Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
afterward President. and was approved by
George Washington.

afterward President, and was approved by
George Washington.
The Confederate Constitution.
If a protective policy is in violation OF
any constitution It is not that Of the United
States. 1t is manifest violation OF the
Constitution OF the Confederate States.
Possibly that is what they mean. Happily
for US. however, we don't recognize that In
strument, and never did. and we are not
operating under it.
Free trade gives to the foreign producer
equal privileges with rs. Upon what prin-
ciple of fair play should he have themf 1t
invites the product of his cheaper labor TO
this market to destroy the domestic product
representing the higher and better palo
labor Of ours. 1t destroys our factories or
reduces our labor to the level Of theirs. 1t
increases foreign production, but dim1n-
free trade in this country without having
free trade conditions. The Democratic
platform demands it upon these conditions
World T d Know Knows w what % these CONDITIONS @ are.
The farmers and workfngmon or England
know what they arc. Thousands OF men
who have worked on both sides OF the ocean
and under both systems know these condi-
tions. To introduce them here will bring
values. It will take from the people who
work for living heart and hope and home
Mr.. Cleveland Joined the choir Of calamity
in his speech OF acceptance. / fear he has
not consulted the market since 1880. He had
in mind the campaign prices then prevail
ing and seems to have been unadvfsed OF
what has occurred since. He had not then
read the report Of the Senate committee
appointed to investigate the eject OF the
new tariff law upon the consumer and pro-
ducer and the wages Of labor.
The Unanimous Senate Report.
This report which is signed by Aldrich,
Allison, Hiscook, Jones, Harris and Carlisle,
is unanimous, and showed a decline in the
retail prices of el4 selected articles Of COM
fort and necessity. The report shows in
every part a constant tendency to lower the
prices of necessaries and comforts of life.
The report also shows that while the cost of
same period in England increased. As to
wages, it appears that the wages In the
special industries selected averaged In the
United States II per cent greater than in
Great Britain, which Is under democratic
free trade revenue tariff.
As to the farmers, to whom Mr.. Cleveland
SO plaintively refers, this report says that
the average price of all the agricultural pro-
proper relative Importance, were 1857 per
cent higher in September 1881, than In June
1889. May not in the light of this report
and the facts everywhere observable. re-
mind Mr.. Cleveland that in the year 1892 We
are confronted by condition and not
theory?
Ine CruGu Is CQdC tn6 prOCeCGlVe. tdr1u DdB
cheapened every manufactured product,
not by cheapening labor, but by its higher
rewards, securing from labor its highest
efficiency. Substantially everything which
protection directly affects has been reduced
in price except labor.
Governor Mckinley quoted from an arti-
Gle bv Edward Atkinson In the Nav Forwn
to corroborate this statement. He also
quoted from Bermuda paper the proceed
ings of the colonial parliament considering
the American tariff, and showing that its
burdens were being borne by the Bermudan
producers and not by the American con-
sumer.
This indicates, said Mckinley, how for
eign countries regard this tariff Similar
discussions are going in Canada, France,
England and other countries He con-
tinued:
Creation of New Industries.
Under the new tariff old industries have
been stimulated and many new industries
started, which are now estimated to have
given employment to from 200, 600 to 250,0O0
persons, and it is a fact well established by
reports from all countries that at this time,
while depression and anxiety exist in their
industries, there is prosperity in the United
States alone.
Notwithstanding the cry that under pro.
tective tariff we cannot sell abroad IL We do
not buy abroad, yet during the last fiscal
than We bought abroad This was the ex-
cess in our favor which the for.
eigners paid to US. and which we
have at home circulating among our
shows that dutiable merchandise has de-
creased under the operation OF the new law
from s47s, ,674, sA the fiscal year ended June
crease of slOs, 20, ,sO5. The free list hal in
the same time increased SOL, ,759, ,79S More
than one-half the value of all our imports is
absolutely free. The value Of. Of our exports
03O. 1886. .626 an increase Of slS5. .s54 5l6 over
the previous years. wonderful increase Of
our foreign trade under a law which was to
close the foreign markets to u.s. Our ex-
ports never before reached that point in q
given year in all our history.
Custom House figures effectively refute
stroyed our foreign trade. Under the tariff
law Of 1890 our export trade increased 151&
per cent, and the exports OF Great Britain
in the same period under Democratic free
trade tariff decreased 81 per cent.
Matters of History, Not Theory.
What protection has done and what
Democratic revenue tariff has done are mat
ters Of history. From 1sf to 1861, under
free trade revenue tariff, the balance OF
trade against us was more than $3l, ,oO0, 900,
and there were but two years OF the IA when
the balance of trade was in our favor; while
in the Is years from 1876 to 1891 there were
but two years when the balance Of trade
was against US. We were then under pro-
lection B years when the balance of trade
was In our favor, and that balance aggre-
gated l,64s. .4s5,246 which period was the
most profitable to the American people!
Mckinley argued at length in refutation
Of the Democratic assertion that the farmer
would be benefited by q revenue tariff, and
said protection 10 q positive benefit to the