The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-02

wear, every thing you buy, on the lumber and
glass that your house is built of, on the hat on
your head, and there VIII be u tariff on your
coffin 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 Nj. Campbell if he
would keep the rebel flags safely should he be
elected Gegerh0r.l
Mr. Campbell answered: Yes, sir, Ana If
you want more We will organize th5 militia and
go down South after thcfh
tThen some cr1 asked if Mr.. Campbell would
ask for 81 increase Of salary to S16G00l
70 which Mr.. Campbell replied: "Ne; but If
they increase it before my eeetioa Twill draw
it with commendable regularity. At this point
some one said ''Fut 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 Teplieds "That's
so, but they call me rebel now
Mr.. Campbell then resumed as follows:
have lost the thread OF my discourse by these
Interruptions, but as 1 said befer5, party
must not be Judged by what " says, but by what
1t does. Now let me q. mere resume give you
AN OUTLINE
OF what has been done by political parties Ia
this country in the last two years, locking TO
revision, reformation, reduction end eHuiliz-
ing of the tariff. During the last Congress there
was Democrats EoHso of Representatives
and Republican Senate. There you had
fair cAasree for a tariff fight. The House was
sea.ocratic and the Senate was Republican. It
was the duty under the constitution Of tie
House to originate measures raisiiiE revenue.
The Democrats la the House assumed that
duty, and after, hnonshs OF patient care and
ninety days es debate, and after changes and
aitsSaSions and amendments being offered and
accepted or rejected and after every man In
the House had a chance, If he saw ftt u ali
MS peculiar views on the tariff gana eat Of the
90 men in..the Heusa tank there were 800
different 9pfhiees "a e how the tariff ought to
be revised, After all that light was iet IL on
the subject the Democrats In ths House made
Eaf1f revision msasdre which has gone into
the history ef the country under the name of
~ THE MILLS BILL
don't care how many theories you may spin
about high protection, moderate protettioh, 4
graded tariff or free Trade. Theories have no
place before ea audience thai Il TooRing to prac-
teal realities, You must ;adge the Democratic
party by its BITS, GSof by what Mr.. Mills may
nave satd, or Mr.. Breckenridge, or any Of
tBese other wicked rebel Brigadiers the Repub-
hcans talk about. The question is what did
that bill propose to dof That was Our bill, that
was our platform. The Democratic baTtS pro-
poses 10 keep up this fight Until q bill substan-
TALLY like the Mills bill becomes the law Of the
land. iCheers and appiause.] That bill pro-
Vaded for z reduction of a great many millions
OF do2lars in the tariff duties of this country 1t
proposed to reduce them upon what? For there
comes the question as to whether it proposed
to reduce them upon articles in the interest of
the people or in the interest OF the protected
and overgrown manufacturers. car give ytu
in five minutes, ten minutes at tne farthest an
outline OF the Mills bt1i.
II FIRST PROPOSED
qS take the duty off 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 a law. Have you any objections TO tiia :
in Pike County? Are there ehJ persons in this
Senatorial district whe are going to be ruined
and the bread taGen out of their mouths if they
can bGiid house for $500 cheaper than they
could before the passage of the Mills bils But,
say our Republican friends you strife u pro-
tected industry, the luteteF Industry and in
the language ee the Chicago platform rather
than strike an y part of protective system we
VIII Wipe out first the Internal Revenue taxes
The answer to that is that the only people II
this country who reap any benefit frem protec-
ton on lumber are the ficR-the fabulously rich
lumber kiags Of Michigan. Such men as Rus
sell A. Aiger are making from $1,000, 900 to sec,
$4,000 each out Of the lumber tariff. Do you
propose to live in house that you cvn hardly
keep the shingles on in erteS 10 add another
SsO,0O00oo to Mr. Al ger's wealth? Is there not
FAIR DEALING
With the people in wiping out the duty on lun-
Der? Next the bill stated that It would wire
out the duty on salt. l remember reading q
Republican speech, made in the CITY II Cfhcin-
natl last year by somebody Who said that salt
a fu atfS o1on +1,o
sand, We'll, If salt is so cheap why do they
fight to keep the tariff on it? Is it not an equal
tax? Does it not take as much salt to preserve
the life and health OF the poorest farmer OF la
borer in this country as it dees to preserve
VIM. H. Vanderbilt
In the same yeaf that we ii ndertootx fo ra
form the tariff and to pass the Mills tiI the
greatest salt maker in the world Was running
for Governor on the Democratic ticket in
Michigan. H9 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 Oft Of
tin plate. Now here is
A VERY INTERESTING sT6Rf
You have read it, no doubt, but it never grows
tired of being told and never get tired of tell.
ihg 1t. Tin-plate produces about S., 900, 900 per
year in revenue, and the Government does NOT
need that IS, 900, 600, and doesn't know what te
do with it when it gets it into the Treasury. ii
would levy 9 e0Ce in taNes every year, and did
not know what to do with it after they got il in
the treasury. But the Government went on
plllng up these taxes on tin-plate, and every
OLD Woman's milk cans, and every laborins :
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
thatS Now comes this same protectionist with
this same story, Rather than strike ct sny ot
the protected industries" etc,
Ny dear friends there is not c square inch OF
tin plate produced in the United States. There
is not asmueh 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 as it
would take to make one of these ROSTERS
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 thew
doubled the tariff on tin plate. Why? Because
one John Jarrett who was the first man to get
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 I
am not fighting infant industries especially In
TACT, some OF my D emocratic friends think that
am a little too kind and lean little too much
to infant industries to be sound on the tariff,