The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-05


free from federal taxation" II this was
all there was in the campaign, and the
only declaration they had made, it ought
to defeat the party which in national and
deliberate convention of its representatives
resolved to go back 10 the wildcat cur
rency Of thirty years ago. Mr. johnson is
pledged to maintain the financial system
we now have, and he will vote to main
tain it If you send him to congress, as |
know you will, IApplause,l
"There is another question for which
l claim your attention, and that is the
tariff.
Mr. Harter, to whose wildcat money
bill have referred, made rabid free
trade speech some time ago, which have
at hand. He is in favor of absolute free
trade, and the raising of the revenues Of
the government by direct taxation, In
that speech Mr.. Harter asserted that The
protective tariff is fraud, and those who
advocate 1t 1t are either grossly Ignorant
or are actuated by selfish motives BY
this language he calls Washington, Jeffer-
son, and all the other democratic protec'
tlonists ignoramuscs or interested knaves.
He also said that this country was rela-
tiyely more important as a manu-
featuring community prior to the reYolu-
ZION than at any time since then.
In this statement Mr.. Harter and history
do not agree, for the United States fol-
lowed Great Britain just the same as the
democrats want us to do now. England's
laws were repealed on June 80, 1s46, and
the American law on July 20, 1916, almost
a month after the English parliament had
acted. Mr.. Harte. compares the periods
from 1850 to 1860, and from 1860 and
1870, but he says nothing Of the period
between 1870 and 1890,
The greatest depression our country
ever knew lasted from 1850 10 1860. II
cared TO take time to call Witnesses to
that TACT could call Presidents Fillmore
and Buchsnan and Horace Greeley, the
great editor. The democratic tariff for
revenue policy during that period extiu-
guished the fires in the furnaces, closed
the mines and factories, and set men who
desired 10 work TO begging, and there are
thousands of you men before me who
know IT, [Applause.l This was the time
that Harter calls the prosperous era. II
that Is prosperity then l pray God to save
us from any more Of It. IApplause.
Then Mr.. Harler says that the farmers
are not benefited. Well, they are. The
tariff law secures 10 them the best market
in the world-the home market. The
American spends s02 with the farmer,
while the foreigner buys only So worth
from him.
The farmers know that factories are
beneficial to them, and If they want fac
tories they desire the success Of the re.
publican party.
We are but FIVE per cent of the people
ol this globe, but we use twenty per cent
Of the cotton grown in the world, twenty
two per cent Of the wool, twenty-five per
cent Of the sugar aud coffee, thirty per
cent of the iron, and fifty per cent OF the
tin plate Applause. That is what we
do here.
We spend more money than any people
on the face Of the earth, and yet II is pro-
posed by the democratic leaders like Mr..
Harter to open all this vast country to the
nations Of the earth and say: "Come
share with W what we have taxed our.
selves millions to build" say the nations
have no rlght'to come here and market
their goods on the same conditions en-.
joyed by US. That is the contention be-
tween the parties. We say to III the for
eigner, You trade on our terms and that
Is all there is TO a protective tariff. The
democrats say come In and enjoy our
wealth and we will raise the money to
keep Il up by direct taxation
Do you want TO go back TO the system
OF direct taxation which you had during
the war; The people Of Lorain county
would say with one voice, mo- There is
one way to prevent II, and that Ia TO vote
for Mr.. L. q. Johnson, who stands against
such policy. Mr.. Harter stands for
wildcat currency and direct taxation. II
Is not question oil men but Of principles,
except as they represent principles.
[Applause.l ~
This country will be ready Tor free trade
when the other nations have brought the
social condition Of their people up TO the
standard Of this country, when they pay
their laborer and their producer as much