The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-15
M'KINLEY ON PROTECTION
A Succinct and Effective Presentation
of the Party's Leading Doctrine.
Arguments and Conclus 0ns That Cannot Be Re.
iuted iy tie Enemy-Ths Glorious Achieve
mems of the Party Of Progress

Chicago Republicans ratified the Mime
| apolis nominations on Monday night. Gov.
Mckinley was the principal speaker After
warmly eulogizlng President Harrison, he
| said:
| Now. if protective tariffs are such a bur-
den upon the American people, there should
be some WAY OF aeceri aiming it, But IL IL
| burden2 Has it increased our State debtsf
They have been diminished over Is per
| cent In the last ten years. Have protective
| tariffs increased our national debit 1t has
been dim shed SO that two-thirds of our
| great national debt has been paid off under
! the revenues gathered into the treasury by
| the protective tariff. "Ah, but" they say,
/ 'your protective tariff keeps US out of q
| foreign market" If there Is anything that
| the Democratic heart delights to speak
| about 1t is something foreign. something
| abroad. ! don't know how you feel about
| it, but for me and mine there Is no place
| of the foreign markets. Now the tariff law
| has been in operation 81 Rhteen months and
| in the last twelve months we have sent
more American products abroad than We
have sent aboad In any twelve months
since the beginning of the federal govern
| ment.
| They call the Fifty-first Congress bill
ion-dOllar Congress. Why, it is q two bill
| ton of the Fifty first Congress our dOmes-
| tic trade has been $1,000 000, coo, and our
foreign trade added to it makes it within
| $l0O.O00 of $1,000. DOC. 900. That expresses
the result of the legislation of the Fifty
first Congress
An. but they say what we want Is ''free
raw material" Why, never had any
| thing but raw material in the good old
| Democratic days. Under Democratic
| revenue tariff the coal and iron ore which
| God Almighty put into our hills and mount
aims were permitted to sleep. Raw ma
terial under the magic hand of protection
| is no longer raw.
Then they want things cheaper. Things
were never as cheap as they are to-day.
With the exception of pearl buttons there
| is not anything upon which the tariff was
| increased by the law Of 1890 that is higher
now than it was then. In most instances
| it. il lower now than then The truth abont
| it is that the new tariff law was very much
misunderstood and very much prevaricated
| abont
| wholesale merchant in the city of Gin
cinnati told me last spring, as illustrating
| the Misunderstanding about this new tariff
| law. that a retail merchant came into his
| store nine days before the low went
| into operation, and bought up every sew
ing needle he had in his store. The MGR
| chant was anxious TO know why he had
bought q stock that would last him for
fourteen years In his retail business. He
| answered the Wholesale merchant that he
! had done it in anticipation of the increased
tariff under the new law upon sewing
| needles. why said the wholesale mer-
chant, what is true Is that the new law
puts sewing needles on the free list took
! the tariff OIL" That was trne. WefOund that
we conld not make sewing needles in the
| United States We found that we could
not make them. after trial-it was not
profitable to make them-and so, following
the principle upon which the bill was con.
| istructed, we put sewing-needles on the free
| list. Now that retail merchant will never
| believe in the party that deceived him. He
won't sell a needle for thirteen years over
hat h. vxr,lI dana
| agORue who went about telling him that he
| must Law In a supply of everything in an
| t,cipatiOn of high tariff under the new
law. He has'had the truth pricked into him.
| SO that bill was misunderstood ali along
| the line. 1t is charged that it created tho
| tIn-piate lie. but it 10 just as true that the
| operation of that law has extracted the
tiD-plate lie.
But, my feliow-citisens, as you discover,
l have a convention voice to- night. have
been shouting so mnch in Minneapolis that
l am In no condition Of voice tonight TO
speak as would like to speak to tins vast
| audience of Chicago Republicans. A
voice: You are all right; 60 o."
TOUCHING FREE RAW MATERIAL.
They say IF we only had free raw ma
terial we could go. abroad and capture the
| worlds markets" Well. we put into this
new tariff law a provision that provides
| that any citizen of the United States can
any raw material he wants and bring IL in
| to the United States. and pay the duty
upon it fixed by law, take it into his fac
| tory and make 1t up into the finished prod
net and then take it back to the custom
house of New York, or Philadelphia, or
| Boston. or Chicago. and enter it for the ex-
| port trade. and the government refunds to
| him 80 per cont of the tariff he paid upon
h,or snI ,stA
| OF tree trade OH raw material. Now, If he
wants to 20 into the worlds markets and
| capture them with free raw material We
have given him within per cent. of free
raw material.
Now. thoy say this new tariff law is pro-
| hibltive. There is freer trade under it
than under any tariff law since the begin
| ming of the government. More than so per
cent of all we import under that law is free.
| About Al per cent. is dutiable. and that
you won't find In any tariff law since the
frstone. So that we have freer. and wider,
| and broader trade under this new law than
under any former tariff law. That law was
| made upon n principle. and that principle
was that every tbi ing that We could not pro-
| duce in the United States should come In
| free. and everything that We could not
| grow on our soil, everything We could not
| take from our mines, everything that We
| could not make in our shops probably, and
| were compelled to 20 abroad and buy
every such product was put upon the free
| list by the tariff law of $500, aud every
,hing that We could produce and proposed
| to produce. and in which the foreign prod
| uct competed with ours, Wa put o tariff
npon such product. We said to the manu-
| facturer of any such product. IF you want
TO enter the United States and sell In CON-
| petition with the American citizen side by
| side with him in tho markets of the United
| States. We propose that you must come In
| upon equal conditions with him. You must
| pay iEto the public treasury so much per
| ton. so much per yard. so much per pound
for the privilege of entering this market.
| CLINCHING HIS POINTS.
Why isn't that riRhtl Voices, at is
right."1 Let any citizen of the United
States. let any wcrkinRman. let any
| manufacturer, let the trader tell me.
let the farmer tell me Why that principle is
| not right. Hero is the best market in the
| world; hero are &. 900 600 of people who buy
more than any 60.o0O,OO0 people upon the
face of the earth. Here are &C. OOO. 600 of
| people who consume more than any other
1000, 900 upon the face OF the earth, and
| they spend more money, because they have
more money to spend than any other 60.
| 900 upon the face of the earth. And
| they have more money to spend because
| under our ~ stem of encouraging and pro-
| tecting. and fostering American industries
| We are enabled TO pay the highest rewards
for labor. higher than are paid nywhere
else on the face Ga the earth. Tell mo why