Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-10

wear, every thing you buy, on the lumber and
glass that your house is built OF, on the hat on
your head and there will be tariff on your
cofan-plate when you die. There is a tariff on
the little shift you wrap the baby in when it
comes into the world but labor comes In free.
There is no tariff on labor.
Here some one asked Mr.. Campbell If he
would keep the rebel flags safely should he be
elected Governor.1
Mr. Campbell answered: Yes sir. And If
you want more we will organize the militia and
go down South after them.
[Then some one asked if Mr.. Campbell would
ask for an increase Of salary to S16,C00
To which Mr. Campbell replied: No; but If
they increase it before my election will draw
it with commendable regularity. AT this point
some one said Put him OUT but Mr.. Camp
bell spoke up, saying: oh he's all right, and
wears Campbell badge. He looks like one of
the 150 COO Democrats who went South to put
down the rebellion"
The voice in the audience replied; That
SO, but they call me a rebel now
Mr.. Campbell then resumed as follows: I
have lost the thread of my discourse by these
Interruptions, but as said before, party
must not be judged by what it says, but by what
it does. Now let me in a mere resume give you
AN OUTLINE
OF what has been done by political parties in
this country in the last two years, looking to
revision, reformation, reduction and equaliz
ing of the tariff During the last Congress there
was Democratic House of Representatives
and Republican Senate. There you had
fair chance for tariff fight. The House was
Democratic and the Senate was Republican. 1t
was the duty under the constitution of the
House to originate measures raising revenue.
The Democrats in the House assumed that
duty, and after months of patient care and
ninety days of debate, and after changes and
alterations and amendments being offered and
accepted or rejected, and after every man in
the House had chance, If he saw fit, to air
his peculiar views on the tariff (and out of the
325 men in.the House think there were 300
different opinions to how the tariff ought to
be revised). After all that light was let in on
the subject the Democrats in the House made
tariff revision measure which has gone into
the history Of the country under the name OF
&T THE MILLS BILL.
don't care how many theories you may spin
ABOUT high protection, moderate protection, o
graded tariff or free trade. Theories have no
place before an audience that is looking to prac-
t1cal realities. You must Judge the Democratic
party by its bill, not by what Mr.. Mills may
have said, or Mr.. Breckenridge, or any Of
those other wicked rebel Brigadiers the Repub-
licans talk about. The question is, what did
that bill propose to dot That was our bill, that
was our platform. The Democratic party pro-
poses to keep up this fight until a bill substan-
TALLY like the Mills bill becomes the law OF the
land. [Cheers and applause.l That bill PRO-
of dollars in the tariff duties of this country. It
proposed to reduce them upon whatS For there
comes the question as to whethe er 1t proposed
to reduce them upon articles in the interest of
the people or in the interest Of the protected
and overgrown manufacturers. I can give you
in five minutes, ten minutes at the farthest, an
outline Of the Mills bill
IT FIRST PROPOSED
To take the duty of Of lumber, to wipe out the
tariff on lumber, and to let the unmeasured and
unsurveyed forests of Canada come into this
country free Every house, every barn, every
bit of wooden fence, the very platform on which
we stand and the table the reporters are using
would have been cheapened had the Mills bill
become law. Have you any objections to that
in Pike County? Are there any persons in this
Senatorial district who are going to be ruined
and the bread taken out OF their mouths if they
can build house for $500 chea per than they
could before the passage of the Mills bill? But,
say our Republican friends, you strike at pro-
tected industry, the lumber industry, and in
the language Of the Chicago platform rather
than strike an y part OF protective system we
will wipe out first the Internal Revenue taxes.
The answer to that is that the only people in
this country who reap any benefit from protec-
ton on lumber are the rich-the fabulously rich
lumber kings of Michigan. Such men as Rus
sell A. Alger are making from 81, 900 900 to S20
100000 each out Of the lumber tariff. Do you
propose to live IN a house that you can hardly
keep the shingles on in order to add another
sc, 600, 900 to Mr.. Alger's wealth? Is there not
FAIR DEALING
With the people in wiping out the duty on luu-
berf Next the bill stated that it would wipe
out the duty salt. I remember reading
Republican speech, made in the city Of Cincin-
natl last year by somebody who said that salt
was already about as cheap in the market as
sand. Well, If salt is so cheap. why do they
fight to keep the tariff on itH Is it not an equal
taxi Does it not take as much salt to preserve
borer in this country as 1t does to preserve
VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt
In the same year that we u ndertook to re
form the tariff and to pass the Mills bill the
greatest salt maker in the world was running
for Cover nor on the Democratic ticket in
Michigan. He apparently liked to be ruined in
that way, and he had more interest in it than
any man in the country.
Then we undertook to take the tariff OF OF
tin plate. Now here is
VERY INTERESTING STORY.
You have read it, no doubt, but it never grows
tired of being told and never get tired OF tell
ing it. Tin-plate produces about S., 900, 900 per
year in revenue, and the Government does not
need that IS, ,000 900, and doesn't know what to
do with it when it gets it into the Treasury. It
is just as if the commissioners of Pike County
would levy 3 5, ,000 in taSes every year, and did
not know what to do with it after they got it in
the treasury. But the Government went on
piling up these taxes on tin-plate, and every
old womans milk cans, and every laboring
mans bucket were paying that money into the
Treasury We thought that the old woman
should have cheaper milk pans, should have
more shining milk pans hanging around the
walls and that the laboring man should have
cheaper and better dinner pals, or that he might
save those few for some small luxury in his
family. We wanted to do this by taking the
tariff off tin plate. Does any body object to
that? Now comes this same protectionist with
HRathar than lfrika pf NJ
the protected industries" etc,
My dear friends, there is not square inch of
tin plate produced in the United States. There
is not asmuch labor invested in tin plate as
would buy postage stamp in ten years. Last
year, when
THE PRESIDENTIAL EXCITEMENT
Was up the boys carried tin roosters in their
hats and used to say that there was not as
much tin plate made in this country it
would take to make one of these roos ters.
When the Republican Senate took our
bill they not only refused to give the old
woman her cheap milk pans and the
laboring man his cheap bucket, but they
doubled the tariff on tin plate. Why? Because
one John Jarrett who was the first man to get
q Consulate under this Administration, said
that if they would raise the duty so that ten
millions should be put upon that industry, he
would start tin-plate factory. Well, John
may be very nice man, but he is not worth ten
million dollars to the people Of this country.
am not fighting infant industries especially. In
fact, some OF my emocratic friends think that
am little too kind and lean little too much
to infant industries to be sound on the tariff,
but
lam NOT ANXIOUS TO GET AN INFANT
That have to pay ten million dollars for. That
is q good deal more than the market price
down in Butler County [applause] and expect
little above the average In Pike County.
But do not know any thing that illustrates
the absurdity of the ocalled protection sys-