The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-30
ISSUES OF TEE DAY
They Are Jointly Discussed at
Madison, Wis.
J.P. ST JOHN FIRST ON THE LIST
lie Is Followed by Governor Mckinley and
W. C. Warner Of the New York
Tariff Reform Club.

MADISON, Wis. July 29.- Ex-Governor
St. John Of Kansas, Governor Mckinley Of
Ohio and W. Z. Warner of the New York
Tariff Reform club. addressed the Menona
Lake assembly today Henry Watterson
was also to have spoken, but was taken i'll
RI Chicago.
St. John spoke in the forenoon Of prohi-
billion and tariff. He recited prohibition
arguments, and SAID that under the pres
sent system the liquor traffic had been
growing faster tho past three years than
ever before Over. the counters Of 240. 797
saloons in the country 8, 507. O0O, 600 passed
last year. This would pay the national
debt. St. John took the position
that the whole tariff system
was wrong in principle, because it
levies buEdens on what we consume instead
Of what we possess. Fifteen or twenty
men control today all the means of reach
ing the markets OF the world and our mer-
chant marine Is practically driven from the
high sea. Farmers possess less than one
nth OF the wealth OF the country compared
with tve-eights forty years ago, and still.
the farmer, is consoled with the blessed as
Surance that
BE IS PROTECTED
Capital takes SIC net income from ton of
steel, while the gross receipts of LABOR costs
Sl.57, and because the laborer refuses 10
submit TO a reduction of 25 per cent, CAPT
tai confronts him with an army OF hired
Pinkertons, and when he defends his inter-
ests he Is called murderer.
GOVERNOR M'KINLEY TALKS
In the afternoon Governor Mckinley
addressed an audience Of $1,000 people,
Speaking on the political issues he said :
"What is tariff reform, anyway Who
can telll Cleveland said several years ago
that he knew nothing about tariffs. From
the date Of that utuerance down to the
present time be has given DO evidence of
having increased his original store OF
knowledge on economics. The Democratic
majority in Congress passed a bill to
untax wool for the sole benefit of New
England manufacturers and the injury Of
all farmers, while leaving the duty on all
WOOL fabrics that man is counted on TO
wear. Ii passed bill to lift the tariff on
cotton ties for the benefit of the south,
while almost identical iron banda in other
callings retain the old DUTY. If this is the
economic policy of the Democratic party
II might better be called no policy at all,
for il obviously represents no system and
can produce no uniform result.''
On the question Of taxation Mckinley
declares chat the country must raise
500, 100000 annually TO defray the ex-
penses Of the federal government and there
were only two ways possible-levying a
direct tax on the producer or an import
duty Oh the products OF foreign nations
There can be no evasion. The nation must
adopt one or the other.
Mckinley dwelt on the disadvantage of
the direct tax system ana quoted Jefferson
and Madison as earnest opponents of it.
In times OF peace thirty years Of protection
had placed this country in q financial posi-
ton unrivalle5 among the nations Thirty
years ago % per cent. of the hardware of
the country was of English make. Now
IS per cent. IS American. The Demo cratic
revenue tariff is always paid by the con-
sumner. Tariff or free trade has nothing to
do with strikes and lockouts; nothing to DO
with the differences between employees and
employers. Mckinley accused the Demo-
cratic Congress Of defeating the Worlds
AIR bill and doing nothing for the benefit
II the country.
WARNER ON TARIFF REFORM.