Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-03
M'K|NLEY TALKS TARIFF.
The Champion Of Protection
ON the Stump.
He Addresses $4,000 People at
Beatrice, Neb.
Subtle Sophistries with Which TO-
SOftsoap the Farmers.
Blaine to Stump the State of Maine.
"whitelie'' Reid Delivers q Cam
paign Speech--Other Po-
1itical News.

By the Associated Press.]
BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 2.-Fifteen
thousand people at the Chautauqua
grounds this afternoon listened to a
stirring address by Governor Mckinley
of Ohio. Special trains this morning
brought in throngs of people from Kan
sas, Iowa and Missouri, to hear the
great protectionist. Business was al
most suspended, and everybody wit
messed the immense procession which
preceded the governors speech. ALI
along the line of march the buildings
were decorated, and the parade and
demonstration was the most elaborate
ever held in the state.
The governor said, in beginning, that
the latest national Democratic platform
is bolder on the recognition OF free trade
than any of its predecessors, and ana
lyzed it at length, quoting points sub
mitted by the committee and stricken
out before the platform was adopted.
so as to charge that protective tariff Is
unconstitutional. The governor said
sits constitutionality has not been seri-
ously questioned in more than hun-'
dred years. The policy was recognized
in the second act ever passed by the
congress of the United States, con-
gress participated in by many trainers
of the constitution. If the protective
policy is the violation of any constitu-
tion, it was not that of the United
States. 1t is manifest violation of the
constitution of the confederate states,
possibly that is what they mean. Hap
PLY, however, we do not recognize that
instrument and never did, and we, are
not operating under it.
aWe cannot have free trade in this
country without having free trade con-
ditions. The Democratic platform de-
mands it upon these conditions, and is
bound to have it at any cost. The world
knows what these conditions are. The
farmers and workingmen of England
know what they are. Thousands OF men
who work on both sides of the ocean,
and under both systems, know these
conditions. To introduce them here
will bring widespread discontent and
revolutionize values. 1t will be self-de<
structive. s4e- ~ ~
isMr. Cleveland joined the choir Of
calamity howlers in his speech of ac-
ceptance. fear that he has not con-
suited the markets since 1890. He had
in mind the campaign prices then pre-
| vailing, and seems to have been unad-
vised Of what has occurred since. He
has not read the report of the senate
committee appointed to investigate the
effect of the new tariff law upon the con-
sumner and producer, and the wages of
labor. This report was unanimous, and
showed decline in the retail price of
214 selected articles OF comfort and me-
ceesity. The report shows in every part
a constant tendency to lower prices in
the necessaries of life and its comforts.
"The report also shows that while
| the cost of living here has 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 ~ per
cent greater than in Great Britain,
which is under a Democratic free trade
revenue tariff. AS to the farmers to
whom Cleveland go plaintively refers,
this report says, the average price OF all
agricultural products, except flax seed,
when put at proper relative Importance,
was 1857 per cent higher in September,
1891, than in June, 1889. May | not, in
| the light of this report and facts every
where observable, remind Mr.. Cleveland
that in the year 1892 we are confronted
| by conditions and not theory.
The truth is, the protective tariff has
! cheapened every manufactured product,
not by cheapening labor, but by its
| high rewards, securing from labor the
highest efficiency. Substantially every
| thing which protection directly affects,
has been reduced in price, except labor.
| Under the new tariff, old industries have
been stimulated and many new indus
| tries started, which it is estimated give
employment to from 100000 to 250,000
persons, and the fact is well established
| by reports from all countries, that at
this time, while depression and anxiety
exist in their industries, there is pros
| perity in the United States alone. Not
withstanding the cry that under a pro-
tective tariff we cannot sell abroad If we
do not buy abroad, during the last fiscal
year we sold abroad nearly $203, ,00O, 600
more than we bought abroad. This is
the excess in our favor which foreigners
paid to us, and which we have at home
circulating among our people.
"The report of the treasury shows
that dutiable merchandise decreased
under the operation of the new law
from $478, ,674, ,844, for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1891, to $369, 1895, ,130 for
the year just passed, decrease of $109,-
234, ,705. The free list in the same time
increased SOL, 759, ,793. More than half
the value, of all our products are abso-
lutely free. The value of our export
merchandise during the last tiscal year
was 81 ,030, 1886 1926, an increase OF $14b,-
854. 8l6 over the previous year-a Won
derful increase in our foreign trade
under the law which was to close for
eign markets to us. Our exports never
before reached the point given, in any
year in all our history"
Mckinley quoted figures to show that
under free trade revenue tariff, from
l847 to 1861, the balance of trade against
US was more than $43l, 900, 600. In the
fifteen years from 1875 to 1891, with pro-
lection, the balance of trade in our favor
was 81 ,649, 445 ,246.
He argued at length in refutation OF
the Democratic assertion that the farm
ers will be benefited by revenue tariff,
and said protection wss a positive bene-
fit to the farmers of this country; that
no class OF citizens was more certainly