Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-05
NEALiS GREAT SPEECH.
How They See the Tariff i'm the Buckeye
State.

How They See the Tariff i'm the Buckley.
Hamilton special OF September 20 to Gin
~cinnati Enquirer:
The speaker introduced as the first
speaker Hon. Lawrence T. Neal of Chilli.
Gothic. Mr.. Neal said he had expected q
hospitable greeting on the part OF the But.
Ter Democracy, but was entirely u~nprepared
for the great crowd that had turned out to
hear the issues OF the day discussed. He
said the two great parties were to-day di.
vided on the question of the tariff. He said
to tax certain articles to help foster mo.
~nopolies and build up large private for.
tunes was none the less a robbery because
it was levied as a tax. This robbery, by
rapidly piling up tie wealth Of the country
in the hands Of a favored few created a
moneyed aristocracy and threatened the
perpetuity OF our institutions.
The amount of money piIing up in the
treasury was three times as much as the
wealth of Butler county. One hundred
million dollars was more than was re.
quired to run the state of Ohio and pay
ali The expenses Of county and municipal
government. Assuming that there was CO..
100000 people in America, and the money
was to be divided among the states, Ohio's
share would be $4,000 900, more than
enough by $1,000, 900 to pay the current
expenses OF the state even under q Republi- |
can administration. The Democratic party
that the money should be left in
the peoples pocket in the first place, where
it belonged. That's where the great AND
good President Grover Cleveland wanted
it, and said so through the
Mills bill. These tariff laws protect the
from competition from
abroad, and compel US to pay them the
difference between the price OF Unsupported
article as it comes to this port, and the
import duty. For instance, steel rails |
have upon them a tax Of SIT per ton; who
pays that? Our Republican friends would
have US believe that the Englishman pays
or that the importer pays it, but they
It, has the SIT per ton tax added to the
price, and he pays it. During one year the
'teel manufacturers had added to their ;
profits on account of this law the enor.
nous sum Of $780, OU, 900. What the
armers clamored .or-and he knew. be. :
;ause he was a farmer himself-was cheaper
transportation for the conveyance of their
In order to have cheaper trans. F,
.,ortation they must have cheaper rail- !
'oads, and the great expense of railroads :
low was the high price Of steel rails and $
he iron used in the construction of the :
'olling stock. The Mills bill cut this tariff :
Town, and he was personally in iavor OF ,
it still lower. :
One OF the manufactures which reaned .
he gigantic profits on this protected tariff :
vas that owned in part by Andrew Carnegie, .
he Scotchman, who acknowledged that he :
drawn $1,000, 600 profits from the e.. :
Adjustment in a single year. /,
Just think OF it! That was IS, o per "
lay for every working day in the year. 4
This man, this Carnegie, was the same Der. -
on who purchased q baroaial home in his !
Scotland, and entertained James G. =
Elaine over there by taking him on a n
oachinR party. the coach being drawn byd =
* or eight horses. That was one of the
OF protection to these iron in
ustries. 1t made the manufacturer rich
nd powerful, but the money came ont oil
pockets OF the people. - 7
In talking about woolens and the pro.
seton on the common wooden goods that o
people wear, he showed that the tariff Z
as simply q burden and came from the T
ockets OF the people. e
He then gave figures showing that when q
no duty on wool was low there were more Il
1eep in Ohio than at any other time. and n
1at when the duty was highest the num.C
OF sheep became lower than ct any O