Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-08-24
LXII, NEW SERIES VOL. NXNIV.


family.
Mr.. Cleveland says the price of pro-
tected article in America Is the price OF
that arti lie in Europe with the duty add
ed t. it, Nothing more fallacious was
ever uttered Upon calico there is duty
of fve cents You can go into any dry
goods store III Burlington and buy it for
five cents. Now an unlettered Irish
man like myself, according to Mr.. Cleve-
land S theory, would think 1t must be sold
tor nothing in England. Another article,
Bessemer steel. You remember when 1t
was fist made in England, 25 or 30 years
ago 1t was admitted into this country
without duty. The price was then $3.50
per ton. What was the result? The rail
road corporations came together and ask
ed Congress to put duty upon 1t. They
knew competition would tend to bring the
price down and now with "A duty of Sl7
per ton you can buy it for S32 per ton. do
not believe in theory SO much AS in fact.
Now this one fact disproves Cleveland's
statement, does 1t not and the rails we
use to-day are made in America. My
democratic friends can YOU liud any fault
with such policy as thatY
The democrats say the protective tariff
stimulates production. How can
tnat he when WE import 5000 ,OOO 900 worth
OF goods from other countries which we
ought to keep al home. Every 500 of
that amount Will employ man i'll Asia to
work for US, and that man keeps one man
in this country idle. That Is the question
that stares us in our face to-day.
| have many times been absolutely as
tonished when | have found my own Coun-
trymen Will not stop to reason. suppose
the reduction proposed by the Mills bill
should 20 into effect, and 1t should close
up the mills, and it would, would it not
be as bad rs free trade In 1851 under the
lew tariff system we worked i'll Chicago
tor 30 cents day and we were very glad
hnf l,a Ia mic .,f
Labor here and he may want to know
why we didn't strike. Why gentlemen,
ii was the protective tariff that enabled
you to form your organization to protect
American labor. But the 80 cents Il day
was payable with democratic money with
% per cent, or 80 per cent or even in some
cases 100 per cent discount, and that was
in the days of Buchanan, the democrat.
And so 1t lasted up to the war Nov, gen
tlemen, | am not going to wave the bloody
shirt, but when ! have taught my
children the history of this country
10 close the book lur five years and open it
again in 1865; but there Is no need to talk
OF the war, this campaign is to be fought
on other ISSUES.
AT the opening of the war we had de
ticlency OF SSO, 900, 900 instead of a surplus
to disturb us, and money had to be raised
10 meet the enormously increased expenses
of the government. What was done Mr..
Morrill-And may God bless him forever
and ever-Nlr. Morrill, ana others drew up
he protective tariff, and 1t was passed by
the republicans alter The Southerners had
withdrawn from Congress. Immediately
business began TO improve. although the
country WAS engaged in "A deadly strn0-
gle.
We made England pay us tribute in the
shape OF duty, and we pledged the credit
uf the country in the shane of greenbacks
You may think / speak too bitterly OF
Eng land in saving she must be under til
bute TO us But hold on, she put her pir-
ates upon the sea and prolonged the war
for three Years, and now we are going to
keep the duty on Imports until she has
paid the costs, and after that until She has
paid the compound Interest on the costs
One dollar in greeubucks WAS Worth
but 40 cents in gold Now it is worth 100
cents, And what has done that Nothing
but our protective policy.
We had free trade from 1872 to 1893 and
America never saw such period OF desc
lation aud misery as we had then We
WeIe at the end of that time as Door As
Iceland is to-day. Are we willing to 90
oack to what the English papers want us
t. DO o-day? We cannot be so insane as
to return to such ruin and desolation
But let us stand by a policy that has made
us prosperous and happy. Every democrat
who voted for the Mills bill which places
200 articles on the free list is Il free trader
10 thHt extent. Now | don't want to be
sectional, but don't want the other fel-
low to be either. They say the nece ssaries
of life ought to be placed on the free list,
yet they put 100 per cent on rice and 6S
per cent on sugar, but you know rice and
sugar are not necessaries
Now let me tell you how Mr.. Cleveland
constituted the WAYS ayd Means Com
mittee, the commit ee most intimately
connected with the business interests of
the country He went AS far south as the
great manufacturing State uf Texas
for its chairman, aud democratic New
York, as it stands now, bat as il viii not
next November, was forgotten. He went
TO the great mauuf 1cturInp Stat. of Ar
kansas for Breckenridge and ano .ner OF
the same name IN Kentucky, and Nc
MILAN in Tennessee and the great manu-
featuring States of the Union are left off.
| would like TO ask any democrat if that is
fair treatment. Now 1t Is no wonder that
such a conglomerated committee should
produce such a conglomerated bill as il
did, which was passed in the House. But
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