, 1890-08-29
THREE TARIFF TALKS.
A Strong Address Delivered by
John F. Bailey.
Mr.. Campbell Shows How Tariff
Has Closed Factories.
Gibson Clark's Little Sermon With
a Local Application.

when the third speaker concluded. Each
address was bright and snappy. practical
and logical, and deep interest was mani
Tested throughout. The home made Re-
publican theory that the tariff is a stupid,
t~hreadbare subject was pretty effectually
exploded. Messrs. Bailey, Campbell and
Clark made the topic clear and forced
conclusions that set people thinking.
Judge Lacey and some other Republicans
dropped in while Mr.. Campbell was ad-
dressing the audience. but they could not
bear the expose and retired more or less
gracefully.
Hon. A. H. Reel, the energetic presi
dent of the club. was in his place for the
first time in several weeks. He has been
out west and the report he brought from
that section of the state evoked cheering.
Incidentally Mr.. Reel paid his respects to
the robber tariff.
John +. Bailey, who is a house candI-
date, is a splendid talker. He has prac-
ticed law, is a deep thinker, a lion in de-
bate and keen andicrisp ard epigrammatic
in utterance. The Mckinley bill removes
the tariff from sugar, and the earth
pauses in its revolutions while Republican
orators carry the news to Susan that by
this legislation citizens of Wyoming will
be saved enough TO defray the entire tx
penses of state government If this be
true then why not make other reductions.
A few years ago q%uinine, a drug largely
used all over the United States, was sell
ing at 81. so IN ounce. A heavy tariff
excluded that distilled abroad. A Demo
cratic house passed a bill removing the
tue duty. For a wonder, but forced by
public sentiment, the senate concurred
and the entry tax was abolished. While
the bill was pending a Philadelphia firm
that produced the drug sent a strong
lobby to Washington which rent
the m~alarial air Of the district
with the cry that their business would be
ruined. They caused the same wall to be
printed in subsidized newspapers. Well.
quinine dropped to so cents an ounce. the
price today. Did the Philadelphia drug
house cease to EXIST Hardly. 1t went
right along making money. When the
senior member of the firm died his heirs
divided IS, 600, 900, mostly quInine money,
and they took the Grape off the door and
business is still conducted at the old
stand, while the owners sport bigger dIa-
monds than ever. Mr.. Bailey gave some
startling figures on personal wealth. In
$4,000, the golden age of Democratic
rule, when the Walker tariff was in force
and every elector a sovereign, millionares
were unknown. Selfish laws made by
Republicans have enabled hundreds of
men 10 amass more than q million each.
The wealth Of the country is practically
vested in $500 monopolists created by
the Republican trust. Is a party wise or
Just or honest that enables one man 10
enrich himself to the extent of S5O,O0O.-
900 while another, just as worthy, Just as
good, just as intelligent, frequently more
loyal and often better educated, labors
from early morn till dewey eve for s..
With scarcely an exception these vast
fortunes have been gained through the
fostering patronage of a tariff that pro.
tects infants with whiskers.
Mr.. Campbell dropped a few bombs
into the camp OF the enemy, kept his
audience enthusiastic during the entire
three-quartors of an hour he occupied the
floor. In the course of iii S&0emarks he
casually mentioned the fact tSat he would
be Pleased to discuss the tariff with any
Republican who was loaded. Mr.. Camp
bell viewed the tariff from the standpoint
OF supply and demand. 10 Philadelphia
the sheriff had engaged in the wool man
ufacturing business by closing most of the
factories. More carpets were made here
than at any other PLACE in the world. A
necessary raw material was the rough
wool of South America. A p~rohibitory
tariff kept it away from the United States.
In the weaving Of fabrics the finer woods
of Australia and Asia we're required for
mixture with native ~lsec,s, and these
were kept out by the import tax. In
consequence manufacturers had been
bankrupted. Here was an industry
throttled by the tariff.
Mr.. Campbell's tariff object lesson was
a forcible one. A farmer gets up in the
morning. puts on a taxed shirt, taxed
coat and vest, taxed hat, washes in q
taxed basin with water from a taxed
bucket, wipes his face and hands on 8
taxed towel and combs his hair before Q
taxed glass. Puts taxed harness on hi.
horses and follows a taxed pillow. Al
night he reads. The paper is taxed. so j!
the ink. His sheets and blankets art
taxed. A heavy tariff increases the cosI
Of everything the farmer and lahorips
man uses,
In a recent celebrated speech Judge
Carey had lodged the query: DO you
van Wyoming to become a second Penn
sYlvania?" He had answered it by urg
ing his hearers to vote the Republican
ticket. Mr.. Campbell said that if Wyo.
ming became in every particular a second
Pennsylvania it were better the state had
never been created. In the Goa
mines at Connelsville men, yes and women
too, worked ten and more hours a day
for sixty cents. Their food was insufh'
Gent, their surroundings mean and miser.
able, and their children half clothed. II
the cities the owners of these mines liveG
in luxurious msgniicence. OF course
Judge Carey and Deacon Hayford, who
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