Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-20
THE MARTINsBURG HERALD, SATURDAY. OCT 20, 1888.

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adjusted that it utterly ignores pro-
lection and is for revenue only. One
year the Democratic platform was for
"a tariff for revenue only !" the next
presidential year it declared for "a
| tariff only for revenue.o Laughter.
/ A tariff for revenue means that Gus
toms officer shall go down to your sea-
board and beckon the passing ship
from foreign land, and say: Land
here. You carry the product of the
manufactures of cotton and wool
and iron and steel and glass. We
want it. We will let you in upon the
payment of such tax as will give a
little revenue into our treasury" 1t
ignores Protection. If you want that
kind of tariff, ] am not your man |!
[Great applause
Mr.. Wilson quotes me as saying
want to put the tariff higher. Mr..
| Wilson seizes one of his numerous
scrap books and begins turning its
leaves rapidly.l Why, God bless you,
brother, you needn't look for your an
thority. Laughter. / said it.
wild applause I say il now, and l
want it. Cheers.
Not that all the duties need to be
/ increased. But some of them do sore
ly, and / will vote to raise them.
! Applause all over the house.
Free whisky is not the issue, but |
will not skulk as between tearing
down the industrial system of Hamil-
ton and Jefferson and Jackson or re-
pealing the internal revenue laws.
/ Cheers. I'll repeal them, and does
not mean free whisky, either. 1t
means that your State of West Vir-
ginial will take hold of the question
and tax the whisky if she desires just
as the Federal Government does now !;
and tobacco and other things the State
will tax also, and so tighten the bur-
dens on your farms and homes. Long
continued applause.
i What has come over the spirit of
my brother Wilson's dreams laugh
ter and over the Democratic partys
How long has it been since the Demo
cratic party favored the repeal of the
internal revenue taxes I'll tell you
how long four years. Four years ago
i Mr.. Wilson and the Democrats said
they ought to be repealed. Now it is
necessary to keep the internal revenue
tax on to reduce the surplus derisive
laughter and to strike down and de-
stroy your protective system and its
beneficent fruits. (" That's itp]
/ Ex-Secretary McColloch, whom the
gentleman quotes as favoring reve-
nue. tariff and as going over to the
enemy, has simply gone where he al
ways belonged. He is and always
has been an avoWed free trader. Some
other free trade Republicans few
of them-have gone to their own side,
and many protection Democrats have
come over where they belong, and
fallen in beneath the banner 1 carry
and they will vote for Benjamin Har-
rison Tremendous applausel; and
Levi P. Morton Applausel; and VIM.
III. III. Flick [Tumultous cheering];
and for the man who is talking to you
now, and who will be the next Gov
ernor of West Virginia. Vociferous
and long continued applause, break
ing out again and again.
| LABOR BENEFITED.
There is a surplus in the treasury OF
Sill 100000. The present law was
framed to meet the demands of the
treasury when we needed large sum
of money; about 1880, 100000 annual.
ly are produced by it's operations
There are two ways of raising the
needed revenue-by the tariff or by
direct taxation. The fathers whose
wisdom created for us this grand gov.
ernment, Washington and Adams and
Jefferson and Madison, all taught that
the tariff was not and ought not to be
for revenue only, but for protection
as well. Applause.
| Now, my brilliant brother here
[laughterl, my brilliant brother Viii.
son, asks if any of the fathers ever
mentioned the laboring man in con.
necticn with the tariff. I'll name
him one Washington. He said the
people could not prosper without
manufactures. Do you mean that
Madison and Jefferson and all the
great men from 1912 and 1916 on up
were not in favor of workingmen's
tariff? They thought the goods would
grow, did they? Laughter, and that
no laborers would find employment
in the factories that sprang up under
the influence ofProtection The coun.
Iy 10 ulucISuO uOW tliuCS Adfc
changed. The fathers protected wool,
somebody tells US, by putting it on
the free list, So they did. Now tell
me, who was sending wool here in
1889? Who had any to export? Great
Britain had not. She would not per.
NIT her wool to be exported, and tc
encourage and stimulate manufactur.
ers of wooden goods, required every
man, woman and child who died to
be buried in wool. l"That's so!"]
AS competition grew up, when the
nations of the old world began to ex.
port wool, the fathers put duty on
wool [applause and it has been on
ever since, except in the few years OF
Democratic Free Trade control Mr.
Wilson referred to while ago.
!, My brother Wilson is not fair when
he says the Republicans want to gel
rid of the surplus by spending it
Then he says the Republican Senate's
bill reduces the tariff. All concede
that the tariff should be reduced, or al
least the revenues from the tariff.
Applause.
Continued ON second pdge.)
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