Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-22
HOME AFFAIRS.
SENSATIONAL OPIUM CONSPIRACY
UNEARTHED.
Harrison and Thurman on Their
McKinley's Tariff Lee
ture-Destructive Storms.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRp-us1oS.l
IN TEE SOUTH.
Mckinley Talks to The Georgians on the
Tariff Question.

Iar1n Question.
ATLANTA (Ga.), August 2lst.-A heavy
rain-storm deferred many people from go
ing to the Georgia Chautauaua to-day to
hear Hon. William Mckinley speak on the
subject OF protection. Mckinley was in
troduced by Judge Van Epps. Following
is a synopsis of McKinleys speech
After acknowledging his thanks to the
Piedmont Society for the courtesy and cor
dlality of the invitation, Mr.. Mckinley at
once began by quoting from a speech de-
liyered by Hon.. Randolph Tucker of Vir-
ginia i'll the House of Representatives on
May IS, 1878, as follows: Therefore, as no
higher duty which will bring the required
revenue" etc. Mr.. Mckinley said that
this definition of a revenue duty was fair
and frank one, and he accepted it. Arevenue
tariff, he went on to say, is such one as
will produce tht largest revenue from the
lowest duty. Tse lowest rate of duty will
encourage impor.ssions, diminish home
production and inevitably increse the rev.
enue. 1t will of necessity check competi-
ton at home, and send our merchants
abroad to buy. 1t affords no protection
not even incidental-for the very instant
you discover that such a duty favors the
home producer, that instant you discover
that impOrtations and revenue are checked,
and that our producers are able to control
the home market, or part of it,
According to that free trade maxim,
Where protection begins, revenue ends,'
and that the question of revenue is always
controlling. A revenue tariff is inconsist-
ent with protection. 1t is intended Tor
wholly different purpose. 1t loses its force
and character as genuine revenue when
it becomes to any extent protective 1t has
but one object, and it can have but one
etfect-that of opening up our markets to
foreign producers, thus impoyerishing
home production and enriching our foreign
rivals.
The speaker then referred to England as
being more nearly free trade than any other
naticn, and he then made q statement con-
corning that country's du,iable articles.
Passing on, he said there was another the
ory of taxation, and it was the one which
he believed essential to American develop
ment and national prosperity, though it
was based upon exactly opposite princi-
pie. 1t permits all articles of foreign pro-
duction-whether of field, factory or mine,
except luxuries only, which we cannot
produce - to enter our ports free
and unburdened by Custom house
exactions. The duty is to be imposed upon
the foreign competing product. That is,
the product which, if brought into this
country, would contend with the products
of our own soil, our own labor and our
own factories and in our own markets.
Under this system, if the forei n producer
would enter our market with competing
product, he must contribute something for
the privilege which he is to enjoy, and this
something, in the form of duties, goes into
the Treasury furnishes q revenue to the
Government, and these duties operate to
protect the joint product of labor and capi-
tai against like foreign products.
thorough analysis of the protective
side of the question here followed, in
which quotations from Democratic and
Republican sources abounded Tariff
legislation was followed up from the birth
of the American Republic 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 indus
trial question there should be no North and
no South. Every section has been in
trusted with the interests of our country,
our whole country. To others has been
eonfided the care of other nations and
other people. We will not interfere with
them, and we bid them not to interfere
with US. My fellow citizens, in this con-
tlict, influenced by patriotism, national in
terest and national pride, let us be Amer
leans