The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-10-09

hhu NOT fbhllb NpNoh HN"N 81" tN"sg "
lay a tariff when the war was over
When We had put down the rebellion-
when we we're reducing Instead OF inereas
lnQ our expenses, then we began 70 lay
tAriffs, and al the present tlmel or yes1er
day, before the great peneeea Tor all eVll
had been passed and signed AZ washing
ton, We had reached point where W.
were paylnR 40 per cent? per cent more
than ihe great tariff after the WaT--'ln an
era OF profound peace, and II ought 70 he
and was only two yeara ago, an era OF DO
ofeaslng expenses, lApplauhej
/ am sorry cannot boast about the do
crease In expenses in the last two years
but In sight OF all this, there went upon
the statute bOokg yesterday. signed by the
President, eOnourred IN by the thlfd OF lhe
laW.mRking powera,a bill which = eapeolal
iy interesting 10 the citizens OF Canton, be-
cause that new Infant 4 named Tor very
distinguished eiilzen o. your town. " u
the Mckinley bill, and II has Increased, ,oI
propOsea ~ Increase, and having gone IN
to operatlon will increAae tariff duties
10 point estimated by those who are
most expert la figures and detallA 10 be
b7L per cent aud M percent higher than
the tariff that was impOAel upon un Ia
carry on the war. From III per cent, the
tariff OF Washington, we have reached
6H Der cent, tho iarlf Of Mckinley, and
II Ii goes on AZ this rate, where viii we be
ln another century OF tariff making 7
Why, no-nOt In another eentury-ln NJ
years We have Increased the tariff dutlea
more than 20 per cent. AZ that rate, In a
century we would Increase them another
100 per cent, and upon the theory that
more tariff makes more prosperity and
more wealth, would not We be 9 properoua
country ina hundred years from now
We were all born too soon my fellow cit
lzena TO see the great fruitlon OF that day,
daughter and npplauae'l
Now we poor Ignorant Democrats never
did understand the tariff. We promised
the people when, we came into
mower that we would try and equalize
and reduce the burdens OF taxation,
aud not only did we promise but the Re-
publican party have FOR years and years
promised that they would reduce and
equallse the burden OF taxation, and every
man, woman and child, old enough 10
read, In this audience knows that when
the election OF 1898 took place and the Re-
publican party had said, I'VE propose 10
flye YOU more protection and higher tar
Ilf dutlea,n that they could not have car
eled the state OF Ohio by near aa large a
majority aA Governor Foraker carried II
last year, (Applauae,)
Well, we did come Into power, we Demo-
Gratis, In certain aenae-that Ia, we never
came Into too much power 70 burt us.
O.aughter,)
We prepared and passed u tariff bill In
exact line with our pledges aud our plat
formA, and We rendered 10 tho Senate
that bill called the Mills ~ In tho Inter
eat OF the people. We said 10 the Senate
-. -. - a. ..sl.,aa tha aaIt and the linn.
ber and tho woolen clothes and the Tin
ware and the steel and Iron goods and
everything that Coca into common uao
with the people.
The central idea Of tho bill was TO ro.
duce the tariff upon the neceaaarlea OF
life. We sent II 10 the Senate. They
were Republicans. They refused our
bill. We will not give you free lumber
we will not give you the other FREQ nccea-
aarlea OF life. We cannot do that because
that would be striking down the protec-
tive ayatem.
SO my good woman here did not got her
cheaper shawl and her cheaper tinwnro,
but the old man got cheaper drink.
lLaguhtor.) or course, that does not APP
ply 10 Stark county. (Laughterl
OfcourBc, II would DO impossible 20 90
into all tho details OF tariff bill no
lengthy aa tho bill recently passed by your
fellow townainan. have the bill here
II IN 90 pages, | Will come around some,
time when have "a couple OF weeks and
20 into details Q.aughtcr). but In the
space which we can juatly give 10 its dis
cusslon we can find the principle which
underlIca the bill--tho principle which ia
ayowed-and that ia, that II will collect
money from the people, not for revenue
and government but 10 Increase tho
profits of certain protected industries
lApplauao) and can boat show you how
we'll that object has been carried out by
referring you TO few details OF the bill.
In tho frat place, " there was anything
that was especially claimed by the Ropub-
lican party II is that they were making
tarIlfa 20 create homo market, II tho
farmer said why do you Increase the price
OF my clothes and my blnnkotsY Why do
you add 10 the cost OF my implomonta
and tools, and tho house ] live In, and
every article from the cradle 10 the tomb
stone 2 the answer was, "Wo do this that
we may keep up interests ana industries
and foster them In this country, and thor0-
by mako u market, 40 that thoro Will be
somebody 10 eat up your wheat and grain
and PROVISIONS
is not that the ono unyaying cry 2
Hasn't II been so2 How sad II is 10 find
that after these many years the. home
market theory has boon abandoned And
you will find on reading the debates, that
the homo market humbug has boon play
cd for all IL In worth, Now they say that
thoy must have this tariff because they
want 10 get u foreign market, and In the
Interest OF reciprocity UIaughter).
read definition to-day while coming
up In tho train OF "reoiprocltyn that /
Thought NJ exactly. Maudo and Claude
wore talking together, and billing and
cooling, as some OF you used TO do. whom
you were young, and saying nice things 10
each other, and Maudo snys 70 Claude
"What Ia rcciproclty2n She had boon
reading about II In tho newspaper He
~ "lf / kiss you and you turn around
and kiss mo, that Ia reciprocity And
she said, "Oh, how nice, didn't think
that.n lLaughter.) We'll, that Is the way
with tho Republican party. They have
iuat found out that the home market bust
ness has exploded, and whom they could
no longer fool the people with its bugbonr
they ilndout how nlco reciprocity is-thcy
want 10 kiss all those black Republics
down In south America.
Mr.. Blaine, whom well llromombor hear
Ing In tho campaign OF 1884, making u
speech right opposite my Office, and say
inq that no party that did not stand by
protection had ever succeeded In this
country. Mr.. Blaine after the tariff bill
had passed tho house and being a far see
ing man went on 10 say, OF the Mckinley
bill, now law, that "thoro Ia not sec
tlon or q line In tho bill that will opon tho
market for another buahol OF wheat or an-
other barrel ofpork.n Well, II we hadboen
working for homo market, II we were
going 20 make the farmers rich by taxa
tlon, because taxation produces tho homo
market, what difference did II mako
whether this bill meant foreign
market for wheat or pork, or not. They
knew that the people had became aroused
In this country that farmers were making
up and demanding that with the declining
prlceB OF land and their falling prices In
crops, that they should have something
bosldo taxation TO furnish q market for
their products, and so smooth Mr.. Blaine
snys We have got into hole on tho Nc
Kinloy bill, lot us start the foreign mar
ket idoa. Let us got up reciprocity.
You understand thoro are only ilvo artl-
cloa that they propose 10 have reciprocity
on. auanr, molaBses, teas, coileea and
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