Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-30

ment until the time when its benefcient effects
can be brought into fuller proof and realization:
"a voice, that's the stuff" Give US more of
II. am not here for purposes of defamation;
i am here TO prove tie case OF the Republlcan
party,
TO REBEL oALuMNIEs,
10 defy tmposltlouz, to resent scandals and
ISLANDERS upon as patriotic q work as ever
was committed to any body of statesmen or OF
citizens.
What else appears In this bill Former laws
allowen the United States to import what IT
wanted free of duty, and the administration of
Grover Cleveland illustrated that privilege
daughter and applausel in preference to
patronizing domestic manufacturers, and that
privilege by construction was also enjoyed by
contractors for the government, that provision
has been repealed in this Ubiquitous and I'M
cody bill, (laughterl which has caused Liberty
to lay bleeding in the street and Americans to
emptied out of their pockets by some unknown
popularity of the Mckinley bill Renewed
tractors must patronize domestic industries, or
If 1t chooses to engage in the luxury of import
ing foreign manufactures it must pay the duty
Another thing this bill has done. So excel:
lent have become American manufactures OF
many kinds, particularly Of cutlery, and of
facturers for years have been send
ing into this country, under former
tariff laws, articles of foreign manufacture,
bearing the Amesican brand. This bill
provides that articles of foreign manufacture.
imported into the United States must have i'm
pressed thereon the name of the country where
lay the bastardy of foreign manufactures at our
doors. tier must be inscription somewhere
upon the child Of its parentage. Laughter and
applause.
What else has been donef Some articles of
foreign manufacture concerning which great
al hnttoDe I he
ceeds of convict labor in the old world. This
bill provides what no federal legislation. ever
duction into the United States ' of any
article the product in whole or in part of
convict labor. Applause: Cries of good,
citizens what difference in principle is there be-
tween the Introduction of convict labor, whose
wages is merely subsistence and clothing, or
prohibiting the introduction of the products of
that labor whereby manhood and womanhood
are disgraced by the sweat systems of London,
of France and of Belgium, where when not con-
victs in the light of the law, the laboring
man is the serf and slave of a system
which has manacled and bound him down to
toll at rates of wages which afford little more
than a convicts subsistence? tApplause.(
Where is the distinction in principle7 Applause
was immediate and you saw the point at once
when called your attention 20 the prohibition
of the product of convict labor, and yet,
my feilow-citizens, there who will
draw the line right there and say that while
the American workingman may possibly be pro-
be protected against the slave of a system
whose wages are little better than the wages of
the penitentiary.
Now lie: me pass to some other considerations
/ might indulge in declamations. my fellow citi-
zens, and in general reasoning, but was told
that this audience wanted to hear facts, and
you will pardon me if l disappoint you some
that there are no increases in this bill upon the
necessaries of life. l say these increases in
can do Without. tApplause. say that the eei in
creases in this bill are upon those things which
if any man or woman wants to buy, they assess
and tax themselves by the very act of buying,
[applausel and need not assess or tax them
selves il they don't want to and therefore have
right to complain. Our manufactures sup
steel--tin plate-which has been Disseminated
against by former laws. They supply the
cloth for the clothing of the working man and
woman. The same is true of cotton cloths. OF
those articles of prime and common necessity,
the American manufacturer not only controls
the American market butin the year 1889 he ex.
ported SLOT 900 600 worth. We had surplus of
these articles of prime and common necessity.
wooden and cotton cloth. such as workingmen and
women wear, and good enough for anybody; L
say after supplying our needs, we exported S107,-
0C0 900 worth, just about the excess by which
we had surpassed Great Britain in 1889, to which
called you attention few moments ago:
Why not let the trial be made of
this bil7 What is the reason that in the
q days before election these modern prophets,
these Cassandras who 60 around the streets
land which. like Cassandras, will never come
to pass) why not give. it trial? The age of
prophecy is past but it seems that the prophets
have survived. tApplause.] Now those critics
of the bill claim that rates have been raised
much higher upon
ARTICLES IN COMMON USE
among the poor than upon articles of tho same
class used by the rich. This statement is pre-
posterous on the face of it. There is not gov
thing. 1t is not to be supposed that the eminent
men whose history has been the history of this
country for the last q years have in their later
years land | refer to such men Senator Sher-
man and Senator Morrill) lent themselves to
conspiracy which, if it were true. for compen-
duous criminality exceeds anything written in
the annals of recorded time.
Now, let us see how this works. Take the duty
on cotton hosiery. Prior to 1888 there was
duty of 81 per cent on all cotton hosiery. At
that time it was worth SIS a dozen and the duty
would be S1.05 dozen. There has been since
1888 decline of prices of one-half say to so
per dozen. The rate imposed by the bill would
be 95 cents per dozen, egualing 65 per cent ad
valorem. but it furnishes less protection than the
old rate of 81 per cent. Now, you cannot make
mathemamatical computation here toverify
this statement, but it is the exact fact. To sus-
tain the objections to the details of this bill,
the ingenious scheme has been devised of sub
shutting in place of the rates actually levied
by the bill what is invented and termed by these
directors as equivalent ad valorem duties.
Now. by what process is this sophis--
teal and mystifying equivalent carried Quit
For instance, hey never quote as to cotton ties
the duties fixei by the bill Of l $40 cents per
pound, but inv ariably talk about lbs per cent
ad valorem-and that looks large. Let me il.
lustrate the effect of declining price or an
increasing prize upon ad valorem duties. The
duty upon po:atoes at present by this new lay
Salore anie' t bns Il You rate ' these e
potatoes Ia. is arbitrarily done for the purpose
ell, why this price becomes go per cent ad val
orem or if you go down to cent a bushel, rs
you might Just logically. talking learnedly i.
hos fpur wi IN
$500 per cent ad valorum. And you can test
this bill and these arguments over and over
sg IN in ahs
This bill levies a duty of $50 a head upon horses.
The sophist by assuming and in stating that
and print, that horses have been taxed GOO per
cent, ad valorem. Laughter.] Now this
gument. my fellow citizens. is the device of tho
New York importers; and | never saw and l
never expect to see in my life again. so far
legislation is concerned. the scenes which
were transacted in the senate end 4 the Capitol
when this bill was under consideration by the
committee on finance. The modern New York
importers. the middle men of commerce, who
produce nothing-useful instrumentalities in
their way-who pass through the right hand
and to the left from producer to consumer the
various articles of importation into this
country, appeared en- masse Subtle, ingen-
ious, comprehening the subject, stimulated by
self-interest. the figures which shall give you
tonight and the Illustrations and exposures
which | shall make are their figures and their
illustrations, and the exposure is of them.
They represented two hundred millions of
dollars They are unfamiliar names, they are
the names. my fellow citizens, which within
the memory of men now living and
men now here have caused the real
American importer to disappear from the
city of New York. They were tho men who have
introduced this system of fraudulent uDderval-
uations in this country which has caused. say,
an Am .rican importer to become a thing of the
past. Now let me illustrate and expose SOM
of their arguments. Their souls were PANIED
upon the subject Of pocket knives (laughterl,
and they began to talk about equivalent
ad valorems You could not get one Of those
to word about the Gpecific