The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-15

pay any part of this tax my countrymen.
tell me why the foreign governments are
bitterly opposed TO protective tariffs in the
United States If we pay il then they don't
pay il. and If they don't pay It then it 10
no hindrance to them coming into
this market / will tell you the kind
of tariff that the American consumer does
pay. and If you don't remember anything
else that have said here tonight. carry
.his home with you that the Democratic
revenue tariff Ia always paid by the con-
sumner. And wbyf because the Demo-
cratic revenue tariff to a great extent 10
put upon foreign products that do not COM
pete with American products, like tea, and
conee, 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 revenues. Put h tariff on al article
that we cannot produce IN this country
and who pays the taxi We do. We pay
the tax. Why do we pay the taxi Because
there is no competition at home to hx or
regulate or determine the price.
The price 10 liked by the foreigner be-
cause'he has got no competition here. and
the price TO the American consumer 10
the price in London and In Liverpool, with
tho American tariff added. which you and L
paw. But with a protective tariff when We
have reached the point of successful pro-
duction and are able to produce enough
for our own consumption, then competi-
tion at home fixes and determines and regu-
and If the foreigner would get IN here he
must yield up that tariff for the privilege
OF possessing this market You can't get
away from that.
We have cheapened everything to tho
American consumer by protective tariff.
bnt have done it by domestic COMPETE
tlon. Free trade cheapens products 10y
cheapening the men who make them. Pro-
lection cheapens products 10y encouraging
the best activity and the greatest energies
and the best genius and invention of the
American people. Free trade cheapens tho
article by cheapening the artisan. FRO
lection cheapens the article by elevating
the artisan SO that you get the best Drawn.
and the best brain, and the best skill OF
the artisan. Free trade in this country L
will tell yon when we will be ready for
free trade When the nations of the world
will bring their conditions up TO ours.
Whenever the nations OF the world will
bring their labor mp to oar high standing,
We will meet them in the neutral markets
of the world. and IL will be the survival or
the fittest. But we give them notice here
and now, and let nc rirg out through this
country, into every WORKSHOP. and home.
and tireside of the land, let them under
stand it now that will never bring our
condition down to theirs.
"AND DOING ITS OWN TALKING"
They were gong to destroy this tariff.
In 1890 they carried the House by two
thirds majority. The tariff law was then
four weeks old; it was too young to speak
for itself. 1t is eighteen months old to-day
and is doing its own talking. And they
have not got the power to destroy line Of
il; they are shooting paper wads through
it and apologizing for doing that. They
are attacking il by piecemeal. then inform.
ing the puolic that they need not be
alarmed; hut while they are attacking it
in the House by plecemeal. it can never
succeed because there IS q Senate which 10
Republican, and u President who ie Re-
publican-Grand man as he is-who will
stop any injury To the law. They have got
three items past the House: there are three
Thousand items in the bill AT three Items
year 1t wonld take a thousand years.
What do yOu think of thrift reform, any
howl Who knows what 1T meansf There
is not q Democrat in Chicago who can tell
what tariff reform means. Nobody knows.
and we are getting IN situation where
nobody cares. They can't touch one side
of that law in a Thousand years. And whyf
Because you can always trust the people of
this country TO vote for themselves. That
bill is an American bill. Every line OF it
breaths patriotism. Every page and para
and American genius. ana consecratcd to
the American boy and the American girl.
1t gives them wider opportunities than
can be had under any other system under
the sun. Cardinal Manning two years ago,
writing TO o London magazine of free
trade: He says il does two things; he sage
1t creates an irresponsible wealth which
stagnates, and the starvation wages or the
labor market. He says. here In London
and In England we have two worlds al
ways standing face TO face-the world of
wealth and the world of want; the world
of wealth saying In It's heart. i sit as
queen over all the toilers and traitors
and the world OF want not know
ing what may be on the morrow"
There is an indictment against the
free-trade system, not from a partisan. not
from Republican a Democrat. but one
who has studied the situati on and the con.
dition of the working men Of England Do
We want TO transfer that condition 10 the
| citizens, have talked too long. lCries Of
mo, no."l Talk about the Republican
party, there Is not man In this country
who Is not proud that there is q Rcpub-
liean party. There Is not page Of Repub-
Iican history that has been made since
1850 that any patriot in this country would
have effaced from our statute books II BIO
could. No one who loves his race would
strike it from the volume of political his
tory. And that party. only thiEy-six
years old occupies to-day the advance
p0st-the most adv anced post OF any In the
| annals of political Civilization. And that
party will continue Its onward march;
that party will continue its achievements
and It's conQuests until our fiag-the flag
of the stars-shall be the unques-
toned symbol of sovereignty ut home
and American honor abroad-untii the
labor of the United States shall be secure
from the degrading competition from
abroad. until there shall not be an enemy
to an honest dollar in the United States.
And it Will go on, my fellow citizens. until
q free ballot shall be enjoyed by every citi-
zen, secured TO him under the law, and by
the law. and for the law, and until the
American ballOt-bo shall be sacred
| the American homo.
1 go next Monday with q committee
from every State and Territory of this
| Union, appointed by the convention at
| Minneapolis to give formal and official
| notice TO President Harrison of his nomi-
| nation. It will be of the most pleas
ant duties OF my life; it Will tie one of the
most pleasant duties to place in his hands,
as the representative of that great con-
vention. the banner of the great Repub-
| lican party to which for years he has given
| added beauty, and brilliancy, and luster,
| and purity. and IN whose bands 1t will DO
| safely intrnsted to carry us To q triumph
| ant victory in November.
DROWNED HERSELF AND CHILDREN.