The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-08


ed by the Democratic party. or upon the
principle advocated by the Republican par
ty. And 1t Is upon these two principles that
l invite your attention for few minutes to-
night.
what a Revenue Tariff Means.
The Democratic party declare that this
vast sum of money shall be raised by a tar
iff upon foreign goods based upon the reven-
ue principle, looking to the revenue and the
revenue only. dismissing every other consid-
alton, discarding every other interest in the
imposition of these tariffs, and having in
view the subject of revenue only that shall
go into the public treasury. III word the
Democratic party advocates the levying OF
tariff upon such foreign goods as Will pro
duce the largest amount of revenue from the
largest amount of revenue from the smallest
rate of duty it will be manifest to every cit
zen before me that you will do 1t by select
ing those foreign products. the like of which
we cannot produce in the United States, and
which we must have, and putting our duty
upon such articles. Why? Because, as we
cannot produce them in this country and
must have them, our necessities compel US to
go abroad and buy, and with the importa-
tions that result from our necessity, revenue
will flow into the public treasury. For i'm
portations lie at the very foundation of
revenue tariff and, however you can in
crease importations, whether they be of
non. competing or competing products-when
you have increased them you have ave, increased
therefrom into the Treasury of
the United States. The Democratic
party says, first put your tariff upon the nom
competing foreign products. then, If you
cannot raise sufficient money by imposing
duty on such articles, make the duty so low
upon the competing foreign product, that is,
product which completes with like pro-
duct in the United StateS-make 1t so low as
to make it profitable for the people Of the
United States to go abroad and buy, rather
than to buy domestic products at home. Now
that is the theory, that is the principle upon
which the Democratic party would base the
tariff in the United States. That was the
principle upon which the Morrison bill was
framed. That was the theory upon which
the Mills bill was framed. That was the
principle and theory boldly announced by
President Cleveland in his annual MESSAGE
to the Congress of the United States in 1887.
and it was the principlewe fought against and
gloriously won in the campaign of 1888. ZAP
plause.
publican party levy these duties and raise
the $500, 600? Do not forget that we must
raise that amount OF money every year. How
would we raise it? By putting our duties
upon foreign products the like of which we
can produce in the United States, and make
burden, carry the load and supDly the rev.
enue to the federal treasury. [Applause.l
And while we are supplying an adequate
revenue to the federal treasury we are at the
same moment encouraging and building up
and inaugurating great industries In the
and furnish remunerative employment to
American labor [Applause.l The Repub-
lican protective tariff says let everything
come in free which we cannot produce in
md Inv trf0
let the things we have got to go abroad and
buy because we cannot make them at home,
come in free and go untaxed to the Ameri-
can people; but let those things that compete
with our own capital, with our own labor,
and our own sinew, let those articles bear
tariff duty that will give us the necessary
revenue to conduct the general government.
[Applausel. [ 1t IS upon that principle, and
that principle alone. that the tariff bill OF
and means and subsequently passed by the
House Of Representatives. We understood,
your distinguished representative under
stood, and every member of the majority un-
derStood that the victory OF 1888 that made
Benjamin Harrison President of the United
States [applausel and gave us a majority in
the House of Representatives that made it
possible to give to this country one Of the
abest Speakers we ever had-[applausel
we understood that that victory meant
something; that it was not ami die victory.
We understood that when this vast popula-
tion of ours, by their ballots, declared for
Republican principles and the Republican
platform, they meant, and we meant that
their servants should execute the platform
and the platform purposes, and IN the franz
any doubt about its being an American bill,
in the interests of the American people, In
the line of the largest employment of Amer
can men and American women; IL you have
any doubt about that go and ask your Brit
ish cousins. [Applausel. If l ever had any
tive tariff. an American, an United States bill,
that doubt was long since removed when l
discovered the manifestations of opposition
and exhibitions Of temper in all
the commercial centres Of the CON-
was not made for any other nation but the
United States. [Applause.l That bill was
not made for England nor for France nor for
Germany. Let those countries look out for
their own interests and we will look out for
ours Applause. il say to the nations of the
world here tonight-for see that today in
Paris, members of parliament have been dis
cussing the iniquity of this tariff bill, as they
have been doing in all EUROPE say to the
nations of the world don't interfere with the
domestic affairs of America, keep hands off.
[Great applause.]
Employment for Americans.
But, my fellow citizens, they say that this
tariff bill imposes enormous duties upon the
people that they have got to pay. A revenue
tariff such as the Democratic party openly
advocates is always paid by the consumer.
You cannot make revenue tariff that f. not
paid by the consumer, by the user of the
articles imported from other countries. But
assert here tonight that there is not a sim
gle article, care not what 1t Is, L care not to
what class it belongs. that has not been
cheapened to the American people by compe-
tition at home, made possible by the protect.
i've tariff. Not one. If there is one such
article let any gentleman in this vast audi
ence name it. But, says the Democratic par
ty, you put higher duty on tin plate and we
cant make any tin plate in the United
States. You see it in all the Democratic
Mugwump papers in the country that we
nave not been satisfied with high duties in
the past but are seeking out new objects.
we have put an increased duty on tin plate.
we did it with deliberation, after the fullest
investlgatlon; iil l we have done it to build up
great tin plate industry in the United States
which Will give employment to thousands
and tens OF thousands of workingmen in the
several states of the Union. TApplause.l
Ihey say we have got no tin in the United
States. In the first place, that is not true.
In the Black Hills, in the DakOtas, tin Is to
De found almost everywhere. and tons of 1t
are 10 be found on the dump in the Black
Hills today; and tons and tons more only
await the pick Of the miner, and the pick OF
the miner only awaits the passage of this
Republican protective tariff bill. [Applause.l
what Is this tin plate. what is 1t made of
GU would suppose to hear the Democratic
orators talk that it is composed altogether
OF tin. Why, ninety-fve per cent OF IL Is
sheet iron or sheet steel, either one or tne
other, and the coating, the smooth TIN SUI
face, is made by dipping this sheet IRON ,oa oa
sheet steel into molten tin. We can 1.a nnaao as
sheet iron and sheet steel in this couhtry. y.hs Ss
well as it can be made anywhere. III have ave
world aud we have got the pig TIN, as navo navn
already said, within the limits ol ~ ~ To
country. Why not manqfacIqaett ttod States
supply the tin plate in the Ohiogtu 7S o00
would require the employment. VI tho 49,
laboring men for every month IN tne year,
TApulause,l do not know Whas YOU snlnh
ab6nt IL. but | had rather give tnat employ
ment to 1000 Americans tnan 70 give II 70
" 600 men anywhere else on the lace Oh GOds
orsen earth. lApplause.l Well, suppose
t,,e didnSt have any tin in the United States,
anv MIG tin. Let me tell you what the Dem
Cratic party never tells you in the discus
Sion of this subject. Pig tin is free and has
heen ever since the formation of the govern
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