The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-08

beers, by postponing the effect of increased
duties on tin for nine months after the
massage of the bill. That gave spectators
nine months to import tin at old prices
and sell it to the people atincreascd prices
1t started in jobbery, and has developed
more fraud in political deiverances, as wei
as fraud in industry, than any monopoly
effort of modern times.
Most of the so-called American tin is
made of English plate, English tin and
English skilled workmen, with the add
ton of American boys to run the dipping
shed. Laughter In order to save tho
weakling of the Mckinley triplets from
utter disgrace it has been gravely ruled by
the Secretary of the Treasury that tin plat,
made in this country from foreign plat
and foreign tin is American tin laughter1
so the infant tin industry is established
with a high official certifcation that it il
the happy child of its happy father
Laughter.
| EFFECT OF THE MCKINLEY BILL.
The Mckinley tariff has now been in
operation two years, and the same baleiu
policy of excessive taxation of the people
has been maintained since the necessities
of war ceased, with the Mckinley tarif
increasing its oppressive features. Tha
restrictive policy drove American commerce
from the seas of the world for generation
TappIausel |, and now the same insane policy
is illustrated by trying to revive commerce
by paternalism and taxation. With free
ships we would have had the stars anC
stripes floating over our commerce in al
the waters of the world [applause], anC
long ere this, with free opportunities, WI
would have been building our own ships
| 1t has abolished the sailor industry tina
once gave 100000 of the best sailors Of
the ocean, 1t has increased the cost d
the necessaries of business by the madnes.
of taxes on raw materials and thus increas
ed the cost of American products, reduced
their consumption and necessarily lessened
| the demand for labor. 1t has increased
needless taxes on the necessares of life tt
satiate the greed of combined capital
without increasing the wages of the work
man. Applause 1t has given us mo-
noply combines to control prices of nearly
all the products we consume. 1t has bull
up the plutocracy of centralized wealth
here that dates the decline and fall o
Rome, then the mistress of the worlC
(applause), and it has made the common
mind familiar with three alliterative word
of fearful import-tariff, trusts, tramps
TCheers and applause 1t has given labo
unrest in all the industries it processes to
protect, and bred labor disorders in every
section of the land 1t teaches labor tina
it is protected by the taxes levied upon al
in the name of protection, and labor ha
finally awakened to the fact that it is rob
bed of its protection while oppressed by
increased cost of living. 1t is this nov
generally known fact in labor circles that
crimsoned the records Of our State witt
murder at Homestead, that filled the noun
tain regions of Tennessee with outlaw!
bent on bloodshed, and that halted the
great building industries of New England
and New York for half the season. APP
plauso.1 1t has benefited the few who
paid the price of political debauchery t.
win such Legislation, and it has oppressed
the many until the sullen murmurs o
revolution come up from the cheated
workmen of the country. Applause.
Such is the record, such the achievements
of high war taxes levied in time of peace,
and on this record | here arraigp the Nc
kinley tariff policy as mingled robbery ant
fraud (applause), and carry the appeal tc
the sober convictions of this intelligent
audience, and to the considerable judgmen
of the American people. Long continued
cheers and applause,