The record-union., 1891-10-09
Joint Discussion Between McKin-
ley and Campbell.
THE VIRTUES OF HIGH AND LOW
TARIFF COMPARED
Both Speakers Enthusiastically APP
plauded by Their Admirers-EX-
President Cleveland and Governor
Hill Address a Large Democratic
Gathering at Cooper Union, New
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
ADA (Ohio), Oct. 8.-For weeks the
joint debate between Governor Campbell
and Major Mckinley has been referred
70 as an impending battle Of giants, and
the discussion to-day fully demonstrated
that they are indeed peerless as expo
nents of high and low tariff respectively.
The little town was smothered in bunt-
ings and decorations. The people and
marching clubs came from all over the
State. and while much enthusiasm was
displayed, it was in friendly rivalry.
AIcKinley's American tin badges were
offset by the Campbell men quoting
American wool, 81 cents, on account Of
che Mckinley bill"
The union meeting was held in the
amphitheater in the fair grounds. Great
taste was displayed in the decorations
The artillery was called in requisition,
and as the two distinguished leaders ap-
peared in sight, Governors salute was
tired.
It was 1:45 o'clock when the meeting
was called to order by Rev. Campbell, a
PRESBYTERIAN minister, and at that time
fully 900 people were on the grounds.
'Phe clerical gentleman introduced the
two presiding officers OF the meeting,
Niessrs. Van Fleet for the Democrats, and
Howe for the Republicans.
Chairman Van Fleet, the Democratic
presiding officer, made q brief speech of
congratulation to everybody, and an
nounced that Governor Campbell had
gained the privilege of opening and clos
3ng, by casting lots. Van Fleet committed
- slight bull by alluding inadvertently to
Major Mckinley as Governor Mchin-
.ey," and the Republicans cheered Justify,
while the Chairman blushedin confusion.
Governor Campbell, after being intro
duced as one of Ohio's great Governors,
launched into the debate. His opening
speech was listened to with great inter
est by both parties. He regretted, he
said that he had not time to properly
present the Indictment of that over
.rOwn monster, which, masqueradIng IN
The garb Of protection, subsists on the
7Nage-wOrker and agriculturist. Ap-
Dlausel Yearly the farming is growing
more improbable, and our commerce is
swept from the seas. Under protection,
The splendid palaces of protected manu-
-acturerS are crOwning the hills, while
imported Huns, Italians and Bohemians
are displacing American citizens. We
ere rapidly approaching condition pre-
dicted bv Abraham Lincoln, when he
said: "As the result of war, corporations
nave been enthroned; an era OF high
prices will follow; the money power will
cndeavor to prolong its reign until all the
wealth is aggregated in the hands OF the
few and the republic is lost"
Campbell cited the utterance of Con-
gressman ButterwOrth, a Republican,
who said, in Congress, that he could upon
The fingers of his hands count the men
who had added more to their wealth in
the last ten years than had been added to
he wealth Of all the agriculturists in any
State in the Union. Great Democratic
applause He quoted from an Eastern
paper a statement that when Egypt went
down two per cent. her people owned
ninety-seven per cent. of her wealth.
When Persia went down one per cent.
her population owned all the land. When
Rome went down, eighteen hundred men
owned all the known world. In 1850. in
this country, capitalists owned thirty
seven and a half per cent. of her wealth.
To-day they own more than twice that
amount. Yet he who goes before the
people and points to these facts is sneered
at as a calamity croaker.
The Governor went on to analyZe the
question of tariff being tax on the con-
sumner, presenting figures to show that it
was. "NOw,' said he, when genuine
reciprocity comes in, we will have, not a
little one-sided reciprocity with the little
countries of South America, but substan-
tial free trade with England, France and
the world" Applause He cities vari
Gus instances Of enormous duties which
mustbe visited upon the consumer. Last
week, a Chicago firm received 81. 400
worth of pearl buttons from Australia.
and the duty on them was just $50. or
q trifle over 100 per cent. Did the foreign
manufacturer pay nearly $50 for the priv
llege of sending these buttons here? The
Mckinley bill provides that 80 per cent.
of the duties on some articles shall be re-
funded, provided that those articles are
exported.
asst year the Standard Oil Company
imported tin to this country upon which
they paid more than a million and quar-
ter duty. If they did not, if the foreigner
paid that duty, then the United States put
its hand in its pocket and presented the
Standard Oil Company with a million and
. quarter of our money, for this amount
was refunded TO the Standard Oil Com
pany. There were manufactured in this
country last year fifly-fiye hundred mill
ions dollars worth of goods. If the tariff
on dutiable goods is 60 per cent. it is fair
10 presume taking the protected and un-
protected industries together, that at least
One-third Of that sum is paid in lien of
duties to the manufacturers at home
upon the American product. 1t is said
hat all this is done for the upbuilding
and maintenance of manufacturers. How
long, oh Lord, how long shall this up
Governor Campbell read letter writ
ten by Mr.. Blaine in 1884, in which Mr..
Blaine said it is fact that the coarser de-
scriptions of cottons and cotton prints,
boots and shoes, ordinary household
furniture, harness for draft animals,
agricultural implements of all kinds
doors. sashes and blinds, locks bolts and
hinges. silver-ware, platedware, wooden
ware, ordinary paper and paper hanging,
common vehicles, ordinary window
Plass and glassware, rubber goods, coal.
kerosene. white lead, lead pipe, and
other articles in which lead is chief ex-
ponent, can be and are produced as
cheaply in the United States as in any
part of the world. Applause.
'In the twenty-five years since the war
we have doubled the taxation in tariff.
Who is benefited by it? What have the
farmers of Ohio gotten out of it?" Coy
ernor Campbell read from statistics of
the Republican Secretary of the Ohio
Board of Equalization showing that in
fen years the appraised value of farm
land has deprecated SOS, ,0O0, ,00O 1.-THE last
census shows that in the ten years the
State of Ohio has increased in wealth
s2fS, 900. How much have the farm
crs gotten of that?n Governor Campbell
asserted as fact that not one farmer in
thousand in Ohio is as well off to-day as
in 1880. Right; that's a fact,i shouted
many voices.
Il want Major Mckinley, when he re-
plies, to tell the audience where these
mon are who have got better wages un-
der his tariff There have been more
than three hundred great manufacturing
establishments which have reduced wages
gince the passage of the Mckinley bill,