Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11

! things to show that we pay the tax. Great
i God, must we have chart to tell man ,
fGreat laughter. A chart to point out
your poverty in the midst of plenty and
prosperity? Who pays the taxa The duty
on salt is 22.4 cents a barrel, or 10 cents
per 100 pounds. 1t can be purchased for 30
cents bushel where tits manufactured and
80 cents barrel in barrel which costs
90 cents, which makes the cost of the
salt, if the governor be right, cents. The
duty on wire nails was ~ cents pound.
We reduced it to 21S cents. They can be
bought at the place they are made at 30
cents pound. Who pays the taxi Cut
nails can be bought for 1.56 cents a pound
Steel rails can be bought for $50 ton, Sc
above the average price in Liverpool. The
tariff is Sl3.4 ton; the duty is % per
cent.On ooots and shoes the duty was 80 per
cent The governor seems to think we did
not reduce any duties. / want to say TO
him that when he voted for the Mills bill he
voted to make the duty on binding Irvine %
per cent, equal to ~ cents, and we only
made 40 of cent. The duty on lihseed
oil is 30 cents a gallon, and if the tax is
added linseed oil should sell here for 20
cents gallon. But it does not. Who pays
the taxi Laughter.
The governor explains that in this iniqui-
tious law of 1890 we gave rebate of SO per
cent on imported raw material made into a
finished product when entered for the ex-
port trade That rebate principle has been
in every tariff law since the second admin
istration of George Washington. Let me
remind the governor while on the subject of
rebate, that the committee on ways and
mears, over which Mr.. Morrison presided,
presented a report which was written by
the able Democrat, Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt
of New York, recommending that rebate
of SO per cent be given on imported raw
material entered after finished for the ex-
port trade. He recommended 1t as in the
interest of labor, stating that it furnished
just so much labor for America which
would be employed abroad, and the very
proposition he suggested, and which every
Democratic member of the ways and means
committee voted for. is in the tariff law,
and is the very provision made which Gov
ernor Campbell clamOrs for so loudly. Now
l want to give you some experience, for
that is better than a chart. Laughter.
There is nothing in history or our own ex-
perience to justify reversal of our protec-
tive system or change our protective laws.
A low tariff has always increased the i'm
portation of foreign goods, multiplied our
foreign obligations, produced a balance of
trade against us, supplanted the Democratic
producer and manufacturer, undermined
domestic prosperity and robbed labor of its
just reward. Let me call first Thomas Ew-
ing, once an eminent United States senator
from Ohio.
Here Mai. Mckinley read as showing the
condition of agriculture under the revenue
tariff policy prior to 1924. l beg to read
you an extract from Il speech made by
Thomas Ewing, senator from Ohio, in de-
tense of the system of protection. Every
farmer in Ohio long knew and felt the pres
sure consequent on this state of things.
Year after year their stacks of wheat stood
unthreshed, scarcely worth the manual
labor of separating the grain from the
straw. So low was it reduced in COMPARE
son with manufactured articles that have
known four bushels of wheat given for
pair of boots. Such was the state of things
IN the Western country prior and at the
time of the revision of the tariff of 1924.
There was deafening applause as Maj.
Mckinley, who had spoken just one and a
half hours, resumed his seat. The shades
of evening were beginning to fall as Gov
ernor Campbell proceeded with his closing
remarks.
CAMPBELLS CLOSE.
I concur most heartily with Mai McKin- |
ley, said the governor, that this is the !
greatest and best and proudest nation on |
the earth, but until the hills would distrib- |
ute that greatness and that wealth as God |
distributes the dews of heaven upon the |
Just and the unjust alike. Great applause, |
lasting for several moments, the speaker |
finally appealing to the audience for |
SllcuCc AS L Stlu dU Tic OuIScU Wien UC-
picted from official statistics the deplorable |
condition of the farmers and cited the re- |
duction of wages of the workingmen and |
women, he answered, not in words. but by |
that | am a calamity shrieker, |
and says you must not grumble. You men |
of Ffndlay, glass workers who have had |
your wages reduced, you steel workers of |
Cleveland, you must not grumble because |
some one else has the wealth of your labor.
Maj. Mckinley has spoken one hour and
half. but he has not said to me or to this |
audience why his bill raised the tariff from
40 to 60 per cent. He has not pointed out
why the wage worker has not had an in
crease of wages.
Referring to the silver question, the gov
ernor said: The great trouble about sill
yer is that there is not enough of it IN cir
culation, and that the working people do
not get their share of it. Maj. Mckinley
has said that the Republican party is re-
sponsible for the financial legislation for
the past thirty years, and if there are any |
s0-cent silver dollars in circulation the Re-
publican party is responsible for it. ZAP
plause.
Time was called on the governor as he
was reading au extract from a speech in
1888 by Senator Sherman On the wool ques-
ton, and the debate ended at $50, having
lasted a tritie over three hours. There was
a rush of the spectators to shake hands
with the candidates., and for moment the
platform was in infinite danger of giving
way under the extra weight.