The record-union., 1891-10-09


banlshed. | ask the Major if he favors
the Punishment of organized labor from
the great factories of the country"
Governor Campbell, in closing, said he
understood the glass manufactured in
ONO is made by Belgians imported for
the purpose. If he had his way, the first
thing he would prohibit would be the
alien who comes here to displace Ameri-
can workmen without an intention of
becoming citizen. [Great cheering.l
M'KINLEY TALKS.
Colonel Howe, the Republican Chair
man, introduced Major Mckinley amid
great cheering.
The Major said he proposed to speak on
the question of silver and taxation. On
the former the Democratic platform mas
declared'for free and unlimited coinage
OF silver of the world as freely as gold is
now coined, and upon the ratios now
fixed. The Republican party stands op-
posed to that, insisting that it cannot be
safely done until the great commercial
nations shall have fixed the ratio be-
tween gold and silver. The Republican
party stands for dollar worth 100 cents,
whether 1t be gold, silver or paper, and
approves of the legislation of the last
Congress. Governor Campbell said in
one of his speeches that l had voted for
free and unlimited coinage of silver. SO
did. In 1877 | voted to reinstate the
q.
/ did it we had 100000 silver dollars in
circulation, and silver was more valuable
than to-day. We now have 405, GOO 900
silver dollars, and that's as much as we
can maintain at parity with gold with the
price Of silver that prevails throughout
the world.
Reverting to the tariff. the Major said
Governor Campbell does not like protec-
ton now. [Laughter.l He (Maior) re-
mGmbered when, in former Congress-
Morrison brought in q bill which pro-
yided for about twenty per cent. reduc-
ton Of the tariff, and asked even the poor
privilege of having it considered. and
made motion to that effect. demanded
the ayes and noes, and Governor Camp
bell voted with me, and, Governor, you
did not want TO vote for the Mills bill,
did youw [Great laughter and cheer
ing.
"A revenue tariff will raise the revenue
for the Government said the Major
| Protective tariff, besides raising rev
enue, will also stimulate the industries of
the people, encourage the skill and genius
of the American citizens, develop re-
sources and secure to us, as it has done in
the past thirty years, the first rank in
mining. agriculture and manufacturing.
Governor Campbell says we pay the
taxes. If we do, why is England making
such a fuss about our tariff? Why is
Germany crying out if we pay it all? [Ap-
plause.
''If you want to know who pays the
tax, ask the Canadian farmer who brings
his wheat to Buffalo. The Erie County,
\. Y, farmer takes his there, too, and
takes home ninety cents q bushel with
HIM. The Canadian farmer takes ninety
cents, less twenty-five cents, the Ameri-
can tariff. The duty on wire nails was
four and half cents a pound. We re-
duced it to two and a half cents. They
can be bought at the place they are made
for two and twO-tenths cents per pound
Who pays the taX?'' [Great laughter.
The Major cited a number of other in
stances, and said when Governor Camp
bell voted for Mills bill, he voted to make
the duty on binder twine % per cent.
equal to one and a half cents, and only
made it seven-tenths of cent The re-
bate system complained of by the Gov
ernOr had been in every tariff law since
the second administration of George Wash
ington, and was in the Mills bill which
the Governor voted for.
Governor Campbell,'' he said, s'talks
about our commerce leaving the seas
We have the greatest international COM
merce in the world. The entire internal
commerce of the United States is greater
than the whole commerce of Great
Britain, France, Germany, Russia Hol-
land, Belgium and Austria Hungary.
Great Britain's foreign commerce is only
One-siXth of our domestic commerce. A
single railroad company in the United
States, and 1t passes through this village,
carries more traffic and more tonnage
than all the merchant ships of Great
Britain" Applause
The Major answered Governor Camp
bell that he was not only in favor of
organized labor, but in favor of defending
labor at home from the products made by
cheap labor of other countries. TAp-
piause. He answered the Governors
statements about farm values by saying
that the Board of Equalization reduces
tax values of lands, but that it does not
affect the real value of the farm. He made
caustic reference to the doctrine of dis
aster and despair" preached by leading
Democrats to-day, adding: THANK God,
the Republican party never taught such
doctrine. Ours is doctrine of hope. of
cheer"
At the conclusion of Major McKinley's
speech the adherents OF the great ex-
ponent of high tariff burst into prolonged
applause, and it was some time before
Governor Campbell could obtain order to
reply. His reply was brief.
He said he had depicted the condition
Of the farmer, and the Majors answer was
not only that he was calamity croaker
but, IN the words of somebody else "vou
must not grumble." The Major did not
point out, as he requested, one wage
worker in all this broad land who had
his wages raised by the Mckinley bill.
The Republican song this year is, with
sugar and tin we're sure to win" They
take the tariff off sugar to make it cheap,
and they put 1t on tin TO make il cheap.
Great laughter. But no acrobat was
ever yet able to ride two horses going in
different directions without falling.
The Governor asked whether sugar
was not reduced by the Mills bill, and
whether, in the Ways and Means Com
mittee, Major Mckinley didn't oppose
the reduction.
The Major interjected here that the
Mills bill did reduce the tariff on sugar
IS or 20 per cent In the last Congress
that revised the tariff he was in favor of
reducing it 30 per cent, thinking we
might need the revenue ana giving no
bounty. That was his position. Ap-
plauSe.l
Governor Campbell resumed that bind
ing twlne Is cheaper now than before the
Mckinley bill passed because the duty
was reduced, but Major Mckinley had
opposed that reduction. When a voice
from the audience shouted, "How about
the eighty-cent dollar" the Governor re-
piled that Major Mckinley had said in
Congress that the Republican party had
done all the financial legislation in this
country for thirty years. Therefore. il
there is an eighty-cent dollar in this
country it is Republican dollar. [Great
laughter.
AT the conclusion of the Joint debate the
speakers We're taken in a carriage. and
under escort of various marching clubs.
driven nthroughoutth city amid the boom
ing of cannon and the music of bands.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
Cleveland and Hill Address n Iayoe
Assemblage.
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