The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-24
Illustration and it was success, as
numbers are concerned. The
concert band lead the pro-
trough the streets and was

trough the streets and wa
folfs Rby large number of McKin
lcyitesSn fantastic uniform, carryin,
wooden sruns and torches. The process
sion marched through the principa
streets of the city and reached the
Vogt opera house as the town clock
was striking g. Tie hall was vel
filled, and after tho Mckinley Glee
club had rendered an air the speaker
was introduced
Mr. Sehoonmaker in his address
first took up the tariff question, and
after half hour devoted to introduc-
tory remerks, whicn were confined to a
conversation with John Bull, and the
| speaker, Mr.. Schoonnaker both ask
ing and answering the questions. he
took the position that a protective
tariff lowered the price of all protected
articles. This he sought to prove
| first by making an illustration of car
pets In the days when the free trad
ers had control of this government,
| when he was a boy, he said ingram
carpets sold at Sl.75 a yard, but after
thirty years of protection and the ap-
plication of Yankee inventive genius,
the price was reduced to one third
that amount. Kid gloves. watches
and broadcloth came In for like illus
tration. and the line of his argument
/, oh in. - bpi
that with protection that shut out
foreign competition, manufacturers
grew into existence, and the COM
petition at home caused prices to
be lowered. After thus disposing
of the tariff as applied to manu-
factures. and showing to his own
satisfaction that high tariff reduced
the price of everything, he began to
apply the same line of reasoning to
raw materials, first calling the atten.
tion of his hearers to wool, and no
doubt would have proven that tariff
on wool would lower its price the same
as it had the price of manufactured !
articles, had not it dawned upon him |
that he was addressing large number |
of wool growers and he was treading |
upon dangerous grounds, hence he
turned his attention to proving that |
a tariff is not tax on the consumer,
but is tax paid by the foreigner who
sells his wares in our markets, pro-
position that has long since been
abandoned by nearly all advocates of
protection. Having disposed of the
tariff he asked the band for music and /
q cheering air was rendered, which
was indeed a relief to the audience al
ready wearied by listening to a repiti-
ton of the same line of argument to
prove every proposition asserted. !
When the band ceased playing Mr..
waded into the financial
question, by loosening his purse strings
and displaying S. and $40 gold piece,
BIO in American silver, $40 of Mexican
silver, 100 American pennies and a
silver spoon His first and most forci-
Die argument was that every assertion
made by the advocates of free coinage
was lie, and he branded the different
of the silverites as lie No.
/, 2, 3, etc. He took the position that
t was impossible to legislate value
nto money. illustrating that 100 Amer
lean pennies would buy dollar the
same today as they would 80 years ago
While they would buy twice as much
silver bullion. Then he held up
silver spoon which he said had a COM
nercial value of 80 cents, that he
claimed the silver ad, oca es wanted
he right to take to Washington and
lave coined into dollar, which he
considered would be very dishonest.
The 1000 silver mine owners next fell
lnder his displeasure, and he declared
he present agitation was nothing but
IN effort on th air part to have their 53
cents worth of bullion coined into
lollar. This dollar he asserted would
rave a purchasing power of only So
tents, though according to his reason
ng the mine owners would realize a
profit of AZ cents on every dollar coined.
According to his reasoning, these dol
ars would buy wheat at so cents
,ushel, and that so cents would only
lave a purchasing power, when
Measuring other commodities, of 25
ents, so the farmer would in reality
yet only 25 cents bushel for his
vheat. His argument on this line
vas so contradictory as to convince the
most casual observer of its falsity.
lie sympathized with the poor depositor
n the savings banks who would be
,aid off in 53-cent dollars, but. ruined
he effect of this appeal by declaring
hat in case'of Bryan's election. every
lepositor in the banks would with
RAW his money before congress could
,e convened to pass free coinage act
Evidently Mr.. Schoonmaker banked
leavily upon the credulity of his
udience, and went upon the assump-
ion, SO common among Easterners,
hat the people of the wild and woody
Vest, have little knowledge either of
history or current events.