Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-09
REPUBLICAN TRUTHS.
Major Mckinley on the Tariff.

From his Columbus Speech Accepting the
Nomination for Governor.
We welcome the closest analysis OF
the subjects which the new tariff law
singled out for taxation and the duties
| imposed thereon, ana we ask "a cam
did construction of our legislation at
! the hands of the people. We have
| put the duties upon foreign products
which come into the United SSates in
competition with the products OF our
land and labor. Is not that right?
| What better means are there of raising
needed revenues? Are these not
proper objects for taxation? We have
protected American products and
American labor. We have looked
after our own. That is the sum Of
our otfense." | can understand why
the foreign producer does not like it,
but never could understand why an
American citizen should be unhappy
over it. SO long as foreign products
can be found to tax which compete
with our own in our market We pro-
pose TO tax them rather than tax our
own, and where we find foreign pro-
ducts which do not compete with home
products, except luXurie5 and those
which encourage vice, we propose to
permit them to come in free without
tax or tariff, We prefer to tax the i'm
porter rather than the domestic pro-
duct. The Democratic party prefers
to tax the domestic product rather
than the imported. 1t prefers to tax
a foreign product the. like of which
We cannot produce at home, and the
price of which the foreigner fixes abb
sOluteiy to the American consumer, a
tax which benefits no American inter-
est and which is paid wholly by the
American consumer, rather than TO
tax the foreign product the like of
which we do produce at home, al
though such a tax is bsneiit TO Amer
lean interests and American labor
and is not necessarily or even general
ly paid by the American consumer.
That is the difference between the
two parties on this question. Their
principle Of taxation would fall most
heavily upon our own people and inure
to the benefit of competing foreign
countries and result in injury to our
own. Their tariff Legislation would
benefit every country but our own.
Ours would benefit our own without be-
ing unjust to any other We follow in
our tariff policy the teaching of Wash
ington and Hamilton and Clay ard
Webster and Lincoln and Garfield.
They pursue the falIacies Of Golden
and Bright and Calhoun and the
statesmen of the late southern cUnfel
acv. They are pledged now to i'm
pede. if they can, the prosperity OF the
country antil after the next presiden-
tial election. That is their mission
this year. Business disasters and re- !
verses are the ladders Of their hopes. |
Prosperity and cOntentment among |,
tn" people bring them sure political |
defeat. Idle furnaces, dismantIed fac !
tories. silent mines, unemployed work. |
men, general distress are the sure har- !
bingcrs Of Democratic "ictoly. They |
are discOuraging industrial activity |;
their press and orators every !
whore, and every day and it breaks |
their hearts to see any manifestation |
OF industrial advancement in the United |
States. They snecr III every attcrlpt |
to establish factories and would gladly |
irOwn them down. 1t il the SANE snecr |
and frown which have been exhibited |
toward our industrial enterprises since |
1851. But in spite of them we now |