Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-09

in San Francisco? Protection mas Dullt W
our foreign markets. From 1916 to 1860, under
low revenue tariff we bought $3.50, 900. 900 o.
goods from Europe more than we sold tc
years, under protection, we sold to Europe
81, ,6on, coo more goods than we bought
from Europe. [Applause.l
They say this tariff law keeps Us out OF the
foreign markets. We have got more, free
trade under it than we have had under any
tariff bill since the beginning of the Govern
menu. Fifty-six per cent of the goods i'm
ported in the last II months under the valua
tion were free-I mean 56 per cent of the
value of the importations in the first II
months Of this new tariff law were absolutely
free to the American people. The bill that
Governor Campbell voted for-the Mills bill
only made "A per cent of imported goods
free.
cannot add a word to this bill, the Gov,
ernor cannot add a word to it. it tells its own
story now. 1t is year old to-day. lap.
plause.1 just one year old. The compaign
prevaricator is out of business, for the bill
speaks for itself 1t is no longer declama-
tion, it is demonstrated. tApplause.] What
has the bill done? In the first ten months
under that bill we bought more goods in
Europe than We ever bought in any ten
months since the formation of the Govern
ment, and largely because of the increased
free list of articles that we could not produce
in the United States and which protection
lets come in free.
The Best Feature of the Bill.
More and better than that in the first ten
months under the law we sold more Ameri-
can products in Europe than we ever sold in
any ten months from the administration OF
George Washington to the administration of
Benjamin Harrison, and when Europe set
tied with us after ten months of operation
of the new law Europe paid to us $4,000, 600
in gold, a balance of trade in our favor.
tApplausel.
Why, they talked about foreign market.
They think there is something sacred about
a foreign market that does not attac to a
home market For me and mine there is no
place like home. [Applause.l The Cover
nor asked me, and want to answer 1t now
lest forget it, if am in favor of organized
labor. 1 say 1 am and always have been,
and l am not only in favor of organized
labor at home, but l am in favor OF defend
by the cheap labor of other countries.
fApplausel 1t don't make very much
difference to our labor If the product Of
cheap labor of Europe is permitted to come
i'm here free of duty.
II protective tariffs hurt they must show
that they hurt elsewhere. Now do the pro
tective tariffs increase the debt of the United
States7 In 1870 our national debt was 81, 1885,
debts in 1870 were s352, 100000. Twenty years
afterward they we're Sl52 O0O, 900. The county
debts in 1870, and we have been all this time
thew e we're sI5Ooococ ere The nep cspta IA debt @
in 1870 was S76 The per capita III 1890, after
30 years of protection, is S2s 10.
Contrasting the Making OF Paupers.
What effect has protection in the way of
making paupers in the United States7 Con-
trast the United States with free trade En-
gland. The population of England is 81
100000. The paupers in England are 9S6, 900;
paupers to the ,00o, ,0OO 26,650 in free trade
England. How in the United States? Pop
ulation, 81, 1000, 600; paupers, 97,26o Paupers
to 1,0O0c0), 1,l6S, as against 26650 in free
trade England. That is better than a chart;
that you cannot get away from. Why, the
Governor complains that real estate has
been lessened in value for taxation. and he.
argues from that that there has been n de-
probation in real estate. Well, 1 believe
the Board of Equalization did reduce the
assessed value OF farms in the State of Ohio.
That was to equalize treir valuation with
'' That t'Gpey does not fix the value of the farm
and there is not farmer in Hardin county
that would sell his farm for anything near
like the assessed value for taxation. If any
of you want to sell out at that price, follow
ing the Governors opinion or argument,
please rise up and be counted. [Applause.]
And If there is any farmer in this audience
who feels hurt that his land has been less
ened in value by the tax duplicate of the
Board of Equalization l would like to have
him get up, but the Governor complains all
the enormous tax projections is upon the
consumer. He does not give the prices, for
things were never as cheap as they are to-
day. 1 mean manufactured products. A
bushel of wheat will buy more msnufact-
ured products to-day than it would have
ever bought before in the history of the
United States. l have a list of 80 leading
articles, the prices of them in 1s57-that was
under a Democratic law tariff-and the
price of them in 1859, $50 and 1891 and every
One of them are lower in price than they
we're year ago, Notwithstanding the new
tariff law.
A Slap at Governor HILL
Except pearl buttons-the Governor spoke
about pearl buttons-well, we did raise the
tariff on pearl buttons. We raised it to put
our pearl button men to work, [applause1
and it is no fault of the law that the Gov
ernor's Democratic friends in New York set
The prison labor of that State to making
pearl buttons to compete with the free labor
Of this country. The only thing that has
gone up is pearl buttons. How many of
buttons as you do sugar? An AK in 1875.
under the Governors tariff cost 81
Is cents. In october. 1889. it cost 95 cents: in
October, 1890. it cost % cents; in September,
1891, 1t cost SO cents. Who pays the tax?
Binding twine in 1899 cost AZ cents; in
October, 1890, it cost 141a cents; in Septem-
6e ISL l. . cents isoo par of blansets a * cost
they cost So II. Who pays the tax? 1 might
90 through with the whole 80 articles, but
in this audi ence says when l
spoke of sugar, "Good for free trade" and so
the Democratic idea is, and the leaders will
say some of them Mr.. Mills is not saying it,
but they are saying Of course sugar Is
cheaper because sugar is free. We have
zens, the Democratic party was never for
free sugar. From the first tariff it ever
made down to 1857, which was the last tariff
It ever made every one of them had a tariff
ha 1lya,
.ariff of 1916 had o tariff on sugar OF 80 per
cent.
Democrats Never for Free Sugar.
Every Democratic tariff law that was ever
had q tariff on sugar; the Wood
pill and the two Morrison and the Mills bill,
which was the latest embodiment of Demo-
cratic purpose and which the Governor
voted for, had a tariff at from ~ to 8 cents
pound, and when 1 brought the new tariff
aw in with its free sugar clause in it every
Democrat in the House voted to strike it out
Ind reinstate the old tariff. When it went
% the Senate every Democrat in the Senate
voted to strike it out, and justified their vote
,nue tariff and that you have got free sugar
,o-day is in spite of the Democratic party
md its United opposition: [Agplause.I
bn n1.imc cinIe Of 5rotection eIe,I,thS uHSet
we can not produce, except luxuries shall
come in free. Every thing which after fair
trial we have not been able to produce suffi-
,ient for our consumption, or nearly SO,
comes in free. We have been 100 yea RS try
ng to produce sugar. We did not produce as
much in 1889 as we produced so years before |
hat. 1t was costing US $50 600 600 to sustain
he sugar producers of the country because
t was u revenue tariff, which is always paid
oy the consumer, and the Republican party
.ook it off and wiped it out. But they say
We have bounty which is worse than a |
,ariff. So we did give a bounty. When we
como to take that tariff we found millions of |
lollars invested in sugar industries in this |
and thousands of men employed in
hese Industries.
Never Breaks Down Industries,