Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-30
A POLITICAL MEDLEY.
Three-C COrnered Debate at a
Chautauqua Assembly.
John P. st. John Expounds the
Prohibition Doctrine.
Governor Mckinley Dilates on the
Protective Tariff.
Gen. w. O. Warner Pleads the Cause OF
Tariff Reform-Colorado Peoples
Party Ticket Endorsed by
the Silver league.
BY the Associated Press.l

BY the Associated Press.l +
MADISON, Wis, July 29.--At the fore
noon session of the Monona Lake Chau-
tauqua assembly, today, ex-Goverrior
John P. st. John spoke on Prohi bition
and tariff. He recited the Prohibition
arguments, and said under the present
system the liquor traffic has been grow
ing faster in the past three years than
ever before. Over the counters of the
240, ,797 saloons in the country, 81 ,507, /
100000 passed last year. This would
pay the national debt. n
St. John took the position that the
whole tariff system is wrong in prin-
ciple, because it levies burdens ON what
we consume instead of what we possess.
Fifteen or twenty men control today all
the means OF reaching the markets OF
the world, and our merchant marine ie
practically driven from the high seas,
The farmers possess less than one-ffth
of the wealth of the country, compared
with five-eighths forty years ago. And
still, the farmer is consoled with the
blessed assurance that he is protected"
Capital takes SIG net income from a ton
of steel, while the gross receipts xof
labor are but $1.57, and because the
laborer refuses to submit to reduction
of 25 per cent capital confronts him with
an army of hired Pinkertons, and when
he defends his interests he is called q
murderer.
GOVERNOR M'KINLEY SPEAKS.
In the afternoon Governor Mckinley
addressed an audience of $1,000 people.
Speaking on political issues he said !:
"What is tariff reform, anyway? Who
can tell? Cleveland said several years
ago he knew nothing about tariff. From
the date of that utterance down to the
present time he has given no evidence
of having increased his original store of
knowledge on economics. The Demo
cratic majority in congress passed q bill
to untax wool for the sole benefit Of the
New England manufacturers, and the
injury of all the farmers, while leaving
the duty on all WOODEN articles q man is
counted on to wear, 1t passed q bill 80
lift the tariff on cotton ties for the BEN
eft Of the south, while the almost iden-
tical iron bands in other callings retain
their old duty. Ii this is the economic
policy of the Democratic party it might
better be called no policy at all, for it
obviously represents no system and can
produce no uniformity of results"
On the question of taxation, McKin-
ley declared that the country must raise
| $400 ,000, 900 annually, to defray the ex-
penses of the federal government. Only
| two ways were possible levying direct
tax on the people, or an import duty on
the products of foreign nations. There
can be no evasion. The nation must
adopt one or the other.
Mckinley dwelt on the disadvantages
of the direct tax system, and quoted
Jefferson and Madison as earnest op-
ponents OF it in times of peace.
Thirty years of protection, he said,
had placed this country in position un-
rigaled among nations. Thirty years
ago ninety-fve per cent of the hardware
of the country was of English make.
Now, ninety-ive per cent is American.
| The Democratic revenue tariff is always
paid by the consumer. Tariff or free
| trade has nothing to do with strikes and
lock-outs; nothing to do with differences
between employer and employee.
Mckinley accused the Democratic
congress of defeating the worlds fair
bill, and doing nothing for the benefit
OF the country.
| A TARIFF REFoRMER TALKS.
w. @. Warner, of the New York Tariff
Reform club, spoke briefly from the
tariff reform standpoint.
''Tariff REFORM" said he, sis the
greatest issue of the day. Do not think
that the farmers are ignorant of these
questions, as they were four years ago.
A stupendous kick will be made next
November. Protection means taking
money from one class of people and
placing it in the pockets of another
through the sanction of law. The Dem
ocrats propose to take the tariff of the
articles used by the poor and put them
on luxuries," etc.
Warner claimed that free trade was a
miHnomer. By it the government coul6
raise over $500, ,000, 900 annually, and
the advantage of the system is that the
amount ia taken from the outside as fal
as possible.