The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-09-18
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
Gen. Butler Tells Why He Be-
came It's Candidate for
the Presidency.
A Great Speech Delivered to an Audi.
encc of Fifteen Thousand
ut Detroit

CuVV VI GCCH IuUuHdHU
ut Detroits
Men OF Michirar
haus come here to address you, but you are
hero IN such numbers that 1t will be impossible
Tor me to be heard unless you keep absolute
quiet. No one mans voice, however powerful,
ana have one OF the best, can be made ~ ne
neard ,i, against @ ssoo or sooe men ~ telling at
find you here ia unexpected numbers / see
here mans. msny thousands that the eye can
,asaiy sakc in. whatever may be the voice.
want TO give you, II you will hear me, the words
OF truth and sobcrness Ia regard To the great
matters YOU have Mt heart. want to speak to
the workngmen Of the beneicent effects of q
tarlt1, ana they want to hear me about 1t, and
you cannot hear unless you will he sill.
Men OF Michigan, we are approaching great
and important election, 40 great and important
that 1t has brought YOU here together this night
under the clear eky or heaven, Tor God has
vouohsafcd to N u beautiful night, still and
calm and quiet. Please, please take advantage
inshis regard
There Is no matter 81 much misunderstood
and none 80 much mssrepresented AZ the effect
oi tariih Nov, what IL a tariflg II IL simply a
'all that, for the support OF the government the
government puts upon the foreigner b fore it
open the market Of tho United States to his pro-
duction The government says you shall not
c4e y;I, @ mere G and share IN our market nnless oa
the purpose OF the ervrSa.ssnt. That il q shor,l
easily IN bs nhdsrst0od definition of a tariff Let
NE .ns sminatfate You, here in Michigan, have great
ndextcnslve pns forests. You can make lumber
TOT us ln VIZ East but if the lower part OF Canada
Ealch ts nearest to us, send Us In their lumber
Tree, you can, in no way that l know Of COM
pete with them in our market, and vour forests
must be unfelled your mills stopped, while the
Canadian mill. and Canadian workingmen are
oil arfairist you. living cheaper than You will
live, doing work. PERHAPS more hours than an
American workingman ought to work, fur am
one OF those who believe no American Workings
man ought to work more than ten hours In ans
fought Tor iolty y years. in IN S own State far
law, and we have one; tha. does not permit the
wcrkingman to work more than ten hours in
any one day, or working women either, nor
ao.king children, either for we desire that our
children shall be healthy and strong, to make
good and strong children and citizens. Now,
then, the tariff saws to the Can sdian, II You
want to bring In your lumber here, and share
our market-for we do not send any lumber to
Canada-if You want to come here and share
our our markets mar, y9p shall pay 81 thousand toll
raise the price OF every house So q thousand" +"
The answer to that Is very plain one, that the
lumber with this toll Is not 81 = thousand
higher, it is only 81 on the thousand higher, and
that makes sufficient protection to the work
insmen OF Michigan. l saw IN a speech of Mr.
Hendricks that he said wherever there was a
tariff or tax upon an article. that tariff or tax
enhanced the rice to The same amount. That
Is not true will convince YOU that it Is not SO.
The farmer Is told that all his articles are en-
| iron, to almost double what they cost in En-
gland. Bnteverything the farmer uses, every
thing the mechanic uses, because We have had a
| tarif on iron, are cheaper here. Some will
say to me. How can that be-" 1t comes
| from this, that tariff, which used to be
| tax. has enabled American manufacturers to
employ American mechanics to such an extent
that. by competition with each other, they have
| brought down these iron tools-anl only use
| this ~ an illustration they have brought them
down to a less price than they can he made IN
II irnt nj trpg, Ia
| better than English iron. We can make steel,
| and our steel Is cheaper than theirs, and 1t all
came because, in days gone past. we have 80
cheapencd the manufacture by American skill
| and American industry that these things are
cheaper here than in England. Now this has
been the beneficent effect OF the tariff in favor
OF American manufactures.
