The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-10-31

| thrown into Inc zap Oh tHc pcopie, IL you
can have every nation in Europe disturbed
bv a revolution, If you can have the three
nations in Europe go to war for two years
md half. then we will quit tariff and go
to supplying the vacuum, which that con-
dition of things in Europe would create.
[Applausc.[ -,
In the fall of 1856, when this tariff had
been underway for ten years, this great
war in Europe came to an end and so did
all the prosperity under the tariff of 1916.
Appluse.
You all remember what happened in
IS51-one of the scvercst panics and de-
pressions this country ever encountered
and as long as these accidental props,
these fortuitous happenings, these acct
dental revolutions, the discoveries OF
gold, and famine, as soon as they ceased,
prosperity under the tariff of lSl6 ceased
also. Now insist that we do not want
famincs. we do not want to have thousands
of men slaughtered by war in order to keep
un a free trade trade tariff and make it
look prosperous when it is not. Laughter
and applause.
Give us protective tariff and we can get
along without slaughter or the starvation
of men: we can make ourselves sustaining
with something beyond for the people that
need help from our abundance. and in con-
nection with the tariff of 1916 call your
attention historically to two other tariffs
in addition TO that-the only three tariffs
that the United States has ever had.
Suddenly lowering duties was the one
made after the war 1872; the compromise
tariff of S33, and the one in 1916, and
every one of them led to business pros
tration in this country, which lasted in
greater or less degree until there was
protective tariff enacted. Applause
TARIFF TICKLING.
You never heard of free trade tariff
coming TO the relief of the people. Laugh
ter The only three times that the peo-
pie of the United States tried free tariff
they fell into adversely until a protective
tariff came to the relief of the people.
Some people want lis to let the protective
tariff 60 bv in order to make the expert
mcnt again. Well, would like to sec
that experiment tried if only one or two
were to suffer, but it is a pretty hard thing
TO take the dreadful and terrible chance OF
prostrating the industries OF the country
when there are e. 100000 of mouths to be
fed. GApplausc When the tariff of SAG
was enacted there were only 2O,OO0,0OO of
people in the country. We now have
ca .0G0.000 Four years after the tariff
was enacted. according to the census of
the United States, we only had SI,0O0,-
100000 of property. We now have Oh
COG. 600 of people and 100000 100000 of
property. Applause Gentlemen, you
cannot sport with that number of people
and with that mass of property. We cam
not experiment even al this time and laz-
ard the vast interests when we could not
put the country where it stands to-day for
ten pcnitcntial years thereafter. APP
plausc.l Mr.. Schurz condemns the eff
forts of Congress to secure reciprocity
of trade with certain countries. Laugh
fer. Free-traders have always been tell
ing us that if we would adopt their theory
We would have IL new era in this country,
and on that form of statement will not
differ from them. Laughter think
we would have new era Congress at its
last session concluded to adopt new
policy. They looked at South America
and thcy found that we arc receiving from
these people vast IMPORTS and exporting
little to them. The question was, Shall
we repeal the duty on sugar and give that
to South America in addition 10 the coffee
and hides and dyc-woods and rubber and
other things from South America, and
shall we ask those men if we give YOU our
markets for pound to let us enter theirs
fow few shillings? APPLAUSE Oh!
no, no. Mr.. Schurz: that won't do at all.
You must resort to free trade; but would
like to ask Mr.. Schurs before this Ohio
audience how frcc-trade is going to
let us into their markets with our pro-
ducts. We have been giving Brazil
market for their nearly sixty millions
of products and they were taking
from us seven or eight or nine mil
lions. Now, suppose we declared ABB
solute free trade how would that help us
with Brazil? They have not been buyinS
ANYTHING. and they do not let anything in
free. Thirty-six million dollars worth OF
coffee. fourteen TO sixteen millions of rub
her. several millions of hides. and great
many dive stufl's and wood of that kind,
all coming into the United States without
shilling of duty. But we want to send
down there some -four. some lumber some
corn and wheat, the products of the West
as well as of the East, and are not salts
fed as things were going. Laughtcr.I
Well. we went on and awakened them to
the necessities Of the situation and we
found that they feel just as we do, that
the two nations dealing with each other
must deal as two men do with each other,
fairly. honestly. and literally, so that the
advantage shall not always he on the side
of one man or on the side of one nation.
I Applause. Well that was reciprocity.
Ii Is not very complex problem. Mr..
Schurz rather intimates that it is u
strange way of getting at things. How
strangely mysterious reciprocity is. 1t is
lust as strange and mysterious az when
Starke county farmer brings hundred
bushels of wheat to Canton, gets his
money for it, buys supplies for his family
and goes back home. Laughter. That
is mysterious process and very difficult
to understand, yet | am sure that Brazil
and all the South American States under
stood it the moment it was mentioned.
Yet | am sure, and speak with great can
dor, when ] say that believe we will
make very favorable arrangement to
trade with South America. Take coun-
try like Venezuela, of a large area but
small population, not more than two and
half to three millions. They bring va
$40, 100000 worth of products, but how
much of that is taxed do you suppose at
the custom-housc! Only $4,000 and every
cent except that escapes taxation We
send them good many things, but we do
not send them one shiling's worth that is
not taxed by them That is not fair, they
admit that il is not fair, and they arc glad
and willing to right the matter and place
rs ON rccinrncal ground that will be to the