Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-10-14
GOV. CAMPBELL AND MAI. MCKINLEY

GOV. CAMPBELL AND MAI. MCKINLEY
The previously appointed joint discus
sion between these opposing candidates for
Governor took place at Ada, Ohio, on last
Thursday, in which Campbell had the
opening and closing.
We regret that we have not the space to
publish more than Campbell's opening re.
marks, for we should like to publish also
McKinley's speech aud Campbell's reply to
it. The opening speech Of Campbell, as
reported for the Richmond Dispatch is as
follows -
II regret" said be, 10 opening, ''thst
have bot time to properly present the in
dictnent of that overgrown monster which,
masquerading in the garb of protection,
subsists on the wage-worker and the ayri-
culturist. [Applause.1 Yearly, farming
is growing more Improbable. Our COM
merce is swept from the seas, and that in
dustry is abandoned. Under protection the
splendid palaces of protected manufacturers
are crowning the hills, while imported
Huns, Italians, and Bohemiaps are dis
placing American citizens. These who are
sometimes called
| ''THE ROTTEN RIcH,"
are defying the people, seeking through q
venal press to destroy the hsnor aud estate
of any who may wage war vigorously in
the cause of the people. [Applause.l We
are rapidly reaching a condition which was
predicted by Abraham Lincoln when be
uttered these words 'As a result of the
war, corporations have been enthroned; an
era of high prices will follow; the money
power will endeavor to prolong its reign
until all wealth is aggregated in the hands
of the few end the republic is lost Zap
plause.
"To convince you that that prediction is
being realized I cite you the uttersnces of
Republican congressman (Butterworth)
from Ohio, who said in Congress that he
could upon the ten fingers of his hands
count the men who had added more to
their wealth in the last ten years than had
been added to the wealth of all the agri-
culturists in any State in the Union
democratic applause.1
THE OWNERSHIP OF HOMES.
'The american Economist says that the
number of people in the United States who
own their own homes have in twenty. five
years fallen from five-eighths to three
| eighths. How many years will it take,
then, to fall to one-eighth ?
"The Progress, of Boston, says that
when Egypt went down per cent. of her
people owned 81 per cent. of her wealth,
and the people were starved to death; that
when Persia went down l per cent. of her
population owned all the land; that when
Rome went down 1900 men owned all the
known world. In 1850 in this country the
capitalists owned 374 per cent. Of her
wealth. Yet he who goes before the peo-
pie, and without comment, without temper,
points to these facts that are statistical is
sneered at as a calamity crOaker.'
| WHERE is THAT BOOM?
Bradstreet, an authority in this country,
says that the total number of failures in
the United States for the nine months of
| 1891 are 1885, as compared with 1888 in
the like period of 1890, an increase of II
per cent. This is under the Mckinley
bill. Applause Yet in 1890, when
Mckinley accepted the nomination for
Congress he said that if his bill passed the
Senate, this country. would witness boom
more marvellous than it had ever known.-
[Laughter.] Where is that boom? [Demo-
cratic applause]. ["Free sugar, free
sugar." from the Republicans
"Were it not for the present good crops,
| the best in ton years, these failures would
| be great deal worse than they are. One
| of the greatest causes of the depression and
failures of the present season ia that we are
paying too much taxes. Mckinley, at
Philadelphia, said that the tariff was tax
Democratic applause Now, who pays
that tax? The Major says this tax is not
paid by the consumer. Now, the Supreme
Court of the United States, the highest
authority in the land, has said who paid
the tax In thu case OF Brown against the
State of Maryland they unanimously an
nouuced that duty on imports is a tax
that is paid by the consumers. [Demc-
cratic applause]. In 1870 William Rich.
ardson, once a member of the Court of
Claims and ex~Assistant Secretary of the
Treasurer, in reply to an inquiry of SeDa-
tor Sherman, said that the importer adds
the duty to the cost of the goods and the
consumers pay it,"
ALITTLE FIGURING.
Governor Campbell here caused board
to be hoisted upon the stage, on which he
demonstrated by methods of book. keeping
the alleged injustice of high tariff "a
man goes to England and purchases goods
to the amount of $4,000. The average
duty on these goods would be $4,000,
making $4,000 the total sum paid by the
importer"
Here another board was hoisted on which
this $4,000 was charged up to ''proit and
loss," indicating that ii the importer did
not charge the duty to the consumerhe
the foreigner did not pay that tax.
Another hoard was hOistad IT. was
shown that if the foreigner paid the tax
the cost price of goods offered to the
American consumer would be $4,000, in
stead of $4,000, which would be absolute
free trade.
"Now, when genuine reciprocity comes
in we would have, not a little cne-sided re-
clprocity with the little countries of South
America, but substantial reciprocity with
England, France, and the world. Ap-
plauss.
s'ihe duty Oh plate glass is 40 per cent.
Last yer We imported $1,000 worth of
plate-glass. That was the value of the
goods in England, yet upon that glass
there was paid 1928, 900 in duties, or $685.
| 900 more han the cost of the glass in Eng
land. v 30 paid that taxi Did the Eng
| lish manufacturer give US the glass and
pay $4,000 besides to get us to take it !?
Applause and laughter.]
WHO PAYS THE DUTY?
| ga Chicago paper says that la7t week a
Chicago firm received 81, , 400 worth of pearl
buttons from Austria, and that the duty on
those buttons was just $1,000, or trifle
over 200 per cent. who paid that duty?
Laughter Did the foreign manufacturer
pay nearly $4,000 for the privilege of send
ing the pearl buttons to us? daughter
The Mckinley bill provides that 90 per
cent of the duties on some articles shall be
refunded, provided these articles are ex.
ported. Last year the Standard Oil Com
pany exported tin to this country, upon
which they paid more than million and a
quarter tax or duty. If they did Motif
the foreigner instead paid that duty-then
the United States has put its hand into our