The Forrest City times., 1891-10-16
THE PEOPLES BATTLE CAMPBELL'S GREAT SPEECH
 AT ADA, OHIO. In Which He Completely 0verthrows hcKinley's Card Castle of
 Protection Fallacies. THE JOINT DEBATE ON THE
 TARIFF QUESTION. Mckinley, the Great Champion of Legal Monopoly and Unnatural Restriction of Trade Worsted by Campbell,
 the Peoples Advocate.

"1 regret,n said Governor Campbell in opening, "that have not time to proper " present the indictment of that over grown monster which, masquerading in the garb of protection, subsists on the wage-worker and the agriculturist. TAp- plause. Yearly farming Is growing more unprofitable, our commerce Is swept rom the seas and that industry .aban. doned. Under protection the splendid palaces of protected manufacturers are crowning the hills, while imporred Huns, Italians and Bohemians are displacine American citizens. Those who are some times called the rotten fich' afe dsfying the people and seeking through a venai press to destroy the reputation, the honor ana the estate of any who may wage war vigorously in the cause of the people lAppiause.l We are rapidly reaching a condition which was predicted by Abra- nam Lincoln when he uttered these words l. As result of the war corporations have been enthroned; an era of high places will follow; the money power will en- deayor to prolong it's reign until all few and the Republic is lost, Applause, To convince you that this prediction is being realized cite you the utterance of a Republican Congressman (Butterworth) from Ohio, who said in Congress that he could, upon the ten fingers of his hands,
 
 their wealth ir the last ten years than had been added to the wealth of all the agriculturists in any State in the Union. Democratic applause.
 A STARTLING PICTURE.
 "The American Economist says that the number of people in the United States who own their homes have In twenty five years fallen from hve.eighths to threes eigths. How many years will it take for them to fall to one=eighth? The Progress of Boston says that when Egypt went down per cent. of her people owned 97 per cent. of her wealth. The people were starved to death. When Persia went down per cent. of her population owned all the land; that when Rome went down 1 800 men owned all the known world. In 1850 in this country the capitalists owned S 1-2 per cent. of her wealth. To-day they own more than twice that amount of her wealth. Yet he who goes before the people and without comment, with out temper points to those facts that are statistical and undisputed is sneered at as calamity croaker.' Laughter.
 "Bradstreet, an authority in this coun- try, says the total number of mercantile failures in the United States for the nine months of 1891 are S,S66, as compared with ' 7,53S in a like period of 1860, gain of F per cent. This is under the Mckinley bill. Applause Yet in 1890, when Major Mckinley accepted the nomina- tion for Congress, he said that if his bill passed the Senate this country would witness boom more marvellous than it had ever known. [1.aughter.1 Where is that boomf Democratic applause, Free sugar, free sugar,,n from the Republicans. 1 Were it not for the present abundant crops, the best in ten years, these failures would be a great deal worse than they are,
 WHO PAYS THAT TAX?
 "One of the greatest causes of the de- pression and failures of the present sea son is that we are paying too much taxes. Major Mckinley on May 5, 1888, at Philadelphia, said that the tariff was a tax Democratic applause. Now who pays that tax? The Major says the tax is not paid by the consumer. Now, the Supreme Court of the United States, the authority in the land, has said who paid the tax. In the case Of Brown against the State of Maryland, they unanimously announced that "a duty on imports is a tax that is paid by the consumers.' Democratic applause. In 1870 William Richardson, once a member of the Court of Claims, and ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to the inquiry of Senator Sherman, said that the importer adds the duty to the cost of the goods and the consumer pays it."
 Governor Campbell here caused board to be hoisted on which he demonstrated by the methods of book keeping the injustice of high tariff. "A man goes to England" he resumed, 'and purchases duty on which would be 8, 1000, making sS,000 the total sum paid by the impor- ter" Here another board was hoisted on which the g, 900 was charged up to "profit and loss" indicating that the importer did not charge to the consumer, and he ! 0fp Thus the foreigner had not paid the tax. Another board was hoisted on which it was shown that if the foreigner paid the tax, the cost price of the goods when of- fered to the American consumer would be 5000 instead of sS.0O0, which would be absolute free trade.
 Now" continued Mir. Campbell, "when genuine reciprocity comes in we will have not little one-sided reciprocity with the little countries of South Amer lca, but substantial free trade with Eng land, France and the world. Applause. l The duty on plate glass is 140 per cent, and last year we imported si60,00O worth of plate glass. That was the value of the goods in England, yet upon that glass there was paid s223,O00 duties or s630 900 more than the cost of the glass in Eng land. Who paid that tax? Did the Eng ish manufacturer give us the glass and pay S63, 600 besides to get us to take itf tVociferous applause and laughter.
 AN OBJECT LESSON.
 "A Chicago paper says that last week a Chicago firm received S1, 400 worth of pearl buttons from Austria and the duty on them was just 5000, or trifie over 200 per cent. Who paid that duty? Laughter Did the foreign manufact- urer pay nearly g, ,000 for the privilege of sending the pearl buttons to us? Laugh ter and applause.l The Mckinley bill provides that 99 per cent. of the duties on some articles shall be refunded provided these articles are exported. Last year the Standard Oil Company imported into this country goods upon which they paid more than a million and quarter tax or duty. If they did not foreigner instead paid that duty. Then the United States has put it's hand in our pockets and pre- sented the Standard Oil Company with a million and quarter of our money; for this amount was refunded to the Stand ard Oil Company. There was manufact- ured in this country last year s5,5OO ,OOO,- 900 worth of goods. If the tariff on duti- able goods is 60 per cent, it is fair to pre- sume, taking protected and unprotected industries together, that at least one third of that sum is paid in lieu of duties to the manufacturers at home upon the American product. 1t is said all this is done for the upbuilding and mainten- ance of manufacturers. How long, oh Lord, how long' shall this up-building and mainance go onf tApplause.l
 BLAINE QUOTED.
 ssI will read you letter written by a man named James G. Blaine Republican applausel on the 10th of June, 1881. He wrote:
 Nevertheless, facts are stubborn things,