The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-18
SPEECH Of SHERMAN.
Senior Ohio Senator at Akron,
Friday, Oct. II.
TARIFF AND SILVER QUESTION:
Senator Sherman Expounds Sound Re-
publican Doctrines In . Clear and Con-
vincing Msnner-silver Plank OF the
Ohio Democratic Platform shown Up
in GIaring Colors.

vinctng Manner-St1ver Plank OF the
Ohio Democratic Platform shown Up
in GIaring Colors.
FELLOW CITIZENS:
The most important feature of this DO
Mtical campaign is the election of MEM
bers of the house Of representatives Of
the United States. You may think that
what happens in congress at Washington
10 too remote to affect your -s,terests. In
this you are greatly mista.. n. The ac-
tion of congress in levying taxes for the
support of the national government, and
In providing money, whether coin or
paper money, as the measure of value,
affects directly every inhabitant of the
United States. whether poor or rich,
whatever may be his employment,
whether a laborer, farmer, a capitalist
or business man. Everyone, whether
producer or consumer, is deeply in
terested in the taxes he has to pay and in
the money he receives or pays.
These two vital questions are now and
always will be the chief foundations of
political divisions in q free country.
They are now the dividing lines between
the Democratic and Republican parties.
Other issues may arise such as arose out
of the late rebellion. These have been
settled from time to time, but taxation
and currency-the mode of levying taxes
and the qualities of our money-will al
ways be
The Bone of Contention
between the two great parties.
You have third parties like the tenn
perance party, the labor party, the wo-
man question, but these are merely To-
cal or temporal, to be decided in the
state legislature or by public opinion in
the state. Even local taxation can nev-
or be made party issue. 1t is regu-
lated by our state constitution and by
laws. Congress has no jurisdiction over
any of these matters, but it has exclu-
sive jurisdiction over national taxes aid
money, whether coin or paper. In Sc
lecting member of congress you con-
sign to him all your power over our re-
lations with the rest of the world, over
our system of taxation requiring reve-
nue. of more than four hundred million
dollars year, over the nature, value
and quantity of our money, over our
commerce with foreign powers and the
several states, over our treatment of our
million of Union soldiers and their
widows and orphans, over our army and
navy, our postal facilities, our public
lands, our interstate railroads, our nav
igable rivers and lakes and the vast and
varied industries of nearly seventy mil.
lions of people. All but two or three
subjects are not political.
The Political Issues
are taxes, money and pensions. I, per-
haps, ought not to classify pensions as
political, but it is hardly 10 be expected
that q party composed SO largely as is
the Democratic party of Confederate
soldiers can have the same sympathy
with Union soldiers, their widows and
khn Pav~ HI ,o,.fxy Cpnb
at least is the feeling of the great body
of Union soldiers. But, as believe our
people in the north of both parties will
do justice to Union soldiers, / will
limit my remarks to plain statement
OF the tariff and money questions, which
confessedly are political issues.
When the Republican party came into
power on the 4th Of March, 1861, by the
election OF Abraham Lincoln there was
on the statute book a law called the
Morrill, tariff, imposing duties on i'm
ported goods. 1t was conservative act
passed by a house of representatives
composed of plurality of Republicans
but not majority, senate with large
Democratie majority, and was approved
by james Buchanan, Democratic pres
ident. It was expected to yield about
$50 100000 of revenue, sufficient sum
to meet the then wants of the govern
ment in time of p-ace. 1t was a
revenue tariff with duties carefully
arranged to
Protect, Foster and Encourage
American indutries. 1t was a con-
servative act. 1t was the basis OF
system of protection which became a
part Of the creed and policy of the Re-
publican party and had the support and
acquiescence Of large part of the Dem
ocratic party Of the north. 1t was in
harmony with the principles and teach
ings Of the old Republican party Of jeff
erson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson. 1t
was confessedly an improvement upon
the Walker tariff of 1916, and embodied
the two requisites of tariff lava snf-
ficient revenue for the support of tine
general government and reasonable and
moderate protection to such American
industries as could be established in our
country. Under it no taxes were i'm.
posed except on imported goods. 1t was
the result of experience under previous
tariff laws
The war of the rebellion changed the
condition of things and we were COM
PEELED to devise new methods of taxation.
We levied increased taxes on imported
goods and extended our taxes to great
variety of articles of home industry and
to incomes, excises and employments.
After the war these were from time to
time reduced and repealed until finally
in 1888 all internal taxes were repeated
except OH spirits, tobacco and beer, ard
the duties on imported goods We're greatly
reduced, maintaining. however, in our
tariff laws the principle o. protection IL
American industries Up,ler this
Wise Republican Policy
the public debt was rapidly reduced and
our home industries were expanded and
enlarged to three fold what they were n
1851. The history Of the world presents No
parallel to the rapid growth in populatio.-
wealth and industries in the Unitei
States during that period since the war
This was the condition when in 1851
Mr.. Cleveland was elected president U.
to and including that year the Demo
cratic party uniformly declared il
their party platforms in favor Of tariff
with incidental protection to American
industripa Mr. Ciaveland aot1 Uht N ra