Therefore, as friend Of the laborer went to
| the Chicago convention and asked the Demo-
| cratic party to put into their platform an OK
| plicit declaration that, when they laid revenue
for purposes OF government they should SO lay
| It rs to protect the American workingman and
woman. Why did want that explicit deeiara-
/ tion? The Democratic party had not been in
power for twenty-five years, so we do not know
what they would do about tariff. Why was 1t
| necessary to have an explicit declarations 1t
was because last winter Democratic majority
| undertook To force through Congress a free
| trade tariff and that won't do. Failing to force
| through a frce-trade tariff at once. they sald,
very well, we will have horizontal tariff: we
4 will cut oil ~ per cent in order to have less
revenue" but the effect OF that would be
| TO make more revenue. Why? The taritf
| Is SO high, or the toll which We say we will
| collect, III they come into our markets, that
nobody imports anything under that tarify.
! and therefore we get no revenue from those
articles on which the tariff was high. Now il
| you cut of 20 per cent. from the tariff it will
bring 1t down so low that many men can inn
| port. and when they import they will have to
pay the duty, and that duty will make more
revenue than we should lose by the 20 rer cent.
| reduction. felt this a matter OF prime neces-
| sty, and when the Democratic party, after full
instructions. after full explanation, refused to
make that specific declaration 1 broke with
| them, left them, and have come to yon, and |
have found too many OF YOU, that Is the great
trouble
| Now, then, why not be satisfied with the tariff
| by the Republican party? Simply because that
| tariff was made during the war times and col
| lects too much money. and we do not want any
| more money collected than will just pay the
| economical expenses OF the Government. l do
| not want any surplus piled up In the Treasury,
for it is great temptation to either Republicans
or Democrats to steal It. They are all alike. l
| do not mean all alike dishonest but there are
dishonest men In all parties, while the great
| bulk of the people IN both parties are honest,
and want to do nothing but what Il right. Eut
there In no difference between dishonest Demo-
crat and a dishonest Republican, except the one
has been stealing until he has got his belly full
and the Democrat is hungry. No difference In
the world. The Republican tariff Is wrong in
that 1t collects more money than 1t should. 1t Is
| also wrong in another thing, that there was too
much OF an eye to capital and the protection OF
eye to the protection of labor. Capital
Is ab,e to protect itself every way, strong
enough, sometimes 40 strong 1t oyerbears labor
| and the Government when they lay tariff. the
tariff of the people. which we will have Land, II
bali of you vote next November with the Peo-
| pies party, so far as Michigan is concerned. we
| will have peoples tariff which will be exactly
this: raise no more money than is wanted for
| an economical government, and when 1t Is laid
1t shall be laid with due regard to protecting
| and fostering American labor and with no other
| npIpr heaven fAnnanspI If
hear me you have understood what Is meant by
tariff Let me 30 over II little. and the report
repetition. on account of the noise that You
may all understand II. This Is 1t: This coun-
try is the great market of the world for every
thing. and we ought TO have 1t for ourselves
England will not take from US one dollar OF any
| thing but food for her people, petroleum oil tor
her lights. and our whisky and tobacco. Tha,
IL all she viii take from us; Now, then. for thai
she wants 10 pay MS wholly In her manufaet.
ures, and il there IL no tariff our market IL open
to her, and she can come in here, and. by hei
cheaper labor at home, made cheap by the very
food she gets from us, she competes with our
workingmcn Perhaps you do not quite under
stand this matter OF market and what l meant
by that. This is 1t: Take your Michigan lum.
ber. II everybody had his house built 1t would
not do any good to get our timber. II you had
one half OF your market taken up by Cana
dian lumber, yon can employ In Michi
comes right back to labor at last | repeal
that the Government, in its wisdom, ought To put
| toll ON this market, that Il, say 10 the Eng
lishman aud everybody else, YOU shall not com,
here aud take away our home market from ou
men and women, from our farmer and producer
without paving = toll for IT, fAppanse,i jus
let me 90 ON, because this is business We ar,
about now. We have been frolieking for while
But you say, how does that affect the farmer
His market, except tor his oyerplns, II where
1t IL here among his own people. Ii YOU labor
ing men and producers, who compose three
lourths VI the population, are not well paid ais
well employed the farmer cannot sell hi
produce. and his market IL lost. Therefore, W
| have passed laws 70 protect the farmer who sell
wool. We have laid tariff 10 protect that, AM
TO protect potatoes, and to protect our friend II
Maine and all along the border against tn
| Canadian potato, and 80 on. | might enanerat
| a great number of articles The taiin Ii put on
| nrst, to raise revenue, because We must hay
revenue enough 10 carry ON the Government
| When ii Ii put ON Ii should be put Oh 50 To con
| troll our own markets for our people that th
foreigner cannot come in here aud compete wit
| u Thai u q slInIla and L IlusI q clear dec