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gee that experiment tired, if only one or
two people were to suffer, but it IS a pretty
hard thing to take the dreadful and terri
Bile chance of prostrating the industries of
the country when there are ca. 600
mouths to be fed. Applause. When
the tariff of 1916 was enacted there were
only 20, 900, 900 people in the country; we
now have "a, 000, 900. -Four years after
the tariff was enacted, according to the
census OF the United States, we only had
$1,000, DOC, 900 worth of property; we
o have "a, 000, 900 people and 500, 000,-
900. 900 worth of property. Applause.
Gentlemen, you cannot sport with that
number of people and with that mass of
property. We cannot experiment ut this
time aud hazard vast interests when we
could not nut the country where it stands
today for penltential years thereafter.
Applause.
MIR. Schurz condemns the effort of
CONGRESS to secur reciprocity of trade
with certain countries. Laughter. Free
traders have always been telling us that If
we would adopt their theory we would
have a new era In this country. On that
form of statement l will not differ with
them. Laughter. / think we should
have a new era. Congress at its last SEES
sion concluded to adopt a new policy.
They looked at South America and they
found they were receiving from those peo-
pie vast imports and exporting little to
them. Tie question was, shall we repeal
the duty on sugar aud give that to South
America in addition to the coffee and
hides and dve woods and rubber and other
things from South America; shall neu if
W. give them our markets for a pound,
let us enter thoir's for a few shilhugs.
lApplause Oh. no, Mr.. Schurz says,
that WON'T do at all; you must resort to
free trade. But | would like to ask Mr..
Schurz before this Ohio audience how
free trade is going TO let us into their
markets with our products. We have
been giving Brazil a market for their
nearly sixty million of products and they
were taking from us seven or eight OF
nine millions.
Now. suppose we declare absolute free
trade. how would that help us with Bra
zil7 They have not been buying anything
and they do not let anything in free.
Thirty-six millions of dollars worth of cof.
fee, fourteen to sixteen millions of rubber.
several millions OF hides and a great many
oye stuffs and wood of that kind, all com
ing into the United States without a shil-
ling of duty. But we want to send down
there some -four, some lumber. some corn
and wheat, the products OF the West as
well as the East. and are not satisfied as
things were going Laughter Well. we
went on and awakened them to the neces-
sity Of the situation. and we found they
feel Just as we do-that two nations deal
ing with each other must deal as two men
do with each other, fairly. honestly, lib
orally, 80 that the advantage shall not al
ways be on the side Of the one man or of
the n nation. Applause
Well, that was reciprocity. 1t Is not a
very complex problem. Mr.. Schultz
rather intimates it as a strange way Of
getting at things. How strangely mys-
ferrous reciprocity is; 1t is just as strange
and mysterious as when q Starke county
farmer brings a hundred bushels of wheat
to Canton. gets his money for il, buys
supplies for the family and goes back
lL~aughterl. That is a mysterious pro-
cess and very difficult to understand
Yet | am cure Brazil and all South
American states understood it the mo-
ment it was mentioned. | believe we
will make very favorable arrangement
to trade with South America. Take a
country like Venezeula, of large area, but
small population, not more thar two and a
half to three millions. They bring us
$40, 400. 900 worth OF products; but how
much of that is taken, do you suppose at
the custom house? Only 8 5000. Every
cent of that except 81. 900 escapes tax
alton. We send them a good many
things, but we do not send them one
shilling worth that is not taxed by
them. That is not fair. They admit it
is not fair and they are glad and willing
to right the matter and place us on
reciprocal ground, that will be to the
prosperity of this country and prosperity
OF the other; because trade that is so one
sided as that canno be continued forever.
When reciprocity was first suggested,
free traders all, or nearly all. approved.
At that time they thought i; would divide
prot~ectioDlsts in congress. and they urged
it very earnestly as long as they thought
there would be some division. as long as
they conceived that it was the dividing
line that might obstruct protectionists.
Just so soon as free traders found
reciprocity could not be used to DIVIDE the
Republican party they were all against it
cheers, everyone of them, an 1 now they
are repudiating 1t and telling us what a
humbug it is, and how little value there
is in it, and how small a result there will
OC " ptODlCO VI lulS CUuulTN lTOm H. III
is not wise for free traders to proclaim its
failure at present. We are given a year
in which to try it, Let us wait a year
and see what can be done. [Cheers. /
am not here to boast of it, | am here to
condemn the course of free traders, who,
as long as it promised to divide protection
lists. were in favor of it, but who are set
against it the ome they find that pro-
t%ectionists will not divide. 1Cheers.
Your duty, gentlemen, ifI may suggest
IT, is to elect a pTotectionist to congress,
Cheers and cries of we will,' that is
your interest; that is the lnterest of every
district in the country, and [ appeal to
this district because OF the interest at your
doorsill and Preside. | appeal to every
man in Starke county and the three other
counties that make up the district. But
you lave a special reason. 1t is a very
great distinction to any man, a distinction
to the district represented, and a d~istiHc-
ton to the man himself, to be placed at
the head of the committee on ways and
means, and to lead the house OF repre-
sentatives. LCheers. That is where
Thaddeus Stephens stood the last eight
years OF his life; that is where hat great
citizen of Ohio, lately deceased, Gen.
Robt. @. Schenck, stood for SIX years,
and that is where William Mckinley
stands now. [Uproarious cheers. lap
peal both to your interests and your pride
to send him back again that he may be
useful, not merely to this district, not to
his state alone, but to the people OF the
United States" lCheers
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nile in tho uallarv alarmad hv rho orack