Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-12
MCKINLEY At BURLINGTON.
EXTRACT FROM THE GREAT SPEECH.

The revenue tariff, the democratic
party advocates, is always paid by
the consumer. That is one thing l
don't want the people of Vermont to
forget; that democratic revenue tar
if is always paid by the consumer.
Put tariff upon a foreign product
that has no competition IN the United
States who fixes the price to the
American consumer? Why, the for
eign producer. Why? Because there
is no competition here. He fixes the
price to the American consumer and
that price is the foreign price with
the American tariff added that is al
ways paid by the American consumer.
When they tell you that the tariff is
tax. answer them that that Il true as
to a democratic tariff, 1t IS 4 tax that
is always paid by consuming cOun-
try. but not so with a protective tar
if. The protective tariff may for
time be paid by the consumer, 1t
doubtless is for time paid by the con-
sumner; but when our industries are
completed, when we are able to sue
cessfully manufacture for ourselves
then competition at home among our
selves fixes and regulates the price to
the American consumer and the
American consumer does not pay the
tariff There is not man in this
great audience who, if he will let his
mind sweep back for thirty years,
thirty two years, if you please, when
YOU were under democratic revenue
tariff, let his mind go back to the old
/ hardware stores of those days; the
old hardware store, 80 years ago, ana
upon it's shelves 95 per cent of foreign
cutlery and foreign goods and less
than five per cent was American. You
can 90 into hardware store to- day
we have been 80 years under the pro-
tective tariff of that splendid states
man from Maine, Justin Morrill, A
voice ''from Vermont."] eve look to
Maine We have way of turning
our eyes to Maine and always had,you
know we have Blaine there and We
have Reed there.) When you go into
a hardware store to-day 80 per cent
of all the goods on the shelves are
made in America and 5 per cent are
foreign, and the prices are from % to
70 per cent cheaper to the American
consumer than they were then. There
is no man in the audience who IS old
enough to remember, that can not
bear testimony to that statement L
can call witnesses from every state IN
the Union. Does any one suppose
that if we had not built our own IN
dustries here and were still buying
from England that we would not be
paying the same prices that we paid
80 years ago?
All, but, my fellow citizens, the dem :
ocratic leaders say that the protective
tariff keeps us out of foreign mark
ct. If there is anything that the av-
erage democrat likes, it is something
foreign, Applause and laughter We
don't despise a foreign market, but 1t
is no more sacred than home mark
ct. not bit. 1t isn't half as good as
the home market for there isn't any
nation in the world of 64,000,000 OF
DoODlo
81, 900, 900 Americans, and the reason
is because they have got more mon
ey to spend than any other %, OOO, OOo
of people on the face of Gods earth.
1Great applause They have got
more money to spend because under
our system, they can earn more mon
ey than any other Ga, 600, 900 of people
anywhere on the face of the globe.
TGreat applause 1t is a foreign mar
ket they want Well, why don't they
get it? Laughter Why, Gen. Stew
enson says that what they propose
is to give the people Of this country
cheap raw materials-free raw mate
rails they could go out and capture
the foreign market. Why, they have
cot free raw materials for the foreign
market and don't know it. Under this
new tariff law Of 1890 any citizen OF
this country can go to any country of
the world and buy any raw material
or product he wants, bring 1t into
the United States, pay the tariff fixed
by law, take that product out into his
workshop and make it up into the I'm
ished product, take it back to the Gus
tom house and enter it for foreign
trade and the government refunds
him 90 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 mark
cts for he has got free raw material in
, this bill. Free raw material; that is,
free marble, free granite, free wool,
free everything which Vermont pro-