Daily Republican., 1880-09-25
A AKEPUBLIUAN RALLY.
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| The Republican rally on Fourth, be.
tween Market and Shiplsy streets, last
night, was attended by an immense
and enthusiastic audience. A number
Of campaign clubs gave q short street
parade before the opening OF the meet.
ling.
On motion Of United States Marshal
McMullen, the following officers were
elected President, DR.. J. 2. Wales;
Vios Presidents, Samuel Barr, Albert
Smith, Henry C. Robinson, John Haw.
kins and Francis Vincent; Secretary,
Charles Gouert. DR.. Wales arose and
introduced Levi c. Bird, Esq. as the
orator of the evening.
After showing that the great pros
perity was due to the Republicans, and
comparing the records of the two
parties, Mr.. Bird took up the tariff
question and spoke as follows:
The Democratic platform, adopted at
Cincinnati, in section 3, says:
The strict maintenance Of the public
faith, State and national, and tariff tor
revenue only
What do they mean by tariff for re-
venue only' Such tariff as stall pay
certain expenses OF the Government.
In other words, a direct opposition
to protective tariff. Let me speak 10
you, men of Wilmington, capital
lists and lsboriDg men, of this plank in
the Democratic platform.
Take the DUTY of pig iron, and where
will the rolling mills OF Wilmington
go' Take the duty off sheet iron, aud
what becomes Of the Mccullough Iron
Company Take the duty of English
machinery and what bscomss Of Seidel
l. Hastings and Hilles Il JonesS vii.
miDgton employs to-day between 3, 600
and 4, 900 workers in iron, men who
ars averaging in wages from 80 to $l5
per week; supporting families and
slowly but certainly making homes for
themselves. Let the tariff be made q
revenue one, and low can the iron men
Of America compete with the Old Worlds
Pig iron, in London, to day, ID worth
third less than Pittsburg, the heart of
the iron country of tbs World. Coal
in London, to-day, is worth third less
than in Scranton, surrounded by beds
Of coal.
The plant in England Of machine
shops and factories caI be erected and
started in industrial enterprises at one
half the cost il can in America. The
latter owing mostly to climatic infu-
ences. IT, you want yoer children edu-
Gated ; ifyou want yohr homes pros
porous; II you would lay by a store for
the day that must come, when yen can
no longer labor il you would struggle
to take your place in the line Of men
who commenced where you are now,
and who are to-day the men of wealth
in the nation, the self-made men Of
America, her pride and her glory, then
never vote for a party that believes in
revenue tariff a. against protection to
American industry and American labor.
But not to the iron men alone does this
question OF tariff appeal in no doabtful
tone. Let us take another OF Whining.
toms great industries-th morocco in
terest. The duty on morocco under
our present tariff law, as nearly as |
can remember, is 20 per cent. Under
our present system, the morocco
manufacturer in this country is doing
we'll who clears 10 per cent. on the cap
ital invested. He can't stand less than
that and lay by anything.
Let the morocco OF France and Ger
many come into this country free Of
the duty now imposed, and what be-
comes OF the morocco manufacturer OF
Wilmington. A skilled morocco dresser
in this country should make from sl2
to SIS q week and the labOrer $40. In
France the laborer who receives 80
francs a week, (bsing S6), is making
higher rate Of wages than at any time
in the past twelve years in that coun-
try. Germany ia still worse than France.
How then would the eight hundred or
the thousand men employed in the mo
rocco factories of Wilmington succesd
il this tariff, a protection TO them and
their families, Is taken OFF, Ask Pusey,
SCOTT & Co., John g. Baker X Co.,
Washington Jones Il Co., or Mr.. j.
Parke Postlss what they have to say
about a revenue tariff, and how 1t
would effect their industries by letting
French and German morocco come in
fres of duty! Oh, no; it cannot be.
Northern and Western capital and in
dustry, aye labor, cannot submit t" a
revenue tariff only. 1t strikes at the
heart Of every American mechanic. 1t
enters his home it affects his children
and ths prosperity of all his house
hold. 1t desOlates every manufacturing
city, and makes barren the places now
stocked with the chimneys of thriving
industry.
But again, in the tenth section OF
the Democratic platform adopted at
Cincinnati, they declare for free ships.
What a blow is this! With terror, i'll
deed, the men who invested their mil.
lions along the Christiana and Delaware
must have been stricken whom they
read the Dem ,cratic intelligence.
What do they mean by free shipsf
Free ships mean death and antagonism
to every shipyard in America. Fres
ships mean the burial note to American
commerce on the sea, so far as Its car
riagss in American bottoms is concern
ed. Free ships mean that the Harlan
& Hollipgsworth Campany and the Pa.
soy & Jones Company shall close their
works, 50 far as American shipbuilding
is concerned. Bear with me until
give yon q short history Of the law
Of the United States in regard to
shipbuilding, The Navigation Act Of