Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-26
HON. WIN. M'KINLEY.
THE TARIPP LEADER, TALKS IN MARTINS
PERRY.
A GOOd-Szsd Audience ASSEMBLIES 10 Hear Hin-Fhs
Tariff Question Discussed From q High
Protection SandPOint-An Able
Political Argument.


An audience Of 600 people assembled in
lafayette Hall, Martins Ferry, last night,
to watch Hon. VIM. Mckinley build two
straw houses. 0he was rattle trap, the
roof leaked and the doors were Of the
hinges. IL pleased Mr.. Mckinley in his
mightiness to call this fgment of his
imagination the Democratic party. After
be hal amused himself raising it, he pro-
ceedsd to tear it to pieces, wallow over
the remains and scatter them from Dan to
Beersheba, besides paving up much in.
tarveniDg territory. The other house was
a mansion, Queen Anne cots 'ge, with
electric lights, water on all floors,
with little Kentucky bourbon in the
closet, aud a plentiful supply of good
things to suit all sorts and con-
ditions OF men. 1t had the
legend Republican Wigwam" in gilt
letters en- the door, but this house, too, un-
fortunately, was only thing of Mr.. Nc.
Kinley's active think tank.
The conditions under which the noted
igh.tax-protectionist spike were not very
favorable. The audience was not inclined
to any vulgar displays of enthusiasm. the
hall was poorly lighted, aud the ventila-
ton eIecrsble. Due to all these thingp,
perhaps, the address fell n.t, and as
a political meeting the whole sifAir could
be called a failure. Mr.. Mckinley was In
troduced by Judge Cochran, who made q
very short address in performing his task.
The orator vas received with faint
cheers, and plunged Immediately into the
body of his address.
MR. M'KIELEY's ADDRESS.
He had come to Martins Ferry, he said, Ia
talk TO the people about question which
struck closer to their homes than auy
other. The United States alone, Of all the
nations Of the earth, wss troubled with
an excessive income. Every other nation
is seeking new sources of taxation. Every
other nation is seeking to extOrt money
from the people, but statesmen Of the
United States, Of all parties, are seeking
means of reducing the nations revenue
That we have surplus, the speaker said
Was not due so much, however, 10 a pro-
tective tariff as to our aboundipg pres
perity.
We have in this country an annual de-
mand for something like $500, 600, 900 to
defray the expenses of Government. TIL
Government can not create money. Tee
only way it can be raised is by tsxatiou.
On this proposition both political parties
ara agreed. And if the money is 10 bl
raised by taxation, how? Both polilica
parties are agreed on another proposition
and that is that this money is not to b.
raised by direct xaiion. All politics
parties believe that this $500. 600 00(
is to be raised by the tariff. Now
shall it be raised By what Dem
ocTsts clll revenue tariff,
or shall it be by a protective tariff? That
is the question that divides and has di
vided the parties of this country since the
tariff agitation first began. The advan,
tages and benefits of these two forms O
taxation he proposed to discuss aud ex
plain to his hearers
THE REVENUE TARIFF.
After this very fair statement of tht
case Mr.. Mckinley proceeded 10 define
what he termed revenue" tariff, and
without any particular request or commits.
sion to do so, he tackled this revenue tariff
on to the Democratic party, snd utterly de-
molished them together. He said 'the
revenue tanff, as its name imports,
has no Othr object than to raise revenue
Its sole purpOss is to bring money
into the Treasury. The problem it pre-.
sents is how to raise the largest revenue
with the smallest rate Of duty. The way
to do this is to impose tax on every ron
competing foreign product brought into the
country. For example, If you want q
strict revenue tariff, tariff such as Mr
Golden advocated in his day, you seek out
the articles that are not produced in this
country, such as tea and coffee and
lay the heaviest tax on them. The
very wants Of the people then drive them
to pay the ts1A,ion. And if you cannot
raise sufficient revenue by these means,
says the free trader, put the lowest posi-
bic duty on the foreign competing produc,s,
and this encourages the people 10 buy the
foreign product instead Of the home pro-
duct. Thus under revenue tariff yen de-
crease production and 30 increase impOr-
t,ts, o,d increnaa farafion -
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
Major Mckinley then took up the other
side OF the problem, which be had made
for himself, and got along very nicely.
tine protective tanfl be said, Looks not
only 10 revenue, bot looks 10 the welfare
and prosperity OF cur people. We say 10
England and France under The protective
tanf, if you want sell your products here
and compete with our products, you must
pay a tax Of 20 much ton or go much a
yaid 81 our IOris, and that tax will be a
revenue 10 our government, and a wall Of
protection against the cheap foreign labor
Of the old world. Now, my friends, they
say that the tax is always paid blythe coz
sumer. There never was a greater fallacy
uttered. Let me give you another axiom.
The revenue tax IS always paid By the con-
sumer, and is a direct burden on the peO-
pie. The tax on sugar and coffee and tea
is paid by the consumer, for there is prac-
tically none of these articles produced in
this country, n1d every pound that is
used is imported under a duty. IL is diff
ferent with the protective tariff Under
it the consumer rarely plys the duty, be-
cause the home manufacturers generally
produce enough of the article to supply
the market. The taxed article is not used.
TAXATION AND PROTECTION.
They say that this protective tariff is
burden to the people; why in free trade
Eoeland taxation from 1860 to 1870 in
creased 27i per cent. Ia America under
the protective system the rate of taxation
decreased III per cent. in the same time.
So in any view you take it, | care not
what the protective system is the system
for the American people. 1t is the system
1nder which we carried on the great civil
var. By that tariff we have met aud CON
,uered one of the greatest public debts that
,ver huugover any country. Not only that,
mt we have reduced taxation, and to-day
,aye a redundant treasury. This IS the
ecord of the protective tsriff. and all the
ime this country bas marched on to
the like Of which this world
,eyer witnessed before. Yet they talk
,bout this system being burdensome and
Why, we have tried both sys-
ems. We have tried the revenue tariff.
Te hsd it before the war, and all men
emember how bankruptcy was every
yhere. and men went trampiDg for work
rom State to State. Why, when James
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