Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11
TIE GREAT DEBATE.
GEN. M'klNLEY AND GOVERNOR
CAMPBELL AT ADA, OHIO.
4 Political Battle in the Presence of Thou
sands-Both Sides of the Tariff
Question Ably Presented.
81. louis Glohe.Democrat.


xnd Mckinley, delivered at Ada. Ohio. Oc-
tober S, before 10000 people The order of
the debate was as follows: Gov. Campbell
to speak one hour and five minutes in open
ing: Mai Mckinley one hour and half re-
plying and Gov. Campbell to have twenty
five minutes in closing.
CAMPBELL's OPENING SPEECH.
regret, said Gov Campbell in opening,
that have not time TO properly present the
Indictments Of that over-grown monster
which masquerading in the garb of protec-
ton exists on the wage-workerS and the
aglicIltur SITS. Applause. Yearly farm
ing * growing more uuprpfitable, our COM
pcerce is swept from the seas and that in
Gustry abandoned. Under protection the
splendid palaces of protected manufacturers
are GROWING the hills, while imported
Huns. Italians and Bohemians are diSplac-
ing American citizens. Those who are
sometimes called the 'rotten rich'' are de-
flying the people and seeking through
yenal press 10 destroy the reputation, the
honor and the estate Of any who may wage
war vigorously in the cause of the people.
lApplausc.
we are rapidly reaching condition
which was predicted by Abraham Lincoln
when he uttered these words: ''AS a result
of the war corporations have been en-
fhrOned an era of high prices will follow;
the money power viii endeavor TO prolong
Ats reign until all wealth is aggregated III
the hands of Il few and the republic is lost"
Applause To convince YOU that that
prediction is being realized, 1 cite you the
utterauCe of Republican congressman
(Butterworth) from Ohio, who said in con-
gress 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
fhan has been added to the wealth of all the
CSriculturists in any state in the Union.
democratic applause.
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
eiShths. How many years will it take for
them 10 fall to one-eighth! The Progress
of Boston says that when Egypt went down
2 per cent of her people owned 81 per cent
Of her wealth. The people were starved to
death that when Persia went down l per
cent of her population owned all her land;
that when Rome went down 1850 then
owned all the known world In 1850, i'll
this country, the capitalists owned 81 ( per
cent of her wealth To-day they own more
than twice that amount of her wealth. Yet
he who goes before the people, and without
comment. without temper. points to these
facts that are statistical and Undisputed is
sueered IT as d calamity croaker."
Laughter
Bradstreet an authority in this country,
says the total number Of mercantile lilures
in the United States for The nine months of
1891 are So66. as compared with 1875 in Il
like period of 1890 gain of II per cent.
This is under the Mckinley bill. APP
plause. Yet in 1890, when Maj. Mckinley
accepted the nomination for congress, he
said that if his bill passed the senate this
country would witness boom more marvel
Gus than it had ever known. Laughter
Where is that boom? Democratic ap-
plsuse. Free sugar, free sugar. from
the EepuhlicanS
Were it not for the present abundant
crops, the best III ten years, these failures
would be great deal worse than they are.
One OF the greatest causes of the depres-
sion and failures of the present season is
that we are paying too much taxes. Maj.
Mckinley, on May j. 1888, at Philadelphia,
sud that the tariff was i tax Demo-
cratic applause. Now, who pays this tax?
The major SAYS the 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 the
case of Brown against the State of Mary
land, they unanimously announced that "a
duty on imports is Il tax that is paid by the
consumer Democratic applause. IN
1870 William Richardson, romeo member
of the court of claims, and eX-aSSiStant sec
rotary OF the treasury. in reply to the in
quiry of Senator Sherman. said that the
importer adds the duty TO the cost of the
goods, and the consumer pays it.
. Governor Campbell here caused 4 board
10 be hoisted on which he demonstrated by
methods of bookkeeping the alleged injus-
lice of high tariff. a man goes to England
and purchases goods 10 the amount of 5000,
the average duty Oh which would be 5000,
making $4,000 the total sum paid by the i'm
porter Here another board was hoisted,
on which the $1,000 was charged up TO
''profit and loss" indicating that the i'm
porterS did not charge the duty to the con-
suner and he would lose the $1,000 paid in
duties Thus, the foreigner mas not paid
the tax. Another board was hoisted on
which it was shown that if the foreigner
paid the tax, the cost price of the goods
when offered TO the American consumer
would be 5000 instead of $1,000, which
would be absolute free trade. Now, when
genuine reciprocity comes in we will have,
not little one-sided reciprocity with the
little countries of South America, but sub
stantial free trade with England, France
and the world. Applause.
The duty on plate glass is 40 per cent.
and last year we imported Sl60000 worth of
plate glass. That was the value of the
goods in England. yet upon that glass there
was paid S223.0o0 duties, or SOB, 900 more
than the cost of the glass in England. Who
paid that tax Did the Englis manufac-
turer give US the glass and pay S63, 900 be-
sides 10 get us 10 take it, [VOciferous APP
plause and laughter. a Chicago paper
says lHdl ldSl week CNlCigO 1lrll TeCelNeu
$l4o0 worth Of pearl buttons from Austria,
and the duty on them was just 5000, or Il
trifle over 200 per cent. Who paid that
dutyG Laughter Did the foreign manu-
facturer pay nearly 5000 for the privilege
of sending the pearl buttons 10 u.s. Laugh
ter and applause. The Mckinley bill pro-
vides tina. ~ per cert of the duties on some
articles shall be refunded. provided these
articles are exported. Last year the Stand
ard oil company imported tin to this country.
upon which they paid more than 81, 80 900
tax or duty. II they did not, and for
eigner instead paid that duty, then the
United States has put its hand in our pock-
cts and presented the Standard oil company
amount was refunded to the Standard oil
company. There were manufactured in
this country last year s., 800 000. 900 worth
of goods. If the tariff on dutiable goods is
20 per cent, 1t is fair to presume, taking
protected and unprotected industries to-
gether, that at least one-third of that sum is
paid in lieu of duties to the manufacturers
at home upon the American product. 1t is
said that all this is done for the upbuildlng
and maintenance of manufacturers "How
long. oh. Lord! how long shall this up
building and maintenance go ons
A voice-F'or all time. Applause
Then it will not stop with eternity ZAP
plause]. will read you a letter written by
a man named James G. Blaine [Republican
applausel on the 10th of June, 1854 He
wrote: Nevertheless, facts are stubborn
things, and the hard figures Of arithmetic |