Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-17

General Hawley made rousing speech at the Republican State convention in Worces- ter Wednesday. Among the topics he touched upon was the tariff question, a question in which every New England manufacturer and laboring man has vital interest Among other things he said
 Great Britain says to us: s'You are an agricultural people. Devote yourselves to that" friend of mine in Great Britain wrote me letter in which he declared that, under the doctrine of free trade our poor United States would become the home of ag- riculture and Great Britain the manufactur- ing center of the world But we have diff ferent plan. Somewhere in these hills the Almighty has given us almost every metal useful to man, and that most valuable metal in greatest abundance,-iron. In our soil is every chemical element for the finest pottery. With the exception of extreme tropical pro- ducts we can raise all kinds of in the greatest abundance. These things I hold to be command from the AL mighty to build up among ourselves diver sifed industry. [Applause.] I believe in our use of the word protection. It is justi- fed by the reply to a parliamentary inquiry, that their manufacturers are in the habit of selling goods below cost till they have beaten down rising industry in the United States. Is it wrong to defend ourselves from them? Great Britain is the mother of great brood of colonies, to all of which she has given their own legislature. Every single one of them has adopted protective tariff against the rest of the world and the mother coun- try. l have the blue-book of Parliament, giving complete tabulation of the duties against the mother country. Australia and New Zealand are particularly noticeable. Since they raise the raw products they lay heavy duties on the manufactured ar ticle. Great Britain might overrule the colonial legislatures, but has not been in the habit of doing so since 1776. (Applause) France has tariff absolutely exclusive upon @ great variety of articles. Your cottons do not go there nor ships nor machinery. This general tariff is subject to notifications by treaty. Great Britain has made treaty with France under which many articles are admit ted for ten per cent. duty. From the benefit of that Great Britain has excluded her colo nies. She put on a duty of ninety per expense of her own children, and approaches with 8 scheme of free trade. Now am willing to change the tariff and vote a revision, if 1t ought to be made. We are now paying our public debt at the rate of eighty-fye millions year, which is a little faster than need be, perhaps. But am not willing to commit that revision to the men who would remove absolutely all industrial protection. They propose now revenue tariff without modification. If the party means anything it says, it means course of legislation which would utterly prostrate some interests of New England and cripple others, while portion would be able to con tinue without the tariff. You will feel it, some of you, when this danger comes upon your industries. You think it would be a moderate change. I have read the speeches made on that topic within two or three years. The southern and southwestern members will be in power if the Democracy succeed. Have they anything to hope for from New England? They have few members here Phelps Morse and Eaton-and hope there will be less of them next year. They regard this New England as the home of fanaticism of modern times. The common school uni versal ballot, and vast variety of such mat ters are distateful to them. If you place your material interests in their hands you will find reduction in the tariff savage that you will make rapid strides toward free trade at the hands of men who are asking nothing from us in return.
 The voters of New England would do well to think twice, or three times even, before they vote to put party in power which has declared itself hostile to their material in- terests