Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-09


dian farmer who brings his wheat 70
Buffalo. The Erie county, New YORK
farmer takes his there, too, and
takes home ninety cents a bushel
with him. The Canadian farmer takes
ninety cents, less twenty-five cents. Inc
American tariff duty on wire nails was
four and half cents a pound. we re-
duced it to two and half cents. They
can be bought at the place they are
made for two and two-tenths cents per
pound. Who pays the taxi" Great
laughter
The major cited number OF other IN
stances, and said when Governor Camp
bell voted for the Mills bill he voted to
make the duty on binder twine 20 per
cent, equal to one and half cents, and
now it only made it seven-tenths OF
cent. 'The rebate principle COM
planned OF by the governor, has been In
every tariff law since the second admin
istration Of George Washington, and was
in the Mills bill which the governor
voted for. The committee on ways and
means, over which Morrison presided,
presented report written by that able
Democrat Abraham S., Hewitt, rec
ommending rebate OF 80 per cent
on raw material imported after finished
for export trade, in the interest OF labor,
and this very proposition which every
Democratic member of the ways and
means committee voted for, is in the
new tariff law, and is the provision
against which Governor Campbell clam
ors so loudly"
Major Mckinley then read extracts
from speech made years ago by Senator
Thomas Ewing in defense of protection.
Also statements by Horace Greeley OF
the effects to the country of the two
tariff systems extracts from President
Fillmore's message on the condition OF
the country under the tariff of 1916, etc. !;
President Buchanan's message of 1857
on the effects of low tariff on the coun-
try in support of his arguments. He
also quoted President Jackson and other
old line Democrats as for protection.
Governor Campbell" he said,
"talks about our commerce leaving the
seas. We have the greatest internal
commerce in the world. The entire
internal commerce of the United States
is greater than the whole commerce os
Great Britain, France, Germany, Rus
sia, Holland, Belgium and Austro-
Hungary. Great Britain's foreign COM
merce is only one-sixth of our domestic
commerce. A single railroad company
in the United States, and it passes
through this village. carries more traffic
and more tonnage than all the merchant
ships of Great Britain. Great applause.]
They talk about the protective tariff
breaking down our foreign markets. 1t
has built them up. From 1876 to 1860
we bought OF Europe, under low
revenue tariff, $466, 1000, 900 more goods
than we sold to them. From 1867 to
1881, fourteen years under protection,
we sold to Europe 81 800, 100000 more
goods than we bought from Europe;
so per cent. of the value of the imports
under this new law during the last
eleven months, were absolutely free to
the American people. The Mills bill
that Governor Campbell voted for, made
A per cent. free. In the first ten
months of the new law, we bought more
goods in Europe than in any ten
months since the formation OF the
country, and largely because OF the in
creased free list of articles we could not
produce here. And more-in those ten
months we sold more American pro-
ducts to Europe than ever in any other
ten months, and Europe paid us $32,-
100000 in gold as the balance OF trade in
our favor" [Great applause.]
The maiof answered Governor Camp
bell that he was not only in favor OF or
ganized labor, but in favor of defending
labor at home from the products made
by the cheap labor of other countries
[Applause.l
He answered the governor s statements
about farm values by saying the board
of equalization reduces the tax values of
lands, but that does not affect the real
value of the farm. He made caustic
reference to the doctrine of disaster and
despair, preached by the leading Demo-
Gratis today, adding: THANK God the
Republican party never taught such
doctrine. Ours is doctrine of hope, OF
cheer"
CAMPBELL's S REPLY.
At the conclusion OF Major McKinley's
speech, the adherents of the great ex-
ponent of high tariff burst into pro-
longed applause, and it was some time
before Governor Campbell could obtain
order to reply. His reply was brief.
of the farmer, and the majors answer
was not only that he was a calamity
croaker, but in the words of somebody
major did not point out, as he request
ed, one wage-worker in all this broad
land who had his wages raised by the
Mckinley bill. The Republican song
this year is: "With sugar and tin
we're sure to win." They take the
tariff off sugar to make it cheap, and
they put it on tin to make it cheap.
[Great laughter But no acrobat was
ever yet able to ride two horses going in
different directions without falling.
The governor asked whether sugar
was not reduced by the Mills bill, and
whether in the ways and means COM
mittee Major Mckinley didn't oppose
the reduction. The major interjected
here that the Mills bill did reduce the
tariff on sugar Is or 20 per cent. In the
last congress that revised the tariff, he
was in favor Of reducing it 30 per cent,
thinking we might need the revenue,
and giving no bounty. That was his
position. [Applause.l
Gov. Campbell resumed that binding
twine is cheaper now than before the
Mckinley bill passed, because the duty
was reduced, but Major Mckinley had
opposed that reduction.
When voice from the audience
shouted; "How about the eighty-cent
dollar?" the governor replied that
Major Mckinley had said in congress
that the Republican party had done all
the financial legislation in this country
for thirty years therefore if there is an