Show TEIUN TARIFF FACTS I ExGovEissoit CAMPBELL is continuing oa his triumphant canruss of Rhode Island and it is a pleasure to folow him in his speeches us reported in the New York I World they arc so able and spirited At I Lincoln inthat state a few nights ago he had a rousing meeting One of his illustrations illus-trations of the operation of the protective tariff was ns follows The southern states in the early days of this country were the producers of hemp They tsiil We want n tariff upon hemp to keep out the pauper hemp of Europe to The middle states objected They said Xo we must not hive a tariff on hemp for ve in the middle wates manufacture cordage and hemp is the raw material of curdace We ant hemp toe to-e me in free but wo want a tariff on cordage to keep out the pauper cordage of Europe Anl j tlenllie people of Rhode Ibland and the New taglanfl states said if o cordage is the raw material of ships We want free cordage but I we wjnt a duty on ships The governor proceeded to trace the various var-ious tariffs from the time of GEORGE WASHINGTON over one hundred years ago hen the duty wes 7 y2 per cent till now it is DO per cent Tho little infant that the I legislators wore dandling on their knees has grown to be six feet high and wears Ko 10 stogies yet it insists on being rocked In the little protection cradle threatening otherwise to get out and kick ererything to pieces The governor does not object to infants but declares that the market price is too high We had a 15 per cent tariff under a Democratic Dem-ocratic administration in ISO and then was tho most prosperous era of the country coun-try and the time when labor was paid the best The war came and when 2000000 men had been kept in the field and the treasury had been drained of untold millions mill-ions tho highest tariff was only 30 percent per-cent Now after twentyseven years of peace the war taxes have been doubled The speaker gave an illustration It costs more for childrens clothes now It costs more for every paIr of little socks for the i I I I Cannel you wrap the little baby in when It U horn for the winding sheet you place around it w ben it dies and after It Is dead Still they are 1 not satisfied They place a tax upon the little marble slab which you wish to erect to mark that babys sleepingplace for the McKINLEY I hill puts a duty upon monumental stones This they tax IOU after the sod Is spread over you All these things cost more but whisky is cheaper and so far as I know cheap whisky is the only boon tbe Republican party has offered to labor In the last twentyseven I With facts such as these Democratic campaign orators propose to confront the advocates of protection from now till November No-vember showing bow the manufacturers I I by 1 their influence upon elections have gone on raising the tarifftaxes up to CO percent per-cent on dutiable goods for 40 cents worth I I of stuff They may not tell In Rhode Island against the power of money but I they I are sure to make their impress and I I carry conviction where votes are free and I intelligent i 1 |