Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-24
HAS COME TO STAY,
Maj. Mckinley Says That the Tariff Will
Not BE Repealed in Ten Years.


Not BE Repealed in Ten Years.
Ex-Congressman Mckinley of Ohio was ac-
corded great reception at Mechanics Hall in
Worcester, Mass, last evening. The hall was
not large enough to hold the audience that
came together. Mr.. Mckinley said:
The first question that confronts any
government is how shall the money be raised
to meet its necessary expenses. To carry on
our government it takes $1,000, 900 every
! twenty-four hours. 1t is purely business
question and it is done by direct or indirect
taxation. Government cannot create money.
Its only assets are public lands. Its only way
to revenue is to get Congress to lay taxes.
REVENUE TARIFF.
1.-THE object of a revenue tariff is realized
when it has the lowest rate that will call out
the greatest importation of products. 1t i'm
poses its duty upon goods which cannot be pro-
duced at home. The protective tariff, the bur-
den, duty or tariff on foreign people. encour-
ages our own people i'll their industries and
employment by laying it OH articles that enter
into competition with home manufactures.
revenue tariff is always paid by the consumer.
This cannot always be said Of the protective
tariff. They say that protective tariffs are
paid by the consumer: they forget that rev.
enue tariffs are never paid by any one else. All.
but they say Why isn't free trade a good
thing! 1T is if you are finished and completed,
If you have stopped growing. But here decay
steps Ill. They say there il free trade between
the states with sixty-two million of people.
Why not with all the world? They forget we
live under different government from every
other government. in the world. II is because
We did not want any European in it that Years
ago our fathers broke away from British tyr
amy and set up for themselves on plan diff
ferent from every other nation of the world.
Is ms no nf
the world. Why should We have free trade
with other nations? We can't reach any other
nation. We can't tax it. The foreigner is ex-
empt from all duties of government. Tell me
why he should enjoy the privileges of citizen
ship in the United States and its markets!
Our population is per cent. or one-twen-
tieth the population of the globe. We consume
in many products third Of all produced. We
propose from this time forward to manufacture
most of what we consume.
Reference to tin production brought ont ire
mendous applause. Industry is due to the pro-
tective tariff in its youth and manhood.
REPEAL IN TEN YEARS IMPOSSIBLE.
Major Mckinley spoke of the accomplish
ments of the Fifty-first Congress, saying thai
no democratic majority in Congress that will
be elected in the next ten years will be able te
repeal it. lGreat applause.1
The treaty with Brazil gives foreign market
We have practically got free raw ma terial. for
private citizen can buy his raw material abroad
pay tax on it at the custom house, manufac
ture it in his factory and the government will
refund 80 per cent on the manufactured arti
Gle keeping per cent as its percentage fol
handling goods. Protective tariff does MOI
build Chinese wall around n country, for in
single years since 1879 we have exported more
than in seventy-one years from 1880. We car
have free trade perhaps when other nation,
bring their laborer up to our high standard. fol
We will never descend to theirs. [Applause.l
WEALTH WIDELY DIFFUsED.
ut is said that the protective tariff takei
from the many to pay the few. There is nj
country in the world where wealth is more
widely diffused or where there are more homes
paid for. We have no quarrel with Great Bri
tain. She carries on her government in hel
own way. We are to work tor the best destiny
for our nation. We permit every nation tC
make their own policy. We want no interfer
ence from any nation Of the world and We viii
have none. Loud applause.
''Shall we turn from splendid prosperity We
have got? 1t is unparalleled in history-the
progress in arts. sciences, education and indus
trial developments. We know what thirty YEAR
of protection have done. Shall it be changed
No. If a change ever comes it will not come
from school men or theorists. Nothing | caI
say of the new tariff can help it. Nothing it
enemies say can hinder il. Its operations alone
can do it hurt. TIE platform upon which Ben
jamin Harrison was elected President-he is n
good a President as We have had in years-ha
fulfilled all its pledges save one, and that thu
republican Congress passed, and it was not tn
fault of Senator Hoar that it did notgo through
the Senate. The conscience of the country will
not be- allowed to sleep until the liberty ant
suffrage OF the people Ii respected and ever,
| part OF tho country has equal rights"