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

foreigners get monopoly of the pro-
duct. We cannot produce one pound of
it here. We rely upon the foreign pro-
ducer for all we consume. Who pays the
tariff in that case? 1t is paid by the
American consumer. Why? Because
the price to the American consumer is
the foreign price with the American
tariff added, for there is no competitor
at home to fix or regulate or determine
that price (applause), and that you can
not escape from. The sugar tariff was a
revenue tariff. Who paid that? You
know who paid that, for since we made
it free you pay less for your sugar than
you ever paid before (applause), but
somebody may say we produce sugar in
this country. We did not produce one
eighth of all the sugar we consumed;
seven-eighths came from abroad. Who
fixed the price? The man who con-
trolled oue-eighth of our consumption or
the man who controlled seven ,eighths of
our consumption? / need not tell this
audience that he who controls seven
eighths of our consumption fixes the
price to the American consumer, which
was the foreign price with the American
tariff added; but in the case of pro-
tective tariff, if we have reached success
full production, after we are capable of
supplying all our own wants, then the
consumer does not pay the tariff. Com
petition at home fixes and regulates the
price, and if the foreigner walks in he
must pay the American tariff for the
privilege of possessing this market; and
there is not a merchant in New York
who does not know that from his expert
ence, and that the foreigner is ready to
pay the tariff for the sake of getting into
this market; it is the most magnificent
market in the world. (Applause.) There
are not sixty millions of people on the
face of this earth who consume as much
as the American people. (Applause.)
There are no sixty millions of people
anywhere in the world that spend as
much money as our sixty millions of
people (applause), and the reason for it
is because we have got more to spend
than any other people on the face of the
earth; and we have got more money to
spend because under our industrial pol
icy we give higher wages than are paid
anywhere else in this wide, wide world
(Applause.)
AN INDICTMENT AGAINST FREE TRADE.
Cardinal Manning said of free trade a
few years ago, in great review in Lon
don: Free trade creates two things
the world of wealth, and the world of
want. The world of wealth saying in
its heart, L sit as queen over all the
toilers and traders;' and the world of
want not knowing what would be on the
morrow"
There is an indictment against free
trade, not from politician, not from a
partisan, not from a Republican, but
from great Christian teacher who had
studied the needs and the difficulties of
European workingmen. applause }
Do you want that difficulty transferred
to the United States? Ono, nol'o Then
vote that way, if you want it. (Cries of
"We Willy Vote for Harrison and
Reid Continued applause) and there
will be no danger of your getting it. oh!
but they say this tariff law is prohibi-
tory! 1t prohibits the importation into
the United States of any picture, or
book, or statuary of an obscene character.
(Cries of "Goodr') 1t prohibits the i'm
portation of any foreign goods into the
United States bearing the American
trademark, and insists that the foreign
product shall be sold in this country, if
| at all, upon its own merits and under its
own flag. (Applause.) 1t prohibits the
| United States going abroad and buying
anything it can buy at home, and insists
that if it does it must pay the same duty
upon such articles as it obliges its own
citizens to pay (applause), and the
United States has gone abroad very little
since that time. applause. 1t has
been satisfied with what we produce at
at home, and it ought to be; it prohibits
the landing on our shores of any foreign
product made by foreign convict labor.
| (Applause.) We protect our own free
men in our own States against the prison
labor of those States. (Applause.)
'.arrl ALMIGHTY FORCE.
But, my countrymen, am in no con
| dition to speak to you at length to
night. l have been at work for morC
than two weeks here and there, and
was never prouder of any work that
contribute to than the splendid work OF
/ the Minneapolis Convention. (Con
| tinued applause) The Republican
/ party has been mighty force among
/ parties. 1t will be a mighty force in the
| future, and the object is as great to-day
as it ever was. This talk about the mis-
sion of the Republican party havin :
ended-why, it is just begunl applause
| and it will never be ended! Never will
its mission be ended until the labor o.
| this country is secure against the de
| grading competition Of the labor of the
| Old World (apolause), and secure also
against the criminal immigration that
/ lands on our shores (applause); never