New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-01
foreign trade amounted to the enormous sum Of
THE COr-vTRy,S IMpORTATIONS.

foreign trade amounted to the enormous Of
81, 800 100000.
THE COUNTRY's IMPORTATIONS.
This country imported last year S5oo,oooooo OF
foreign products. 1t never had imported 20 much
In one year before Arplause.) The reason for tins
was that we struck of every Democratic revenue
tariff that found cheers; because tariff that -
for revenue Is paid by the american eonsnner, We
That they came in without fax TO the consumer.
,nS stp9T 81 GH nG ns ~ md paid T 500
10000 In gold at the end Of the year 70 settle baI.
snce of trade In our favor. We've got that money
now. Great applause ,.
They tell that protective tariff Is uncon'iit s,
tional. IL violates only one constitution, ana uat
Is the defunct Confederate constitution. We are not
operating under the C2nfedcrate constitution . up
o. Grant prolonged cheerine) and sherman ana Ser
idan lIenewed chseilng5 ana inc .SnS ~ Grover
Cleveland better constitutional lawyer than Lame;
Madison Is Adla Stevenson asafer Interpreter OF
wa rson more 10 be relied upon than Henry Clay
Ap, any all OF them above TIE supreme Curt Of
that o5at' which is the greatest judicial body IN
the world has put its Official sanction on the nrh law
~ 1890. and II that law + not protection II - by
sccident and not design dlughler and sh,ers,
They forget that we never had anything but raw
material under a Democratic revenue tarlf. tdreat
applause ron cSs ara nhe were nopctiVe fsri
when manufactures came then came demand Iof
those minerals, and the pick OF the miner was heard
In tie land
ABOUT FREE-TRApE PRICES.
They say We could get things cheaper with Free
Trade We might for a time in the struggle for the
control Of this market. but As soon as Europe got
that control. prices would 30 up. Again the cheap
ness of a thing depends on our ability 70 buy it, and
that abilit, depends the ability 10 get work ana
wages. Free Trade cheapens the article by cheap
tning the artisan Protection cheapens the article
his labor and getting from him his best skill and
highest genius. Free Trade levels down, Protection
man sh uld be allowed TO buy where he can buy the
cheapest. can give you a maxim that is worth
easiest CChcers.) You know where thit place Is.
il is where Iahor gets its greatest returns the United
Some people say We can't make tinpate Laugh,
pottery. or watches; We couldn't make watches ,,
they said. because that called for the highest ski.
g.obe are itching iIan Columbia. Gong con
tiuued applause We can't make tlnplael Il.s
make. (Cheers) We have to-day thirtyone estah
lishments that make tinplate, and they give employ.
few days ago, saw the tinpate plant AT klwood;
Indana; as fine plant as any in the Soo world |
earning good wages In that mill. But
they @y that is only politics ht, ,vos Then Then
md wages &c my countymen IS the politics for me.
Prolonged cheering)
THEY ARE BRITISH CANDIDATES.
Out in my state, aud possibly in NewYork the
Democratic campaign managers are distributing small
plates OF tn with pictures of Cleveland and stevenson
pn them. on tie back are the words, 4 Mckinley
object lesson Those plates made OF imported
lin, shown by their weight. What suitable place
Tor those two pictures lLaughterl There is not
Over the pictures should be the Briiish lion and the
That is the difference between them and We make
tinplate that Is good enough for US. (Cheers)
tuIided it and their sons have preserved it. The
foreign producer sits 5000 miles away, but you are
way 10 reach the foreign producer Is 10 stop him AZ
our ports. That is what protective tariff does: II
self-preservaton and self development. II has made
the Youngest country the earth first in agriculture,
lie that doth not provide for his own has denied
the faith and is worse than an nfdel. Every time
Gladstone said twenty Years ago that Englend and
an ea mother AID dauger Mere the greatest ate ma
was not distant when daughter would overako
the mother. wan, 10 say TO Mr.. Gladstone tonight
will tell YOU when We will be ready for Free Trade
have it a 1t is when all nations Of the
world pay their labOrers the same wages that we pay
pne as ours we viii ie meet them in he markets Of
the world But let us give them emphatic notice that
cheaper the product without cheapeiing the man. our
Country was never more prosperous than IT Is tOday:
Iabcrers were never 50 well employed. Democrats
may arrest NJ; Peck Int they can't arrest the pros
psTy Cf ~ 9l0n They may shut him up but they
II the DemocIic party coIii live on prediction
Isl party in he world. daughter II said in 1891
that the tariff law Of 800 would be failure. That
speak for Itself The Democratic orators used the
prediction freely. Democratic Congress elected
but Is any Democrat tonight proud of the work OF
that Congress Now that tariff law is two years OIL
Nothing that can say. can help IL. 1t Is working
ont is own demon stration. ApplauseJ
or the two great principles that have discussed
benjamin Harrison prolonged and uproaTious ap-
liausc), and Wlitelaw Reid renewed checring),
to-day the representatives,. They stand for an honest
dollar and for Protection | want benjamin Harrison
In tho White House. among other things. that. II
lY any mlSchsncc. the next Congress should be Demo
cratic, he would be there to veto any bill for Con
I, Trade.
WHAT EUROPE WANTS.
There is not nation In Europe that does not
want Cleveland elected and Harrison defeated There
Is IA nation in Europe that wouldn t wipe from
statute books the tariff law Of 1890 If it could
1t not made for European nations. II
inaic for the American peope, all them.
IS scctonslism I'm ill., Every line OF it Is American
Every schedule in ii Is cOnsecrated the American
girl and the American boy, and to the best purposes
and the highest aspirations Of American manhool.
II Is your law. What will you do with it one week
from tomorrow
] want to say TO the people OF Brooklyn that II
that dav You 20 TO the polls and vote for the
party which yon believe. deep down in your con
sciences, 10 represent your best interests and
the best interests OF the Nation there need be fear
for the OF Harrison and Reid.
The volume OF cheers that marked TIE close of
Governor McKinley's speech was so enormous an1
prolonged and the effort TO greet him as he lefo
the hall was 50 spontaneous and general that
il was fully ten minutes before General Wood
+. Elliott the Republican candidate for District
Attorney Of Kings County, and Captain William
H. Grace, candidate for Congress from the HI
District, who made short addresses
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