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MAY 9 
“AN AMERICAN DINNER.” 
Eating: a Home-made Repast. 
CelelsraHon of the Tariff League; no baked 
beans or succotash; red, uhite and 
blue prominent; Mr. McKinley's side 
of the story. 
Agreeably to Its desire to give all sides of 
the great political questions as they con¬ 
cern the American farmer, The R. N.-Y. 
gives herewith a report of the celebration 
recently held by the American Tariff 
League in this city. We cheerfully give 
the views of free traders, tariff reformers, 
single tax men, temperance men, Alliance 
men or others. Let there be no one-sided 
discussions. Let’s get at the facts—whole 
ones, not half ones. 
“ Rallying ’Round Our Native Land.” 
The tariff men, Republicans, certainly 
made a striking exhibition. Their plan 
was to give a meal of American products, 
served with American tableware. The r e- 
sign was to show the possibilities of Amer¬ 
ican enterprise; the ability of America to 
supply everything that Americans need. 
They succeeded. Everything about the 
dinner was produced in this country from 
the crude material except the coffee. That 
came from Venezuela as a product of 
“ reciprocity.” In order to make the affair 
truly American, the diners should have 
eaten baked beans and succotash. Our 
forefathers were fond of these dishes; they 
thrived and grew on them—besides, tfce 
tariff on beans cuts a good figure in Amer¬ 
ican agriculture. But America is a great 
country and we may well be proud of her 
skill. Almost all the States were repre¬ 
sented at this dinner. The dishes were 
made in New Jersey, the knives in Con¬ 
necticut, the flags in Massachusetts, as 
well as the table linen which was spun 
from flax grown in Kentucky; the beef 
came from Ohio, the game from Illinois, 
the oysters from Maryland, the olives from 
California, the fish from Maine, the turtle 
from Florida, the fruit from Georgia, the 
vegetables from South Carolina, the cigars 
from Virginia, glassware from Ohio—in 
fact, every State was drawn upon for some 
product in order to show the vast and 
varied resources of our country and how 
one section is dependent upon another. It 
was certainly a collection calculated to 
make an American proud of his country, 
especially when he reflects that probably 
no other single country in the world could 
show such a varied assortment of products. 
The Result of Protection. 
That is what the Republicans claim. 
The possibility of securing all these things 
is due to the protective tariff 1 From their 
point of view this collection was a big ob¬ 
ject-lesson in favor of their national policy. 
They did not pretend that this dinner was 
the cheapest one they could have got up 
with equally good materials—it was what 
Ameri■ a can do as against the world. It 
is now in order for the tariff reformers to 
get up a dinner, going anywhere after ma¬ 
terials, and then figure up the cost and 
show that theirs is cheaper than the 
American-made article. 
The Plea for Protection. 
Major McKinley made the speech of the 
evening. We give below a synopsis of his 
argument that our readers may understand 
just what the protectionists claim : 
Every Piestdent from Washington to 
Hairison, except three, has favored some 
sort of a tariff, the difference being as to 
whether it should be protective or only 
“for revenue.” The vast majority believe 
that a tariff of some sort is the best means 
of raising most of our national revenues. 
A revenue tariff is always paid by the con¬ 
sumer. So is the protective tariff until the 
protection so stimulates competition that 
lower prices naturally result. The only 
tariff, therefore, that is not a tax is a pro¬ 
tective tariff so high that it stimulates 
.home production and forces competition 
Among home producers. 
The first American protective tariff law 
was passed by the farmers of the country 
and signed by George Washington. This 
was the second law passed by the Ameri¬ 
can Congress and signed by President 
Washington. The farmers wanted manu¬ 
facturers and towns and a consuming pop¬ 
ulation, because they couldn’t sell goods to 
themselves, they had no foreign markets to 
speak of, and no factories could start and 
live in the face of English competition 
without help. 
Again, in 1824, when it was proposed to 
still further increase the tariff, the agri¬ 
cultural States of the North favored it 
while manufacturing New England op¬ 
posed it. Again, the farmers demanded 
better and nearer markets. Senator 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, said that during 
the low tariff before 1824, it took 40 bushels 
of wheat in Ohio to buy a pair of boots. 
In 1890, 40 bushels of wheat will buy a pair 
of boots, an entire suit of clothes, a pair of 
overalls and a pair of rubber boots and a 
hat. 
Old John Randolph, an old-time free¬ 
trader, used to say that if manufacturing 
was largely introduced into the country it 
would briDg small-pox, yellow fever and 
cholera. If Mr. Randolph could come back 
now he wonld find on the ground he used 
to own in Virginia 17 blast furnaces and 
mills in active operation. If free trade is 
started, it must be free trade all along the 
line. If it is free wool it must be free 
cloth. Protection is what Burke said of 
liberty—“It is for all, or it is for none.” 
The Demoorats say : “ If we only had free 
raw material we could go out and capture 
the world’s markets and compete with the 
manufacturers of other nations.” ‘When 
we came to prepare that law, we found that 
any citizen of this country could import 
raw material, pay 90 per cent of the duty 
fixed by law—or pay 100 per cent, I should 
say, the entire duty fixed by law, bring it 
out and make it up into the fin¬ 
ished product, take it back to your 
Custom House and enter it for the 
export trade and the government refunded 
to that importer 90 per cent of the duty he 
paid upon the raw material. That was the 
old law. You can to-day import any raw 
material, make it up into the finished 
product, take it back to the Custom House, 
enter it for foreign markets, and the gov¬ 
ernment gives you 99 per cent of the duty 
you paid upon the raw material—within 
one per cent of free-trade for the foreign 
market. Now go out and capture the 
foreign market. 
Under the “reciprocity” clause of the 
new bill America can extend her trade with 
nations that supply the things we can least 
easily produce at home and call for the 
things we can most easily produce. It is 
latitude rather than longitude trade. As 
for the future of the bill, Mr. McKinley 
said: 
“ Mark my prediction here to-night, that 
that law will not be changed in 10 years, 
unless it be changed by the Republican 
party on protection lines. You need not be 
troubled about a foreign market. You can 
trust the Yankee nation the moment it has 
got its own, which is the best market in the 
world You can trust the Yankee nation to 
go and capture the markets of the world.” 
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