The Forrest City times., 1891-10-16

many or these Infant industries havu had and arc now having. Glassware of the common kind has been taxed since 17S9, Iaughter.l The duty under the tariff of 1883 was 40 per cent. Maiot Mckinley raised 1t to 30 per cent, although Mir. Blaine said seven years ago that it could be produced as cheaply in this country as anywhere in the world. lApplause.1 The fact is this kind of ware Is made cheaper here than anywhere else and is shipped all over the world. Yet 50 per cent. of the former rate was added to protect 1t against a competition that does not exist. [Laughter.l Glass chlmneys from 45 per cent. by the tariff of 1888 the Major raised to 50 per cent. Pen-knives were raised from 5o to 7t to tss Der cent. by the Mckinley bill, SO that now the pen-knife men meet every month or two to organize and raise prices, We have been taxed 100 yySars on cotton, cloth, Which Mir. Blaine saye can De made here as cheaply as any where else. Why not, since we grow the cotton? Under the Mckinley bill the tax was raised from 45 to 62 per cent. Grain bags, protected since 1921, paid 40 per raised to 90 per cent. Oil-cloth, which has been taxed since 1924, was raised from 40 to 30 per cent. Edging embroideries, ruohings and all those things that the women like and which used to be taxed from Ba to 5 and 40 per cent, are now all
 
 iactures have been taxed since 1916, and the duty on the lowest grade of blankets was T2 per cent. In 1888; yet it Is increased how to 91 per cent. the duty on the high est grade was raised, however, from 69 to only n, an increase of but per cent.
 THE LABOR FALLAcY.
 Before the Mckinley bill five-pound blanket cost to make s2.50 The labor cost was B cents and that blanket is now ad ,,pdor tho McKiulav hill t0 the amount of s2.2S. And that, they would say, is to equalize the cost of labor be- tween this country and England. fLaughter.l Expensive carpets are put up from 49 to 65 and cheaper ones from 40 to 30 and S5 per cent, yet carpets have been taxed since 18l6, save during the fif1 teen years of Democratic low-tarih be- tween 1S46 and 1861, when they were not taxed at all. Something has happened in this country as result of the increase of taxation. At the close of the war, when we had taxed everything that could be seen, felt or thought of; when we were willing to be taxed because the Union was in danger, we had only gotten up to 30 per cent. of taxation upon dutiable im- ports. In the twenty-five years that have passed since the war we have raised that 30 per cent. first to 47 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. Who is benefited by itY What have the farmers of Ohio got out of it?" A voice! Razzlc-dazzle! Laughter.
 DEPRECIATION OF FARM VALUES.
 Governor Campbell here read from the certificate of the Republican Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Equalization showing that in ten years the appraised value of farm land has appreciated s9S,- O00,000 Have other classes suffered
 
 gie has $30000, ,000.' Laugh TT. In spite of this depreciation in farm lands, the re- port oi Superintendent Porter of the Cen sus Bureau shows that in the ten years the State of Ohio has increased in wealth S243, ,000, 900. How much have the farmers got of it? Applause. Is there farmer in the sound of my voice who is better off than he was in 1SS0?'' Cries of "4es, yes"
 "Where is he?n Cries of Here, here" from various parts of the hall and laugh ter.
 But he has mortgages and has seen more Sheriff's sales," shouted a Dtmocrat- ic agriculturist, and dozen others chimed in, "Yes, right.n
 q state it as fact that not one farmer in 900 in Ohio is as well off to-day as in 18S0." Right, right, that's fact" "The appraisement shows 1t Three hundred and sixty million dollars have
  ior says they don't feel the tariff taxation; {; but they feel it when they compare their condition now with that of ten years ago. Last October the tariff of this country was raised from AZ to so per cent for the avowed purpose of benefting labor and increasing it's compensation Wiil every laboring man in this audience who has had his wages increased since the Mckin- ley bill went into effect please stand up and be counted?" No one stood up and the Democrats cheered Justify.
 POSER TO M'KINLEY.
 sI want Major Mckinley, when he re- plies, to tell this audience where those workingmen are who have got better wages under his tariff. Applause. In this country there have been more than 300 great manufacturing establishments which have reduced wages since the pas sage of the Mckinley bill, and l don't know one that has increased them. Cheers. In the iron industry we have had more strikes which were unsuccessful three years before. l hold in my hand a list of thirty establishments, including Carnegie's, working 36, 300 men, in which organized labor has been banished. I will ask the Major if he favors the ban ishment of organized labor from the fac tories of the country. Cheers. l 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. 1 say now that they are a trust by their own confessions. What did those companies consolidate for? To reduce ex- penses, they say. To control the product was what they organized for, and they don't like to be called a trust, because trust is an unpopular word in this coun- try Ii was not in the dictionary until after the high tariff laws were passed. The glass manufactured in Tiffin, Find lay and Fostoria, I understand, is made by Belgians imported into this country. I want to say now that if had my way I would put prohibitive tariff upon some things, applause, 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 workmen." Great applause and prolonged cheering.
 Major Mckinley replied to Governor Campbell in a speech an hour and half long, not referring to the tariff for the first half hour but making alabored attack upon the free silver coinage plank in the Democratic platform. He then took up the tariff question, but did not attempt to meet Governor Campbell's statistical and logical points. McKinley's speech was chiefly a showing of the growth of the country since protection was inaug- urated.
 Governor Campbell then closed the de- bate in an overwhelming thirty minutes speech.
 ''Ladies and gentlemen" said Governor Campbell, ''I concur most heartily with Major Mckinley that this is the greatest