The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
pie so that they paid according to thei
means only.
Making the Nation Independent.

pie so that they paid according to their
means only.
Making the Nation Independent.
"But in addition to this Hamilton
proposed that this country should be
wholly independent of other nations;
that we might not be dependent upon
other nations for our own clothing and
tools of industry, nor for anything that
we could produce or make for our
selves; for at that time war among
nations was common thing and IL
would be easy in case of any war be-
tween two foreign nations for COM
merce to be shut off so that the Ameri-
can people would be in distress for the
things they needed, unless they made.
them themselves. He therefore, pro-
posed to make the nation lndependeht
by building up manufactures for those
things, and he proposed that the tariH
upon things coming into this country
should be high enough to induce men
to engage in manufacturing, and also
high nough to enable the manufactures
to pay wages which would draw skilled
labor from the factories of Europe
where they had been trained, ana
strong arms of our own population
from the fields and forests, and he
made the argument then which make
now: that it was good fer the Amer1-
can farmer to have an army or WORK
ing men drawing wages working IN the
other industries, for they would buy
flour and meat and have the money TO
buy it with.
! turing establishments of this country
were built, and from that time to TINS,
in all our history, whenever we haVe
| had a tariff for protection the natlon
has been prosperous, and the prices OF
/ farm products have been good, ana
whenever we have thad tariff for reVe-
nue. only or for revenue with incl
dental protection only, prices OF farm
products have been low and times
! have been hard and the people nave
been distressed.
Protection Makes Prosperity.
"There is no exception to this in all
our history Not one exception. IL
! was upon this history OF the pr4tec-
tive tariff policy that William Mckin-
| ley prepared the great tariff bill Wh1cn
makes his name permanently part OF
our history. 1t was not a new larll
bill which he was writing but reVi-
sion of the old protective tariff laws
which we had, and he had the library
of the great ways and means com
mittee. the printed testimony of all the
| hearings upon all the tar1Hs that nave
ever been made in this country, the
| tabulated statistics and reports OF al
| the industries and of all the Imports
that come into this country.
| "He wrote the tariff and made II
protective, and Immediately the busl-
ness of this country began to prosper.
| But in writing that tariff law ne un-
dertook to establish a new industry
We were making sheet steel and ship
ping it to England to be dipped in TIN,
| and then shipped back to us at enorm-
| ours prices, and he proposed that we
| should make our own tim we mao
the labor and the iron and the mills
| for making the sheet metal. All tnat
we needed was to buy the blocks OF
tins and melt them and dip our own
| sheets of metal, and he put tarlH on
tin. There was not TIN mlH IN
| America when he did it, and immed1-
ately our political opponents, VINO nave
ALWAYS been opposed to a protective
tariff and who were for tariff for rev.
lenue with Incidental protection only
| went into a political campaign ano
told the people of this country tha'
Mckinley and the Republican party
were the enemies of the working peo-
pie and were taxing them for the sup
port of the government even to the ex.
tent of taxing the dinner pail; anc
Ienough of them believed it to eleci
that party to power, and they elected
Grover Cleveland president, and witf
him a Democratic house and senate
lupon the platform of a tariff for reve-
nue. with incidental protection.
Rees' Platform Was Wilson's.
'SThen Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the
ways and means committee. began Il
revise the Mckinley tariff upon thi:
doctrine of tariff for revenue witt
incidental protection
II am repeating this phrase, be
cause i have heard Judge Rees- who
Is asking your votes and mine to SenC
} him to congress as Republican, sa,
to an audience that on this subject h,
was for n tariff for revenue with in
cidentaI protection and I say that j
frro1+fr,,ed IN F3ova r,nrao