The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-03
SENATE. aURMAN.
The Old Roman P"ir Is Out the Necessity
for a hamge.

The Old Roman Poir, Is Out the Necessity
for Change.
COLUMBUS, Sept. Ex-senator Thurman
addressed a large audience at New AL
bany, or Hope, in this county. He said:
The first Thing / suy to yOu is that we
ought To have a change. You never will
get at the truth of The mlsdOingS of the
Republican OfficehOldeTs until you do
have change. In the hOmely language
of another, ''let us look into the books.
Turn out these men; or rather, don't re-
elect them-tuTn them Out-and let q
new set OF men, representing the Demo-
cratic party, look into the long record of
these books, anO see how this Govern
meut has been administered, and how
It's treasury hus been disturbed. Then
you may get a . something like the truth.
4 wOuld not give a straw for anything
short of that. Congressional commit
tees may now and then attempt TO In
yestigate, they will be thwarted as GER
tain as iate. But you put men who can
go into their departments down to the
lowest Office IN them, whose daily bust
ness il is to inspect the record Of the
hooks, aud then you Will have some
chance to get at the truth. But again,
my friends, | think there ought to be IA
change of administration Tor another
reason, and that is, there never was i'll
ali tile history of this country time
when the interests of the people were so
much endangered by mOnOpOlies as there
is NJ LhlS time, and now 1t is singular
fact that there is scarcely monopoly TO
be found in any of the statute books i'll
the United States that was not created
by our Republican opponents. There is
this most remarkable fact in the history
of the country. You can't find an act of
Congress that was passed by Demo-
cratic Congress, that gave any man an
unjust advantage over another. Hunt
them up where you will, you will lind
this striking feature in all of them
that they gave no advantage to one man
over his fellow man. They treated them
all alike, as entitled to equal and exact
Justice. But, on the other hand, there
is not a statute enacted by Congress, and
very few statutes Of the state, ,cOnferTing
special privileges upon any class of men,
that 10 was not enacted by our political
opponents. Banks, tariff mOnOpOlies,
railroad subsidies, everything of that
kind that takes money or property from
the people and gives it to a privileged
class, that confeTs privileges upon few
men comparatively, that other men en-
joy; all this comes from our political OPP
pOnents; 50 that ii was an Old saying of
Democrats, even before the most of you
were born, that the Federal party, as
our opponents were then called, legisla
those who had already enough, and to
take money out of the pockets Of those
who had barely sufficient to support
thoir life and gain their daily bread. SO
il is now. | say that here again, you
want "a change.
Ny friends, it is sometimes said you
d. III Gratis ara free.tTa deTs, and you
would break down all domestic manu-
features. There is no truth in that at
a 10 IA Of rnt m
by free-traders are meant that all GUS
ION duties shall be abolished, there is
no party in this country that can be
called free traders, because they ali
agree that there must be some taxes col
lected by means of tariff duties, and 80
long as the interest on the public debt
is 80 enormous; so long as the principal
of the debt remains unpaid; so long az
the pension list is so long and heavy; so
long a5 there are all these things that
must be met, so long as these charges
continue, why you will have tariff.
But the question is whether it shall be
a fair tariff. or whether it shall be an
unfair one; whether it shall be tariff
that fosters monopoly, or whether 1t
shall be one of equal rights. Now, in
the al ustment of a tariff there is great
diflic ICy, that is very true; but what
the Democrats require, what the plat
form OF your state convention requires,
is that while you have such tariff, you
shall 80 frame its provisions as TO do as
little injustice to any class of people as
possible. Now, let me show you fla
grant injustice lately perpetrated by
our Republican friends on this subject
of the tariff. 1 shall not go much into
detail. | shall leave that to my friend
Geddes who was an eye-witneDs, and
who can tell you. This tariff this law,
is called by our opponents protection
law. 1t is to protect American indus
tries, they say. Protect them hOwp
Protect them by raising the price of
things the American has to sell, and
which are the product of this country;
that is the only way. If il does not raise
the price it does not do him any good.
Now, if you will think for a moment
you Will see that while every manufac-
tured article can thus be protected, that
is, if its price is raised by tariff laws,
there are very few, scarcely any agTicul-
tural products that can be thus protect
ed, or their price increased. Of what
use is the tariff on Indian corn, or
wheat to the farmerp We export them.
Of what use is a protective duty to the
cotton grOwerp
Mr.. Thurman had very little to say on
the Scott law. He said he could not see
that it had done any good to the temper
auce cause. He positively stated that,
if the prOhibitOry amendments were ad-
opted, no tax could be raised from the
liquor traffic. Even with prohibition he
anticipated there would De no trouble
for those who wanted a drink to get it.