The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-30
REPUBLICAN, STATESMEN ON THE
TARIFF,

Hon. VIM. d. (Pig-Iron) Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, in speech in the House
of Representatives, July 2S, 'S6, said,
speaking on the wool question:
"Let the raw material come in. Let
us make blankets that will drive out
English blankets. Let us make our
own English frieZe' and 'Peterboro'
frosted beaver Let us be able to rival
England and France and other repre-
sentative nations in making these
cloths"
Senator Benjamin Harrison. of In
diana, now the Republican candidate
for President, in a speech in the Senate
November %, 1882, said:
THE creation of the Tariff Commits
sion was a confession that the tariff
needs revision If the report comes in
it should be acted upon promptly. My
opinion is that no time should be lost
after Congress assemblies IN bringing
forward these measures"
Senator John Sherman, in a speech
in the Senate, January, 1888, said:
"The tariff ought to be carefully re.
vised with view to correct any in
equalities or incongruities that may
have grown out of the change of vane.
since the passage of the act of 1883;
every imported arIlcle which does moi
compete with our domestic industry
and is essential to the comfort and
wants OF our people should be placed
on the free list; every raw material of
industry which does not compete with
our productions should be specially Sc
.ected for the free list"
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, in a
speech in the Senate, 1870, said:
at is mistake of the friends of a
sound tariff to insist upon the extreme
rates imposed during the war"
James A. Garfield in a speech in the
House, April 1st, 1870, said;
"Duties should be so high that our
manufacture can fairly compete with
the foreign product, but not so high as
to enable them to drive out the foreign
article, enjoy monOpoly'of the trade,
ind regulate the prices as they please.
This is my doctrine of protection. Ii
Congress pursues this line of policy
steadily we shall, year by year, ap-
proach more nearly able to compete
with other nations on equal terms. I
an for protection 1Chich leads TO Ultj-
mate free trade"
Senator Oliver p. Morton, of Indiana,
in the Senate in 1870, said:
"Now, | wish to say to the Senate
that am strongly convinced that we
should go further, and reduce the tariff
| III material respects upon many other
articles. Il The country expects
a large reduction, the country knows
that it can be made, the country has
been promised this reduction, and the
dominant party here is responsible to
| the country tor this reduction, and will
be held responsible if it is not made.
Senator Henry L. Dawes, of MasSa-
chusetts, in the Senate in 1882, said:
1.-THE duty must be levied on the raw
material or on the manufactured article,
If you levy it on the raw material you
| discriminate against American labor
and ii you levy it on the manufactured
article you discriminate in favor of
| American labor. Y on must have either
a protective tariff or tariff which
discriminates against American labor
Senator Joseph R. Hawley, of Con
necticut, in the Senate in 1882, said:
81 will vote in any direction to bring
about resolute attempt to give us a
revision of the tariff
Congressman William Mckinley, in
the House of Representatives, 1882
said:
"Ihe free list might be enlarged with
out affecting injuriously single
American interest"
Senator Warner Miller of New York,
in the Senate, 1882, said
"The sooner we have that (tariff) re-
vision the better it will be for al liz
dustries."
And so on down the list almost every
leading Republican in the land has by
word of mouth committed himself to
the Democratic proposition to revise
the tariff and reduce the surplus, James
A. Garfield going so far as to say, II am
for protection aOhich leads to ultimate
free trade"
And in spite of this damning proof
the Republican press and leaders
with an audacity only equaled
by satan himself, prate to the American
people about democratic Free Trade
We say down, forever down, with such
burning, shameless imposition. The
American people have learned much in
the last four years that the Republican
press and leaders don't appreciate
Election day in November will tell them
tale that will be an everlasting lesson
to political hypocrisy, political infamy
and political shamelessness that the
James G. Blaine's of the Republican
party are now guilty of.