The record-union., 1892-08-03
Special to the REcoRD-Ux1oS.
Denounced.

BEATRICE (Neb.), Aug. 2.-There were
$1,000 people at the Chautauqua grounds
this afternoon to listen to a stirring adj
dress by Governor Mckinley of Ohio.
Special trains this morning brought in
throngs of people from Kansas, Iowa and
Missouri to hear the great protectionist.
Business was almost suspended and ev-
erybody witnessed the immense process
sion which preceded the Governors
speech. All along the line of march the
buildings were decorated, and the parade
and demonstrations were the most elab
crate ever held in this State.
The Governor said in begin ming that
the latest National Democratic platform
is holder recognition of free trade than
any of its predecessors, and analysed it
at length. noting points reported by the
committee and stricken out before the
platform was finally adopted. As to the
charge that protective tariff is unconsti-
tutional, the Governor said its constitution
atty had not been seriously questioned
III more than a hundred years. The
policy was recognized in the second Act
ever passed by Congress. The United
States Congress was participated III
stitution. If the protective policy
was a violation of any Constitution,
it was not that of the United States. at
is manifest violation of the Constitu-
ton of the Confederate States" said the
speaker, possibly that's what they mean.
Happily, however, we do not recognize
that instrument, and never did, and we
are not operating under it. We cannot
have free trade in this country without
having free trade conditions. The Dem
cratic platform demands it upon these
conditions, and is bound to have it at any
cost The world L har
ditions are. The farmers and working
men of England know what they are.
Thousands of men who work on both
sides OF the ocean, and under both syS-
TENS, know these conditions. To intro
duce them here will bring widespread
discomfort and revolutionize values. 1t
would be self-destrucuion.
cleveland Joined the choir of calamity
IN his speech of acceptance. l fear that he
has not consulted the markets since 1890.
He had in his mind the campaign prices
then prevailing, and seems to have been
unadVised of what occurred since. He
had not then read the report of the Sem
ate committee appointed to investigate
the effect of the new tariff law upon the
consumer and producer and the
wages of labor. This report was
unanimous and showed a decline
in the retail price of pa selected
articles of comfort and necessity. The
report shows in every part a constant
tendency to lower the price of necessaries
OF life and its comforts. The report also
shows that while the cost of living here
decreased, it has during the same period
in England increased. AS to wages, it
appears that wages in the special industries
selected averaged in the United States II
per cent. greater chan in Great Britain
which is under Democratic free trade
revenue tariff.
''As to the farmers to whom Cleveland
so plaintively refers, this report says the
average price of all agricultural products,
except flax seed, when put at proper
relative importance were 1867 per cent.
higher in September, 1891, than in June,
1889. May 1 not in the light of this re-
port and the facts everywhere observ-
able, remind Cleveland that in the year
1892 we are confronted by conditions and
not theory. The truth is protective tariff
has cheapened every manufactured pro-
duct, not by cheapening labor, but by its
high rewards, securing from labor it's
highest efficiency. Substantially every
thing which protection directly effects
has been reduced in price, except labor.
Under the new tariff old industries
have been stimulated, and many new in
dustries started which are now estimated
to have given employment to from 2OO. 900
to 25O, 900 persons, and it is a fact well es-
tablished by reports from all countries
that at this time, while depression and
anxiety exist in their industries, there is
prosperity in the United States alone.
Notwithstanding the cry that under pro-
tective tariff we cannot sell abroad If we
do not buy abroad, yet during the last
fiscal year we have sold abroad nearly
SOB, 0O0, 900 more than we bought abroad,
This was an excess in our favor which
foreigners paid to US and which we have
at home circulating among our people.
1.-The report of the Treasury shows that
dutiable merchandise decreased under
the operation of the new law from S47S.-
Ga, S44 for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1891, to S359, 1893, $50 for the year lust
passed, a decrease of Sl09, 234. 703. The
free list in the same time increased
S9I, 759, 1913, more than half the value of
all our products absolutely free. The
value of our exports of merchandise DUR
ing the last fiscal year was 81, 030, 335. 626.
an increase of Sl45, S04 SIC over the Drevi-
Gus year, wonderful increase in our
foreign trade under a law which was to
close foreign markets to US. Our exports
never before reached that point in
given year in all our history"
Mckinley quoted figures to show that
under free trade revenue tariff from 1917
to 1861 the balance of trade against us was
more than S43l 100000. In fifteen years, |
1876 to 1891, with protection, the balance |
of trade in our favor was 81 ,649, As, 246 |
Mckinley argued at length in refutatlon |
OF the Democratic assertion that farmers |
We're benefited by a revenue tariff, and |
SAID protection was positive benefit to |
the farmers of this country; that no class
OF citizens were more certainly adj |
Vantaged by it. What the farmers want |
Is consumers, and the more consumers |
ana fewer competitors he has the better |
IL IS he wants those consumers steady |
ana regular, and has such in the 81, 000,- !
W. OF consumers in this country, who are |
the pest and most profitable consumers
on the globe.
Inc Democratic leaders of to-day" !
said the Governor, seem To think there !
is some peculiar sanctity about the for
elgn consumer that doesn't attach to the |
domestic. l don't. l prefer the domestic |
consumer because he is the best. He con-
sumes moreand has more money to paw for
his living than any other consumer i'm the |
world. The agriculturists of this conn
try do not want more farmers. They
want more people who do not raise their
own food, and whom they can sunnIv
Every new industry increases the tarm-
er'S home market, and furnishes hin,
with what he wants most, profitable ems
toners. Ii is no fault of the new ta,;ff
law II the farmers of the United States |
do not supply every agricultural want of
our entire population. That law was
framed to give them this market. and RI
encourage industries which would in
crease consumers by increasing the fac
tories and the demand for labor therein ),
Mckinley quoted from the utterances
by Gladstone and Cardinal Manning to