Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-31


ton, find this:
It's abandonment has always been fol-
lowed by general disaster to every interest
except those Of the Insurer and the sheriff
why, gentlemen, It never has been aban-
doned at all. We have had, as said awhile
ago, high tariffs and low tariffs, war tariffs
and peace tariffs, and the country has had
good times and bad times under all Of them.
But we have never had since the beginning
OF the Government any tariff that did not
contain protection and plenty OF it. There
never was such a panic, there never was
such widespread ruin and disaster as the
great panic Of 1873, though we had tho
wonderful American tariff at that time full
ten years. lApplause.I make that in
connection with the suggestion that we
have had good and bad times under all
tariffs.
"A tariff Is not n universal patent nostrum
II is no cure-all, high or low. As a matter
Of history, under all tariffs we have had
good and bad times. But il is demonstrated
that the lowest Of our modern tariffs, the
Walker tariff, ranging from 1916 10 1861,
marks that era In the life Of the Nation
when our development and advancement
reached their highest high-water mark.
tApplause.l This declaration is an insult to
two propositions. Each one Of them is a
falsehood, and II is mercy OF God that it
did not contain third, because that would
have been a falsehood, too. Applause and
laugbtcr.l
"And now, having numbered itself and
got its springs well oiled, this platform
warns 10 It's work and denOunces the Mills
bill as hostile TO all the laboring, farming
and manufacturing interests Of the coun-
try, and goes out OF It's way TO single out
and dcnOunce the clauses Of the bill that
put wool on the free list l know that YOU
are not all wOol-growers, and perhaps you
do not take a direct pecuniary interest in
this branch OF the subject. But tho re is no
feature OF the measure proposed. by tho
Democratic Ways and Means Committee
which will better bear discussion than this,
and propose 10 make test case Of ito
take 81 by way OF illustration.
1--WE denounce the Democratic party
policy in putting wool on the free list
THAT Is what they say The whole princi-
pie is as simple and plain as two and two
make four. There is right and wrong TO it,
and the Republican scheme is the wrong.
The present duty on wooden goods-that is
wooden goods which generally constitute the
apparel Of the poor, is about hfty-nne cents.
The Mills bill proposes TO reduce that twenty
cents and put it 20 thirty-nine cents, but it
makes the reduction by putting wool on the
free list. Now this might constitute a
reason why the shcep-raiser will complain,
but what the wooden manufacturer can find
10 be the matter with il am unable to sec.
Because IL increases the present duty from
thirty-ive cents 10 forty on the made-up
article and gives the manufacturer free
wooli Away back in 1865, when wooden
manufacturers were first IA convention,
find that their secretary, Mr.. John l..
Hays, sent petition 10 Con rrcss saying:
wool manu- facturcrs would prefer a total
abolition of the protective tariff duty on the
raw materiar-at that time they had
the actual net protection Of twenty-five
cents aud an additional ten cents internal
revenue taS on the made-up article
Would 10 have been better for buyers-the
ten cents over the actual tax Of thirty-fvo
cents, or should II give the raw material
free instcadi Now the Mills bill comes in
and proposes 10 give me free wool and forty
cents protection. Still this is called free
trade measure, and our Republican friend
says Il will ruin his business. l wonder
why, with forty cents protection and all the
free wool hc wants he calls that free trade
/ wonder what he would call protection
mcasurc-the oarthi Laughter. He must
have nothing but the earth. The trouble is
that the wooden manufacturer feels IL very
al that he has less % complain Of He has
been made the friend and the spoilt darling
Of the tariff
"Ihe fight is on. Go on and fight IL out.
The Republican party is "a wolf In Sleeps
clothing. II is the friend OF corporations
and combinations. II is the foe OF the great
body of the people BY this bombast spread
out on this platform IL makes the very name
Of free trade conservative, though nobody
Is talking of it except themselves. In the
candidate for the President il oiTcnds labor
by his Chinese record and insults every
body of foreign birth by his record on
know-Nothingism, and in its Vice-Presl-
Dental nominee IL has taken man who is
liked not for the enemies nc has made but
for the money he can raise.
"Have no fear for the outcome Of this
campaign. | have none do not think Che
people Of this Nation are going to change an
honest Administration in this season Of
prosperity on the word Of any such set of
men as those behind this strange thing OF
words known as the Republican platform.
and so bid you good night. and at the
same time bid you be Of good cheer and TO
have no fear Of the outcome of the struggle
next November"