Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-09

turers. How long, oh Lord, how long
shall this upbuilding go on?
Governor Campbell read letter writ
ten by Mr.. Blaine in 1884, in which Mr..
Blaine said the fact was that the coarser
descriptions OF cottons and cotton prints,
boots and shoes, ordinary household
furniture, harness for draft animals,
agricultural implements of ali kinds,
doors, sashes and blinds, locks, bolts and
hinges, silverware, platedware, wooden
ware, ordinary paper and paper-hanging,
common vehicles, ordinary window glass
and glassware, rubber goods, coal, kero-
sene, white lead, lead pipe and articles
in which lead is the chief exponent, can
be and are produced as cheaply in the
United States as in any part of the
world. Applause.
Governor Campbell went on to cite the
duties upon these articles under the old
tariff, and the increases under the Nc
Kinley bill. Glassware of the common
kind, for instance, which was taxed 40
per cent. under the tariff of 1888, Major
Mckinley raised to 80 per cent, al
though Mr.. Blaine said, seven years ago,
it could be produced as cheaply here as
anywhere else in the world. Yet 80 per
cent. of the former tariff was added in
1888 to protect it against competition
which does not exist. 1t is shipped all
over the world. [Applause.l
SIN the twenty-five years since the
war we have doubled taxation in tariff.
Who is benefited by it? What have
the farmerssof Ohio got out of it?" IA
voice. ''Razzle dazzle."]
Governor Campbell read from stats
tics of the Republican secretary of the
Ohio board of equalization, showing
that in ten years the appraised value of
farm land has deprecated $98, 900, 900.
''The last census show that in the ten
years the state of Ohio has increased in
wealth $248,000,000. How much have
the farmers gotten of that?" Governor
Campbell asserted as a fact that not one
farmer in a thousand in Ohio is as we'll
off today as in 1880. ["Right That's
fact ~ shouted many voices.]
81 want Major Mckinley, when he
replies, to tell the audience where these
men are who have got better wages
under his tariff. There have been more
than 300 great manufacturing establish
ments which have reduced wages since
the passage OF the Mckinley bill, and
do not know one which has increased
them" Democratic cheers.
81 hold in my hand list of thirty
establishments, including Carnegie's,
working $4,000 men, in which organized
labor is banished. | ask the Major if
he favors the banishment of organized
labor from the great factories OF the
country?'
Governor Campbell, in closing, said
he understood that the glass manufac-
tured in Ohio is made by Belgians inn
ported for the purpose. If he had his
way the first thing he would prohibit
would be the alien who comes here to
displace American workmen without the
intention of becoming citizen. [Great
cheering.l
MAJOR M'KINLEY's ADDRESS.
Colonel Howe, the Republican chair
man, introduced Major Mckinley amid
great cheering. The major said he pro-
posed to speak on the question of silver
and taxation. On the former the Dem
ocratic platform has declared for free
and unlimited coinage of the silver of
the world, as freely as gold is now coined,
and upon the ratio now fixed. The Re-
publican party stands opposed to that,
insisting that it cannot be safely done
until the great commercial nations shall
have fixed the ratio between gold and
silver. The Republican party stands for
dollar worth one hundred cents,
whether it be gold or silver or paper,
and approves the legislation of the last
congress. The difference between what
the government paid for silver and the
face value of the silver issued, has
amounted in twelve years to $67 900, 900,
which went to the benefit of the people.
Free and unlimited coinage would give
that profit to the silver producers. You
can buy today the 371I grains of
silver which constitutes silver dollar,
for seventy-six cents. Free coinage
would invite the silver producers of the
world to bring their seventy-six cents
worth to the mints OF the United States
to be coined into dollar, the govern
ment by its fat compelling the people
to take it for 100 cents. The Republi-
can party says if there's to be any profit
in this matter of money making, it
should go to the government. We want
no short dollars. There is general no.
ton that if we had free and unlimited
coinage, we would have more money.
Instead, we would have less, for every
circulation at the appearance of silver
uUlldI WOIIu Uub 6ONCllUy-SiA CC1tcs
"Governor Campbell said in one of
his speeches that l had voted for free
and unlimited coinage of silver. So 1
did in 1877. l voted to reinstate the
ancient silver dollar to its coinage.
When did it, we had 100000 silver
dollars in circulation, and silver was
more valuable than today. We now
have 405, ZOO, 900 silver dollars, and that
is as much as we can maintain at par
ity with gold with the price of silver
that prevails throughout the world. In
1886 Governor Campbell voted against
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
He is for it now. He was right then I;
he is wrong now. He voted in 1886 that
unless the nations of the world by Janu-
ary, 1889, should by concurrent action
fix the ratio between gold and silver,
the whole silver coinage of the country
should be suspended. He and l voted
together then. Laughter He was not
willing then to change it. Laughter. ]
He is willing to change it now."
Reverting to the tariff, the major said ::
"Governor Campbell does not like pro-
lection now. [Laughter.l l remember
when in a former congress Morrison
brought in bill which provided for
about 20 per cent. reduction of the tar
IF, and asked even the poor privilege of
having it considered, and made motion
to that effect, 1 demanded the ayes and
noes, and Governor Campbell voted