The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-09-02
THE GRAND RALLIES.
Gov. Mckinley, the Great Exponent
of Protection speaks in Vermont.

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of Protection speaks in Vermont.
The meeting of the Republican clubs at
Burlington Tuesday, was a success in
every way. In point of numbers and
enthusiasm it fully equalled the meeting
at that place four years ago, and gave
abundant evidence that the Republicans
of Vermont are fully alive to the import
ance OF the election OF next Tuesday.
The speech of Gov. Mckinley was
mastery in its presentation of the issue
which over-shadows all other questions
in the present campaign, and was pre-
sented in the most forcible and convinc-
ing manner. No speaker who has appeal
ed to the intelligence and patriotism of a
Vermont audience in later years has sur
passed Gov. Mckinley in clearness of ar
| gument and in thorough mastery of his
subject His presence itself is an in
spiration and he held his vast audience
interested and enthusiastic for an hour
and a half, and they would gladly have
listened as much longer.
"The State of Vermont will please
come to ORDER" was the expression used
years ap0, ,bv. The late jSenatOE FOote. and
Rnrlinpton las we'll to the thousands at
3atiS"7o date Oh Oh Tie tTK6sdDs&SSyyll,.. ~, o,nai
Vice Presidency has made speech. IL
was made two or three days ago, In the
city of Bloomington, ILL.,, and is presum-
ably the keynote of the campaign upon
the part of the Democratic party. l
have read it this morning with the great
est care asit was published in the Boston
.JournnL and was glad to know that the
distingnished gentleman declares that
the tariff question is the all-important
one in the National contest OF lS92. L
was glad to have him make this admis-
sion, because in many quarters OF the
country and upon the part of many lead
ing newspapers of the country, the Demo-
Gratis have been seeking to get away from
that issue and force upon the people a
new issue not involved in this national
contest. Now, as the candidate for Ice
President comedies what we all knew be-
fore, that the all-important issue is the
tariff question, / am here to discuss II
in a brief way, and in as simple and
, frank a manner as l can, before this
, great audience of people. ;.
Gov. Mckinley then proceeded to dis
cuss the different tariff systems which
have been in operation in this country
"There are two kinds of tariff in the
, United States" he said. "One is the
British tariff, which is advocated by the
, Democratic party, and the other is thu
! American tariff, advocated by the Re
publican party" He concisely stated
the difference in the two systems, anC
: showed the great benefit growing out o
. a protective policy. Referring to thu
: Democratic demand for foreign marke
he said: ut is foreign market the.
4 want. Well, why don't they get IL
Laughter. Why, Gen. Stevenson say
t what they propose is TO give tne Pe0Pn
v OF this country cheap raw materials, ire
raw materials, and if they only had fire.
n raw materials they could go out and cap
: ture the foreign market. Why, the
n have got free raw materials for the fol
eign markets and they don't know II
: Laughter and applause" ]"
v Under this new tariff law OF 1880 an
q citizen of this country can go to an
4 country of the world and buy any ray
4 material or product he wants, bring 1t II
4 to the United States, pay the tariff tixe
: by law, take that product out into hi
! workshops and make it up into tn
! finished products, take it back to tn
4 Custom House and enter it for foreig
a trade, and the Government refunds hir
# 80 per cent. of the tariff he paid upo
n his raw material, within one per cen
If of Free Trade. The Democratic leadt
can capture the worlds markets for }
n has got free raw material in this bill
,e Free raw material; that is free marbl,
Ia free granite, free wool, free everythin
which Vermont produces under IL
Democratic revenue tariff, and ever,
id thing that Vermont uses is to be derive
G. under the Democratic revenue tariff. IL
IN Republican party is against that.
Id But they say, my fellOw-citizens, TIL
I'd this new tariff law has made it imposs
BILE to send anything out of the cOun tr.
lie made it impossible for anything to con
q. in, and they make that statement in Il
e. light of the Treasury officials repo
An that shows that in the last year v
IS bought more goods on the other side thi
o. we have bought in any previous IL mont
al of our history, and we sold more Amel
a can products to Europe in the same We
he than we ever sold in any previous ye
in since the beginning of the Federal Go
sr. ernment. We sold last year more thu
sir a billion dollars Of American produc
ty to Europe. We bought over $500, ,00C
at 900 worth of European products, and Il
at balance of trade in our favor was ov
er 500, ,OO0, 600, which Europe paid into o.
pockets, representing the excess of VIII