Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-27
PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ~ 1891.
Mckinley ON the New Tariff.
His Brilliant speech before the Boston
Home MARKET club.

The difference between revenue tariff
such as is advocated by the Democratic
party. and a protective tariff, such as is adj
vocated by the Republican party. is one Of
I principle. which touches every enterprise
and every occupation and every employ
ment Of the people. 4 revenue tariff will
/ do nothing but raise revenue. II has no
/ other ambition but to raise revenue. 1t
has no other object or purpose but to put
revenue into the Federal treasury. 1t is
wholey unmndful of the employments and
occupations of the people. II is money
for the Federal treasury and for nothing
else. 4 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 a more certain agent
for raising revenue than revenue tariff,
so that protective tariff in that particular
does everything which a Democratic reve-
nue. tariff would do, and does more.
While it raises all the needed revenue for
public purposes, il encourages and builds
mp the industries Of our own country. and
protects our own labor and our own skill
against the labor and skill or every other
country Of the world \ revenue tariff
never built factory in the United States.
\ revenue tariff never opened a mine in
the United States. \ revenue tariff never
built fire in a furnace IN the Inited
States, but, a. a thousand Old men in this
audience know tonight. revenue tariff
has more than once rXtinguished the fires
which had been built in the furnaces under
a protective tariff.
They say protective tariffs are a burden
upon the people. There is not a man in
this audience-there is not a man in Mas
sachusetts- who is a citizen Of Ma>sachu-
sets and whose interest is in MassachE-
sets, who knows from any personal rral-
cation Of a burden that there is such a
thing in existence as an American Irotec-
tive tariff-not one man in the whole state
Of Massachusetts. And did it eve: occur
to you that a man isn't very much hurt if
he doesn't know it? But there isn't a
man or a woman in Massachusetts, tonight
who doesn't know from personal realiza-
ton of the blessings Of protective tariff.
The 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 con-
Stunning class OF the United States know Of
its blessings in the cheaper products, cheap
er than they ever enjoyed under Demo
cratic revenue tariff.
They say protective tariff keeps us ont
Of foreign market. If there is anything
in the world that delights the Democratic
leader who has once been Republican. il
is something on the other side. something
foreign. something abroad. For me and
mine there is no place like home. Long
continued applause. This is the best
country in the world applause . and PEG
pie come here and never 90 away because
il is the best country in the world And il
is our business to keep it 50.
From ls4G 10 1850, a period of II years.
the balance of trade against this country
that is, We bought more abroad than We
sold abrOad-Was the enormous sum Of
1866, OOO, 900, balance OF trade that We
had to settle with Europe in gold: and
from 1861 to lSSl. period Of II years, I'M
der protectiye'tariff. We sold abroad Amer
lean products in excess Of what we bought
abroad, S2,G6G, OOO, 600. If it is foreign
trade you want, you find the best foreign
trade this government ever enjoyed under
the protective period of its history.
In 20 years under a protective tariff we
have paid of more than -, OO0, 600, 600
$4,000 every day-Of the great public
debt. In the last 20 years We have reduc-
ed the Indebtedness more than - per cent.
In the last 20 years we have reduced the
Indebtedness of counties and municipalities
more than Is per cent. and the per capita
debt Of this government is less than the
per capita debt Of any government Of the
world. Now, | want to read you. at the
expense of OBTAINING You longer than
ought, a paragraph taken from the New
| York Tribune of Jan. II, 1850, 36 years
| ago, which describes the condition Of the
country at that time, and described by that
! great master mind, Horace Greeley, who
! was an honest man. Jan. -, lS5j, turn
I back to the old files of the Tribune and
| you will find this in its leading editorial:
Who is hungry, Go and s,,. You that arr
/ fulfilled. and know not what It is to b. hungry
! perhaps never saw hungry man go and s-e
D Gp and see thousands, men and women. boys and
girls Old and young, black and white Of all Ma
tons. crow ding and juStiing each other. almost
fighting for first chance, acting mon. like hun
] CRY wolves than human beings in a land Of plenty
! IL j. only by the continuous efforts of Two police
men that the crowd can he kept IN order. or made
to wait till the food ready Tor distribution such
scene may H. seen every day i+tWt--u II and u
B O'Clock around the corner Of Orange and Chatham
streets, where charity gives dinner to the poor
and soup and bread to others 10 carry To- their mis-
cradle families.
"On Saturday We sprnt an hour Their. at tlt. hour
/ Of high tide. We have never seen anything like
/ II befOie. Upward 81 100 people were fed with
! plate o. coup a piece ct bread and a piece Of
! meat on the premises and IN all more than 100
on the dav I'D portions Of Soup wer. dealt
L
the great store OF Rrade street and Broad.
way. AT the rooms ON Duane street for the relief
of the poor, on the same day they gave food to
2Sj6 In the sixth Ward alone over coo persons
were fed by charity ON Saturday. January H. And
this is only one day in one ward. Meanwhile
scenes Of "A like nature are being enacted all over
the city. procession Of several thousand per
sons kept marching about the streets yesterday
with flags and banners which bore such inscriI-
tons as. Hunger is "a Sharp Thorn. The Last Re
course, Live and Let Live We Want Work
| etc
Such are the scenes that arr being enacted dai-
ly before our eyes, while the cry Of hard times
, reaches us from every part Of the country The
and houses and ships are no longer being built
Factory hands, road-makers, carpenters, bricklay.
ers and abOrers are idle, and paralysis is rapidly
embracing every pursuit In the country The
cause Of all this stOppage of circulation is 10 be
found in the steady outflow Of gold to paw foreign
labOrers for the cloth the shoes the iron and the
other things that could be produced by American
labor. but which cannot be 80 produced under our
present revenue system. The cOnvulsiOn would
have come upon US sooner but for the eXtraorti
nary demand in Europe for breadstufs, growing
out Of huge famines and big wars and but for the
dazzling aud magnificent discovery Of gold mines
in California. by which hard money sufficient Ia
buy empire has been called into existence and
exported 70 Europe. II we could stop the import
Of the foreign articles the gold would cease Ia
flow out to pay for them, and money would then
become more abundant. labor would then again be-
in demand, shoes. clothing and other commodities
would then again be in demand, and men would
then cease 20 starye in the streets of our towns
and cities. If il be not stopped the gold must
continue to 90 abroad and employment must be
come from day 10 day more scarce, until Wher.
there are now many thousands we shall see tens
Of thousands Of men everywhere crying: Give me
work. Only give me work. Make your own terms:
my wife and children have nothing to eat "
H. - r a.