The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-24
M'KINLEY'S MONSTROSITY.
GOV. HILL AGAIN SHOWS 1T UP
IN VIVID CoLORs.

The Farmers of Ohio Not Left in
Ignorance of the Injustice Done
Them-Our Agriculture Not In Need
Of Protection from Foreign Oompe-
tition.
MAssILLoN, o., Oct. 23.-Gov. Hill of
New York addressed 1900 persons this
afternoon in the opera house at Millersburg,
the county seat of Holmes county, in the
Sixteenth congressional district. In regard
to the Mckinley bill the governor said !:
"The Mckinley bill is unique in
more respects than one, but chiefly
in its apparent solicltude for the
American farmer. The farmers have found
their profits shrinking, while their farm
mortgages were increasing, until lately
they have loudly complained against the
injurious effects Of the high tariffs upon
theirfinterests. How does the party in power
discharge its duty in this emergency toward
that third Of our population who depend
upon agricultural means for subsistence?
Their hands are tied too tightly by the
enriched individuals of favored industries
to enable them to give genuine relief. In
stead they have devised the monstrous leg
exhibiting in the rural districts"
AGRICULTURE's NEEDS.
Continuing, the governor said:
Most of our agricultural products need no more
protection from foreign competition than an
elephant needs protection from mouse. The
levylng OF duty upon them will not have the
slightest effect 10 raising prices with widening
our market, because our production is so vastly
in excess of our demands, and the ratio Of our
Imports with the exports Of agricul-
tural products is so infinitely small
that the Mckinley arguments are shown to be
what they are-simply ridiculous and bum
combe. The Mckinley bill places duty of 5
cents dozen on eggs 10 protect Americans
against the activity of their foreign cousins,
but Canada and Europe send only one -hundredth
part as many eggs to this country as are pro-
duced b re, and it looks as though this addi-
tlonal protection on eggs was added to keep
Rutherford B. Hayes in line.
BALD ABsURDITY.
A mere statement of the exports and imports
shows the bald absurdity of Maj. McKinley's s
ponderous conclusion that damaging foreign
competition in our home markets is the cause
ofagricultural depression and that the remedy
is to increase the duty on agricultural products,
the imports of which form such an in-
finitesimal part of the home production
and export. The total imports of agricultural
products for 1889 amounted in value to about
S319,0 000 and it is the admission of this
amount which is creating what Maj Mckinley
calls damaging foreign competition in our
home markets." The principal articles are
sugar and molasses, of which the imports were
nearly third Of the entire agricul-
tural importation, and the McKinieyites
have demonstrated their lack of faith
in their own theory and their disregard of the
American sugar grower by removing the duty
altogether upon this competing product. Then
we also imported last year S25 ,000, 900 worth of
hides. Maj. McKinley's committee first at
tempted TO stop the source of competion or i'm
posing a generous duty, but got frightened and
left hides to come in free, as they have for
many years, illustrating the benefcent effects
OF free raw materials
WHAT THE BILL DOES.
Altogether, after pointing with horror at the
1886 0O0 900 worth OF imported agricu tural pro
ducts which are producing this damaging for
egn competition In our home markets, and
from which our farmers are declared to need
protection, the trainers of the Mckinley bill
have actually reduced the existing duties on a
third, have left untouched the duties on about
half, and have increased the duties on scarcely
one-sixth. which proportion includes articles
that are in no sense serious competitors with
Americ an products.
The governor, at the conclusion of his
speech, returned to Massillon, where he
spoke tonight.
Congressman Springer spoke in the rink
to a crowd and Gov. Hill spoke to an enor-
nous crowd in the opera house, and when
both speakers had finished they simply
changed places, and the people in both halls
heard the advocates of democracy. In the
morning the governor and his party will
start for West Virginia