Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-11-05

VIZ OIhOl uay tHdI Gney naQ just I'M
ported one of those tin plate machines
to Wales and were very greatly pleased
with It, LApplause.
WOOL.
We put wool on the dutiable list higher
than IL was before. Unuer the reduction of
duty in 1885, the wool-growing industry of
the United States began to decay. and in
hve years ii 600, 900 sheep disappeared. In
1898 one-fourth of the wooden mills of the
United States were idle and their opera
tlyes thrown out OF employment The Nc
hlnley law increased The duty on wool.
made 1t adequately productive, and In
single year the sheep in the United States
increased l,500,U00 and the wool product
Increased 5000, 900 pounds; not only that
but the importation of woOlen goods that
year decreased S14.000,0 900, with no de-
crease In the domestic production of wooden
goods. We simply made them at home IN
stead OF sending MONEY abroad to buy
them from there IapplauSe |, and to-day,
ladies and gentlemen. there is not a wooden
mil IN the United States that is not run
ming. and large numb Der have been added.
Why, the Democratic party, as | recol-
lect, 1t succeeded in 1890, III electng a con-
gresS. They elected that congress on
platform that they would repeal the Nc
klnley law, and how many majority did
they have? one hundred and seventy
i've. A tremendous majority In session,
month after month, month 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 it If 1t was such
robbery? They passed bill putting wool
on the free list. They say in their ma jority
report that the duty on wool has not been
OF any benefit to the farmer; that it has
not increased the price of wool that is a
falsehood, but they say it) and the taking
OF duty OF of wool would not decrease the
price of WOOL to the farmer. In the next
line they say they take the duty off of wool
because it is raw material and they want
TO cheaper the cost or WO0lenS. Ii taking
the duty off of wool would not diminish
the price of wool how would it diminish
the price of wOolens? Two million men
in the United States engaged In sheep
raising this last year that produced 1885,
OO0,OOO pounds of wool. The value OF the
farmers sheep in the United States to-day
is Sill, 100000 and his income from wool
last year was S29000.0)0 and Yet this
Democratic house repealed so much Of the
McKinley law as to put WOO on the free
liSt-let 1t come ia here without restriction
the wool of Australia and South America.
Ii had the time | could show you that In
Australia they have good grass all the year
around except when they have an occa-
sional drought. They get their lands from
the crown and they pay only cents an
acre by the year and three acres to the
sheep; so that 1t only cost them b cents for
the Sheep the whole year round. They
have multiplied that industry and increased
1t so that it is as plain as anything can be
that If the duty is taken Oft of wool, the
sheen, huSbandry of the Uuited States must
be kilIedA but these men-thlnk of 1t a
minute-tReSe men take the duty OFT wool
and vet thay leave duty by their bill OF
80 per centro WO0len cloths. They talk
to rs abOnt AclasS legislatiOn-what is that
but class Aegislation - discriminating
against 2.OOOAQ0O men engaged IN sheep
husbandry and discriminating In favor or
100000 men engaged III The hldhulacSuIe ol
That is not ak We put prohibitory
duty on shOddy on 30 cents pound and
kent a h1ph dntv on rags and waste TO
Keen that nest-Iaien stuff out of the United
States. and to imnr9ve the quality OF the
cIOthIn0 which nurI people wore. Great
annIauSe ! The hin which they reported
from the committee anu WHICH pdSseu tn9
house, putting WOOL On tne LLe0 no. anu Io
made RAGS free and put Shoddy at 2 cents q
nound This oreat patriotic Democratic
rOnoress dominated by the South largely,
discriminated againS ST the American farmer
and in favor of the FaIlS rag picKoI, ASH
the farmer of WlSco H1sTn~A6 ~ ~ ~
and vote for free wool and free trade III
along the line Will you do it?
a voice-''No, never" ApplauSe.
BIsMARCK's TESTIMONIAL.
They have had a great deal to say about
the farmer having no protection under the
Mckinley law. | cannot take the time to
go into it tonight, but on tobacco the
farmers market last year was 81 7,0O0,0 900
more than it was th6 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,O0O,OOO 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 He had seen her
wonderful progress and he aScribed 1t TO
her protective tariff system. l want to
read it.
"Tbe success of the United States IN ma
terial development is the most llluStrlouS
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 Tor
all it's soldiers and bereayed, paid for
almost all of its debts, gave labor and
homes to all of the unemployed OF Europe
as fast as they could arrive within Its terrl-
tory: and has done all this by a system OF
taxation so indirect as not to be perceived,
much less to be felt; because 1t IS my de-
IiDerate Judgment that the prosperity OF
America Is manly due to its system or
protective laws,sl urge that Germany has
now reached that point where 1t IS neeeS-
sary TO initiate the tariff system OF the
limited States" And Germany thereupon
adopted protective tariff under which the
industries of Germany have trebled and
the wages of German labor have increased
93H per cent Great applause. And
that lS the utterance of statesman VINO
stood away from US unbiased by our poll
tics without prejudice of section; but look
inc uron us from distance with the eyes
of keen statesman and philosopher;
and that Judgment of our prosperity ana
of our policy put in vogue among MS own
people. And when the tree trader ar
raigns protection as system OF roDOefy
he impeaches the judgment and the In
teprity and the common sense OF every
people under the sun, except Great BrlIalh-
France has her protective tarlI, Germany
her protective tariff, Italy her pr0tectlVe
tariff, Canada her protective tarlII' AUS"
tria. Russia. all of them protective tarl1t,
and what awful fools they must al DC IL
the free trader is right. Applause