Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

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ed tariff under the new law upon sew
ing needles. "Why." said the retail
merchant, 'what is true is that tn,
new law puts sewing needles on tn
free list-took the tariff Off"
That was true. We found that w
did not make sewing needles in TIN
United States. We found that W,
could not make them-it was mo-
profitable to make them, and so fol
lowing the principle upon which tina
bill was constructed we put sewing
needles on the free list. Now, thai
retail merchant will never believe in
the party that deceived him. Ht
won't sell a needle for thirteen years
over his counter that he will not
recall the demagogue who went about
telling him that he must lay in Z
supply of everything in anticipation
of high tariff under the new law. He
has had the truth pricked into him.
Laughter and a%pplause.l So that
bill was misunderstood all along the
line. 1t is charged that 1t created
the tinplate lie, but it is just as true
that the operation of that law has
extracted the tinplate law. Laugh,
ter.
But, my fellow-citizens, as you dis
cover, / have a convention voice
tonight. / have been shouting so
much at Minneapolis that | am in no
condition of voice tonight to speak as
| would like TO speak to this vast
audience of Chicago republicans. IA
voice: "You are all right; go on"
Laughter and applause.1
RAW MATERIAL PRACTICALLY CON-
CEDED.
They say, "if we only had free raw
material we could go abroad and
capture the worlds markets" Well,
we put into this new tariff law a pro-
vision that provides that any citizen
of the United States can go into any
country of the world, can buy any
raw material he wants and bring it
into the United States and pay the
duty upon it fixed by law, take it
into his factory and make it up into
the finished product, and then take it
back to the custom house of New
York or Philadelphia or Boston or
Chicago and enterit for the export
trade, and the government refunds to
him 80 per cent of the tariff he paid
upon his raw material. That is
within / per cent of free trade on raw
material. Now, if he wants to go
into the worlds markets and capture
them with free raw material we have
given him within l per cent of free
raw material. Applause.
Now, they say this new tariff law is
prohibitiye. There is freer trade
under it than under any tariff law
since the beginning of the govern
ment. More than so per cent Of all
mo L., N1rt ,r-IAa s1a4 lam 10 fanA
About "A per cent is dutiable, and
that you won't find in any tariff law
since the first one. So that we have
freer and wider and broader trade
under this new law than under any
made upon a principle, anC that
principle was that everything which
we could not produce in the United
States should come in free, and every
thing that we could not grow on our
soil, everything that we could not
take from u mines, everything that
we could not make in our shop profit
ably and were compelled to go abroad
and buy, every such product was put
upon the free list by the tariff law of
produce, and proposed to pro-
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product competed with ours, we put
plauSe. We say to the manufac-
turer of any such product, ''if you
want to enter the United States and
sell in competition with the American
citizen, side by side with him in the
markets of the United States, we pro-
pose that you must come in upon
nnIrn1 conditions with him Won
must pay into the public treasury so
much per ton, so much per yard, 50
much per pound, for the privilege of
entering this market.
Why isn't that right? [Voices-''It
is right" Great a%pplause.l Let any
citizen of the United States, let any
workingman, let any manufactures,
let any trader tell me, let the farmer
tell me why this principle is not
right. Here is the best market in
the world. Here are sixty millions of
people who buy more than any other
sixty million of people on the face of
the earth. [Great applause.l Here
are sixty millions of people who con-
sumo more than any other sixty mil
lion upon the face of the earth, and
they spend more money because they
have more money to spend than any
other sixty million upon the face of
the earth. Renewed cheers. And
they have more money to spend
because under our system of
encouraging and protecting and
fostering American industries we are
enabled to pay the highest rewards
for labor, higher than are paid any
where else on the face of the earth.
[Great cheering.l
WHY FOREIGNERS SHOULD BE TAXED.
Tell me why the foreigner should
be permitted to come in here untaxed
and sell in open competition with
the American producer. He
contributes not one dollar for the
benefit of this government; he con-
tributes not one dollar either in wat
or in peace for the maintenance of
the honor and the dignity and the
glory of this republic; you can't reach
him. Who built up this beautiful
city of Chicago? Who made these
Thousand and tens of thousands of
miles of beautiful streets? Who
built your beautiful bouleVards? Who
erected your grand public school
houses? Who built your public insti-
tutions and maintains them? You
did it and you taxed yourselves to
do so.
The foreigner has done nothing of
that sort, and yet he wants to come
in here under the lead of the demo-
cratic party and enjoy equally with
you this splendid market in the
United States. Our policy bids him
''haltw at the custom house, and tells
him that before he can enter he must
step up to the captains desk and
settle. Tremendous applause.
o, but they say, you pay the tax in
this country; you the consumer; the
foreigner does not pay it. If the
foreigner does not pay any part of
this tax my cOuntrymen tell me why
the foreign governments are so
bitterly opposed to protective tariffs
10 the United States. [Cheers. If
we pay it then they don't pay it, and
if they don't pay it then it is no
hindrance to them coming into this
market? l will tell you the kind of
tariff that the American consumer
does pay, and if you don't remember
anything else | have said here tonight
carry this home with you, that the
democratic revenue tariff is always
paid by the consumer. And why?
| Because the democratic revenue tariff
to a great extent is put upon foreign
products that do not compete with
American products, like tea and
coffee, and sugar and spices and drugs.
The products that we cannot produce
in this country are the products
which under a democratic revenue
tariff would be taxed for public
revenue. Put a tariff on an article
that we cannot produce in this
country and who pays the tax? We