Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-29


with it. Applause.
WOOL.
We put wool ON the dutiable list higher
than IL was before. Under the reduction OF
duty In 1888, the wool-growing industry OF
the United States began TO decay, and In
tive years IL 900, 600 sheep disappeared. In
| 1883 one-fOurth of the wooden mills of the
United States were idle and their opera
tlves thrown out OF employment The Nc
kinley law increased the duty on wool.
made IL adequately productive, and In q
single year the sheep In the United States
increased 1.600,U00 and the wool product
increased 900, OJ0 pounds; Dot only that
but the importation OF WOODEN goods that
year decreased S1L000.00O, with no de-
crease in the domestic production OF wooden
goods. We simply made them at home IN
stead or sending money abroad to buy
them from there applausel and to-day,
ladies and gentlemen. there Is not wooden
mil IN the United States that is not run
ming. and large NUMBER have been added,
why, the Deinocratic party, as l recol-
lcct, II succeeded III 1871, In electIng con-
gress they elected that congress on a
platform that they would repeal the Nc
kInley law, and how many majority did
they have? One hundred and seventy
five. A tremendous majority In session,
month af.er month, mouth after month,
month after mOnth-and what were they
doing? Simply firing paper-wads at the
Mckinley law. Laughter and applause. !
Why didn't they repeal 1t IL 10 was such a
robbery? They passed bill putting wool
on the free list They say IN their ma ority
report that the duty on wool has not been
OF any benefit to the farmer; that it has
not increased the price of wool (tnat is q
faisehood, but they say it, and the taking
of duty on of wool would not decrease the
price of wool TO the farmer. In the next
line they say they take the duty OIL or wool
because 1t Is raw material and they want
TO cheaper the cost OF woolens. If taking
the duty off of wool would not diminish
the price OF wool how would 1t diminish
the price of woolens? Two million men
In the United States engaged In sheep
raising this last year that produced 1885,
UOO,OO pounds of wool. The value of the
farmers sheep in the United States to-day
Is Sill, 900, 900 and his income from wool
last year was S29,0O0.0J0, and yet this
Democratic house repealed so much of the
Mckinley law as 10 put WOOL on the free
list-let 1t come in here without restriction
the wool of Australia and South America.
IL had the time could show you that IN
Australia they have good grass all the year
around except when they have an ocea-
slonal drought They get their lands from
the crown and they pay only z cents an
acre by the year and three acres to the
sheep; so that 1t only cost them cents for
the sheep the whole year round. They
HdNt anu
II so that IL Is as plain as anything can D5
that II the duty is taken OFT OF wool. the
sheep huSbandry of the Uuited States must
be killed; but these men-tnink of II a
minute -these men take the duty OFF wool
and yet they leave duty by their bill or
80 per cent. on wooden cloths, They talk
TO us about class leglslation-ywhat is that
but class legislation = discriminating
against 2,000,0OO men engaged IN sheep
huSbandry and diScIiminating1n favor or
220.OOO men engaged In the manufacture of
wooden cloth.
That is not all. We put prohibitory
duty on shoddy OF so cents q pound and
keep that pest-laden stuff out OF the United
States and to Improve the quality OF the
clothing which our people wore. tGreat
applause. The bill which they reported
from the committee and which passed the
house, putting wool on the free list aud
leaving woolenS 80 per cent. dutiabie,
made rags free and put shoddy at cents
pound. This great patriotic Democratic
congress, dominated by thelSouth largely,
Disseminated against the American farmer
and in favor of the Paris rag picker, ask
the farmer of Wisconsin to stand by them
and vote for free wool and free trade all
along the line Will you do it?
A voice-"No, never" lApplause.l
BIsMARCK's TESTIMONIAL.
They have had great deal to say about
the farmer having no protection under the
Mckinley law. 1 cannot take the time TO
90 into Ii tonight, but on tobacco the
farmers market last year was $1,000 900
more than 1t was the year before, and we
saved to the farmers of this country by the
duties levied by the Mckinley law upon
their products in gross Sl6,0C0,000 as
against the year preceding the enactment
OF the tariff law. Now when the free
trader talks about the tariff as robbery
and undertakes to satisfy the people that
it Is class legislation and ought to be
wiped away, he takes upon himself an
awful big contract, 1t was Prince Bis
marck, the great statesman of Germany,
whom our people remember as standing
in his white uniform beside the old emperor
when the ensign OF united Germany was
planted To stand forever-it was Prince
Bismarck who said that he had watched
the course of America. lie had seen her
wonderful progress and he aScribed it to
her protective tariff system. / want to
read it.
"rhe success of the United States IN ma
terial development is the most lllustrious
of modern times. The American nation
has not only successfully borne and sup
pressed the most gigantic and expensive
war of all history, but Immediately after
ward disbanded It's army, fouNd work for
all its soldiers and bereaved, paid for
diulOoO VI ITO hCbbo, k0fC AoOOA
homes TO all of the unemployed of Europe
as fast as they could arrive within its elri-
tory; and has done all this by a system of
taxation so indirect as not 10 be perceived,
much less to be felt; because 1t is my de-
liberate judgment that the prosperity of
America is manly due to its system of
protective laws,nl urge that Germany has
now reached that point where II is neces-
sary TO initiate the tariff system of the
United States" And Germany thereupon
adopted protective tariff under which the
industries of Germany have trcbled and
the wages of German labor have increased
YY16 per cent. Great applause.J And
that is the utterance OF STATESMAN who
stood away from us unbiased by our poll
| tics without prejudice of section; but look
| ing ulon us frOm q distance with,the eyes
of keen statesman and a philosopher;
and that judgment of our prosperity and
| of our policy put in vogue among his own
people. And when the tree trader ar
| Iaigns protection as a system OF robbery
| he impeaches the judgment and the in
tegrity and the common sense Of every
people under the sun, except Great Britain.
| France has her protective tariff, Germany
her protective tariff, Italy her protective
tariff, Canada her protective tariff. Aus
tria, Russia, all of them protective tariff,
and what awful fools they must all be ii
the free trader is right Applause.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS MEANS.
| Now, gentlemen, what is TO become af-
| fer the Mic i[inley law is reDealed? III YOU