| Show HOOAtEYS COLD COMFORT 1 At the tariff banquet in Madison Square I garden Major McKinley mado a brief speech in which he said We will have a tariff solong as we havo a government If I ever regretted that I was a protectionist protection-ist that regret does not exist tonight I am glad tobelong to the party of such men as WEBSTER CLAY LINCOLN GRANT + HATES GARFIED and ISO I-So far as our acquaintance with the utterances utter-ances of the opponents of the war tariff goes we have never heard one of them intimate in-timate that the tariff should be abolished But they do contend that the tariff shall not discriminate against nearly all classes of our people in favor of onethe protected manufacturers banded together in trusts Whether or not Mr McKrxLET regrets that he is a protectionist it seems certain that the American people regret that lamentable la-mentable tact and rebuked the protectionist protection-ist party by a million majority at the last election It seems a pity too that Mr MCEJXLEY ibver heard of the tariff doctrine taught l > 3r the men whom he thus invokes as his party leaders WEBSTER said if there be any such thing t as an American systema system which we can claim to illustrate and advocate before be-fore the civilized world it must be that of free trade Half of free trade is expressly embodied in the constitution No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state WEBSTER very naturally and ac became a true American objected to unequal and discriminating duties on imports because that placed certain Americans Amer-icans at a disadvantage as compared with others CiiAT said I too am a friend to free trade but it must be a free trade of per reciprocity GRANT said Those articles which enter into our manufactures and are not produced s pro-duced at home it seems to me should be entered free Those articles of manufacture r manufac-ture which we produce a constituent part jof but do not produce the whole that part which we do not produce should be entered free also I would instance fine wools dyes etc I would mention those articles which enter into manufactures of all sorts All duty paid upon such articles goes directly to the cost of the article when manufactured here and must be paid for by the consumers These duties not only come from the consumers at home but act as a protection to foreign manufacturers of the same completed articles in our own and distant markets GARFIELD said I am for protection which leads to ultimate free trade HATIRISON said in 1883 We ought ntft perhaps to reduce much now the taxes on those three articles which I believe the common concurrent consent and commonsense common-sense of all people agree should be the subjects sub-jects of internal revenue I mean whisky beer and tobacco |
