The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-24


the prices of these cannot possibly go
up, because the market for them Is
alerady in the possession of Ameri.
can manufacturers. The effort of
this bill in all its departments is to
recover to our people markets that
they have lost and to obtain for them
new markets into which they have
not, hitherto, sought an entrance.
The duties on iron ore, pig iron, scrap
iron, scrap steel, and all the various
forms of bar iron, haye been retained
as they are in the present tariff ex-
cept where they have been slightly
reduced. So have those on iron and
steel forging, on steel ingots and on
copper. With the exception of the
duty on tin, the metal schedules
have been subjected to a general r.
ductiOn.
The extent to which the hill has
gone in protecting the products fthe
farm and in reducing the expenses Of
the farmer is a striking witness of
the care which the Republican party
has always exercised over the inter-
ests of that immense portion Of our
population engaged in industrial pur-
suits. The duty on binding,tWine
has been placed at seven tentlis0f a
cent, which is fifty per cent nNA'r
than the duty fixed in the Mills bill,
The farmers of the county will realize
the hollowness of Democratic preten-
siOns and the wickedness of Demo.
! cratic falshoods when they consider
that whereas under the Nils Dill
every one of their products was
placed npOn the frep-liSt. or left with
the aft elton of a revenue duty, and
almost of all their necessities heavily
taxed. by the Mckinley bill increased
protection has been accorded them
for everything they have to sell, and
lower duties established upon sub.
stantially everything they nave to
buy.
The Republican party only asks
that the people will examine this
new tariff law that they will con-
slider we'll the principles that have
I governed its construction that they
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dustries which. under its provisions,
will be Immediately established,
giving employment to thousands of
wOrkmen and vastly increasing the
domestic market in all parts Of the
country.
The Republican party knows that
time will vindlcate It's wisdom in
this splendid enactment, and that its
results will be a revival and an ex-
tension of industry everywhere, and
remarkable lowering of prices in all
lines of manufacture to the consumer.
THE TARIFF NOT A TAX.
Among the reckless assertions OF
the Free-Traders Oftenest met with
is the statement that the tariff is a
tax upon the consumer. Ofcoursp it
j., and then again. of course it isn't.
A revenue tariff undoubtedly taxes
the consumer protective tariff has
precisely the opposite effect. 1t taxes
the importer, and the best evidence
of this is the testimony of the px-
porter himself. While the Mckinley
hill was being debated in Congress Il
great mass. meeting was held in the
city of Sheffield. Eng. to protest
against it, and to demand that the
British Government should interfere
to prevent it from becoming law.
Just what the Sheffield people ex.
pected their Government to do al.
fords a large opportunity for anus
ing canjector 4; but at the meeting,
according to the report cabled over tC
the NeU York Herald, the leading
speaker, who was Sheffield manu-
facturcr of cutlery, after stating tina
he remembered the time when the
American supplied work for the en-
t ire city of She field. wen; on to de
clare that the Mckinley bill was {
bill to raise American taxes out O
the pockets of he Sheffield exporters
and that Sheffield was not going tt
pay British taxes and American
taxes too!
This statement shows very clearly
that the foreigners know who pay
our protective duties Sheffield may
do AS she pleases about it. hut under
the Mckinley bill. if she desires ia
sell her goods in the American mgr.
ket. she will have to pay for that
privilege, and the amount of hel
payment will he exactly that sun
which is the difference between the
cheap labor of Sheffield and the ex
pensiye labor of America.
Some time ago, in "A speech deliv
cred in the Canadian Parliament
Sir JJhn Macdonald, the Premier C