Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-01

built our own industries here and were still
buying from England that we would not
be paying the ID ne prices that we
paid 80 years ago.
All, but, my fellow citizens, the
democratic leaders say that the pro-
toctivo tariff keeps us out Of foreign
market. II there is anything that the ay-
erage democrat likes, it is something foreign,
Applause and laughter We don't de-
spise a foreign market, but it is no more su.
cred than "A home market not u bit. 1t
isn't half as good as the hons market for
there ism any nation in the world of 81, 000,
900 of people that consume as much as the
"a, 0O0, 900 Americans, and the reason is be
cause they have got more money to spend
than any other 81 900, 600 of people on the
face Of Gods earth. [Great applause. They
have got more money to spend because under
our system, they can earn more
money than any other Ga, 900, 900 of
people anywhere on the face of the globe.
[Groat applause 1t is a foreign market
they want. Well, why don't they get it?
Laughter. Why, Gen. Stevenson says
that what they propose is to give the people
of this country cheap raw inaterials-free
raw materials and If they only had free raw
materials they could go out aud capture the
foreign market. Why, they have got free
raw materials for the foreign market and
don't know it. Laughter and applause.
Under this now tariff law of 1890 any citi-
zon of this country can 50 to any country
OF the world and buy any raw material or
product he wants, bring it into the United
States, nay the tariff fixed by law, take
that product out into his workshop aud
make it up into tho finished product, take
il back to the custom house and euter it for
him 80 per cent Of tho tariff he paid upon
his raw material, within one per cant of
free trade. The democratic leader can cap
ture the worlds markets for he has got free
raw material in this bill. FREQ raw material;
that is, fres marble, free granite, FREQ wool,
FREQ everything which Vermont produces
under the democratic rcvenue tariff and
everything that Vermont uses is to be de-
rived under the democratic revenue tariff.
| The republican party Is against that When
its tariff law WAS made, particular attention
was given to the agricultural interests of
the country. There IS no agricultural prod
uct i'll the United States that is not defend
cd by the tariff law OF 1890. The manu-
| facturers have been protected in the past.
! We s0id when we made this bill that it
must be for Gil or il must bc FOR mono And
there j. no agricultural product raised in
Maine, raised in Vermont, raised nywhere,
that is not protected by the schedules of the
law of 1880. Ii Anybody wants to know
who pays the tariff, let them 60
over on the north side Of tie Canadian
line and ask the Canadian farmer
If anybody wants to know whether this
tariff is burddnsomo upon the American
farmer let him ask q farmer OF Vermont
that lives on the sou'p side of the Canadian
ina = ,.e,
been best Dy this law and you know it,
| y voice, Not one. Everyone of us. u
\ on feel it in your pocketbooks, in your
property, in your Investments and it is
purely business question and l want Yer
mont people next Tuesday to vote whether
thoy want this tariff continued or whether
they want this terlN repealed. Vermont
ought to give Ben lamn Harrison TO- coo
majority end c ect Legislature that would
unanimously send back to the Senate OF the
United States, Redheld Proctor. Yes, you
ought 70 do both for you are capable of do
ing both. State that never gave its ma
jOrlty 10 the democratic party but onco in its
whole history can be relied upon in 1892.
But they say, my fellow citizens, that
this new tariff law has made it impossible
to send anything out of the country; made
it impossible for anything to come in and
made it impossible or anything to 60 out
nn! they make that statement in tho light
OF the treasury officials report that show
in the last year we bought more goods on
the other side than we have bought IN any
II months of our history and We sold more
American products to Europe in the same
time than We ever sold IN any year since
the beginning OF the federal government.
We sold last year more than Il billion dol
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bought over ought hundred million dollars
worth OF European products and the bal
ance of trade in our favor was over
two hundred millions of dollars whIct
Europe paid into our pockets, represent
iag the excess OF what We sold to them ovel
wnat We bought from them. And that
take it, is the way 10 do business. The IN
div!dual citizen Is always the best of whel
the balance OF trade is in his favor at til,
end of the year. When lie has sold NOR,
than he has bought when he mas got a bal
unce in his favor, lie regards himself n
reasonable prosperous; but when it is tn
other way, he regards himself as very un
fortunate 1t is just so with q nation
But Gen. Stevenson says IN his speech AND
take it the general has given us the bos
they have got--the general says that th
decade and a halt extending from the pas
sage Of the low tariff law Of 1916 TO tn
beginning Of the civil war mas been trul,
called the golden period of our history
Because the ueccssarie, OF life had reache,
the minimum and at no time in our hstor,
was it easier for the wage Garner to supper
his family; the farmer, the mechanic, tn
t day laborer alike, realize the benefit of tn
. low tariff. benefit, why Simply for til
reason that it lessenod this cost OF food an,
9 clothing and every article TINT conduces t
. his comfort. Manufactures did not Ian
guish, the fires did not go out III our fur
naccs, tha wheels Gud spindles were not idl
) in our great Offices of industry, the deman
/ for labor was not lesseEed nor was its valu
9 deprecated. Now, there is tho statemen
l OF the democratic candidate for vice-p
p dent as tO tue condition of this country he
+ tween '46 and '6l, under the low tariff @
T. '4G commonly known as the Roberr j
q Walker tariff You have heard what Il
1 has said about tnat period In the frs
$ place lot me say that | invite Gen. Steven
4 son and tho democratic leaders to the perio
s between '4G and 81 as Illustrating IN M
G Judgment, aud | believe in the judgmen
r of any far minded body of men, that tn