The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-29

derstand the tariff We promised the people
when We came into power that we would try
and eQualize and reduce the burdens Of taxa
tion, and not only did We promise, but the Re
publican party has for years and years promised
that it would reduce and eQualize the burden
Of taxation, and cv ~ man. woman and child
old enough TO rea.i this audience knows that
when the election of 1888 took place if the Re-
publican party had said. I'VE propose to give
you more protection and higher tariff duties"
it could not have carried the State of Ohio by
as near large majority
AS GOVERNOR FORAKER CARRIED IT
Last year. [Applause.l We did come into
power, We Democrats. in a certain sense. That
is, we never came into too much power to hurt
US. tLaughter.] We were not too prosperous.
Prosperity does not agree with every body
Claughter,l but we got possession OF the House
OF Representatives. fact, we generally do
keep possession of that; and il we have got
good luck in Ohio and elect fifteen or sixteen
members we will have possession next time.
And we came into possession OF the Presfden-
tial office, but unfortunately we did not get the
Senate, but we went to work in good faith.
We prepared and passed Tariff bill in exact
line with our promises and our pledges and our
platforms, and we rendered to Senate that bill,
called the Mills BILL in the interests OF the
people. We sufd to the Senate, we want to re-
duce the salt, and the lumber, and the woolen
cloths, and the tinware and the steel and iron
goods, and every thing that goes into common
use with the people. OF course it is not neces-
sary to go into the details Of that bill. You
have gone over 1t so many times. The central
idea in the bill was to reduce the tariff.
UPON THE NECESSITIES OF LIFB.
We sent it to the gentlemen of the Senate.
They were Republicans. They refused our bill
mo, We will not give you free lumber; we will
hp fron mn af
We can not do that, because that would be
striking down the protection system. But if
you must have relief, II you Democrats are so
economical that you are piling up surplus in the
Treasury and must stop the flow, We will shut
OF the internal revenue duties upon whisky and
tobacco, and then there will be no necessity OF
reducing the tariff upon these necessities of life
GApplause.1
SO my good woman here did not get her
cheaper shawl and her cheaper tinware, but
the old man got cheaper drink. Laughter. ]
Of course that does not apply to Stark County.
lLaughter.1 So last year we met in conven-
tion In Ohio and passed platform. We had
been beaten the year before at the general
election, but we knew we were right, we knew
that we were undaunted and We laid down our
platform, reafilrmlng the Mills bill and declar-
ing our purpose to fight 1t out on that line
until victory crowned our banner. Applause. ]
In spite OF the passage of this bill, adverse to
the people, the Democratic party intends to
attack the tariff until 1t has brought it down so
that it will bring in
REVENUES ONLY SUFFICIENT
To carry the Government with Democratic
economy. [Applause.l OF course 1t would be
impossible to go into all the details of a tariff
bill so lengthy as the bill recently passed by
your fellow townsman. have the bill here 1t
IS sky nine pages. will come around some
DAY when have a couple of weeks and 60 INTO
details tlaughterl, but in the space which we
can Justly give to its discussion we can find the
principle which is avowed for give your fell
low-townsman the credit Of being open and
above board, the principle which is avowed in
the BILL and that is. that it will collect money
from the people, not for revenue and govern
ment, but to increase the profits OF certain pro-
tected industries [applause1, and 1 can best
show you how well that object has been carried
out by referring it to you few details Of the bill
In the first place, if you have never heard q Re
publican tariff speech, and I expect you have
heard good m any, if there was any thing that
was especially claimed by the Republican party
since the recollection of any body here, 1t is
that they were making tariffs to create home
market.
If the farmer said: ''Why do you increase the
price OF my clothes and my blankets Why do you
add to the cost OF my implements and tools, and
the house 1 live IN, and every article from the
cradle to the tombstone? 1.-THE answer was,''We
DO this that we may keep up interests and in
dustries and foster them in this country, and
thereby make a market SO that there will be
somebody to eat up your wheat and grain and
provisions" Is that not the unvarying cry?
Hasn't it been so?
How sad it is to find that after these MANY
years the home market theory has been aband-
oned. You will find, on re aiding debates
both In the House and Senate that the Repub-
ncan party has concluded that the home mar
ket humbug has been played for all it is worth
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because they want to get foreign market and
in the interest Of reciprocity. [Laughter.1 I
read definition to-day while coming up in the
train of reciprocity that thought fit exact
ly. Maude and Claude were talking together
and billing and cooling, just as some of you used
to do when you were young, and saying nice
things to each other, and Maude says to Claude:
''What is reciprocity" She had been read ng
about 1t in the newspapers He says: IF 1
kiss you and you turn around and kiss me, that
is reciprocity" And she said: "Oh, it is some
thing nice! didn't think that [Laughter.1
Well that is the way with the Republican
party. They have just found out that The home
market business has exploded, and when they
could no longer scare the people with its bug
bear they find out how nice reciprocity is and
they want to kiss Canada and all those black
down in South America.
It is only a short time since there was a Pan
American Congress in this country and per-
haps
THIS IDEA OF RECIPROCITY
Was promulgated more generally than ever be-
lore IN this country. At any rate, Mr.. Blaine
whom well remember hearing in the campaign
Of 1884 making speech right opposite my Office
and saying that no party that did not stand by
protection has ever succeeded in this country
Mr.. Blaine, after the Tariff bill had passed the
House, and being a far seeing man, and know
ing that 1t was the worst stab made to the peo-
pie of this country-Mr Blaine concluded he
could get his party out of the mire in which it
was wallowing. He announced his idea of it in
a letter to Senator Frye, which, after pro-
claiming that reciprocity, which is the most
complete unadutterated free trade that can be
carried on, and way over and above any thing
we Democrats ever dreamed of-after proclaim.
ing that reciprocity was the only remedy, he
went on to say of the present bill that there is
not a section line that will open the market
Tor another bushel of wheat or another barrel
If pork. Well, if we had been working for a
nome market, if we were going to
MAKE THE FARMERS RICH BY TAXATION
because taxation produces the home market
what difference did it make whether the bill
meant a foreign market for wheat or pork or
not? They knew that the people had become
aroused in this country, that the farmers who
ire slow sort of folk, not in hurry to arrive
1t conclusions-that the farmers were waking
Up and demanding that, with the declining prices
If land and their falling prices in crops thev
'hould have something besides taxation to fur
llsh market for their products, and so
mooth