Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-06-26

Hon. VIM. NIcIIinley's Speech
Accepting His Nomination for Governor
of Ohio.

Accepting Ills Nomination for Governor
of Ohio.
RINGING DEFENCE AND EXPOSITION or
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
There is but one path for Republicans
to pursue-Only one. 1t is that which they
have always pursued; pursued i'm the face
OF threat and danger, denunciatOn and
clamor; to the honor of the country and
the good of the people The pub
lie credit and sound finance must be pre-
served, and every scheme to destroy II must
be met with courage and intelligence, and
repealed by the mighty force of public
opinion. Better risk defeat which can only
be temporary than capitulate with the
demagogue, or surrender to dishonesty.
The misguided citizen never forgives the
misguided party. The man who is misled
honestly pursuing the wrong never for
gives his party for being wrong. even though
for temporary advantage it agrees with him.
He does not excuse his party, if getting
what he wants turns out to be what he
ought not to have had He respects his
party for doing right even as against his
Judgment, but he has no further use for it.,
if following his judgment harm and injury
come to state and country and business.
The Republican party never won battle
by trucking; 1t never lost one when it was
honest and courageous. The honest and
conservative and well meaning have the
largest battalons when they muster under
one flag.
We welcome the closest analysis of the
subjects which the new tariff law singled
out for taxation and the duties imposed
thereon, and WEI ask "a candid construction
of our legislation at the hands of the peo-
pie. We have put the duties upon foreign
products which come into the United States
in competition with the products of our
land and labor Is not tina. right? What
better means are there of raising nee led
revenues? Are these not proper objects for
taxation? We have protected American
products and American labor. We have
locke after our own. THAT is the sum of
our offence l can understand why the
foreign producer does not like it, but |
never could understand why an American
citizen should he unhappy over it. So long
as foreign products can be found to tax
which compete with our own i'm our mar
kets we propose to tax them rather than
tax our own. and where we find foreign
products which do not compete with home
products except luNuries and those which
encourage vice, We propose to permit them
to come in free without tax or tariff. We
prefer to tax the imported rather than the
domestic product. The Democratic party
prefers to tax the domestic product rather
than the imported. 1t prefers to tax for
eign product, the like OF which we cannot
produce at home, and the price of which
the foreigner fixes absolutely to the Amer
lean consumer, a tax which benefits no
American interest and which is paid wholly
by the American consumer, rather than to
tax the foreign product. the like of which
we do pro luce at home, although such "A
tax is benefit to American interests and
American labor and is not necessarily or
even generally paid by the American con
sumner.
That is the difference between the two
parties on this question. Their principle
of taxation would fall most heavily upon
our own people and inure to the benefit of
competing foreign countries and result in
injury to our own. Their tariff legislation
would benefit every country but our own.
Ours would benefit our own without being
unjust to any other. We follow in our
tariff policy the teachings of Washington
and Hamilton and Clay and Webster and
Lincoln and Garfield. They pursue the
fallacies of Golden AMI Bright and Cal
houn, and the statesmen of the late South
crn cOnfederacy. They are pledged now
to impede, if they can, the prosperity of the
country until after the next presidential
election. That is their mission this year
Business disaster and reverses are the lad
der of their hopes Prosperity and con-
tentment among the people bring them
sure political defeat. Idle furnaces, dis
mantled factories. silent mines, unemployed
workmen, general distress, are the sure
harbingers of Democratic victory. They
are discouraging industrial activity through
their press and orators everywhere, and
every day, and it breaks their hearts to see
any manifestation of industrial advance
ment in the United States. They sneer at
every attempt to establish new factories and
would gladly frown them down. 1t is the
same sneer and frown which have been eX-
hibited toward our industrial enterprises
since 1861. But in spite of them, we now
lead the world in manufactures, agriculture
and mining, and We will prosper under the
new law in spite of their false omens and
discouraging prophecies.
They insist that we cannot make tin
plate-SO tney SAID ABOUT steel rails, so tney
said about plate glass and cutlery, and pot
terry, and when you take them to the fac
tory and show them that we are making
tin-plate, they assert with intense pleasure
that we are only making "a little" That
is true-but how much should we he max
ng-that we are making any is the sur
prise, for the protective duty on tin has not
yet gone into effect and will not until the
first of July.
They are determined that no new fires
shall be started, no new field for the EN-
ployment of labor shall be opened up, no
increased market for agriculture secured il
they can prevent it. They are so welded
to free trade and the British system, they
are willing any calamity should happen
that would rob protection of its fruits and
its blessings. They would rather have adj
versity and "hard times" than to witness
any further demonstration of the benefits
of protection. They value their opinions
more than the general good. Thus speak
of the leaders of the Democratic party; the
rank and file are not with them in sympa-
thy and purpose and will not help them
with their votes.
In the framing of the law most careful
consideration was given to agriculture. Nc
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