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

we cannot produce in the United States
and which we are compelled to
90 abroad and buy. The revenue
tariff looks to revenue and to
revenue only. 1t excludes every
other consideration. 1t has no purpose
but to raise revenue. 1t is wholly unnind-
full of the employments of the
American people. 1t is blind and
deaf to our industrial developments.
1t is looking for money to put into the
public treasury, and is willing to have it
go in there even at a sacrifice of cur own
industries and the destroying of our own
employments.
Let me illustrate for a moment so that
the younger men of Iowa who do me the
honor to be present here to-day, may if
tlAy don't remember any other thing l
have said, carry home with them my illus
tration between a revenue tariff and
protective tariff. Here is a tumbler which
hold in my hand, 1t was made in the
United States. The tariff on that is 90
per cent This is the Republican pro-
tectlve tariff that was put there not alone
for revenue, but was put there to en-
courage the American people, to en-
courage the business of making glass.
in this country and supplying American
people with domestic glass Every dol
lars worth of that kind of ware which
. comes from Europe comes sixty cente in
the federal treasury. Every SIoo dollars
worth of that kind of ware puts into the
federal treasury $50. Every ST. 600 of that
kind os ware puts into the Federal treasury
5000. That is a Republican protective
tariff. Remember that wrs put there to en-
courage the American people, to en-
courage the business of making glass.
l may say as a result of it that we have
the most splendid glass industries that
can be found anywhere in the world, and
the glass is cheaper to the American peo-
pie than it ever was before. Applause.
Not only that 90 per cent tariff but it gives
employment to tens of thousands of
workingmen who buy the surplus
products of the farms of Iowa and
of the great west. [Applausel. SuPpos-
ing it is a revenue tariff you want and
not a protective tariff, suppose it is a
tariff for revenue only, such as the Demo-
cratic party advocates. Sixty per cent is
too high for them. 90 per cent checks
foreign importation of this kind of ware
90 per cent retards foreign importations
of this kind of ware and makes it hard
for the foreigner to get in. So to have
revenue you must have importation. To
have large revenue you must have large
importauons, and to have large imPorta-
tons of foreign products you must
make tariff low enough, aye 50 very
low, as to make it in the minds of the
American people more profitable to 60
abroad and buy the foreign products than
to buy the domestic products and so you
would put a domestic revenue of not to ex-
coed twenty cents upon that kind of ware.
That would be a fair revenue tariff Now
what would follow. Increased and increas-
ing impQrtatiQns would come from abroad
Shipload after shipload OF this kind of ware
would be brought from Europe our mere
chants would 60 abroad and buy, influenced
by what they thought was temporary cheap
ness and buy the foreign instead of tn
domestic product, But remember, that
x while you put money into the federal treas
ury with a tariff of twenty per cent upon
this kind of ware than You would of a tariff
of sixty per cent, vet while you are doing
it, you are putting out the lights of your
furnaces and your own factories and dis
missing the wOrkingmen by thousands and
tens of thousands who are employed in
making glass You will put more money
into the federal treasury, but every shipload
of this kind of ware that comes from Eu-
rope takes the place of just that
quantity that is now made at home.
Every invoice which comes here takes
the place of just that quantity that
should be made here and is made here
And finally, by your low tariff of twenty
per cent you have broken down competition
at home, then the price goes up to the
American consumer, then you have dis
missed the thOus and andtens Of thousands
of workingmen who are engaged in these
great factories What becomes of them?
There is one place where the wOrkingmen
can 60 when he cannot get work at his Gus
tomary occupation, he can 60 to the land
the land which God hath given, and by the
sweat of his face he can earn his own
bread. He is not eating your bread,
farmers of the state of Iowa. Applause. !
He is your consumer under the protective
tariff of sixty cents But he becomes your
competitor in raising corn and wheat under
a revenue tariff Of twenty per cent, and
that is the difference between the revenue
tariff and the protective tariff. Some peo-
pie seem to think there is nothing quite so
good as foreign market. The Democratic
leaders are very much troubled about our
selling our products abroad. We send
eight per cent of our entire product to Eu-
rope; We consume niuety-two per cent at
home The Democratic isadeTs are troubled
about the eig. per cent and the RePubli-
tan leaders are trying to preserve II.
s:aetY-two Der cent. .ADplause,l We
mink that ninety-two consumers out Of
every hundred are of more value to the
American people than eight consumers ou
Of every hundred, and those eight 5000
miles from home, away beyond the sea.
don't know what you may think about it
but for me and mine there is no place Ike
home lAppause. am not opposed Il
the foreign products. am in favor of it
for taxation. [AppIause, But l am TO
the American product for consumption
Applause.
| wish somebody would tell me why tn
foreign producers should be permitted t.
market in this country upon the same term
as the American producer? No man ha
ever been able to give a reason for that
Why should the foreign producer be per
mitted to bring his products to the Unitet
States, the best market in the world, AM
sell them upon the same terms as tn
American producer sells in his own market
Who made this country? Who made you
cities? Who built your towns? Who mad
your rivers and your harbors? Who mad
your parks and great national roads? VIII
built your churches and your school houses
You did it by taxing yourselves. lAp
plause, The foreign producer never con
tributed one dollar, LApplause.l Th
federal tax gatherer cannot reach him i
peace. the federal army is too short t
reach any war, but the federal tax gathere
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