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

Germany and the countries of Europe in gener'
al. By this ruling they increased the duty on
certain grades of wool and the result was that
a cargo which had been shipped to this country
before that ruling had been made arrived at the
port of New York and
THE INCREASE UPON THE TARIFF
Was so great that they turned around and
sailed out of the harbor, and thus far our trade
was cut down to that extent. This is a pointed
and pertinent illustration of the manner in
which unnecessary duty keeps products out OF
the country. Had the wool came in 1t would
have furnished employment for labor and for
the capital of the manufacturers, but the
Treasury Department, not satisfied with the
exhorbitant rate of duty on wool, ar
bitrartly and improperly made new ruling, and
thus kept from our ports not only that cargo,
but every cargo of that grade of wool.
We also cut down the duty on your woolen
goods. There is nothing IN this country tina
is SO absurdly disproportioned as the tariff
on woolen goods, and to give you an idea
let me say that If you import broadcloth
into this country, the cloth that the
rich people wear and the cloth that you
wear yourself for Sunday suit and on rare
occasions you only pay at the Custom House
Il per cent, but If you import coarse cloth, such
rs farmers must wear, because their occupation
requires them to and such as the poor must
wear because they can not wear any better
you are taxed SO per cent.-more than double.
Il you want an India shawl for your wife-how
many buy them for their wives in Pike County,
Mr.. Chairman?-upon that kind you pay Al per
cent, but if you want to buy q wooden blanket
shawl such as the farmers wife wraps herself
in when she comes to town on a cold winter
day, you have to pay SO per cent.-more than
double. So
WE STRUCK AT wOOLEN GOODS,
And gave it good, big cut in the tariff reform
bill, known as the Mills bill, and SO, also, we
did with iron and steel, and we tried to cheaper
every implement you use, every nail you drive,
every bit OF railroad iron and steel that the peo-
pie have to pay for. Upon that measure the
Democratic party must stand. We sent that bill
to the Republican Senate, and what did they do?
They restored the duty on lumber, the duty on
salt and the duty on wool, and not satisfied
with putting them back they added to the du-
ties on woolen goods, SO that instead of getting
them cheaper you will have to pay more money
for them if the Senate ever passes its bill.
There was Just one thing that they offered to
make cheaper, and that was sugar. I give the
Senate credit, for am little bit in favor OF
free sugar myself. We thought it but fair that
while the protective system should last the
Louisiana planter ought to have his share OF it.
Every Republican member of the Ways and
Means Committee, however. voted against any
reduction on sugar, but when the bill went to
the Senate
THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION
That sugar was only raised by few Democrats
down in Louisiana and they scooped 1t out at
once. It was not because they loved the poo
pie, for If they had they would have given
them free lumber and free salt, but because
they hated those fellows down in Louisiana
who roll up big Democratic majorities. But
will tell you what they did do-tAey did reduce
the revenues of the country. Let us be just.
Tho Senate Of the United States did reduce
the revenue, but howf They took the internal
revenue taxes OF of tobacco and alcohol used
in the arts suppose a good many people in
this audience use tobacco. / see some OF the
boys chewing now. It is q great comfort and
solace, but II you have to take the taxes on it
is better to take them OF from some thing that
the wife and children can get the benefit of
than to take II of Of cigars and tobacco that
merely pleases yourself little. I would rather
my family should have
CHEAPER NECEssARIEs OF LIFE
Than to have the ninetieth part Of q cent
knocked of from the price of a cigar.
You do not have to smoke and you do not
have to chew. You would be better of il you
did neither but you do have TO wear clothes,
and the wife and the babies have also to wear
clothes. Craftsmanship would cheaper the
necessaries of life, and let the fellows who
smoke pay little more taxes. 1t would do
them good. So with alcohol, which they specif-
ically stated must be alcohol used in the arts,
but senator John Sherman, perhaps the great
est hnancier In this country, when this bill was
presented in the Senate, rose in his seat and
said that you could not distinguish between al
cohol used in the arts and any other alcohol. 1t
was
MERE sUBrEREUGE,
This taking the internal revenue on of alcohol,
to be used in the arts. To take the internal
revenue of Of alcohol would let 1t be used in
the manner that most of the alcohol which ever
saw was used, and that is to go down some fel-
lows throat. The only particular art that al
cohol IL used in here in Pike County is to make
people temporarily joyful You come to town
and buy a barrel of alcohol. What are you 60
ing to do with it? You say, propose to use
this in some OF the arts. You have a barn raising
and use that barrel of alcohol to help raise the
barn, and afterward some friend suggests you
get another barrel with which to paint It red.
This Is alcohol used in the arts. have talked
longer the tariff than I intended to, yet
there is one more view Of 1t and will pass to
something else. read as probably you all did,
with great pleasure, and hope with great
profit speech made by the Governor of Ohio
Il mean the present Governor, down at Xenia,
IN which he deplored the condition of affairs in
England, free trade country and fairly wept
with grief as he depicted the suferings OF the
strikers known there the longshoremen.
During that speech he managed to receive a
dispatch Just direct from England, presume
and timed so as to strike right in the middle Of
that meeting. By the way, he is very handy in
receiving dispatches at meetings. II hope he
will receive the kind Of dispatch from
flk6 county. want Qlu LO-uILer Lne eleCLlOn ]
His dispatch said this strike was over, and he
threw his hands and raised his voice with Joy
that the strike of the longshoremen of Eng
land was ended. read his speech over a Sec
ond time to find out what he said in sympathy
with the suffering strikers in Indiana and Illi-
nois, [applausel, but did not find q word.
These people are
STARVED UNDER PROTECTION,
And upon the Governors theory, they are not
entitled to any sympathy They ought to live
upon protection; they ought to find the where
withal to be clothed out Of protection-the
great blessing that this country is enjoying un-
der Republican rule. But those obstinate
miners will not do so, nor will their thin faced
wives and children, the description of whom
which you can read in almost any paper, would
draw tears from heart of adamant, and yet the
Governor was SO interested in showing there
had been strike, which, according to his own
story, was then over, that he absolutely forgot
that he could point his finger into an adjoining
State where
HIS COUNTRYMEN WERE STARVING TO DEATH
From strikes believe that sympathy should
begin at homo. 1t is not long since there was a
strike among the longshoremen of New York
longshoremen are merely freight handlers-there
was a strike in New Xork of longshoremen, and
there was nothing in the world to prevent every
longshoreman in England from coming over and
taking the PAGES of those striking Americans.
There is no tariff on longshoremen-they come
in free Of duty. They come in just as freely as
the air that blows. 1t Is but a short time since
there was strike in Germany. Free trade
England Is not alone. Protected America does
not have a monopoly of strikes. In Germany
their young Emperor, with his greatest mill
tary organization ON the face of the earth,
threatened to call out his army to put down that
strike, 1t had assumed such gigantic proper
tions. The Governor did not mention that, for,
unfortunately for his theory, Germany is a
country that has high protective tariff The