The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-06-11
AN AMERICAN FEAST.
The Great Protection Dinner OF is.~s
American Protective Tariff Lesgns.

The Great Protection Dinner Of iA~s
American Protective Tariff League
American ideas prevailed exclusiss2g
at the banquet of tie American Ffosses-
tive Tariff league in New York, April S.S
Everything used was the producs of
American material and labor. No eGtgS
was spared to make the banquet ms,o-
orable one in every respect. A Desy
era was inaugurated in public Ginuc-ss-
1t was fitting that the occasion Of socln
an innovation should be the banquet oE
the American Protective Tariff league;
an organization that is doing SO muctn
for American labor and industries. Ths
linen. the crockery, the glassware, shss
cutlery, the silver, the tin plate, were All
the product of American labor and r1Hasa
of American material The winGs, too.
were American wines, and 50 were tt,a
cigars. There were some foreign prodaessa
on the bill Of fare (Which was prints1
in English), but they were such as car-
not be grown in this country.
Over 600 guests were present, "ra sfso
utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Aa3rea,ases
were made by G. N. Bliss, who presided
in the absence of President Amrnidosrlss
Vice President Morton, Major McI<iE.bay,.
Senator Aldrich, Senator Hiscoc.z, .Senss-
tor Dolph, Congressman Dolliyes 229
Farquhar, Robert P. Porter, Ho-Sa-G%
George A. Sheridan, William T., Curtis,
Colonel Hanson, of Georgia, Georgia
Gunton and others. Secretary Noble z's-
sponded to the toast 1.-The President 0-
the United States"
E. III. Ammidown was called away ton
Europe the day before the dinner by El..s
illness Of his son. Ills address Lad DSeu.
prepared, however, and contained among.
other things the following:
'The Mckinley prices humbug is HCs
longer the subject OF Mugwunp efs-
torials-to continue them would be t~ra
| grave an insult to the intelligence OF
their readers, and too violent 3 contru-
diction to advertisements. The vensra-
BILE farm mortgage bogie has vanishe<l
before the statistical columns of tic,
eleventh census. The oft repeated story
Of abandoned farms is showa by tae,
same authority to indicate the sradE.a2
substitution of manufactures FOR Sl1e=
older forms Of agriculture, of better In
dustries for poorer one, as com mpeGts0Ia
with the virgin fields Of the west I.as
made the cultivation of cereals unprosk-
able in the east. This process of trans
formation is now as evident in the greaf
farming states of Ohio, Indiana and ltk-
nois as in the eastern and middle statasG
The result is concentration and rapiea
growth of population in industrial coI-
ters which furnish profitable, sure 1rsoS
larger markets for local agriculture. Ttses
history of this movement, as recorded fua
the eleventh census, will prove to be ozpas
of the strongest defenses of the Arns-i-.
can protective system.
THE effects of the tariff Of 1890 o,
American labor and industries have beer,
n shown from week to week in The AnerI-
can Economist. It has pointed out the:
rapid growth Of manufactures, an aver.
age advance in wages resulting from 81
Larger demand for workmen and fs-
creased prosperity in agriculture Ithaz
shown that foreign commerce-both izrp
ports and exports-is increasing, and, T..
predicted By the friends Of the new tarid,
half Of all our imports are now coming
in free of duty, instead of one-third IN
der the former tariff.
''It is characteristic of our methods ut
discussion that we do not deal in glitter
ing generalities When it is asserted
that staple manufactures are dea,er zscs7-
than before the new bill was passed, we
quote from trade journals the prices rsoS,
and year ago, and show that pricsz
: now are lower. When the 'roforrag-'
shouts that the tariff is tax we offa7
him pound of wire nails with tire trgs;ss
price list, and it seems to be quite suf4s
cient for his digestion. When we aly,
told by the organs of Free-trade, as we
are every day, that American tin pSstes
are a myth, we send the doubter specN-
men Of tin plate, the product of AnaerR
can ore, american skill and American
+. labor"
The last number Of The AniericgD
Economist contained all the speeches in
full, and any one who desires q copy cus,.
: have one by sending for it.