The daily gazette., 1882-10-12

do not think 1t Is and it Is better for ths
future to be clear than to have certain In
fiuenees in politics here, with which We are
threatened. The cure for all things Of .
doubtful or q questionable character is -
turn the clear light of public observation
upon them. Let this be done. An hones<
public opinion to the strongest thing In tho
country, and that Is what we mead In
politics.
NIB. HASTINGS AMP JAY HUBBKLL.
Mr.. Bayard went ON to say that he was
sorry TO read in the papers to-day that M
Washington Hastings, the Republican can
didate for Congress, had at q public meet
ing announced that he was follower
and believer In Jay Hubbell's machine.
Mr.. Bayard then said t'Mr. Hastings
said much about the tariff. The tariff has
been very good thing for him. Ono thing
is to be borne in mind A governments fs
free government just In proportion -
power is restrained. Do you not see in the
attempt to tax all classes for the benedt Of
one, the destruction of the principle thst
makes all men equal I'm the eyes Of the law
noticed that last night Mr.. Hastings saw
fit to speak with something of sneer about
the tax on matches as something abomina-
BILE, which he was wholly opposed to. Mr..
Hastings had right to be Of that opinion
If he thinks It unwise or wrong, but want
to tell you that the tax was
created long before l went into public
life by Republican Congress. This tar
produced an immense sum, and / was truly
amazed when found that the tax produced
a sum of nearly $3.50, 0,000, with this pecu-
liarity, that every dollar of it went into the
public treasury, and did not cost q single
clerk 10 collect it. The only cost was the
paper on which the stamps were printed.
When saw tax costing nothing to collect
and every dollar of 1t going into the public
treasury, must say did not think II wise
to fepeal such a tax when we hid other
taxes, onerous and exacting, which
remained unrepealed. Mr.. Bayard
then referred to the tax on
blankets as one of these. It produced
%, ,000, 900, Of which only a small portion
went into the Treasury. Another tax =
that on Bessemer rails and Bessemer steel.
With tax that ought to have brought
$31 ,000, 900 to the Treasury, we only got
81 500, 900. Who got the other 500, 900 ,000v
because mean to say that the Americas
people paid it7 The man who got the rest
is the man who don't like the tax on
matches. Laughter and applausel.
Moving to the tariff question Senator
Bayard raid: "This Is q question which
coils for great thought, great knowledge
and above all for disinterestednees. This
Republican platform which has been az
ranged for the party in Dover, viii tell yoa
that 1t is protection for tho American laborer,
| If there is anything that has been proved
| more clearly than another, 1t is that tho
| tariff does not protect American labor.
There is free trade and labor, and every
kind of machinery that can be devised to
take the place of labor is brought into use.
Labor is sought for from abroad to COM
pete with American labor. I am the
| friend of the American laborer, and wish
to see him protected by laws, which shall
not leave him at the mercy of an exscting
monster. Talk about protection-what do
we find 7 Look at the strikes at Pittsburg
| and Cohoes. l am not speaking of these,
| except in sorrow. believe the tariff to be
restrictive and unwise. By taxing foreign
produce indiscriminately you give to the
| American manufacture only home market,
and when that is overstocked he has no
| foreign market to fall back upon. Thea
production has to cease, and the American
workingman lies idle. He can't wait for
prices to advance, for his time Ia all lost.
The manufacturer can wait till prices ad-
vance and sell at profit, but / repeat, the
workingman's time is all lost"
Mr.. Bayard closed with q strong appeal
to the people to support the Democratic
party and when he sat down he was loudly
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