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

know that we don't put the tariff on things
that 60 out, we put the tariff on things
that come in. Laughter, And you
couldn't put an export duty upon the Ameri-
can product if you wanted to for the con-
stitution of the United States forbids it,
And you can sell anything you have got
from corn to pork, in any country of the
world unvexed by'American custom house
taxation And you are not at present
vexed by German taxation on the Ameri-
can hog. Applause. The embargo has
been raised. Applause Do you know
why it has been raised? They put pro-
vision in this law-Senator Allison and
Governor Gear-which provided that any
country producing sugar-Germany pro-
duces sugar-that didn't treat our product
fairly and equitably, that the president
might by proclamation declare that fact
and the duty went back on sugar as against
those countries discriminating against
American products (applause), and the
embargo has been lifted Laughter And
sugar is free. Laughter and applause
But they say your protective tariff keeps
you out of a foreign market. They say
this new tariff law is a Chinese wall built
around this country and that you can
neither get out nor get in But we have
been under this law now eleven months,
and we have bought more goods in these
eleven months than we have bought in any
eleven months since the beginning of the
government, and we have sold more goods
| in these eleven months than we have ever
sold in any eleven months from the for
nation of the federal government. Jap
plause). And we sold in the last eleven
months $780, 600, 900 more of our product
| to Europe than we bought of the European
products and when they come to draw the
balance sheet they just paid us $50, 900, 900
OF gold being a balance in our favoE and
we have got that now. Laughter and
appiause). The per capita under the old
tariff prior to 1890 was s. o.. Under the
new law the per capita is So. 81 or 90
less under the new tariff than it was under
the old; and yet tits a robber bill. Laugh
teri. But they say my fellow citizens,
that your protective tariff has increased
the mortgages of the country. Mortgages
don always mean poverty. They do mean
poverty when they are given for grocery
bills and the necessdries of life, and for
taxation. But if farmer in this state of
Iowa who has 100 acres of land and wants
100 acres more beside them and has been
fourteen years trying to get it and has accu-
,
and give mortgage for the balance that
mortgage doesn't mean he is poor 1t
means he is getting on in the world. 1t
represents his thrift and frugality. If
workman in this city of Ottumwa, working
in its shops wants a home, and every man
wants home and has got 81 900 laid by,
he has to pay 81, 900 for his property he
pays his ST. 900 down and gives a mortgage
for the b9lapCa That rVDrt1a1a JOpc not
mean that workingman IS poor it means
he has faith in himself and in his country,
and in the future, and that is the expert
ence of men in this country who ever
amount to anything, the calamity shriekers
to the contrary Notwithstanding. Laugh
teri There is not a man in this audience
who knows he pays any prospective tariff
| at all, not one, and yet they say you are
suffering. There is not man in this
audience that would know from any of the
burdens of taxation resting upon him that
we had any protective tariff at all, if he is
not told, and a man is not very much hurt
| if he does not know it himself. (Lau ,hter)
! And he is not suffering very great pain if
| he does not feel it himself if he has to
| wait for somebody to 60 around and tell
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anything in farming. l understand your
governor is not making a thing as a farmer.
| Well, l don't think man ever does make
| anything who farms it by proxy. Laugh
ter Old Ben Franklin said more than
one hundred years ago which is just as
! true to-day as it was then, that He who
! by the pillow would thrive, must himself
either hold or drive And old Ben Frank
| lin said another good thing Stay by thy
farm and thy farm will stay by thee" And
! the man that teaches any other doctrine,
teaches any other way but the good old
fashioned way and honest way of earning
his living but by the sweat of his face is an
enemy to your family and to mine, to your
children and to mine. (Applause.) He is
teaching a false doctrine. "a voice: Where
is Boies?") have no use for man who
goes about preaching the gospel of discon-
tent and despair. The gospel to teach is
the doctrine of courage and nope that bids
men look up and strive. (Applause.) But
they say your protective tariff has brought
down the price of wool. l don't know
whether you raise any wool in Iowa or not:
am informed you have half million Of
sheep in this state. They say that the pro-
tective tariff has only brought down the
price If it has then it is not tax. If it
cuts down the price it is not a tax. Wool
is little cheaper this year than it was last
Sauaa grades. Cotton is good deal cheaper
and has no tariff Cd II at all. Laughter. J
Cotton is IS per cent cheaper in the last
year than it was the year before, there is
no tariff on that at all Wool has got a
good tariff on it and it has fallen from to
8 per cent in the United States When the
wool of the world goes down the wool Of
the United States shares in that decline. II
the American manufacturer can go "a
} London and buy wool at II cents a pound.
the duty added to that, II cents, makes rs
cents pay the cost of transportation,
another cent, makes 70 cents. The
American wool grower will sell his
: wool for that amount or he won
, sell it at all Surprising his wool was free
as the Mills bill made il free. The Nationa
5 Democratic convention declares it SHOULD
be free Then the American manufacturer
e. could go to London and buy Australian
wool for II cents, pay only the cost q
! transportation and the manufacturer land!
: it in this country for IS cents and the
? American wool grower will sell it at Il
cents, or he won sell it at all. Which woulC
2 you rather have, free wool at Is cents o.
= tariff wool at 20 cents? A voice: go, o
, course u Well, vote that way. Laugh
? ter. They say, my fellow citizens, yor
70 have increased the burden on tin. Laugh
ter. What do you think of politica
E party and what do you think of the leader
1 of that party who discredit the skill anC
D genius an liability of their own peOple2
r have no use for that man who either dis
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