The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-11-01
The American Side.

E0h> VIM. McKinly. in his great speech
at Cincinnati on the 10th inst. presented
the An eTican side of the tariff question
with great force. He asked why should
we not tax foreign products? Can any
Democratic revenue refoI inner tell me
whether 1T is better for the American peo-
pie To tax 5iieir own products than to tax
the products Of some one else? Ii you
don t tax some one Else prod uct to raise
the $3.50 900, COO needed for the government
then you must YAK your own, and | never
knew an American citizen who was not
willing to have some one else contribute
at least part. Who contributed to make
this government Who made it? Who
established it, Who sustained aud pre-
served it for more than one hundred years :?
never DeeIi able TO rely upon foreign ma
ti0ns. either in war or in peace, to main
tain The Federal Government. We have
for century put our hands in our poke. 9
and contributed of our means to make
public improvement is from one end of the
country 10 the other. We built school.
houses and churches; we have made great
highways; we have improved the rivers
and harbors Of the country, aud we have
done it out of our own means and
now we Say to the nations of the
world, IF you want to come in and enjoy
any part OF our prosperity and compete
with our people, you must pay. and pay
4 generously for the privilege
"A foreign nat ion pays no taxes to this
'Goyernment. You cannot collect dollar
! from it. 1t is beyond your jurisdiction
You can not reach it by summons, subpoena
or writ of replevin. The only way in the
world you can reach a foreign nation is to
put a lax on its product and the Republi-
can protection idea IS to make thai pro-
duet pull the load, carry the burden and
sustain at least a part of the weight Of
taxation, and to that extent relieve the
American people Of direct taxation
Continued MIR. McKin)y
Take the sugar duty. AS 1 told you moment
| ago we produces only eight out of every one
| hundred pounds consumed by our people. Who
| fixes the price to the American consumer-the
|
pounds or the man who has ninety-two out of
The one hundred to sell? Who Il xes the price :?
ask. Why, the producer of the ninety-two
per cent. OF American consumption fixes the
price, and that producer is on The other side.
What is the price he fixes? 1t is the 1oI eign
price, with the duty liked by the American
tariff, aud every dollar of your S5S 900. 40 col
lected last year was paid out OF the pockets of
the American people. That is a revenue tariff.
SO When they 90 about with their talk
that q tariff Is tax: That the protective
tariff is tax, YOU ycu ask, Well. how about
10 II "a hot Ia
but our tariff lax does something else. 1t
thinks good Geal more OF men than it does of
ded to The cost; why, if Mr.. Cleveland ia
miliar with the history OF his country he
| would never nave made the blunders he d in
his letter OF acceptance and in his last message.
| There Is not, my IellOW-c1tiZens, single pro-
duct that goes into the every day uses OF the
mankind, that Is not cheaper to-day to the
American people, made go by dom estic produce
ton Alone made possible by the protective
Tariff The clothes you wear upon your back
the hat upon your head, the shoes upon your
| feet. the dresses with which your wives and
children are clothed are cheaper by from forty
to sixty per cent. and made cheaper by Ameri-
can production. which " as alone attsaInabie by
protective tariffs. If Mr.. Cleveland had con-
suited the prices current Tor the last 1orBy
yeals instead OF political textbooks or one
| hundred years ago, he would never nave COM
mlLteu that fallacy.
Ii Mr.. Cleveland had known the history of
his own State he would never have com nliJJed
such Il IaIlacy. l win take him uown to the
city OF Sy racuse, under me shadow almost Of
buffalo, p0lnG MIN 10 factory there eStaO-
llshed since 1881, d factory that makes soda ash
| which We had never produced in this country
prior TO 1851 by the. Tariff OF 1858 the Republic
can party put a tariff of s. per TON on foreign
soda ash, bnu when we had Goue that party Of
gentlemen liz that city said, I'VE viii try lis
man uiactnre.' and they Invested ID million and
half OF dollars In the plaGt. They made sue
cess of it Prior 10 1881 We paid sac. per ton Ior
| all soda ash used in this country. Now pay
S2S per ton, So duty and all.
Ii Mr. Cleveland was rlgnt, and the protective
tariff was d tax anu adued to the cost. then
the American price ought 10 have been S53 per
| ton. Instead OF that IL Is $-3 per Ton. Now
| take the matter or carpets. We did not mahe
| any carpe To speak Of pi iur TO 1871 We
brought them ali from abroad, but after The
| duty was made sufficiently hlgn to ,iotect our
| people they started into the business OF making
| cuI pets-BrusSelS AMI Wiitons. Prior 1874 !,
| If you wanted to buy Brussels carpet Clu-.
/ cinnati you paid ~ 5U TO So d yard. i hat
Tor carpets from abroad.
We started To manufacturing, and now pay
for the best Brussels Carpet III Inc market Jr"iI
Sl.lO 10 81. 80 per yard. Isn't that true? We put H.
uuGy on ingram carpet, which most "a Us uaeu 10"
| have on our parior floors. and now yoa c..n
| buy IL Tor eighty Genus q yard. Cries OF
seventy nve cent? and nifty cents, Yes,
as low us fifty cents. Before there tariff
ON ingram car pet and before we commenced To
manu- iacture 1t Ourse ly eS We paid 81 % per ard
Mr. cleveland doesn U seem To snow WIS. Ben
| Harrison put it rightly wnen he said THAT inc
democratic party consulted maxlms rather
than market " e consult The markets. iney
say salt is lear by reason of The tariff LAX.
People are outraged by the pr:ce OF salt. Why.
! you can buy barrel Of salt in New York tor
exactly the same Price you pay for barrel of
salld You can buy Darrel OF salt, Wholesale
for sixty cents per 2Sy POUNDS, and the barrel is
/ Thrown in. Ihe barlei Cor is, believe. twenty
cents; that makes the price of the SAT- IorGA'
cents, and the duty 2oU pounds vi Salt, twelve
cents per 100 rounGs, is about Jhirty-three'
cents per bari ell and yet they say tariff tax.
and Is paid by the consumer. The duty is with