The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-14

Is 90 per cent. Every dollars worth of that Kind
of Of ware that s comes rom Europe pats
Every iSSe s sioo p0SIS worth Of That kind eH Of
ware that comes from Europe puts into
lars worth OF that Kind d Of ware that comes from
Europe puts into the public treasury 5000. ZAP
plause.l That is protective tariff IL was put
there, not alone for revenue, but also 20 build ND
and TO protect the great industry OF pottery In
the United States l am happy TO say II has snc-
cessfully done It fGrest applause We have
splendid pottery Industries that can be found
anywhere in the world, and We are supplying
giving employment IL me to tens of thousands OF
American workingmen. and we are giving 10 the
American consumer cheaper pottery and crock
Now. thar is protective tariff. tHenewed APP
plause.l
ENCOURAGES IMPoRTATIoSs.
U it is a revenue tariff you want then 60 Per
cent. is too high. For 90 per cent on this kind
OF ware discourages the foreign importation OF
IT. sixty per cent encourages the home pro-
duction Of it. lApplause.l That is what IL was
put there for. ILaughter.l Il put it there my
self. Tremendous applause.
Now. II the tariff you put upon thit kind OF
ware is for revenue, and for revenue only, you
must have inportations OF this kind OF ware.
You cannot have revenue IL YOU do not have iin-
portatloDe, and you cannot have large rev enuo
unless you have large importaticns.
coursges the importation OF this kind OF ware
from Europe. To have revenue you must en-
courage the importation OF this kind OF wara
IRON Europe 20 instead OF putting % per cent
npon it you would put 20 per cent upon IL THAT
iswnat Dir. stevenson saye In his recent speeches
would Se far ger ceniage under % De9ocrasic alto
kind OF ware and what would be
the result Increased and Increasing
lmportations or ft from abroad. ship-load after
saip-losd. cargo after cargo wouid come from
the other side laden with tins kind or ware and
you would put more mcney-mark my words
you would put moro money into the public treas
ury with a tariff OF 20 per cent upon this kind
| or ware than yoa would with tariff OF 60 per
your own M Industry, for every y s6ip-losa OF tins
kiud OF ware that comes from Europe takes
the pr9oseoos rlase Of SSs ,sn that ps,ns
to-day. Every cargo that comes into
America displaces just that quantity that is now
ns ans %se ssDp a ae en
money into the federal treasury with n tariff of
| 20 per cent, while you are doing II you viii be
your % own t iurnaces m % and sending Your own wcr.
| ingfnen adrift 10 tramp the land and beg fof
bread. ICries, "we will never do it, No@.
| The Democratic revenue tariff puts first
It's tariff upon FOREIGN product that
product IL is copied after the British system of
| tariff. They talk about England being a free
| trade country Why. ENGLAND collects more thar.
one hundred million dollars every twelve montna
| from customs duties but she puts her tarin upon
foreign products the like OF which are not pro-
| duced in Great Britain. she puts her tariff upon
! the non-competing foreign product and that 10
/ the proposition OF the Democratic leaders to-day,
TO put tariff upon tea and coffee. and sugar, and
| part we cannot produce at home at all; and that
| Is the doctrine and policy OF the advocates OF
revenue tariff reform in this country to-day.
Now our principle is Just the opposite. We per
| mit under our protective policy, everything To
| come into this country free, except luxuries,
| that we cannot produce at home lapplausel. and
products that compete with the products OF our
own labor. Applause and cries OF That's
right."l
WHAT SHOULD BE FREE.
Everything We cannot grow on our own sol.
everything we cannot make in our own shops,
which the American people must have, we say
may come in untaxed. without restriction at our
custom-houses and go free to the American peo-
| pie. [Applausel Now do you know why we do
| that For there is q reason for everything. A
tariff put on foreign product. the like of which
| consumer. You put tariff upon tea, or 90 -.
| or sugar, or drugs, or spices, on any article
which for the most part cannot be produced
| those products, and whyi Because the foreigner
| controls this market in every article that We
| the price according TO his own sweet
will. and that price is the foreign price with the
| American tariff added. That Is because he has
| got o monopoly OF this market But you put the
| tariff upon the foreign product that competes
1 with the American product and make NJ high
/ enough 10 encourage our own people TO engage
IN those industries and for a time the American
4 consumer may pay the tariff, but when we have
| succeeded in manufacturing for our own wants,
regulates the price TO the American
| consumer, and the American consume.
does not pay the tariff. Applause
And there is not man In this audience who doei
| not know that plain principle from his own sx-
i perience. tCries Of Eyes, that's SOL There IL
not an article OF hardware. there is not an arti,
4 afa NJ WON on 0f enf ia nj
steel or of iron. there s not an article OF glass Oh
pottery that has not been cheapened TO tho
4 American consumer by domestic manufacturers
made possible by protective tariff. Applause ]
You old men in this audience to-day go back IN
1850. On the shelves Of the hardware merchant
then 95 per cent OF all the hardware exposed for
4 sale was OF English make, and less than per
same hardware stores to-day, and on the shelves
OF the hardware merchant 80 per cent. or all
| they expose for sale is American product lap
| plausel, and per cent. only Is foreign; aud
| every article of hardware. care not what IL is
| you may name anything you please-every one
| per cent by domestic competition, made possi-
1 BILE by protective tariff lApplause.l
DON'T KNOW THEY ARE HURT.
But my fe!low-citizens, they say this protect
i've tariff is burden upon the American people,
| II you have heard a Demo cratic speech this year
that is what you have heard-it is an enormous
burden upon you. There is not a man In Indi-
| ana who knows there is any such thing as a pro-
| tective tariff law from a personal experience OF
| his own of the burdens OF protective taf1ff-not
| one. You don't know there 10 such thing as .
| protective tariff from any thing you feel, meal
| By way OF a burden, and there Is not man @
i woman In Indiana who does not know there In
protective tariff from the blessings that he en-
q man lie not very much hurt II he hae TO be 10
| about it. lApplause. Ii is the business OF th
| Democratic leaders this year 10 point out how
you suffering LAUGHTER and applause
when you have no knowledge or experience OF ID
yourself. When you stand erect and feel that
| You getting rather handsomely in The
world. Democratic leader comes around and
tells you that you are burdened and
borne down by Republican protective
tariff taxation Now, my fel,ow-citizens. Il
this protecton Is such great burden
upon the American people. then it must make
itself manifest somehow and somewhere. You
cannot have the burden these people talk about
without having it show itself IN some way How
protective tariff for than thirty-ons
years In that time we have fought out one OF
the mightiest rebelocs In history, spent millionl
and billions OF dollars, making an enormoul
debt, aud yet since $40 we have paid OF more
than two thousand millions of that debt and les1
than thousand millions remain. Has IL burdened
the Statesl In twenty years the taxation
in the state has been reduced 20 per cent Hal
IL burdened the counties and municipalities
In twenty years the taxation has been cimin
ished 45 per cent; the debts OF the State and
debts of municipalities, and the debts OF the
counties have fallen from l5 10 20 per cent In
less than twenty years; and so faf as tho indi
ydual Is concerned, we never were 90 prosper
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