The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-14
MR.. BLAINE Ar TEyASsvILLE.


ANtaor Arguments.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. i3.-About
500 people assembled at Garyan park
this afternoon to hear Hon Jas. q.
Blaine. Mr. Blaine spoke upon the
tariff question, severely eriticising the
Mills bill ana the arguments used by
Roger q. Mills in his speech delivered
here yesterday. In the course of his
remarks Mr.. Blaine said
According to the report OF the
secretary OF the treasury, the duties
levied and collected at all custom
houses of the United States this fiscal
year amounted in the aggregate to
s212 .000.0 900. 1t is this sum which the
free traders assail so bitterly; and il is
in this sum that they tind the out
RACES and abuses OF the protective
system. OF these aggregate duties OF
$2l2 ,0o0.c0o Mr.. Mills bill proposes to
take off an aggregate OF 49ls millions
of dollars, which was 10 per
cent. OF the total dutiahle importations
for the year. On the duties on silks
and liquors, amounting to 1900, 900,
the Mills bill made no reduction what
ever. so that the whole OF the reiuc-
ton fell on the <ls9.n00.000 that re-
NAMED OF the SiSa, 600 600, S53 900, :
a00 were duties levied on sugar, and
from the duties levied on sugar a re-
duction was made of Sil u0 coo, leay-
ing the people of the United states
still to pay 100000 annually on
sugar. Deduct that SOS 000,0o0 of
sugar duties from the Sis9, ,oo0, coo, and
you have lett S13l 900 900 as the total
amount OF all duties levied on all other
articles in the tariff, and deduct Sll-
i. .r.rk. l... IL
oil sugar duties, and You have
remaining Si3l 10000 Of the
will please observe that the sum
OF S13l .000, coo of duties affords all the
protection we have on manufactures
on wool and woolens, on iron and steel
and all articles into which iron and
steel enter as component part; in
fact. that protects the manufacturers
in the United States, and protects the
labor OF those engaged therein. What
may he termed the entire protective
system OF the United States, over
which this controversy between the
two parties il now raging, is included
in that $i3i ,000000 OF duties, and
from that $l3i 10000 of duties Mills
proposed to take thirty-eight and one
half millions and tells the people of
| Indiana that he is only reducing the
tariff per cent, whereas as a matter
of fact, on the whole importations in
the long li.t OF articles | have named.
he makes q reduction exceeding "A per
cent.
What is ii to those industries that
are stripped naked whether the aver
age is 5 per cent. or 800 per cent In
either or any event they are thrust
out into the cold. Gentlemen, there i
a great difference between the Repub-
| lican and Democratic parties. What
ever the Republican party proposes in
congress ii frankly defends before the
people; but the Democratic party,
I from Pre- ,ident Cleveland down
through all the Official grades, have
| for eight months waged bitter war
! on the protective system, denounciag
/ i rs pluDder and organized robbery,
and are now sending out speakers
/ known in fact TO be the most raneor-
ous free traders, with M:tls at their
/ head 10 so qualify and explain away
ana tumble and reverse and taFn anu
| trim the figures that they hope TO de-
ceive the people a. 10 the true intent
OF the assault made upon the protect
/ i've system.
Mr.. Mills proposes TO take the tariff
/ from wol and give to our manulae-
/ turers wool from Australia as cheap
as they get it in England. How shall
we make wooden goods here 10 com.
/ pete with the cheap wooden goods OF
| England unless we reduce the wages
! Of the w0rkingmen far below that now
paid? The inevitable result must be
one OF two tbIngs-that we shall lose
the market for woods in this country
or must reduce the wages Of the labor
! inn man from 30 10 IS IseT cent.