Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-11-11
THE REPUBLICAN MISSION.
Mckinley on the Work of the Republican
Party in Establishing Industries.


The Republican party never breaks
down industries. It's mission is to
build them up; and So we gave bounty
equal to the tariff to the producers of
cane sugar, maple sugar and sorghum
sugar and beet sugar, and the bounty
this year will cost us ten millions of dol
bars, the tariff cost us $50, 900 900; there
Is an actual saving of S45. 900, 900 to the
American people. [Applause.] And
you never had sugar as cheap as you
have got it to-day. Who pays what?
Why do you pay the tariff 500 200, 1000?
The American people did as they al
WAYS have to pay revenue tariff, for
when revenue tariff breaks down COM
petition as it always does, then the price
to the consumer is fixed by the foreign
er, which is the foreign with the Ameri-
can tariff added. But it is not so with
protection. When you have successful
manufactures in this country able to
supply domestic demands this COMPETE
ton among 100000 people fixes,
determines and regulates the prices to
the American consumer, and there is
nothing you buy to-day that has been
stimulated by protective tariff that is
mot cheaper than is ever was before.
Applause.
Why, they said that we could not
make dozen articles that we are making
to-day; that the climate was against us !;
but we have made them; We have
created competition, we have encour-
aged genius, we have promoted lnven-
ton until we are able to make these ar
ticIes cheaper to American people than
they were ever obtainable before; and
we propose to maintain this protective
tariff. Applause. Will the Gov
farnOr tell me what rate of tariff
tne would put on imported articles
when lie comes to reply? Will he tell
me whether he is in favor of restoring
-athe tax on tea and coffee; will he tell
me whether he is in favor, as Mills is in
favor, of putting back the tariff on sugar
and repeating the reciprocity provision
of the new tariff law? / want to know
what articles he would put the tariff on !;
[ want to know what articles he would
release from the tariff. I want him to
: tell ne the rate of taxation.
fIpee trade-that is the doctrine Of the
democratic leaders Of to-day. They
used to be afraid of it. Let me tell you,
by way of parting, let me tell this audi
ence how easy it is to criticise. This is
what Samuel j. Randall said Of the
Mills bill that the Governor voted for.
1t gave free olive oil to the epicure and
taxed castor oil for the people 81 per
cent. 1t gives free tin plate, to the
Standard Oil Company and to the great
meat canning monopolies, and imposes
a duty Of 100 per cent. on rice. This is
Randall on the Mills bill, and Randall
was a Democrat. It gives the Sugar
Trust free bone black, and proposes
E1vohibitorv tax on the coarser grades OF
sugar. It pays duty of 40 per cent. on
tie poor mans blanket, and only 80 per
cent. on the Administer carpet. That is
ehe bill the Governor voted for. 1t adj
rnits free of duty the fine animals I'M
ported by the gentlemen of the turf,
and makes free the paintings and statu-
.srv of the railway millionaires and coal
s1arons. That is Samuel j. Randall, that
great Democrat from the great state OF
PENNSYLVANIA.