Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-22


whom you all know:
OTTUMwA IRON WORKS, OTTuMwA, Ia.
Sept. 20, 1891. Hon. Nm. KckI1ley, Tr.
DEAR SIR,-We use a car load of tin plate
in our business every sixty days. In June
of this year we bought car load of 2ox2s
Xxx tin plates at 1850 per box f. o. b.
Monday of this week we were offered a car
load of the same tin at SIS. 10 per box, f. O.
b., ten cents more for the entire box of tin
than was paid before the new law went into
operation. What an enormous burden that
isl Ten cents upon a full boxl They say
that the tariff is a tax!
Here is another letter:
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 7, 1SoI.-AEr. Il.
WcFarIaHe, CiU.-DEAR SIR,-Answerine
your inquiry with reference to present
price of tin plate as compared with the
price of last and previous years, we beg to
inform you that our line of goods are SELL
ing to-day FIVE per cent less than they were
last year We also manufacture the tin
plate in our factory for all our large milk
cans. Yours truly,
BULL STAMPING Co.
1t is unfortunate, when we are to make
our own tin plates and we will make the
dinner pail little larger to hold the
additional things which you can buy
with the same money under the new
law. But they say: True you have
made sugar free, but we have always been
in favor OF free sugar ourselves. The
Democratic party never was in favor of
free sugar. There is no Democratic law
on the statute books from 1904 that have
not got tariff on sugar The tariff of 1916
had tariff on sugar Every tariff law the
narnnrrotic hop bol 80
on sugar. The Fernando Wood bill of
1876 had a tariff Of We per pound, the
Morrison bill had a tariff 31c per pound;
and the Mills blu had tariff of 2Hc to
SIC per pound When l brought in this
new tariff law to the House of Representa-
tives every Democratic member of the
house voted agains tit. They struck it out
and reinstated the old tariff And when it
went to the senate every Democratic sena-
tor voted to strike out and reinstate the
tariff on sugar. That you have got free
sugar is in spite of the Democratic party
1t is true they say it not quite as sweet as
it was. Laughter
That reminds me of the story told in the
northern part of my state of the old Demo-
crat who wanted to buy sugar. He hadn't
been in the store since the first of April
when sugar had been made free. He called
for dollars worth, and the grocer piled
up scoop after scoop, and the old man said,
ITS only a dollars worth Il want"
swell, said the grocer, I'VE are selling
twenty-five pounds for a dollar" 1t was
weighed out and put into the old mans
sack, and be started for the door, and re-
turning said, Mr.. take some of this stuff
out, for if take this home and tell my
wife that l got all this sugar for a dollar,
she will make me vote the Republican
ticket 1880 --~'1"'~ = -
Sow a word about this new tariff law and
am done. Forty per cent of all the in
creases under this law are in the interest
of the farmer and agriculturalist This is
a farmers tariff You have had a tariff
put every foreign agricultural product that
completes with ours. We imported last year
49, 900, 900 worth of agricultural products,
cattle, sheep, silk wool etc, every dollars
worth of which you ought to produce at
home. And if you do not produce it at
home hereafter, it will be no fault of the
new tariff law, for we have given you ade-
Quate protection There is not a thing you
raise that has not been benefited by this
tariff law. There is not thing you buy
which IS not cheaper to-day than you could
ever have bought it before. A bushel of
wheat would never buy SO many manufaC-
tured goods as it will to-day ICheers. |
And you know it; and the campaign pre-
variCator has left the country lCheers.
Everybody was imposed upon last
year, the merchants we're imposed upon by
the jObbers and importers. Many of
them bought goods in anticipation of rise
which never came. They have got those
goods to-day, and they could replace them
I al. -, Loo s.,
| them last year. There was a great deal Of
misunderstanding about this new tariff law;
but | want to tell you that there is not a
line of it that is not American. CHEERS. !
| There is not page of it that is not patriotic.
[Cheers. 1t was made for the American
| people and for the people of no other ma
! ton of the world. If it hurts us too much,
| in God name why do the foreign nations
nate it SO much Cheers If we pay
the tax what difference does it make to
them England how high we have that
tax? A wholesale merchant in CincinnatI
told me last spring that just before the new
! tariff went into effect, as illustrating the
misunderstanding of the law, a merchant
| came into his store the day before the law
went into effect, and bought all the sewing
| needles he had. He bought enough to have
! sold over his retail counter for twelve years
| After the purchase was made and the bill
| paid. the MERCHANT said he was curious to
| know why the man had made that enorm-
| Gus purchase. He called upon the mani
and he said he had done it because of the
| increased price in these goods under the
new tariff law. The merchant said, 'Dldnt
you know the tariff was all taken off needles
by this law" We had removed every
penny of the tariff of the law because we
could not make sewing needles in the.
United States and had never made them
And yet that man had gone and relied upon
the Misrepresentation of some Democratic
orator and bought twelve years supply
of sewing needles. Now that man will
never be fool again A voice, You
bet he won't. " He has had the truth
picked into him. He won't sell a needle
Tor the next twelve years that he won't re-
call the false prophet who misinformeo
him.
And now my friends and fellow citizens,
have talked until l am thoroughly worn
out started worn out, and l beg your
pardon for having been unable to presen t
to you, as | would like to have presented
to you, this great question. But there is
one point beyond which physical endurance
will not go, and have reached that point,
only ask of you, whatever else you do,
don't vote for free trade Free trade will
do for a nation that is finished; but this
, nation has just commenced. Iowa has
just commenced. A great future awaits
you; if you will encourage it, manufactur'
ing and industry will develop in your midst
th.,-a % IN he Nynflh W