Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-09-02

/ revenue with more certainty than revenue
| tariff but while it is doing this it is en-
couraging our people 1t is discriminating
against foreign products and in favor of
American products. We put the tariff up
on the foreign product that completes with
the American product. We do it in the
| interest of our people.
This is the idea of a Republican protect
i've tariff: That we shall have tariff on
all products that can be manufactured i'm
this country and that it shall be removed
from all those articles that cannot be man
ufactured here. But the Democratic lead
ers tell us that a protective tariff keeps us
out of the foreign market. If there is any
thing that the average Democrat likes it is
something foreign. We don't despise a
foreign market, but it is no more sacred
than home market, not a bit. Our home
market is the very best market on the face
of the earth. We have got 63, 000, 600 peo-
pie in this country, and they spend more
money than the people of any other nation
OF the world. The reason that they con
sumo more products and consume more
money is because they have got more mon
ey to spend than any other 63, 600, 900 pco-
pie under heaven. Warm applause. They
have got more money to spend because I'M
der our Republican protective system they
can earn more money than any other g.
OOO,OOO anywhere on the face of Gods
earth Applause.
But they tell us that the new tariff
builds Chinese wall around this country
so that it is impossible to send anything
out, or bring anything in. What are the
facts as shown by the treasury report? The
official figures show that in the last year
we bought more goods on the other side
than we have bought in any II 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 begin
ming of the federal government. We sold
last year more than a billion dollars of
American products to Europe. We bought
over eight hundred million dollars worth
of European products and the balance of
trade in our favor was over two hundred
millions of dollars which Europe paid into
our pockets, representing the excess of
what we sold to them over what we bought
from them. And that, | take it, is the
way to do business. The individual cti-
zen is always the best off when the balance
of trade is IN his favor at the end of the
year. When he has sold more than he has
bought, when he has got balance in his
favor, he regards himself as reasonably
prosperous; but when it is the other way
he regards himself as very unfortunate
1t is just so with a nation.
There is nothing on the face of the earth
| like our American home market. We
consume in this country 20 pei cent of the
cotton of the world, % per cent of the
wool of the world and B per cent of the
iron and steel in the world, 80 per cent of
the tin plate of the world great applause
and | am told we consume in this country
more marble than that consumed by all
other nations in the world put together.
Now, being such great consumers in these
leading products of the world why should
we not make them ourselves? Why should
we not enjoy this market? But the Dem
ocratc leaders tell us that if they only
had free raw materials they could 90 out
and capture the foreign market Why,
they never had anything but raw material
with Democrat revenue tariff. Laugh
ter All the products of the earth were
allowed to sleep where God put them, but
under the new tariff law of 1890 they have
got free raw materials and they don't seem
to know it. Under this law any citizen of
this country can 90 to any country of the
world and buy any raw material or product
he wants, bring it into the United States,
pay the tariff fixed by law, take that prod
uct out into his workshop and make it up
into the finished product take it back to
the custom house and enter it for foreign
trade and the government refunds him 30
per cent of the tariff he paid upon his raw
material, within one per cent of free trade.
| The Democratic leader can capture the
worlds markets, for he has got free raw
material in this bill.
There is scarcely an article in common
use that has not been cheapened by the
protective tariff The men in this audience
of mature years can let their minds sweep
back for 30 years-for 30 years II you
| please-when they were under a Demo-
cratic revenue tariff, and they will find
that this is so. Look back to the year
! 1860 and 90 into one of the BrattebOro
hardware stores. At that time 95 per
cent of the hardware was made in Eng
land and five per cent in this country.
Now there is made in this country % per
cent and in foreign countries only five per
cent, and prices are cheaper by from 40
to 60 per cent. Any person here present
can verify this statement by looking back
TO the books of the stores in those times.
But the Democrats say the tariff is a
tax, and that it is we who pay the tax.
Why is it then that the foreigners COM
plain about the tariff? Why do they care
if they do not have to pay it? Why are
they hanging every American protectionist
in effigy? Ask the man in Canada who
pays the tariff. He knows, because he
pays it. He cannot get into this country
with his goods without paying the tariff.
Should we not then say, my fellow citizens,
that this tariff is a protection to the Amer
lean people? There is not man in this
audience there is not man in the state of
Vermont, who knows that there is tariff
by any burden that it imposes upon him.
But there is not man among you who
does not feel every day the blessing of a
protective tariff The only way you feel
the tariff is in the fact that you have more
than you ever had before.
| will tell you when we can have free
trade in this country. 1t will be when all
the nations of the earth bring their labor
up to the level of ours. We will never low
er our labor to the level of theirs.
The Democrats have received some cold
facts from the state of New York this
week. They are meeting with cold facts
every day. The report of the commission
err of labor statistics for that state shows
that in $4,000 individual cases the wages
of laboring men have been increased since
1890. Now let Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.
Stevenson answer this report. The labor
commissioner is Democrat, appointed by
, Cleveland, and then reappointed by Hill
l so that he must be sound in his politics.
E We are not talking about theories thi
+ year; we did that in 1890. Then the new
tariff was only three weeks old-not ole
, enough to speak for itself. Now it is 2
months old, old enough to talk for itself, AM