Evening journal., 1892-09-30
TAE MKINLgY INFANT TaIpLETs.
The New Industries OF Tin. Billy Goats
nnd Llnnns.

and Linens.
Governor Mckinley is Napoleonic in
his ideas of enlarging our growth and he
has given MS triplets IN new infant in
/ dustries Laughter He has tried
the impossible in protecting wool
growers and he now proposes the tin
plate. the linen aud the billygoat i'm
dustries 10 be brought up by the tariff
tax bottle Laughter
lie has not billed the billy goat industry
in largest type, nor does he boom 10 ia
his speeches, but il is assigned the rich
est bottle Of tariff taxes ia the whole
list. He was determined 10 protect Ohio
wool II taxation could do IL. ard in order
TO aid 10, he cunningly put on a tax of IL
cents per pound on goats hair that cost
cents per pound i'm the open markets
10 DIS not WOOL but 10 serves the pudpOsc
of wool ia cheap carpets and other
articles Of common use where grandeur
is sacrificed 10 service ana he took his
revenge on the billy goats of Bombay
and Russia by piling a tax Of 500 per
cent. on their hair to prevent 10 from
coming into competition with wool that
we never grow lLaughter
The tax was such a grotesque absurd
ity that Judge Colt, Of the United States
Circuit court, held that the hair of
the billy goat could not be taxed
as wool. II had always been admitted
free as 10 furnished very cheap and
necessary commodity for people of small
means. and the judge decided against it
on general principles that the dam fool
should not hurlesque onr tariff laws;
but the Supreme court OF the United
States has just decided that the letter of
the Mckinley law must be enforced, and
high protectionists can now doh their
hats To the majestic billy goat of the 500
per cent, protected industry of the land.
Shouts of laughter,
There is now only one of two things
for us TO do-either develop the billy
goat industry to the uttermost and run
a corner in broken tin cans, illuminated
show bills and Unprotected clothes lines
or repeal this particular triplet of our
new Industries. Laughter We can't
do without the cheap fabrics made from
goats hair. and I am amazed that Gov
ernor Mckinley makes no report of his
progress in developing the now ndis-
pensahle billy-g0at industry in the land.
Applause.
The second Of the triplet circle Of in
FAINT industries TO which the Mckinley
tariff has given birth is the linen indus
try We had FIVE little linen mills IN
the whole country, not one of which
ever turned out linen handkerchief
either before or since the Mckinley tariff,
and we have just the same number today
so far as ! have been able to learn They
turn out only coarse linen crashes, but
they have been digniied into au infant
industry and the tariff tax bottle given
them, although not on the magnificent
500 per cent scale of the billy goat iu-
dustry.
FlaN was turned out of sight to make
10 grow here and it's growth is no more
visible than the growth of the bllies
The tariff tax collected to enable this
infant industry to be well nursed and
bottled, amounts TO 5000. 600, giving
au advance of 3j per cent ON the markets
at the time the tariff was passed. and
that difference paid more than the
entire cost of labor employed i'm OH our
/ linen mills In other words, the entire
/ labor cost Of our linen mills was Sl2l 900
and The tariff taxes ON linens imported
wcrc Slj6, 100 That infant industry
/ ought to thrive but it still languishes
and only general break in linens
/ abroad prevented largely y-mcreaced prices.
/ Our city merchants advertised when the
! Mckinley bin was about to go into oper-
alton that all should buy linens at once
/ because of the increased tariff taxes and
/ coming increased prices lt is still an
Z infant content with the bottle and the
cradle with Mckinley as nurse laug ghterh
ami IL makes no effort to get ont of
! Its comfortable swaddling clothes.
] I ApplauseL Colonel Mcclure Speech.