Huntsville gazette., 1892-09-24
M'klNLEY IN INDIANA.
The Tin Industry in America Formally
Dedicated.

Ino lin INDUSTRY IN America rOrmatly
Dedicated.
At grand opening Of the tin works
at Elwood on September 13, Gov. Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, was present and made
the dedieatory address to large con-
course of people from all over the
state. In his remarks the champion of
protection practically illustrated the
benefits of the system and delivered
some telling shots at the free trade
democrats. The following is the gist
of the speech:
All agree that the issue which is commanding
the most attention and which is most upon the
minds Of the people is the ques tion Of the tar
i'll. 1t requires in this country little more
than 800, 100000 every year to meet the current
obligations OF the government A million OF
dollars must be raised every twenty-four hours.
Now there two kinds Of tariff, the one a
protective tariff, advocated by the republican
party. The other is the tariff for revenue only,
advocated by the democratic party Either the
protective or the revenue tariff will provide the
money requisite for public purposes But rev
enue tariff will do nothing else but raise rev
enue. 1t is tariff which excludes every other
consideration but revenue. 1t turns deaf ear
to the labor and the wages and industries Of the
country. A protective tariff performs the
encouraging and stimulating the industries and
energies OF our own people.
The tariff on that pitcher is 80 per cent 1t
was put there not alone for revenue, but also to
build up and protect the great industry OF pot
terry in the United States j am happy to say
1T has successfully done it. We have got under
the tariff of 60 per cent the most splendid
pottery industries that can be found anywhere
in the world, and we are supplying large
share OF the American market to-day and Civ
ing employment to thousands OF American
workingmen, and we aregiving to the American
consumer cheaper pottery and crockery than
he ever had before. Sixty per cent encourages
the home production OF it, That is what it was
put there for. put IL there myself.
There is not an article OF hardware, there is
not an article of wool or cotton, there is not an
article OF iron, there is not article Of glass or
pottery that has not been cheapened TO the
American consumer by domestic manufacture
made possible by protective tariff.
But, my fellow-citizens, they say this protec-
tive tariff is q burden upon the American peo
pie. There is not man in Indiana who knows
there is any such thing protective tariff
law from any personal experience OF his own OF
the burdens OF a protective tarin-not one
There is not 4 man or woman in Indiana who does
not know there is protective tariff from the
blessings that he experiences under that system
Well, man is not very much hurt il he has 10
be told about it, 1t is the business Of the demo
cratic leaders this year to point out how you
are suffering We have been under a protective
tariff for more than thirtyone years. In that
time we have fought one OF the mightiest rebel
lions in history, spent millions and billions Of
dollars making one enormous debt, and yet
since 1870 We have paid of more than two thou
sand millions of that debt and less than thou
sand millions remain. Has II burdened the
states? In less than twenty years the taxation
in this state has been reduced twenty per cent
Has it burdened the counties and municipalities
In twenty years the taxation has been dimin
tshed forty-five per cent, the debts Of the state
and debts Of the municipalities and the debts OF
the counties have fallen from fifteen to twenty
per cent in less than twenty years, and so far
the individual is concerned we were never sc
prosperous in all our his tory as we are to-day
AS understand it, 1t is the purpose OF this
meeting here to-day and the object lesson which
you are to see is to convince that what they have
hitherto believed was not true is in fact true
The democrats say we cannot make this, we
cannot mako that, they say we cannot make tin
plate Why they said few years ago we
could not make steel rails. They said we could
not make silk, they said we could not make pot
terry and glass They said we could not make
watches, and yet we are making every one Of
them, and to-day under protective tariffs we are
the first manufacturing nation OF the world.
Why should not the democrats well as the
republicans want tin-plate factory in this
factory in your midst thar gives employment TO
$50 men than to have al democratic Offices in
the state OF Indiana What is tin plate? 1t is
piece of sheet iron or sheet steel coated with
tn-you know more about 1t than do, il you
live here where it is made, and those who do
not have seen it to-day, and it is a demonstra-
ton that the democratic leaders are wrong.
Why should they be opposed to half dozen
great tin industries in the state Of Indianai
There is no reason in the world unless 1t is be-
cause you will reduce the democratic majority
in the state Every other consideration de-
mands It
The democratic party is the party Of predic-
tion, and II results didn't overtake the predic-
tion 1T would be the greatest party in the world
And II facts didn't outrun these predictions it
would be the most successful party in the
world. The last twelve months sold more
than billion dollars OF American productions
to Europe, point never reached before in all
our history, and we bought more products from
abroad than we ever did in any twelve months
Of our history, and when Europe settled the
balance of trade with us she paid into our com
merce thirty million dollars in gold to express
the excess OF what we sold to them over what
we bought Of them