The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-22
N'ETNIEY ON THH TARIFF.
His Great. Speech at the Geor-
gia chautauqua.
HIS MAGNIFICENT ADDRESS
Eloquently Showing the Benefits OF
Protective TariE-How it has
Built Up the Country-neve-
nuc Tariff u Delusion.

ATLANTA, Ga, August 2l.-A heav!
rain storm deferred many people from
going to Chautauqua to-day 70 hear Hon
William Mckinley speak upon the sub
iect Of Protection, consequently the us
semblage was not as large as it otherwise
would have been. Mr.. Mckinley wa
introduced by Judge Howard Van Epps
and delivered an eloquent address, us
follows:
After u brief preface setting forth the
fact that we have two conflicting theories
Of taxation in this country, one Of which
is a tariff for revenue without regard to
Protection, and the other taritffo both
revenue and Protection, Mr.. Mckinley
went on to remark us follows:
A revenue tariff is, such a one as will
produce the largest revenue from the
lowest duty. The lowest rate OF duty
will encourage importations, diminish
home production, and inevitably increase
the revenue; it will of.necessity check
competition at home and send our mer-
chants abroad to buy; it affords no Pro-
lection, not even incidental, for the very
instant that you discover that such duty
favors the home producer, that instant
you discover that importations and
revenue are checked, and that our own
producers are able to control the home
market, or part oft. A revenue tariff
is inconsistent with protection. Itloscs
its force and character as q genuine
revenue tariff when il becomes to any OK
tent Protective. 1t can have Dut one
eiEect-that OF opening up our markets
to the foreign producer-impoyerishing
the home producer and enriching his
foreign rival.
England is more nearly free trade
than any other, and her system Of taxa
ton furnishes an unmistakabIe example
OF the practice and pr lCiple of a revenue
tariff. Her import duties are imposed
almost exclusively upon articles which
cannot be produced by her own people
upon her own soil. Tobacco, snuff,
cigars, chicory, cocoa, Curlants, figs,
raisins, rum, brandy, wine, tea and
colIee-these are the articles from which
her customs revenue is derived-artiCles,
in the main, not produced in England,
but which must be esupplied from abroad !
while practically all competing products
Of foreign make and production are adj
United through her custom houses free
OF duty,
ENGLAND's MoDus orERANpI.
It will be observed that her duties are
more largely imposed upon peculiar
American products than upon any 9th.
ers. The duty upon tobacco is, accord
ing to moisture, from Si to 02 cents per
pound for the raw or manufactured
article, and if manufactured it pays Il
duty OF from 81 04 to 81 lG per pound.
The manufactured article is made duti-
able at 20 cents pound greater than the
raw product, which, with all of Eng
lands boosted Free Trade, is intended
as protection to those engaged in the
manipulation Of tobacco. 1t is almost
prOhibitive to Americans who would
export manufactured tobacco. The ad
vaiorem equivalent OF the duty on to-
bacco is nearly 1000 per cent. Cigars
pay duty of 81 30 per pound, and from
tobacco and snuff over Si3, 100000 Of du-
ties are collected annually. The duty on
tea is l2 cents q pound. How would the
American enjoy paying such duty
upon this article OF everyday use2 The
duty collected from this source is over
$lS,0OO,0 annually. Coffee pays u duty
OF 3 cents a pound, but il ground, pre-
pared, or in any way manufactured 1t
must pay a duty OF 4 cents pound
another example OF where England pro-
tects those engaged in manufacture.
Cocoa pays a duty Of 2 cents 0 pound,
but il It is in any form sub bjeOted to man
ufacture II pays 1 cents n pound, the
duty on the manufactured article being
double that on the raw material.
Besides the articles l have named,
there are about ninety or hundred
others, chiefly OF American production,
patented and other medicines, which are
dutiable at So 80 per gallon. More than
sou, 100000, or nearly one-fOurth OF the
British revenues, are raised from Gus.
toms duties,
wAsHINGTON's WARNING,
You will note the character OF taxa
ton to which the revenue reformer in
vites the people OF the United States.
Both the breakfast table and the sick
room are made to bear large part Of the
burden under the British system OF tax
alton. Itisnot without significance that
the nearer we approach this system the
more generous the bestowal OF British
commendatioD. Every step we take in
that direction, every enlargement OF the
free list OF competing foreign products,
every reduction of duty upon such pro-
ducts is hailed MS vindication OF Cob
den and beneficence to British interests.
It is in vain for the British statesman to
assure us that their system is best Tor us.
We are not accustomed TO look to our
commercial rivals for disinterested IA
vors. at is folly" said Washington in
his farewell address, Sin one nation to
look for disinterested iavOrs from an
other; that it must pay, with portion
OF its independence, for whatever it may
accept under that character. There can
be no greater error than to expect OF
calculate upon real tavOrs from nation
to nation. II is an illusion which eX.
perience must cure and which just
pride oughtto discard"
THE OTHER THEORY OF TAXATION,
and the one which believe to be essen
tial to American development and ma
tional prosperity, is based upon m ex
actly opposite principle. It permits al
articles Of foreign production, whether
of the field, the factory, or the mine, ex
cept luxuries only, which we ,eanno
produce in the United States, to ente
our ports free and unburdened by Gus
tom:house exactions. The duty is to bt
| imposed upon the foreign competing
product. that is, the product which, !
brought into this country, would con
tend with the products OF our own soil
our own labor, and our own factories, ii
our own markets.
This mode Of levying duties answers
double purpose. 1t produces revenue +
the Government, and ut the same tim
fosters and encourages the occupations. G
our own people, promotes industrial dc
yelopment, opens up new mines, build