The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15

country Tor immaculate SdcrlIice, iedNlUS
other industries of the country
having no greater claim upon the consider
alton of the government practically IN
harmed. Cries of That's right) No
class of our citizens has suffered so-much
from that tariff law the wool-growers
of the United States, and none was more
deserving of generous treatment than they.
so inexcusable was this act that Presi-
dent Cleveland, who favored a reduction
of tariff all along the line and who be-
lieved in free raw material. was unwill-
ing to sign the bill, and used these charac-
teristic words against it. 1T may well eX-
cite wonder that Democrats are will
ing to depart from this Gree raw material
doctrine}, the most Democratic of all tariff
principles and that the inconsistent absurd
ity of such a proposed departure should be
emphasized by the suggestion that the
wool of the farmers be put on the free list
placed around the iron ore and coal of cor
porations and capitalists. But this did not
avert the fatal blow, Less organized than
other industries in the country, you We're
unable to secure the recognition to which
you were justly, entitled and your great
product was made the victim of free trade
tCries Of That's right.)
In all the years in which the Republican
party was in power you know that 1t gave
protection to WOOL and the act of 1890 gave
10 this industry increased protection. That
law, the law Of 1890, gave to every agri-
farmers product in this country, the best
protection ever had before Every protec-
ton that could De given to them against
outside competition and to preserve the
home market, was always cheerfully and
generously accorded by the Republican
party. Great applause and cries of That s
rght.9 The platform of the nationai Re.
publican party upon which we stand this
year much to my qualification, singles out
the wool industry and makes of it special
mention as entitled TO full protection under
our revenue laws loud applause and
cries of Good good.D
This is the language of the national
PLATFORM; TO all our products-to those
or the mine and the field, as we'll as those
OF the shops and factory; to hemp, to wool
the product of the great industry of sheen
husbandry, as well as to the finished wool
protection Applanse5 And what n the aii1 Res
publican party promises it is in the habit
OF performing. Cries of That's. right.') it
says what it means and means what II
says. Great cheering.) If clothed with
poWe WEI, IN i1iu an branches of the government
Just protection with all other industries of
the country.
1T was said that if we opened lin this
country to the free use of the wool of the
world the farmers would be benefited It
was done. and with what benefit YOU
they tell you that free silver Gaughterl is
the panacea for all your ills renewed
iaughterl, and you have the same money
IN circulation now that you had four years
ago, but the wool-growers have not got as
.Tbaas OF r,g It as you had then (Cries of
your industry, 50. free silver will degrade
your money. Applause and cries of
b esata ee right 5v t 90. You have already
on your money. Great cheerng) We
the world and both the wool and the wool
en- mill have suffered. The American
farmer farmer has seen his wool displaced by the
foreign clip The American wool manu-
facturer has seen his goods disappear from
the American market to give place to the
thus lost directly in the price of his wool
and almost as severely by the blow dealt
to the home market for. agricultural prod
thr0nph hn ink haI
resulting from idle mills. The American
farmer Will not tamely submit to this in
intend to in Harrison county.) The
American workingmen in the wooden mills
Win Indignantly nacf ~ repe that legislation
plause and cries of He will on the Sd of
November.O
MY felow-citizens, 1 am glad to receive
you and welcome you here at my home
and 1T will afford me sincere pleasure to
shake hands with each one. of you person
ally II you desire me to do so.' Great
Rpplause.)
THE HOME MARKET.
But, my fellow-citizens what we want
whether we produce wool or any other
agricultural product-what we want is to
preserve the splendid home market to our
own American producers. Great applause)
1t is the best market in the world There
is no other market like it, and upon every
principle of justice and fair play it belongs
to us, and nobody else before us. applause
and cries OF That's rightly Protection to
the farmer has been recognized from the
beginning of the government until now
As showing the Importance of your indus
try it is only necessary to say that in 1892
there were 70000 wool-growers in the
United States-700,000 people whose chief
occupation was that of wool-growing.
There were probably one-fourth as many
more who were owners of small hocks of
sheep in the United States. This industry
employed besides those who owned the
Hooks, it is estimated, at least half a mil
lion laborers, representing, with those who
were dependent upon them nearly $780, 900
people. There were 100000 farms, averaging
160 acres each, devoted to this industry,
and the mountainous regions and the vast
plains of the great West, which are not
adapted to other kinds of farming, have
made valuable. Every one of these farms
COMPRISING 1eo acres of land-112, ooO, ooG
by placing wool upon the free list.
In one of the agricultural papers of
the West have seen the statement that
in Oregon, Utah, Washington. Idaho and
western Montana there Were 610,746 sheep,
which We're worth in 1892 3d. 900, and
a w bsS 9 wsEs %e ebean only IN bs
States, valued at $125, 600 eco. In 1895 we had
IS. 29s 900, valued at s65. 100000, and the total
little above $37, ooO, 900. and in 1895, under
the wilson tar1H law, these imports
amounted to more than $50, 900, 00O (Cries
of 'Hurrah for Mckinley and the Re-
publican party
ION the second day of April, 1885, in pre-
senting the minority report in opposition to
the Mills tariff bill in the national House
Of Representatives, 1 said: Wool on the
free list is deadly assault upon a great
agricultural interest and will fall with ter
ribe severity upon a million people, their
households and dependencies 1t will de-
stroy invested capital. unsettle established
values, wrest. from flock masters their
lifetime earnings, bankrupt thousands of
our best and most Industrious farmers and
drive them into other branches of agrcul-
ture already over crowded. (CrieS of
That's what 1t has done.) 1t is a vicious
and indefensible blow at the entire agri-
cultural interests of the country (Cries of
You are right.o
Alexander Hamilton, in his report to
Congress on manufacturers 104 years ago,
market for the surplus produce of the soil
Is of the first Importance. 1t is, of all
things, that which most effectually con-
1uces to a fiourishing state of agriculture
Thomas Jefferson said: Experience has
taught me that manufactures are as nee
essary to our independence as TO our COM
Tort. The duties we lay on all articles of
foreign manufacture which prudence he
quireS us to establish at home, with the
patriotic determination of every good eiti-
zen to use no foreign article which can
be made at home. secures us against a
relapse into foreign dependency. My own
dea is that we should encourage home
to the extent of our own
(Applause.)
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