on
silks, cotton and wool and Woolens, iron.
steel, and all articles to which iron and
steel enter as component par In
fact, all tie protected manufactures in
the United States and the protected Ia
Dor of those engaged therein may be
termed the entire protective system of
the United States, over which this con-
troversy between the two parties is now
ranging, is included in that $131 000, 900
of duties, and from that $131 900 900 of
duties the Mills proposed to take $3S15
millions, and tells the people of Indiana |
that he is only reducing the tariff per |
cent; whereas, as matter OF fact, on |
the whole importation on the long list |
of articles have named he |
makes a reduction exceeding "a |
per cent. What isit to those industries
tkat are stripped naked whether the |
In either or any event, they are thrust |
out into the cold. Gentlemen, there is |
one great difference between the Re-
publican and Democratic parties. |
Whatever the Republican party pro-
poses in Congress il frankly defends be-
fore the people, but the Democratic
party, from President Cleveland |
down through all the official
grades, have for the eight months
Waged better warfare on the protective
spstem, denouncing it as plumber and
organized robbery, and are now send
ing out speakers, known in fact to be
most rancorous free traders, with Mills
at the head, to so qualify and explain
away, and tumble and reverse and turn,
and trim the figures by which they hope
to deceive the people as to the true in
tent of the assault made on the pro
tective system. Mr.. Mills proposes to
take the tariff from wool and give
tralia as cheap as they get it in Eng
land. How shall we make WOODEN goods
here to compete with the cheap wooden
goods of England, unless we reduce the
wages of the workingmen far below
that now paid? The inevitable result
must be one of two things, that We shall
loose the market for woods in this
country or we must reduce the wages of
the laboripg men from IS TO ~ per cent.