Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-01
simply Stale Old Lies


eign trade" And another from Walter
A. Wood, manufacturer of agricultural
implements in New York, in which he
makes positive denial that his concern
sells to the foreign trade at lower price
than the domestic. Now, there is an.
other thing the Governor complains
about, aid that is the increased tariff on
plushes.
Well, we did increase the tariff on
plushes, and we did it to enable
our home people to make them, and
they are making them today. and Mr..
Spillman, of New York, Democrat, in
an interview at Chicago, published a
few days ago, says we are making our
own seal plushes now, and they are selling
cheaper than they everdid before. They
say the Governor says we can't make
tin plate. [Applause.]
Can't Make Tin Platter
Why, we are making tin plate to-day.
He wants me to name where we are
making it. will name a few places
Apollo and Demmler, Pa, Chicago, Ill,
st. Louis, NO., and Piqua, Ohio. What
do you think of the representative lead
ers of great party, that stands for
nearly one-fqlf of our population, dis
crediting the skill and genius of the
American people? [Applause] Can't
make tin plate? Why, they said sew
enty years ago we could not make cotton
goods. The old idea of the Democratic
leaders was that we should grow the
cotton in this country and ship it across
the sea, and have it made into fabrics,
and brought back TO this country for
our use. That was called Democratic
business economy
Henry CLAY and Daniel Webster and
their associates stamped that out for
ever. [Applause.l They said, we grow
the cotton and we will make the
fabrics, and they put a high tariff on
the fabric, and we are not only making
cotton goods for ourselves to-day, but
we are exporting them to every nation
of the world. [Applause.I And cotton
goods are cheaper than they ever were
before. They said we could not make
pottery and queensware. Well, we
could not under a Democratic revenue
tariff. We never made anything under
a Democratic revenue tariff but debts.
lCheers. Under the old Democratic
revenue tariff of "a per cent. on all
queensware from abroad, we paid S9S
for a crate of it. When the Republican
party took hold they raised the tariff
right up-raised it from "a to 40 and
from 40 to 55. The tariff of 90 l wrote
in the law myself. [Cheers. And l
have nobody to apologize to, either
abroad or at home.
The price of pottery has gone down,
and under the 55 per cent. tariff we get
a crate of ware for $42 that we paid S9S
for under the Democratic "a per cent.
tariff. Applause and cheers. Who
pays the tax? Can't make tin plate
Laughter.
Fair Offer.
If any Democrat in Hamilton county
doubts it, beg the Republican Com
mittee of this county will take that Dem
ocrat and paw his expenses to Piqua that
he may see it ma lie for himself. There
is not anything that the Yankee nation
cannot make if it wants to. Applause
Free trade we never can have until we
revolutionize our social condition. We
have to lower our condition down to that
of the European condition. l will tell
you when we are ready for free trade;
when the nations of the world bring
their labor up to ours. When they do
that we will met them in the neutral
markets of the world, and 1t will be the
of the fittest, but we give them
notice here and now that we will never
lower our condition down to theirs. |
Cheers And that is protective tariff |
1t is tariff to compensate the difference |
between the wages paid labor in Europe |
and wages paid labor in America. Zap
plause. And now, friends, l must close. |
Cries of mo, go on."] 1 have got to |
oi1 in Lose than ho1f hnr7,
and l never left place with so much |
INV an audience like Jn1s Derors any
where.
Gov. Campbell Says Free Sugar is a Fraud.
don't have to ask or receive from the |
of sugar any reply to |
that. appeal to this audience tonight |
free sugar is a fraud or not. |
Those of you who think it is stand up |
Why nobody but the Governor stands |
up. Laughter. 1thas brought blessings
10 every household in the land, but the
Democrats say Of course it is cheaper
because it is free, and we have always
been for free sugar. There Is not
Democratic tariff law upon the statute
books from 1906 down 10 the last one
they ever made in 1857 that has not got
a tariff on sugar, raw and refined. Even
the Robert J. Walker tariff, which was
as the best expression of Dem
ocratic tariff reform, had tariff on
sugar, raw and refined, of 80 per cent.
That is the record of Democratic tariff
laws. What is the record of tariff laws
by that party? They COM
proposing them in 1875. Fer
nando Wood was the author of the first.
He had tariff on sugar from 9 to
cents per pound. Then came the
two Morrison ILLS, and they had
D tariff from IA to 8 IA, and then
came the Mills bill, the very last
and final Democratic embodiment of
purpose, and he put tariff
of 2 1-2 to IA cents per pound, and
every Democrat In both branches voted
for it. That is not all. When 1 brought
this new tariff law in the House with it's
free sugar clause in it every Democrat
in the House voted against it, moved to
strike it out. 1t went to the Senate, and
every Democrat in the Senate
Voted to Strike 1t Out
And justified his vote on the ground
that it was Democratic revenue tariff
within the line of Democratic purpose
and Democratic policy-and that you
have free sugar today is in spite of the
Democratic party. Applause. Gov
ernor Campbell says that the bounty we
give is even worse than the tariff. Let
US see about that. When we took the
tariff off, indeed before we took it off,
we saw that millions of dollars Were IN
vested in the United States In sugar, In
its production, and thousands Of men
were employed in that industry. The
party never breaks down an
industry. Applause. Its aim and pur-
pose is to always build up, SO when we
took the tariff away, we said that that
industry may live, we will give boun-
ty equal to the tariff, and we give to the
cane producers of sorghum and maple
sugar, we give to every one bounty equal
to the tariff, and that costs us this year
s1O, ,0OO,0 900. lApplause.l The tariff
last year, which was a Democratic reve-
nue. tariff. cost us 55,00Q,000. We saved
s45, ,000, 900, Applause. But all Of the
Democratic leaders say that the sugar is
not quite so sweet. Laughter.
That reminds me Of what an old Dem
ocratic friend of mine in Northern Ohio
said the other day. He had never
been in the grocery store since the