St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-09
BLOWING his HORN.
The "Majah" Puffs His Manu-
facturers' Bill

Touching on the tariff and taxation,
Chairman Mckinley said:
We propose to raise our money to pay pub
lie expenses by taxing the products of other
nations rather than by taxing the products
of our own. lApplause. The Democratic
party believes in direct taXatiOn-that is. in
taxiig ourselves; but we don believe in that
principle so long we can find anybody else
TO tax. Our protective tariff not only does
everything which revenue tariff can do IN
raising Ill needed revenues but protective
tariff does more than that. protective tar
if encourages and stimulates American in
dustries and gives the widest possibilities to
American genius and American effort.
Does anybody know what tariff reform is?
l'.No. no." and laughter. And that is 10 be
the platform of our. political opponents this
year. What does it mean? You can study
President Cleyelands utterances from the
first one he MADE in New York, when he said
he did not know anything about the tSr1H
Glaughter1, until the last in Rhode Island.
and you come away ignorant and uniformed
as to what tariff reform means. Since the
war there have been three great tariff reform
bills proposed by the Democratic leaders,
none of them alike, neither of them with the
same free list, neither OF them with the same
tariff list, neither OF them with the same
rates of duty. but all made by the Democratic
party upon the same principle to symbolic
ard represent tariff reform.
You NAV go to Mr.. Mills you may go to
MI OprluSer. anu you WILL Huo tuaI they
differ totally; but you may go 10 the house OF
representatives at Washington, which was
elected distinctiveiy upon WHAT the cal!
tariff reform issue, with twothiFds majority
in the house, ana what do you lind? They
passed three bills. Let me name them.
First, free tin pl1te, leaving sheet steel, from
which it is made, taritfed-that is, the
finished product free and the raw material
bearing a duty. Second. free wool to the
manufacturer and fairfield cloth to the con-
=sumer. Third, free cotton ties to the cotton
states and fairfield hoop iron to all the rest OF
the states That is their idea of tariff reform.
Gentlemen of the convention, how do you
like it? This contest that we enter upon is
for the maintenance of protection and reel
procity applauseI and / want to say here
that there is not line in the tariff bill that
is not American; there is not paragraph
that is not patriotic; there IS not page That
does not represent true AmericaniSm and
the highest possibilities OF American cltlzen-.
ship. [Great applause. i
I'VE are to declare ourselves upon other
questions here today We are TO declare our
selves upon the question of a free ballot andi
a fair count [Applause.1 No platform
should ever be made that does not reiterateg
that great constitutional guaranty; no Re-
publican speech should ever be made that
does not insist firmly that that great cOnstitu-
tional guaranty shall be a living birthright,i
not cold Formally Of constitutional enact
ment but living thing, which the poorest
and humblest may confidently enjoy and
which the richest and most powerful dare
not deny. [Applause.l We can well leave
to the committee on resolutions the duty OF
making platform that shall represent the
best thoughts and the best ideas and the best
wisdom of the Republican party. When we
go out of this convention upon a true Re-
publican platform we go out marching to,
victory, no matter what name may carry the
banner Great applause.