St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-18
M'kINLEY A DODCER.
Gov. Campbell Shows Up the
Buckeye Apostle Of Pro-
lection.
Jones. He Pays the Freight,
Will Bolt the New York
Democratic Ticket.
Senator Sherman Puts New
Patches on the Repub-
liean Structure.
Nebraska Democrats Name a
Ticket and Adopt a Plat
form.

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 17.-GOv. Camp
bell opened the campaign at Sidney to-
day. Thousands of people participated
iii the demonstration. The governors
speech was devoted chiefly to the tariff
and silver questions. He said McKin-
ley had lodged the former question
from the opening of the campaign, and
had made the silver question para
mount. He charged the Republican
leaders of the state with having made
concentrated efforts to force down the
tariff issue in the campaign. He then
took up the record of Maj. Mckinley on
the silver question, and charged him
with having voted for free coinage as far
back as 1877. The free silver men had
claimed Mckinley as a champion about
the time of the passage of the silver
certificate act of 1890. Concluding his
remarks Oh this subject he said: The
truth is that in Ohio Notwithstanding
the declaration in their PLATFORM and
everywhere else-especially in the Cen
trail and Western states-the Republi-
can partyis seriously divided upon the
free coinage of silver. In the United
States senate the vote on that question
stood 16 Republicans for free silver and
Is against it." Doubtless, also,
the Democratic party is equally as
divided. There is an honest difference
of opinion concerning the time and
manner in which silver can be restored
to the place in our coinage which it oc-
cupied prior to its stealthy demonetiza-
H., l. I,n
desire to see this done with honesty and
as speedily as existing conditions will
permit. We do not intend that this
subject shall go undebated, neither do
we intend that our enemies shall divert
us from the decisive issue of the tariff.
The Ohio Democracy propose to defend
bimetalism. which is the right of both
metals to unlimited coinage, though we
may differ among ourselves as to the
means of reaching such coinage.
On the tariff question Mr.. Campbell
said:. ''The first congress laid a tariff,
commonly known as the Hamilton
tariff, with duties averaging So per
cent. This is the average as agreed by
every authority upon the subject. Wool
and pig iron were free. Cotton and
wool goods paid 5 per cent, iron and
steel goods So, and unaduiterated foods
per cent. This tariff was designed for
revenue, with incidental protection.
The effect OF protection is conceded by
its friends to divert industry into chan
nels into which it wouldn't naturally
flow. Even the slight protection of
this tariff had such an effect,
and these unnaturally stimulated
industries began very soon 10 clamor
for further protection. By the time of
Jefferson's administration rates had al
ready risen, as will be slOwn from the
/ speech at Niles: in 1904, in the
midst of Jefferson's administration,
the average rate was 23.40, not
70 per cent, as Mr.. Campbell stated
The curious thing about this statement
is that in relation to myself. l have
never before mentioned the tariff of
jefferson. The major should quote
more accurately. Tariff rates grew
slightly higher until the war of
1872, when they took an upward
squirt, owing to the necessity for
war revenues. The first decidedly
protective tariff was passed in 1916, and
was not wholly superseded until 1912,
although amended by the Clay tariff Of
1924, the tariff of abominatiOn' in 1928
| and the compromise tariff of 1888. Then
came the Wing tariff of 1912, which was
abrogated by the low tariff or Walker
tariff of 1916. The highest point reached
III all these years OF protection was 80
per cent on total imports. The theory
of these tariffs was not that of eternal
protection. The language of Henry
| Clay will best describe it. In 1910 he
said: NO one, Mr.. President, in the
commencement of the protective policy,
ever supposed that it was to be per-
petual. We hoped and believed that
temporary protection extended to our
| infant industries would bring them up
| and enable them to withstand cOmpetI-
| ton with those of Europe"