Show 1 1 7 G GOVERNOR OAT Ml ONLEY 4 N A FEW PLAIN WORDS TO THE amen AMERICAN workingman what the protective system nas ilas done it fins nothing to take hack lack nothing to Apo loRtie for what a low tariff hai never railed pulled to accomplish the protective system by encouraging capital to engage in productive enterprise has accorded to labor sk skill ill and genius higher opportunities and greater rewards than could otherwise be secured defending them against ruinous foreign competition while promoting home competition and giving the american consumer better products at lower prices and tho the farmer a better market than was ever enjoyed under the freo free trade tariffs of the democratic party wo we find nothing in history or in our own experience to justify the reversal of our protective system or a change in our protective laws we have nothing to to take back nothing to apologize for A low tariff has always increased tho the im Z ft B 11 GOVERNOR por tation of foreign goods until our money runs out multiplied our foreign obligations bl igat ions produced a balance of trade against the country supplanted the domestic producer and manufacturer impaired the farmers home market without improving his market abroad undermined domestic prosperity decreased decrease tl the industries of the nation diminished tho the value of nearly all our property and investments and robbed labor of its just rewards reward sl the lower the tariff the more widespread and aggravated have I 1 been those conditions which paralyze our progress and industries this is the verdict of history industry and property were excessively depressed sed from 1784 to 1790 and ag again aln from 1818 to 1824 under the low gariffa then in operation also from 1837 to tho the end of 1842 under tho the compromise act of 1833 and again from 1840 1846 to 1801 1861 under the frea free trade tariffs of 1810 18 10 and 1857 1837 the depression which prevailed during all these periods was felt in every individual pursuit and national industry on the contrary the industries and energies of tho the nation revived as if by magic from 1825 to 1834 under the protective tariffs of 1821 and 1828 and also from 1843 to the end of 1840 under the protective tariff of 1812 our progress in industrial development and prosperity from 1801 1861 to the present time under thu morrill tariff and its supplements finds no parallel in the worlds history labor was vas never better rewarded than it is now air edward atkinson a careful student and himself a tariff reformer recently wrote tho the share of the annual product which is now falling to workmen in tho the strictest sense is a bigger share of a bigger product than workmen have over attained before in this or any other country invention improved machinery and new processes stimulated by our industrial conditions made possible by protective laws have improved tho the products of our workshops and have brought brou glit articles of comfort and necessity within the easy reach of tho masses with no diminution of the rewards of their labor wo we believe tho the american policy is best adapted to our citizenship and civilization iza tion and this belief is sustained by the highest american authorities from washington down and by a hundred years of experience wo we know what it has already accomplished for a self g governed u v people the world ivoria knows of t alio 1 10 wonderful progress wo we have made if this policy is to bo be reversed it must bo be done not by clamor and misrepresentation not by schoolmen schoolman scho olmen tend theorists not by falsehood und and hypocritical dollci tudo for the poor man not by exaggerated laudation of the cheap coat but after the fullest discussion and investigation bytho by tho sober and intelligent judgment nt of tho the majority constitutionally registered it will never bo be BO so reversed while wo we remain a nation of political equals time and experience have vindicated the great system time and truth will vindicate the new now law which was bounded uon it fal se witnesses will ivill le be confounded by tho vao unimpeachable testimony of trade and experience their portents have already been impeached pe ached false prophecy must fall before good times and abounding prosperity campaign prices have already been convicted as campaign lies new industries are being founded others now established arc are enlarging their capacity idle mills are being star started ted the only menace to our advancement and prosperity to our wage earners and farming interests is the party which is pledged pledge tl to tho the repeal of the new law lav and the substitution of the british system in its place free and full discussion will avert the danger nothing else will william lIc mckiniry Kinley jr |