The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-09-21

going backward il sees nothing good in
front Of it; it is a standing protest against
the progress and prosperity of the country.
1t is needless Of the most siupendous facts,
and will not recognize those which, TO any
fair-minded man, are indisputable. 1t in
sists that We cannot make tin-plaie ii made
that declaration when the new Law was be-
ing considered in Congress made il imme-
diately afterward, and still insists that tin
plate cannot be made in this country, and is
not made in this country, when the official
statement of the Government shows that we
have twenty-seven factories in practical op-
eration to-day and seventeen more in pro-
cess OF construction, which very soon will
be in operation. 1t is hard to treat this war
fare upon our industries with patience and
fcrbearance. visited in the city of Elwood
Ind, on Tuesday, the works of the Ameri-
can Tin Plate Company. They have as
good plant as can be found anywhere /
saw with my own eyes, as did 10 coo people
the manufacture Of tin-plate from the raw
steel. ALI the machinery bad been made in
the United States, and the sheet steel which
they rolled and from which they made their
tin-plates was made in. the United States.
In Ohio saw factory employing 22O men
and women at good living wages, happy and
contented workmen, and yet the Democratic
leaders say that we are not making and could
not make tin-plate.
But that is not to be wondered at. They
said we could not make steel they said we
could not make steel rails; they said we
could not make watches, and pottery, and
china and glass and plate-glas; but un-
daunted by their predictions We are now
making them as good as they are anywhere in
the world and so is it with tin-plate. The
American people can make anything they
want, and with the adequate protection
which we propose to give them, they will
make everything they want.
1t is foreign market they want Well,
why don't they get it OLaughter) Why,
General Stevenson says that what they pro-
pose is to give the people Of this country
cheap raw materials, free law materials, and
If they only had free raw materials they
could go out and capture the foreign market.
Why, they have got free raw materials for
the foreign market and they don't know it.
Laughter and applause Under this new
tariff law of 1850 any citizen of this country
can go to any country Of the world and buy
any raw material or product he wants, bring
il into the United States, pay the tariff fixed
by law, take that product out into his work
shop and make it up into the finished pro-
duct, take it back to the Custom House and
enter it for foreign trade, and the Govern
ment refunds him 90 per cent. of the tariff
be paid upon his raw material-within l
per cent Of free trade The Democratic
leader can capture the worlds market, for
he has got free raw material on this bill.
But they say, my fellow citizens, that this
new tariff law had made it impossible TO
send anything out of the country; made it
impossible for anything TO come in, and
made it impossible for anything to go out
and they made that statement in the light OF
the Treasury official report, that shows that
in the last year We bought more goods on
the other side than we have bought in any
twelve months Of our history, and we sold
more American products to Europe in the
same time than We ever sold in any year
since the beginning of the Federal Govern
ment.
There is no agricultural product in the
United States that is not defended by the
Tariff law of 1890. If anybody wants to
know who pays the tariff, let him go over
on the north side Of the Canadian line and
ask the Canadian farmer. Ifanobody wants
to know whether this tarif is burdensome
upon the American farmer, let him ask q
farmer tha, lives on the south side OF the
Canadian line. There is not one Of you
who has not been blessed by this law, and
you know it. You feel it in your pocket
books, in your property, in your invest
ments; and it is purely business question.
1t is maintained by the Democratic lead
ers, but rests wholly in assumption, that the
farmer would be benefited by revenue tar
ifi, that his export trade in agricultural pro-
ducts would be increased. Let Us refer again
10 our own history. From '46 10 '64, dur
ing the entire revenue tariff period, we ex-
ported 65, ,4io,l7 bushels of wheat. We e1-
ported in a single year under protection, that
Of 1871. 100000 Of wheat or G,OOO 900
more than the aggregate Of the entire fifteen
years under revenue tariff, and in 80. 81,
81, 50, 81, 81, we exported more wheat in
each Of these several years than we sold
abroad in all of the years from '45 to '6l un-
der the Walker free-trade tariff Of 1916. We
export now in a single year more wheat
than was exported from 1890 to 1861, a pc
rod of seventy-two years. More wheat in
q single year than in all Of the years from
Washington to Lincoln. Can the farmer
justly complain of this showing, and does
the tariff reiormer extract any comfort from
it?