The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-30

Democratic states where marble quarries
had been opened, a concession was
made in behalf of American labor.
But the question was often asked,
uCould not industries be es-
tablished and flourish with a
revenue tariff % The answer. to
this was in the history of the steel rail
and tin plate industries, where, until we
had the protective feature, attemps to
build up the industries were always
crushed out by sharp drop in the price
of the English product. This was
The Regular Game
of the English manufacturer whenever
our, mills tried to start up. Several years
ago some American capitalists saw that
English tin plate was selling for S12 a
box. There was handsome profit in
this, for tin plate is only sheet iron
dipped in melted tin, 1Aand Americans
could melt the tin and dip. the iron as
well as the English. So our capitalists
went to making tin. But the British
capitalist no sooner caught us making
tin than he decided to stop it. He
dropped his price from SIP box to
So. so; he sent his agents around on the
heels of the agents of the American man
ufacturers with orders to sell two shil-
lings cheaper, no matter what they sold
at If the Americans had given away
tin plate l suppose the British would
have given theirs away also, with
chrome thrown in. Laughter.I AS a
result our mills shut down because we
had the Democratic tariff for revenue,
and there was no protection to our IN
dustry.
There isn't mill or factory in this
country that could not run just as well
under revenue as under protectlon
tariff, provided--only one, one little
thing-that YOU who labor in those
mills will work for just half the wages
you are getting now. 1t is your affair.
The manufacturer will look out for him
self He'll get in out of the storm !;
you'll get out into it. Applause.
Referring to the Democratic cry that
the tariff is tax, and to Cleveland's as
sertion that the duty is just so much ad-
ditional to the price of the article, Mr..
Burrows asked how that could be when,
with duty of 1923 on steel rails, they
could be bought for $27, and when with
duty Of two cents a pound on wire
nails, they can be bought for cent and
a half.
But the Democrat says, if this is so
about your duty, why don't you take IT
off? Well, might say to you conf
dentially, if it works that way. why
not let it stay. Laughter and
applause7. Say to the Hollander, Pull
down your dikes; the sea hasn't been in
here for an hundred years. "But,
bless my SOUL" replies the Hollander,
SIT is the dixie that keeps the ocean out"
There is great cry for free raw mate
rial, and at first thought 1t seems plausi-
Bile. But the moment New England cries
for free iron ore, free coal and free wool,
the West will cry for free manufactures.
Make no mistake about it. l am pro-
tectionist not for my state, my county
or nv town, but for my country. Loud
applause]. .a
protective tariff is unconstitutional.
| Now the truth is, the Democrats have de-
clared so many things unconstitutional
that I have lost confidence in them.
| rT aushter.1 If protective tar
If FAas bill is unconstitutional, it
| is a little strange that jefferson,
| who reported the first one, did not dis
cover it. and that Washington, who signed
| the first tariff act, did not find it out.
Applause.
The Democrats declared that the Nc
| Kinley bill would erect Chlnese wall
about this country. That was when it
was first passed, and before they knew
| SO much as they do now-before they
| knew that our foreign trade had increased
| in the last year from 1647 to 1857 millions
of dollars worth.
Now the issue is fairly joined. Without
preparation, without warning, it is pro
posed to throw down the old historic
| &c country and 1N1rt in Itc
place free trade, which is wanted by the
Democratic party and by England. AS
for England, we will thank her to leave
us to Settle our own affairs in our own
way. AS for the Democratic party, we
will meet them in November and receive
the verdict of the mature Judgment OF
the American people. [Applause.l
The Cumberland Boat Club will send
Thomas y. Quinn to pull in the interme
| diate single she'll race at Boston ON La
| % m Nra(farthu