Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11

agricultural implements OF al hlnuS. OoorS,
sashes and blinds, locks, bolts and hinges.
silverware, plated ware, woodenware, ordi-
nary paper and paper hangings, common
vehicles. ordinary window glass and glass
ware, rubber goods, coal, kerosene, white
lead lead pipe and articles in which lead is
the chief component, can be and are pro-
duced as cheaply in the United State as in
any part of the world IApplausel.
will call your attention to the length of
time and the amount of protection many of
these infant industries have had and are
now having. Glassware of the common
kind has been taxed since 1883. Laughter. !
The duty under the tariff of 1883 was 40 per
cent. Maj. Mckinley raised it to GO per
cent, although Mr.. Blaine said seven years
ago that it could be produced as cheaply in
this country as anywhere in the world.
Applause The fact is, this kind Of ware
is made cheaper here than anywhere else,
and is shipped all over the world. Yet 80
per cent of the former rate was added to
protect it against a competition that does
not exist. Laughter Glass chimneys
from A. per cent by the tariff of 1855 the
were raised from 30 to Il to 1S3 per cent by
the Mckinley bill. so that now the penknife
men must meet every month or two TO Or
ganiZe and raise prices. We have been
taxed 100 years on cotton cloth, which MIR.
Blaine says can be made here as cheaply as
anywhere else. Why not, since we grow
the cotton! Under the Mckinley bill the
tax was raised from. 40 to 62 per cent.
Grain bags, protected since 1924, paid 40
per cent under the tax of 1883, but were
raised to so per cent: oilcloth, which has
been taxed since 1924, was raised from 40 to
80 per cent. Edging. embroiderieS, ruch-
ings and all those things that the women
like. and which used to be taxed from 30 to
:33 and 10 per cent, are now all put up to 60
per cent. The wooden manufactures have
been taxed since 1916, and the duty on the
lowest grade of blankets was - per cent in
1883 yet it is increased now to 81 per cent;
the duty on the highest grade was raised.
however, from IS TO only 1l-an increase of
but = per cent.
Before the Mckinley bill fve-pound
blanket cost to make g. 80. The labor cost
was 81 cents. and that blanket is now pro-
cted under the Mckinley bill to the
amount of 81 IS. And that they would say,
is to equalize the cost of labor between this
country and England. Laughter. EX-
penSive carpets are put up from 40 to %,
and the cheaper ones from 40 to SO and So
per cent, yet carpets have been taxed since
1916. save during the fifteen years of Demo-
cratic low tariff between 1916 and 1861,
when they were not taxed at all Some
thing has happened in this country as a re-
suit of the increase of taxation. At the
close of the war, when we had taxed every
thing that could be seen felt or thought of:
when we were willing to be taxed because
the Union was in danger we had only got
up to 80 per cent of taxation upon dutiable
imports. In the twenty-five years that
have passed since the war we have raised
that 80 per cent first to A., and then under
the Mckinley bill to 60 per cent. So in those
years we have doubled the taxation in the
tariff on goods brought into this country.
VINO is benefited by it! What have the
farmers of Ohio got out Of it?
y Observation-Disclosures. Laughter.
Governor Campbell here read from the
certificate of the Republican secretary of
the Ohio state board of equalization show
ing that in ten Years the appraised value of
farm land has deprecated sos, 900, 600. Have
other classes suffered alike!
\ voice-Carnegie.
Yes, Carnegie has s3OOO0,OO0 of it.
Laughter
In spite Of this depreciation in farm lands
the report of Superintendent Porter of the
census bureau, shows that in the ten years
the state of Ohio has increased in wealth
S243 ,0G0, 900. How much have the farmers
got of it, Applause. Is there a farmer
in the sound of my voice who is better off
now than he was in 1880?
Cries of Eyes. yes;
Where is he.
Cries of Here here from various parts
of the hall. and laughter.
But he has mortgages and has seen more
sheriffs' sales shouted a Democratic agri-
culturist, and dozen others chimed in,
''Yes. right
| state it as fact thai not one farmer in
1000 in Ohio IS as well off to-day as in 1850.
Fright, right; that's fact shouted va
riouS voices.
The appralSement shows it. Three hun
dred and sixty million dollars have gone
from the farmers of Ohio. The major saws
they don't feel the tariff taxation. but they
feel it when they compare their condition
now with that of ten years ago. Last Oc-
tober the tariff of this country was raised
from 4, to 60 per cent for the avowed pur-
pose of beuefiting labor and increasing. its
compensation. viii every laboring man in
the audience who has had his wages in
creased since the Mckinley bill went into
effect please stand up and be counted. No
one stood up and the Democrats cheered
Justify.
want Maj Mckinley, when he replies,
to tell this audience where these working
men are who have got better wages under
the tariff. Applause In this country
there have been more than 300 great manu-
featuring establishments which have re-
duced wages since the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill, and don't know one who has
increased them. Cheers. In the iron in
dustry we have had more strikes which
We're unsuccessful since the passage of that
bill than in three years before hold in
my hand a list of thirty establishments, in
Guiding Carnegie's. working &c, 800 men, in
which organized labor has been banished.
] will ask the major if he favors the BAN
ishment of organized labor from the great
factories of the country. Cheers. have
said before that the United States glass
company, organized since the passage of
the Mckinley bill. and which has thrown
out OF employment already 500 men, is a
trust. ] say now that they are trust by
their own confessions. What did those
consolidate for2 To reduce ex-
penses, they say. To control the product
was what they organized for, and they don't
like to be called 4 trust because trust is an
word in this country. 1t was not
in the dictionary until after the high tariff
laws were passed. The glass manufactured
III Tiffin, Findlay and Fostoria, / under
stand, is made by Belgians imported into
this country. | want to say now. that if I
had my way would put prohibitive tariff
upon some things Eapplausel, and the first
thing would be upon an alien who comes
here without the intention Of becoming an
American citizen and with the intention of
displacing American workmeu. -[Great ap-
plause and prolonged cheering.
MAJ. M'KINLEr's REPLY.
Col. Howe, Republican chairman of the
meeting, introduced Maj. Mckinley as sAn
Ideal typical American; one known not only
al home, but abroad" Applause
1t gives me pleasure. said Mai McKin-
ley, after the ovation which greeted his
appearance had subsidized, to greet this
great audience, and a special pleasure to
c no ,lnffo h.