The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-21

which costs 40 cents. which makes tho cost o.
the salt, IL the Government be right, Scents.
The duty on wire nails was AZ cents a pound.
We reduced IL TO 212 cents. They can DO bought
at the place they are made for 2-l0 cents a
pound Who pays the tax? fApplause.l Cut
nails can be bought for 1.56 cents pound.
Steel rails can DO bought for $50 ton, 80
above tho average price In Liverpool. The tariff
Is Sl3A ton.
The duty is 25 per cent. on boots and shoes;
the duty was 80 per cent. The Governor seems
TO think we did not reduce any duties. 1 want
TO say to him that when he voted for the Mills
bill he voted to make the duty on binder Irvine
IL n of q cent.
The duty ON linseed oil is 30 cents gallon,
and on farmers fiaxseed % cents a bushel. The
oil sells ut IS cents gallon. In London 1t sells
AT 80 cents gallon, and IL the tax Ia added lin
seed oil should sell here for 65 cents gallon.
But 1t does not. heers.l Who pays the tax?
The Governor complains that In this iniqui-
tous law OF 1872 we gave rebate OF 90 per cent.
on imported raw material made into finished
product when entered for the export trade.
That rebate principal has been in every tariff
law since the second administration of George
Washington. 1t was In the Mills bill which the
Governor voted for.
Let me remind the Governor while on the
subject Of rebate that the Committee on Ways
and Means, over which Mr. Morrison presided
presented n report which was written by that
able Democrat Mr. Abram s. Hewitt OF New
York. recommending that a rebate OF 90 per
cent be,giyen on imported raw material entered
after finished Tor the export trade. He Iecom-
uended it as in the interest OF labor, stating 1t
furnished Just so much labor to America
which would be employed abroad and the very
proposition he suggested, and which every
Democrat member OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee voted for IL IN the new tariff law and
the provision against which Governor Campbell
clnInors 80 loudly.
Now, want to give you some experience for
that is a better teacher than chart. [Laughter.1
There il nothing in history or our own expert
m
tenn or change our protective laws A low
tariff has always increased the importation OF
foreign goods, multiplied our foreign obligations,
produced balance of trade against US. supple
mented the Democratic producer and manufact-
urer, undermined domestic prosperity, ard
robbed labor OF it's just rewards. Let me call
first Thomas Ewing, once III eminent United
States Senator OF Ohio. Here Major Mckinley
read paper, showing the condition of agriculture
under the revenue tariff policy prior to 1924
beg to read you an extract from speech
made by Thomas Ewing, Senator from Ohio in
defense of the system OF protection: Every
farmer in Ohio long knew and felt tho pressure
consequent on this state OF things Year after
year their stacks of wheat stood unthrashsd,
scarcely worth the manual labor Of separating
the grain from the straw. So low WAS II reduced
in comparison with manufactured articles that
have known forty bushels Of wheat given for a
pair OF boots" Such was the state of things in
the Western country prior and ut the time of
the revision Of the tariff in 1924.
Horace Greeley, the late distinguished editor
and founder OF the New York Tribune, has sum-
to the country OF the two tariff systems. In 1869
he wrote
"Our years Of signal disaster and depression
have been those in which our ports were easily
flooded with foreign goods, those which inter-
vened botwixt the recognition of independ-
ence and the enactment of the tariff of 1889;
those which followed the close of our last war
with Great Britain were signaized by immense
importations of fabrics; those of 1888 to 1912,
when the compromise of 1888 began to be seri-
ousy ielt in the reduction of duties on Imports
those when kar
tariff OF 1916 had time to take full effect. No
similarly sweeping revulsions and prostrations
ever took place-I think none could take place
under the sway of efficient protection"
In one of Gov. Campbells speeches he quoted
from james q. blaine, that gifted American
statesman. prolonged applause. Carl Schurz
made the same quotation against Mr.. Blaine to
which that gentleman made reply ut Canton
last year. Among other things he said the only
free trade was that made after the war of 1912,
in 1888, and in 1916, and every one led to pros
ration in this country which lasted until there
was protective tariff Applause
Let us compare the United States with Great
Britain. Our proportion of foreign commerce
of the world in 1870 was 49,; in 1870, 24.5; in
1881, 3l.2 Great Britain between 1870 and 1880
lost - per cent. OF he's trade and the United
States gained y per cent in trade.
The Governor talks about our commerce leav
ing the seas. We have the greatest interna
tional commerce in The world The entire in.
ternal commerce of the United States is greater
than the whole commerce of Great britain,
befHhIlV. huSbld ffOllunu, belgium ana
Austra- Hungary A single railroad company
in the United States, and ii passes through
this village, carries more traffic and tonnage
than oil the merchant ships OF Great Britain.
[Great applausel Great Britain's foreign com
merce is only onesixth Of our domestic COM
merce. [Applause.]
They talk about protective tariff breaking
down our foreign markets. 1t has built them
up. From 1876 TO 1860 we bought OF Europe,
under & low revenue tariff, $i66, 900 more
goods from Europe than we sold to Europe.
From 1867 to 1881, a period OF fourteen years
under protection, we sold to Europe 81 500, Co.,
900 more goods than we bought.
We have freer trade under this now protective
law than we ever hn under aay revenue law.
Fifty per cent. of the value of imports under
thisn law during the last eleven months
were absolutely free to the American people.
The Mills bill. that Gov. Campbell voted for,
made only "A per cent. of them free. In the first
ten months, under the new tariff law, we
bought more goods in Europe than we ever
bought in any ten months since the formal ion
of the Government, and largely because OF the
increa sed free list of articles that we could not
produce in the United States and which pro-
tee ion lets come in free.
And more and better than that, in those ten
months we sold more American prouucts to
Europe than we ever sold TO ii in any other ten
months Applause And when Europe settled
with after ten months operation under the
new law it paid us S3SO00,0U0 in gold as a bal
ance Of trade in our favor.
Gov Campbell asked me il was in favor OF
organized labor. / want to answer him now. ]
am not only in favor of organized labor but a.
ways have been. / am not only in favor OF or
ganized labor at home, but am in favor of de-
Tending labor at homo from products made by
the cheap labor of other countries. Applause
At the conclusion of Mai. Mckinleys speech
the adherents of the great exponent of high
tariff burst into cheers, hats and parasols were
waved in the air, and band began to play.
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