, 1888-05-19

nickle ores and coal, which might be
called raw materials. 1t not only makes
the so called raw materials free, but
places on the free list the
MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
of these materials. Thus the manufacture
Of smell articles is made impossible in this
country except by reducing labor to a
worse condition than that of Europe. He
criticised the leaving of an internal tax on
used in arts, amounting to as
much as the entire amount of duty col
lected on raw wool. In some cases the
difference between the duty imposed on
so-called raw materials and articles made
from them is SO small as to destroy these
industries except upon the condition of
levelling wages to those of Europe. This
Is so notably in the case of pig lead and
red lead, pig iron, steel blooms and rails.
Instead of the bill reducing the customs
ffty-four millions, as claimed, it
is fair to estimate that the effect will be to
largely increase the revenue by enormously
increasing foreign importations
The supporters of the bill held them
selves up as the champions of the farmer,
while they take from him protective duties
on his wool, hemp, flax, meat, etc.
Where does he get compensation He
sharply criticized the list Of so called
''NECEssARIEs."
which had been made free, and went on
to show that most of them accrued bene-
fits only to m~illionaires and monopolists.
Speaking for himself, be said his convic-
tons on tariff were founded on a compre-
hension of the subject and that he cannot
be coerced in any particular action
upon economic questions by the direction
of a party caucus.
MIR. M'KINLEY
opened his speech with the declaration
that the country was in an anamelous sit
uation. While we were seeking to find
objects to relieve us from taxation, and
other nations were engaged in exploring
the fields of human enterprise and hui
man production t.. find new objects of tax
alton, we were agreed that their action
should be reduced, the only contention
being as to the manner of hat reduction.
He sharply contrasted the tariff for
revenue" policy of the Democrats and the
tariff for protection policy of the Re-
publicans. He maintained that one
OF foreign goods, which could be produced
llGTt, huCuCNtl Tux llllC VI CACCSSlNC IGN
enue was reached, and consequently the
destruction of American industries. The
other meant protection as well as revenue
1t meant stimulation to our industries and
the
PROTECTION OF OUR LABOR
in the fruits of its work. There were many
Illustrations of the Democratic doctrine in
the bill. Wool was one of them. Cotton
bagging was another. The bill meant
that Calcutta and Dundee should supply
us with cotton bagging and the countries
of the East with wool. The Democrats
December have beer letting our own
people take care Of themselves, and try
ing to l~egislate for other and foreign peo-
pies.
In the course of his speech Mckinley
into a vigorous criticism of the
bill, and created much amusement and
applause by his analysis of the incongrui-
ties of the measure. While, he said,
owing to the lack of time, he could not
point out all of the ridiculous features of
the bill, he picked out
A FEW SAMPLES
by which, he said, the bill could be
He showed that the duty on
steel billets had been increased from As to
60 per cent ~ad,,valorem, thereby causing
an increase Of from to ! cent on every
pound OF wire fencing that enclosed the
farms OF the West.
The duty on cut nails made from steel
billets was reduced 25 per cent, while the
duty on raw material was increased As per
cent. He criticized the bill which the
president said
MUST BE PASSED
whether or no and on which he was dis
pensing official fayors to have passed. He
declared that the bill was sectional in that
the cotton planter could get hoopiron for
his cotton ties free of duty, while a
of the west must pay for the same
iron II cents per pound if he wished it to
bind his thatch or his pail.
What in the world had the bill done for
the people anyway? What had it done
for the farmer? 1t had taken the duties
practically off everything he grew; off
every product of the farm. 1t took the
duty off wool. What did it give the
IN return2 Everything he bought
dutiable. The coat he wore, the hat
that covers his head, his shoes, his stock
his sugar, his rice-everything is
dutiable. But everything he raised was
put on the free list. The duty on wool
VAS GONE.
What had the Democratic party given the
farmer in return for this slaughter OF his
interests2 He had looked up and down
the bill and he would tell what it would
do for the farmer.
1t had given him free sheep dip, a
preparation used on sheep and composed
largely of the ends of tobacco. The bill
made the farmers wool free, but it made
him pay As per cent for the shears with
which he clipped his sheep.
Passing on to the discussion of the gen
eral effect of the protective system on the
people, he said he cared not whether the
present prosperous condition of the coun-
try was the result of protection or not.
The fact that that condition had come with
protection ought to make
CONGRESS HESITATE
long before it abandoned that system.
The gentlemen might try protection by
any test; they might try it not only by
the individual prosperity of citizens, but
by the advance which the country had
made in intelligence and invention, and
by any standard it might be tried the pro-
tective system would show its results that
surpassed any other.
NEW ~ENGLAND's PROSPERITY