The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-24


we can have free trade in this country,
and we cannot have it a moment sooner.
Whenever the Nations of the world will
bring their social and labor conditions
up to ours, for we will never level ours
down to theirs. Tremendous applause).
That is our condition to free trade. That
is what a protective tariff means.
(Applause).
GLAD IT is TO BE CLEVELAND.
1 am glad it is to be Cleveland.
daughter and cries of Hes in the
soup.m That seems to meet with the
approval Of this audience. Uaughter).
For with no other candidate can Benja-
min Harrison make that issue so sharply
as with Grover Cleveland. He beat him
once on that question and he will beat
him again. (Applause). You can always
trust the people of the United States to
vote for themselves, and remember that
the campaign this year, waged under the
banner of President Harrison, is cam
paign in the United States, for the
United States, against all mankind.
They won't have as good time in
1892 as they had in 1890. (Cries of MOI
Then, as the President said yesterday so
fittingfy and so happily in his response
to the committee of notification: Then
it was conflict of prediction, now it is
campaign against prices current; then it
was prophecy, now it is fulflment; then
it was the campaign of the prevaricator,
noY it is Republican performance
(Applause). And upon prediction and
prophecy and prevarication the Demo-
cratic party can always beat the Repub-
lican. Uaughter). In 1890 the new
Tariff law was about four weeks old and
it was the infant that the Democratic
party assaulted. (Applause). 1t was
then too young to speak for itself.
(Laughter). 1t is nineteen months old
to night (applause) and it is old enough
to do its own talking (applause) and the
Democrat and confounding the dema-
gogue. (Applause;) three cheers were
given for american TIM Those cheers
are worthily given for we have got to-day
twenty-eight tin-plate industries in the
United States (applause) made possible
by the Tariff law of 1890, and we had
none prior to that day. They said prices
would go up in 1890, and they were put
up for time, but they had to go down.
(Applause) Everything has come down
in this country, but labor. (Applause).
Everything else has been reduced in
price, bat the wages of the artisan and
| the American workman. l said every
thing-I make one exception-pearl but
tons are still little high; and every
thing that we use or consume, anu every
thing that goes into the daily wants OF
the family, I care not what it is, is no
higher to-day, and in most cases is lower
than prior to the passage of the law of
1890. (Cries of ''You are right!o
FREE TRADE DEAFNESS.
Free Trade cheapens the product by
cheapening the producer; Protection
cheapens the product by securing the
largest possibilities of the producer
under the most generous rewards that
can be given. (Applause). Free Trade
cheapens the article by cheapening the
ARTISAN. Protection cheapens the article
by securing the best genius, the best in
vention, the best endeavor of the best
paid workingmen (Applause). More
| than 55 per cent of all we i'm
port into this country in value
under this new Tariff law is absolutely
free. (Applause). Everything was
made free which we could not produce
in the United States and which we
needed. (Applause.) That was the
principle upon which that bill was
framed-eyerything free which we could
not produce, everything fairfield that we
could produce, in the interest of Ameri-
can industries and American labor zap
plause); and there is. not line of the
law of 1890 that is not American. There
is not page of it that is not patriotic;
there is not paragraph that is not dedi-
Gated to the highest possibilities of the
American boy and the American girl.
(Applausc.) Every line of it was made
| for you; and the difference between the
Democratic party and the Republican
yarty tonight is that they are for free
trade, or for tariff for revenue only; they
would place tariff upon the foreign
products the like of which we do not
produce in % the United States, and let
come in free the products that compete
with those of our own labor in this wide,
wide world. (Applause.) ... Del
NEVER SUCH FOREIGN TRADE BEFORE.
Why, they said this new Tariff law
would keep us out of foreign market.
You heard that in 80; you heard it in
'91. We never have had such foreign
trade since the Government began as we
have had in the last twelve months. ZAP
plause.) We never sold so many Ameri-
can products to Europe in any twelve
months of our history as we have sold in
the last twelve months. applause
They called the List. Congress, over
which presided that splendid parliamen-
tartan, Tom Reed (applause), they
called it a Billion-Dollar Congress-
Billion-Dollar Congress! Why, it was a
| -Billion-Dollar Congress-. Under
the operation of the laws of that Con-
gress our domestic trade increased bill
lion and twenty millions of dollars.
(Applause) The like of which was new
er known in American history. Why,
they said, this Protective Tariff law was
prohibitive; it would neither let us out
nor let anything come in; and yet we
have had freer trade under it than under
any Tariff law since the beginning OF the
Government, our own shops and our
own soil. Now, we have got to have
tariffs. Thatis one thing you must re-
member in this campaign. You have
got to have some kind of tariff, either
Democratic revenue British tariff, OF
an American protective tariff. zap
plause) You have got to raise a mil
lion dollars every twenty-fOur hours to
meet the current obligations Of this
Government. From the rising Of the
sun this morning to the rising of the sun
tomorrow morning, one million dollars
must flow into the public treasury or the
obligations of this government must 60
unkept. How will you raise it2 VIII
you tax yourself, your property, youl
occupations, your incomes, your lands
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