Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19

/
organization, and therefore in the beginning
| of this Government the most vexed question
! that tried the statesmen of the time was tho
| question as to how the money should be raised
| to conduct our Government, and 1t has been
a vexed question ever since, dividing political
parties and dividing the people throughout the
| United States. 1t requires in this country to-
| day $3.50, 900 every II months to pay the
ordinary and necessary expenses of the Govern.
| ment. 1t requires about Sl,000.000 every "A
hours. That much must be raised somehow
| ana from some source to keep the wheels of our
Government in operation. The Government can
| to raise it. or by invoking the power OF taxation
United states. No one would justify
Of of profound % peace to raise sSoOOOooO annually
| required for public purposes. The eXer-
cising of that power is only justified in case
of national emergencies that arise to the very
| life of the nation itself, and it would not be
| justified or justifabe to borrow this sum of
money. but we must raise IL.
The Government cannot, by its fiat make
money, and the only means, therefore. it has. is
| by taxing our own people on the products OF
| our own people, or the taxing of the products
| of some other people. There are two systems
! OF taxation. One is the internal revenue SyS-
ten. which was resorted to in time of war, and
which was never resorted to but three times in
our national history-a system of direct taxa
tion, which taxes our property, which taxes
our lands, which taxes our income, our occupa-
tlons and our business
OBJECTION TO DIRECT TAX.
No political party would think at this time of
advocating system of direct taxation for the
purpose OF making this great Government free
of the $780, 000 600 which necessary to its
penses every 365 days. Neither the Democratic
the adoption of a system of direct taxation.
So that the only other system
left is that system of putting a tariff or
duty upon foreign products: accepting a mar
al
states. The advocates of a Democratic
revenue tariff insists that this tax shall be
levied OIL what is known as the revenue princi-
pie, having in view revenue only, dismissihg
every other consideration except the simple
one of putting money into the public treasury,
having no concern about the occupations of
our people, having no concern about the well
fare of our Republic while the Republican
party insists that that taxation shall be levied
on a protective principle, in which we take into
consideration the question of the industrial
prosperity of our people, their occupations.
their happiness and the welfare OF our Govern
ment. [AppIause]
The revenue tariff has but one purpose in
view. and that purpose is revenue, and what
ever tariff will produce the largest amounts of
revenue with the smallest rate of taxation, is
the very perfection of Democratic revenue
tariff. need not tell this intelligent audience
that TO secure the largest amount of revenue
from the smallesT rate Of taxation, YOU must
put your tariffs upon those articles OF foreign
products which are a necessity to the people o.
the United States, which cannot be produced
by our own people or in our own workshops.
Take the items of tea, coffee and sugar. We
must buy those great articles abroad They
are a necessity to every mans household, and
therefore any duty, however small, put upon
these two great articles of necessity, will cause
great streams OF revenue to flow into the pnblic
treasury.
TALKING ABOUT SUGAR.
Take the article of sugar. We produce
per cent of the sugar We consume. go per cent
comes from abroad Ninety-two pounds out
of every hundred mus; be imported and only
eight pounds are produced at home out of every
hundred and so any duties, however small in
per cent of sugar used in this coun-
try which is necessarily imported from
abroad. will swell the volume of revenue,
that is the ideal Democratic revenue tariff.
That is the ideal British tariff after which the
Democratic party propose copying and adopt
ing in this country.
tions and you cannot have inlportations of
produce and the like of which
we can produce in the United
as to encourage your people to go abroad and
buy rather than buy the domestic article or
that which is produced in the workshops of
care ut what it is. Take that glass. (Here
the Major picked up the drinking glass from
the table and contiEued)-rhe duty on that is
go per cent That is Republican protective
tariff. [Applause.I That was put there pot
alone for revenue. but was put there for the
purpose of encouraging our people to en-
gage in the business and in the manu-
facture of that kind of ware in the
United States [Applause.I Every dollars
worth of that kind of ware that comes into the
United States from any country OF the world
puts 80 cents into the public treasury. Now
that duty was put there, as 1 said moment
ago. not alone for the purpose OF revenue, but
1t was put their TO encourage and protect and
defend our own people who were engaged In
this kind of industry. [Applause,] And am
glad to say it has succeeded. tApplause.l And
we have got in this country some of the best
glass factories and they are right here in your
own city, that can be found anywhere through
out the world. tApplause]
PITTsBURG's GLASS HOUSES.
Supposiug, my fellow-citizens you are I'M
posing the duty looking to revenue and revenue
only. Sixty per cent of a tariff on that kind of
ware would be altogether too high. Sixty per
cent on that kind OF ware discourages this kind
of importation from the other size. Now, if IL Is
only revenue you are after. instead of only GO
per cent you make the tariff 10 per cent What
from the other side. This country
under 10 per cent tariff duty, would be the
dumping ground for the glassware of all the
world Every 81 nis kna oi ware
quantity of glass which ought to be made by
our own people in our own factories. LAD
plause. Now. that, my fellow citizens. is the
difference between the two systems, the one
looks to revenue and revenue only, and the
other has some concern for the occupation of
our own people.
Here the speaker reviewed the histories of
the Two kinds of tariff, and said that after a
trial of the Democratic kind the United
States was looking for an indorser for her
paper. Continuing, he said:
Now, after 29 years of protection, we have
got to pay premium to the bondholder to get
him to give up his bonds. tCheers and ap-
plause, We have not only. my fellowcitizeEs.
got a surplus revenue in the public Treasury,
but we have matchless credit.
A Voice-Was that not under Democratic
President from Pennsylvania?
Major McKinley-l will answer the gentle
man very briefly That was under Demo-
cratic President from Pennsylvania, but in the
message that that Chief Executive sent to the
halls of Congress he bore testimony to the
dreadful condition that reigned throughout
this nation from one end to the other. He
said: The low revenue tariff policy of my
own party has put out the fires in our furnaces.
and sent the men employed therein tramping
the streets and country roads of our lands"
Tremendous cheering and applause.l
LITTLE TIN PLATE.
Mr.. Mckinley took up the question of the
tariff on tin plate, and predicted its pro-
duction in this city within the next 18
months. He cited the time that the old
Wing party put a tariff of cents yard on
calico, and soon calico was being made all
over New England, and the price per yard
was less than it was before. On this line of
argument he predicted that tin cups now
worth cents each can soon be had two for
cents. Continuing he said:
have got pretty hard time running for
Congress down in my Democratic district with
24O0 majority against me.
A yoice-Oh never mind; you'll get there!
Mr. Mckinley-But believe l am more GER
tain of being elected down there than would
be if that district was on the other SIDE of the