Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-09


rekindled and the commercial and
manufacturing interests that had gone
down begansto revive again, and when
we met at Washington not q mothers
son of these men who were
pledged against resumption had
the nerve to rise in his place and
move the repeal of the resumption
law. Why? Because the republicans
had proved it q success and hey were
too cowardly to stack it.
Well, these same men, who told US
if resumption took place the country
would be ruined, met in convention at
Cincinnati in June of this year, and,
| net witbstanding they had so recently
adopted the doctrine of fiat money,
| they came out and hung up the old
| republican platform and adopted our
policy on the money ques tior.
Listen ID their platform.
"Home rule, honest money, strict
maintenance of the public faith, honest
money, consisting of gold and silver,
and paper convertible into coin on de-
name" Another one of the planks
stolen from the republican platform
and put into the democratic platform.
So We are all together on the money
question.
REPUBLICANS RIGHT ALL THE TIME.
Now, fellow.cit:zsns, give me your
| attention. I speak with measured
words when say that with the excep.
ton Of Two planks of their platform,
there is not a single sentence, line or
word, in the democratic platform of
1880 that was net taken from some one
of the republican platforms of the last
twenty six years.
Now, my democratic friends, II
the republicans have been right
all these years are they not right yet?
With these two exceptions, there is not
a line or word in their platform against
which the democratic leaders have not
cried out, and which they have not
year ait ar year declared would ruin the
people OF the country if adopted as the
policy Of the government.
THE TARIFF.
| Every thing In the democratic plat
form has been taken from the repuoli>
can policy, with the exception of two,
and they are the question of ariff and
Gel tralization, ana am thankful, gen.
tlemen, that there are no such wares as
these in our political store-house. My
friend will tell you that we are taxed
to death. When we started out on
this campaign he was powerfully
alarmed, and said the country had
been ruined; that hairpins were taxed,
and that alum was taxed, and that
caster oil was taxed [laughterl and
t)ld the people how much more Of
these articles they could get for dol
lar if the tax were removed. Well, /
| begged of him, let US not make this an
alum campaign; let US lift it up q
little higher than caster oil. II my
friend should buy dollars worth Of
alum he would have to procure help to
carry it home! And would not want
to sleep in the same civil district with
this crowd if they had just taken q
dollars worth Of castor Oil. (Laugh>
ter.) But let Us reason about this a
little. There is a broad and deep
this question of tariff. The republi-
can parry believes in protection to
home industries, and that policy that
will protect capital Ia coming here
and developing our mineral resources;
10 digging down our iron banks and
| In developing our coal and zinc mines.
Tue tariff gives protection to home
labor, home manufacturers and home
products. Why is 1t that you can sell
your corn and your bacon, your wheat
and other produce for so much more
to-day than before the war? Because
under the protection OF the tariff we
have rolling mills, and machine shops
and foundries, and our products do
not come in competition with the
cheap pauper labor Of foreign coun-
tries. James Buchanan, the last
democratic president that ever was,
and in the providence of God the last
one that ever will be (applause) said
that he was in favor of reducing la
borers' wages to ten cent, per day,
what they receive in Europe. My
compe titor, who has q little bit of a
record as q public man, is in
clined the same way, for L find that
In a speech in the city council, in
Knoxville, not long ago, he advocated
THE REDUCTION OF LABoRERs' WAGES
from one dollar ID eighty cents per day.
Thus he is on the direct road to fall
into the clutches of the ten-cent de-
mocracy. / would be In favor of a re-
vision of the tariff laws, but not to
bring labor and the products of labor
in competition with European con-
Wet labor, or to place these articles in
| the hands of monopolies to extoltion
on the people. But if these tariff laws
are wrong, as my friend says, why
don't the democratic congress correct
them? They have a majority in both
houses Of congress, and control OF
every COMMITTEE. Now il the people
are so heavily taxed, why have the
democracy not come to their relief?
II by no means follows that if the tax
were taken off these articles that they
would be chespened in that proper
ton. About year ago the tax was
taken off from quinine, one of the
most important drugs, and yet am
informed by the druggists that the
price OF quinine remains the same as
| it did before the tariff was taken off.
GENERALIZATION.
! But to come to that other resolution
In tle democratic platform. They
proclaim that they are opposed to the
Capitalization of the national govern
ment. To hear a democratic speech
about Capitalization you would
| think it was some great monster that was
to sweep away the liberties of the people
Not so my countrymen. The republicans
| hold TO
THE DOCTRINES OF HENRY CLAY,
that this is national government, that
| this nation is powerful and patriotic
enough to reach out and protect its citizens
everywhere, at home or abroad. Our
democratic friends agree with US in part.
If the rights OF an American citizen are in
volved on foreign soil, a million swords
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