St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-21

o,cVV peISoHS DelHS pItSeHG. 1uo SiSno
! of the "Old Roman" stirred them to
great enthusiasm and
THEY WILDLY CHEERED.
Judge Emory, d. Potter introduced
Judge Thurman, who made his tenth
speech of the day, as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: 1t has
been my privilege to speak in this goodly
city of Toledo a number of times in my life,
and never came to speak that was not re:
ce1ved with the kindest attention and regard
by all your people. to whatever party they
might belong, and by your Democracy with
warmth and heartlness that l never shall
ber be able to forget Apglapse therefore
gratifed that have once more the prlyl-
lege CT saying few words 10 you. [Renewed
applause]. say "a few words, y my friends,
for have spoken already nine times s. to-
day. Short talks, 1t is true rather than
speeches.. but yet talks that try ones
voice and sometimes weary ones brain.
shall therefore be very brief In what nave
to say tonight. Indeed, were there no otner
the late hour of the night at which we have
arrived. Again 1 should be brief, for-this is
the
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN
with me, and every experienced speaker
knows that it behooves him at the outset OF
the campaign to take the greatest care OF his
voice, lest he break down at the very begin
ming. Now, have to speak day after deIr,es 70;
there will be at Port Huron. in our sister
state of Michigan. 1t will be the, opening
speech of the campaign for me when L go
there, into another state from this great old
state of Ohio, l want them to have the Buck
eye in the very best possible plight In which
he can be for talking to them. Laugh
1eT and enRgR applause bnband aus nv Toce
myself, so that if l cannot do
much credit to myself, were I go, 1 may be
no discredit to you, my fellow men of Ohio.
Applause and cries OF good
Now, the few remarks that shall make 10
you, will be confined to single topic. Not
that there is but one thing that might attract
your attention in this campaign, or that
might not be well spoken OF, but there is
about which so much is said; SO much is
written; SO much is printed, that the people
are eager to learn what is the truth. refer
to the tariff question, as it is commonly
called. Now presume that there is no man
in this vast audience who does not know
what is meant by the word tariff"
or or. the tie, term 10 ,'tarff if hsEm law,' and and
mav ge1 lead to can PRECISION Of speech and @ toa
comprehension of what have to say. 1t be-
gin by definition of what is tariff. A
tariff, my friends, is nothing IN this world
but tax levied by the general government
United States for sale The erect OF
which is to raise the price OF every
commodity thus imported and also the price
of all domestic commodities of the same ma
ture made within the United States. This
taxis paid by the consumer OF the artlcle.
When your state tax is levied it is levied on
property; it is paid by property.
THE MAN OF MUCH PROPERTY
paws much more than the man of little
property, and the man of no property pays
none at all. But tariff is tax that is pald
by the consumer Of the so-called protected ar
articles. He pays it not to the tax gatherer,
10 nffina of COVprnmant-
pays it in the price which he, gives for
every protected article that he buys: Let
me suppose. for instance, by way of lilustra-
tration, that an importer purchased In Eng
land 81, 900 worth-no, 1 won't take SO much
as that. will say enough cloth to make
suit of clothes for man. he pays
for it there say $40. He brings
can even get it out of the custom house
at the place where he lands, he must pay On
taat tax called tariff, and the probability
is, among the enormous rates In the schedule
on woolen goods that he VIII pay ,a tax % Of
taa' on the he SIG Si WORTH Ra q cloth 0 iRat hs
has bought Then it has cost SIC,
that cloth has. Now, if the man who imports
that cloth sells it to wholesale merchant,
he must of course put the tax that he pays
onto it in the price, otherwise he would
LOSE MONEY BY THE OPERATION,
| and so when this importer sells to the whole
sale merchant he charges him S16 for the
cloth which cost him originally but $40.
Nay, more, he charges him SIG and his mer-
camille profit on the So tax, as well as on the
$40, the original cost of the goods.
| The wholesale merchant sells it
| to the retail merchant, and the
| retail merchant sells it to his
customer. Of course this price, with
| the goods when they are sold to the Gus
| toner. So that by the time one of you buys
| that cloth you find you have to pay for it,
from SIG to $40 perhaps not less than
So here has been tax imposed
on the consumer, which amounts in effect to
nearly or quite as much as the original cost
of the goods. Now, my friends, this is SO
| true that there is scarcely thing that you
wear the price of which is not increased by
| this tariff tax. There are men audacious
| enough to say-men who are advocating
high protective. duties or tarlfs-there are
| men
AUDAcIoUs ENOUGH TO SAY
that high protective tariff is for the benefit
| of the iaboring man. Why in the name of
all that's common sense and reason, how
| can a laboring man be aided by tax that be-
gins with the crown of his head and extends
| to the soles of his feet, and taxes everything
that is between them Applause and laugh
! teri: that taxes him On his hat, taxes
him OH his shirt; taxes him on his coat;
| taxes him on his vest; taxes him on his
pants; taxes him on his underclothing: taxes
him on his stockings, and taxes him on his
| SHOES.
| around his neck it levies tax upon 1t. How
/ in the name of heaven can 1t be that the
laboring man is benefited by such a tax?
No my friends, of all the humbugs by which
| men were attempted to be deceived, this
humbug of the laboring man being benefited
| by a high protective tariff is the greatest ever
| | heard of. All. but says some one, it ena.
| bles the manufacturer in this country to pay
| higher wages to his laborlng men, and,
therefore, is a benefit to them. My friends
| did you ever know any manufacturer
| that paid higher wages to his hands because
| of an increase of the taIiff. If you did you
| have met with something have never seen.
There is man named Barnum in this coun.
| try q great Snowman, man who has gath
cred together in his show more curious
things than perhaps can be found i'll any
other single place on the face OF the earth
but
| he has never found such a curiosity as the
manufacturers who paid higher wages to his
| hands because of raise in the tariff.
Laughter and applause.l Nay; that is not
SO at all. do not want to speak harshly of
| manufacturers. but they are human bein gs
ike other human beings, lCoughingg. ]
See what 1svsr cold mino 1 have have esmgh, eangh,
that cold by making a few. Democratic
speeches, will get rid of it before I make
| many more. Laughter. But l must pass
! on. Another one of the deceptiOns of these
tariff orators, or high protection orators, is
| to say that the consumer does not pay the
tax. have shown you how he did pay it in
the price that he gives for his articles,
but want to ask any man who tells me
or tells you that the consumer don't pay the
tax in Gods name who does! Who does
nav it? How comes it that the goods that
cost but $40 before there was any tax upon
them after that sell for the price of $40 and
the tax added, and the merchants profit
upon that if that is not Ultimately paid by
| the consumer? But, my friends, that is NOT
| ali. A man who stands fair in your com
| muuity and who has face that would
| LICENSE HIM AS PREACHER
man win get up before his fellow citizens
| ~, hot inh tori I'm,