The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Mckinley In Boston.

week, with banqueting, music and
speeches. Senator Hoar, Senator AID
rich Of Rhode Island ard ex Speaker
Reed were among the guests and speak
ers, but the high seat of honor at the
feast, and the tribute of most-interested
attention-and frequent and enthusi-
astic plaudits-at fremont Temple was
unanimously accorded to Governor-elect
Mckinley of Ohio. All the circum-
stances give unusual interest to what
the gallant major has to say, and the
WATCHMAN publishes his speech prac-
tically entire:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. This
magnificent audience is great tribute to a
great cause. IL is a great cause; the cause
of home, of country, of family and of fire.
side 1t is tribute to principle which for
more than thirty years has been in active
operation in this country, and has brought
to all of us the widest and the largest pros
perity.
We cannot have revenue, said George
Washington in his farewell address, unless
we have taxes, and any form of taxation is
always more or less inconvenent, and the
most easily upon the citizen, and, while
raising the required revenue for public pur-
poses, gives encouragement to our people in
their chosen occupations and employments.
Taxation, therefore, in some form or other,
is fundamental necessity to every govern
ment, and whatever system will raise the
revenue needed for federal purposes should
be a national system. You can raise money
for federal purposes by direct taxation.
You can raise it by tariff taxation. The
Home Market Club, whose anniversary we
celebrate tonight, end the republican party
in Ohio do not believe in direct taxation,
except in time of war, and except in the
presence of great national emergency.
They believe that we should never tax our
selves so long as we can find the products
of other people to tax, and so, after the
great war had gone by, and the necessities
for large federal expenditures growing out
of the war mad passed, the republican party
abolished all direct taxes except upon two
objects, and in their legislation have relied
upon tariff taxation to raise all needed rev.
enue, and they have been very successful
The difference between a revenue tariff
such as is advocated by the democratic
party, or the democratic leaders, and pro-
tective tariff, such as is advocated by the
republican party, is one of principle, which
touches every enterprise and every occupa.
ton and every employment of the people.
A revenue tariff will do nothing but raise
revenue. 1t has no other mission but to
raise revenue. 1t has no other object or
purpose but to put revenue into the federal
treasury.
1t is wholly unmindful of the employ
ments and occupations of the people. It's
money for the federal treasury, and for
nothing else.
A protective tariff, as an agent for raising
revenue for the national treasury, is Just as
good as a revenue tariff, and in times past
has been more certain agent for raising
revenue than revenue tariff. So that a
protective tariff in chat particular does
everything which a democratic revenue
tariff would do, and does more. While it
raises all the needed revenue for public
purposes, it encourages and builds up the
industries of our country, and protects our
own skill against the labor and skill of every
other country of the world.
A revenue tariff never built a factory in
the United States. A revenue tariff never
opened mine in the United States. A rev.
enue tariff never built a fire in furnace in
the United States. But, as a thousand old
men in this audience know tonight, reve-
nue. tariff has more than once extinguished
the fires which had been built in the fur
naces under protective tariff.
A revenue tariff encourages the foreign
shop and the foreign laborer, and discour-
ages the domestic shop and the domestic la
borer. For you must remember that the
revenue tariff is for revenue and revenue
only, and you cannot have revenue in large
volume unless you have large importations,
and you cannot have large importations of
competing foreign products without displac-
ing to that extent domestic products. And
to the extent that you displace domestic
products, to that extent you displace Amer
lean labor and diminish the demand for
American workingmen in the United States,
and increase the demand for workiugmen
abroad in foreign shops.
You can raise revenue for public purposes
with revenue tariff, but you do it at the
expense of your own industries and your
own labor, and there finally comes time
in the history of revenue tariff legislation
when you have so impoverished your own
people because you have destroyed their in
dustres, which gave them employment and
wages there comes a time when revenue
tariff fails to raise the needed revenue, be-
cause the people have grown too poor to
send money abroad to buy, and then reve-
nue. tariff fails. But protective tariff never
fails.
We have in the last twenty-five years
paid off $4,000 every day of the public
debt under protective tariff and, while
we were doing that, we accomplished what
Senator Hoar limited at; we reached the first
rank in the world as a manufacturing, min
ing and agricultural nation
They say protective tariffs are burden
upon the people. There is not man in
this audience-there is not man in Massa-
chusetts, who is citizen of Massachusetts,
and whose interests are in Massachusetts,
who knows, from any personal realization
of burden, that there is such thing in
existence as an American protective tariff
Not one man in the whole state of Massa-
chusetts. And did it ever occur to you that
man is not very much hurt if he doesn't
know it?
But there is not a man or a woman in
Massachusetts who does not know from
personal realization of the blessings of
protective tariff. A laboring man knows its
blessings from work and wages. The
farmer knows its blessings from the most
magnificent home market for his products
that can be found anywhere in the world.
And the great consuming class of the
United States know of its blessings in the
cheaper products, cheaper than they ever
enjoyed under democratic revenue tariff.
But they say protective tariff keeps us
out of foreign market IL there is any
thing in the world that delights the demo-
cratic leader, who has once been repub.
lican laughter and applause] it is some
thing on the other side, something foreign,
something abroad. For me and mine there
is no place like home. This is the best
country in the world and people come here
and never go away, because it is the best
country in the world, and it is our business
IA Al.