Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
zee 10 our fac. Why should he upon

y
The only way we can reach him is when he
brings his products to our shores. The
governor says we pay the tax Ii we do,
why, | ask, is England making such fuss
about our tariff? [Applause. Why is
Germany crying out against the new tariff
law if we pay all the tariff? [Applausel
# on want to know who pays the tax ask
the Canadian farmer who brings his wheat
to Eria county. Buffalo, n Y. The Erie
county farmer takes 80 cents home with
him. The Canadian farmer takes 80 cents
less Is cents, the American tariff. They
say the tariff is tax, and the governor
cites number of things to show that we
pay the tax
Maj. Mckinley quoted freely from the
tariff bill, showing that the duty had been
reduced on many necessities even more
than under the Mills bill, and said that
the rebate principle on imported raw
the second administration of Washington.
It was in the intrest of labor and it is IN
the new tariff law. Counting, Mr.. Nc
Kinley said:
"a low tariff has always increased the
importation Of foreign goods multiplied
our foreign obligations, produced bal
ance of trade against Us, supplanted the
democratic producer and manufacturer,
undermined domestic prosperity and rob-
bed labor of its just rewards.
Here al Mckinley read the following
extract from speech made by Thomas
Ewing, a senator from Ohio, in defense
of the system of protection:
Every Trainer in Ohio long
knew and felt the pressure con-
sequent 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 COM
paris0n with manufactured articles that
| have known forty 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"
The speaker then quoted the words of
Horace Greeley and Henry Clay, and read
extracts from the message of President
Fillmore and Buchanan, showing the good
effects of protective tariffs passed during
various years. Mr.. Clay, in 1882, af-
ter showing that the seven years p1eced-
ing the passage of the tariff of 1924 had
been the most disastrous, while the seven
following the passage of the act had been
the most prosperous that our country had
ever known, said this Transformation of the
country from gloom land distress to
brightness and prosperity was mainly the
work of a legislation fostering American
INDUSTRIES instead of allowing it to be
controlled by foreign legislation cherish
ing foreign industries.
After quoting Andrew Jackson's re-
marks in favor of protection, Mr.. Nc
kinley said:
an one of Gov. CampbelI's speeches he
qpoted from James g. Blaine, that gifted
American statesman. Charl Scurz made
the sane quotation against Mr.. Blaine, to
which that gentleman made reply at Can
ton last year. Among other things he
said toe only tariff the United States ever
had approaching free trade was that mace
after the war of 1912, in 1888, and 1916,
and every one led to prostration In this
country which lasted until there was pro-
tective tariff. There is the testimony of
history.
The governor talks about our commerce
On the seas. We have the greatest inter-
nal commerce in the world. fhe entire
internal commerce of the United States is
greater than the whole commerce of Great
Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Hol
land, Belgium and Austria Hungary. The
great railroad of this country, and it
passes through this village, carries more
tonnage than all the lines of Great Brit
ain. Great Britain foreign commerce is
only one-sixth OF our domestic commerce.
They talk about our protective tariff
breaking down our foreign markets It
has built them up. We have freer trade
under this new protective law than we
ever had under any revenue law. Fifty
SIX per cent. OF the value of imports under
this new law daring the last eleven
months were absolutely free to the Ameri-
can people. The Mills bill that Gov.
Campbell voted for made only A per cent
Of them free.
The governor asked me if | was in
favor of organized labor. | want to
answer him now | am not only in favor
OF organized labor, but always have been.
| am not only in favor of organized labo
at home, but | am in favor of defending
labor at home from products made by the
cheap labor Of other countries. The GOV
ernor complains that real estate has been
lessened in value. The board of equaliza-
ton reduces the tax values of farm lands,
but that does not affect the real value Of
the farm
Here Maj Mckinley produced the prices
Of a number of articles, showing them to
be cheaper than ever before. He made a
caustic reference to the doctrine of disaster
and despair preached by leading demo-
Gratis of to-day, adding: Thank God, the
republican party never taught such a
doctrine. Ours is the doctrine of hope; of
che or."
Gov. Campbell was utterly unable to
ward off the Titanic blows dealt him on
the silver question. and on that issue as
on the tariff Mckinley was an almost I'M
questioned victor. Both men were, how.
ever cheered.
Milk and Butter
For the production of milk the following
rations have been suggested by the New
York Experiment Station.
l. Eighteen pounds of oat straw, FIVE
meal.
2. Twenty pounds barley straw. FIVE
pounds pea straw, two pounds wheat bran,
FIVE pounds iinseed meal.
8. Twenty pounds poor hay, FIVE
pounds cotton-seed meal.
4. Twenty pounds wheat straw, fv
pounds wheat bran. three pounds corn
meal, four pounds linseed meal.
5. Twenty pounds fresh marsh hay,
five pounds of maize meal, five pounds cot
ton-seed meal.
6. Ten pounds meadow hay, ten
pounds straw, three pounds wheat bran,
five pounds linseed meal.
For butter the rations are as follows:
/. Ten pounds clever hay, ten pounds
straw. four pounds linseed, oil cake, four
pounds wheat bran, two pounds cotton
seed meal, four pounds maize meal
2. Sixteen pounds meadow hay, eight