The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-10-29

NOW what does thlS meanl II means that
this party and its lea lers and speakers will
descend to every drrth Of kntvcty in order
to carry the election | want to use vi l,in
words here, that men can dudrr.tand. ! say
here it is wickedly knavi,u. rhey are uu-
dertaking to deceive the people. 1t is a
knaye political knave who will s,oop to
deceive the people. 4 wise man and a
stRse sman would not deceive himself.
"NOw take another indus ~. They went
to New Britain, Connecticut, aud told thu
workmen there would be no more gallery
made il Hancock was elected; no more bolts
made-nOne of the thousand little industries
Of Yankee ingenuity. Well, what il the
truth about al? The cutlery establish
ment at New Britain. Connecticut, has driy-
en- the English out of Canada. 1t has UNDER
sold Great Britain in South America. 1t
cOmpetes with England in the East Indian
market, and this very day the cutlery uf
that New Britain Connecticut make is sold
in Birmingham and Sheffield right under
their very noses. Oh indeed They are g1-
ing to shut up shop, are they? Going to get
mad, be tomfools, and get mad when Ham
cock is elected? Going to make no more cut
lery and send it abroad to make money? On,
fellow citizens, it is dishonorable. it il dis.
honest to the very core Of their rotten
hearts for men to talk in that way.
Again, there is in my own city machine
shop-one Of the largest in the world--the
shop of Pratt ~ Whitney. The bead of the
Establishment lsa gentleman, although he is
a republican He don't undertake t. bull
duze his men. There are 700 or 500 of
them But his father does, aud stockhnlder,
do, and tell the men that there won be any
work. that their shops will shut up-lhe
same old story about the poor house if Hau-
cock is elected. What is the fact about that
industry? Why this day that establishment
Is executing orders for the Emperor of Ger
many, tor the Republic of France, sending
their wares across the Atlantic and compel.
ing with and beating British manufacturers
IN markets To reach which the latter have
only a little channel of twenty-five miles to
cross. shut up shop will they? rhis was
spoken with a peculiar satire and elected a
roar Of laughter
Again, there Is the great cotton industry
Of this country. We are so far ahead of our
British competitors that they are pirating
our trade marks every day, say this be-
cause, a. Chairman Of the Committee on
Foreign Atfur- in the senate il was my du
ty to look into this thing. tell this great
audience that England cannot make any Of
these goods anl put them down in London
and Liverpool for the same prlce as We make
them. - the EngliShmen take the gummed
and tlimsy starchpd cotton goods and put the
trade marks Of American mills on them to
delude and cheat their own people" Az
plau>e
Sena.or Eaton told story o. how he had
exposed the duplcty of one manufacturer
hetore an audience by challenging him to
deny that he could make goods and sell them
in Nnu Ntrl nj .iy apl a bal
that could not be manufactured in Great
Britain for eight aud half cents a wand,
lie said that in the face OF this exposure the
bulIdoziur manufacturer was ~ dumb as an
oyster. Yet the man had been telling his
workmen that he would have to shut up
shop if Hancock was elected, because the
British merchants would come here and uu-
der-ell him. Laughter The man knew
that he was telling lie. ~ TO the charge
that he was Il free trader Senator Eaton said:
"Mr. llawlev said in reference to the bill ]
have told you Of, in large public meeting,
that his was the bill of free trader. Now
Shakespeare says something about a mans
writing himself down an ass An American
whose government owes 81 coo 600, 600, he
interest upon which, together with the px
peu,c' Of the government, must he paid
would be an ASS to suppose that there can be
any such thing IL free trade Therefore, not
desiring to enter into competition with any
republican, | have declined To become a
member OF any tree trade club" This aiiu.
sion to Garlield's membership in the Cpbd. n
Club brought down the house. Senator
Eaton continued: "They say he is only an
honorary member. Well. | never said he
was an honorable member. Laughter
said he was member and suppose they
made him an honorary member because they