The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-09-02

we sold to them over what we bought
| from them.
There is no agricultural product in the
United States that is not defended bv
the tariff law of 1890. The manufactur
ers had been protected in the past. We
said, when we made this blll, that il
must be for all, or it must be for none,
And there is no agricultural product
raised in Maine, raised in Vermont.
raised anywhere else that is not pro-
tectei by the svneGGies VI the law of
1890.
Ii anybody wants to know who paws
the tariff let him go over on the north
side of the Canadian line and ask the
Canadian farmer. If anybody wants to
know whether this tariff is burdensome
upon the American farmer let him ask a
farmer of Vermont that lives on the
south side of the Canadian line. There
is not one of you who has not been blest
by this law and you know it. "a voice,
Not one; every one of u.s. You feel
1t In your pocket books, in your prop
erty, in your investments, and it is
purely business question, and l want
Vermont people next Tuesday to vote
whether they want this .teHij jdrn1n harrl-
OF OF ,WI1 majority and elect Legislature
that would unanimously send back 10
the Senate of the United states heunelu
never Xffs EE9 Ti "a SC D9e
party but once in its whole history can
be replied upon in 1892.
But Gen. Stevenson says in his speech,
and take it the General has given us
the best they have got, that the decade
and half extending from the passage
of the law tariff law of 1916 to the be-
| ginning of the Civil War has been truly
called the golden period of our history.
| Gov. Mckinley quoted from such excel
lent Democratic authority as President
Buchanan regarding the hard times and
industrial depression prevailing in this
country during the period named. He
also quoted other authorities in refuta-
ton of the statements made.
Gov. Mckinley then took up the first
published report of Commissioner Peck
of the New York Labor Statistics Bureau,
and read extracts from them. He said
that the figures of this report were a
thorough vindication of the protective
system, and the result of the investiga-
ton made of the industries of New York
was an unanswerable argument in favor
of Protection. 1t was most gratifying
exhibit, he said, of the prosperous con
| QlJlOn OF Jne wage edTueTs DIS well dS OF
the manufacturers of the Empire State,
and what was true of New York was true
of other States.
A despatch from Bellows Falls, under
date of Wednesday says: Gov. Mckinley
has made three speeches in this State
between Lake Champlain and Connecti.
cut River, since his great speech at the
Republican League rally at Burlington
yesterday. Last evening, he addressed
a large assemblage of people in Village
; Park at Proctor. This morning, hC
! spoke to an audience of two Thousand
! persons in the Town Hall at Rutland
and, this afternoon, he made a, speech il
:, the Opera House here to an audience
that packed the auditorium and stage
The stumping tour of the famous pro
' tectionist leader has been marked b.
popular demonstrations seldom witnes
! sed in Vermont. The speeches made b!
J him have awakened very mnch enthusi
asm. He will make his last speech il
!, the State at Brattleboro.'