The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-12-19

Ratification Meeting in Baltimore.

A grand mass meeting Of the Young Bust
ness Mems Cleveland and Hendricks Asso-
citation was held in Baltimore, Monday night,
at which addresses were made by Mr.. James
Hodges, the presiding officer, aud by Hons.
John. G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of
Representatives. H. B. Vance, J. Randolph
Tucker, Gen. Rosecrans, +. Jones Ellis,
Congressman Mcmillan aud others.
On the subject of the tariff Mr.. Carlisle
said:
awe want equal legislation for all, which
gives to all equal rights under the constitution.
We want no legislation that Will stimulate one
interest NJ the expense of another. We are the
greatest producing country of the world. The
question is not how much We can produce,
but how much we can sell. The eX-
port Of bread and breadsufls fell oil many mil
lions last year small percentage of our pro-
ducts is exported We see our home markets
glutted, thousands of people out of employment
and the silent factories waiting for orders. The
incoming administration will have these great
questions to deal WITH and we believe it will
deal with them udciously and impartially.
The result of the policy Of the Republicans,
which ends in the exclusion ofour products from
foreign markets, is radically wrong. We must
reduce governmental expenditures and remove
restrictions. We have nothing TO fear in this
contest We unjust leave in the pockets of the
people all that is not actually necessary Tor the
expenses Of the government"
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia. in
the course of his speech, said
"The story circulated among the colored peo-
pie that if Cleveland was elected they would be
re-enslavcd was u deliberate falsehood. The
rights aud liberties of every negro man will be
safer under Cleveland than they were under the
Republicans. The constitution was outraged
under the higher law of the Republican party.
The people have decided that no party will hold
power that is outside or above the constitution.
When Mr.. Blaine says the country is great in its
prosperity, he pays the highest compliment to
free trade between the States. Every argument
in favor of protection is expelled before the
prosperity Of the States through free trade be-
tween them. Aud the prosperity of the world
will be greater when there is free trade between
all the nations. As soon as the revenues per-
nit it, am for wiping out all traces of the in
ternal revenue system, and then making Il tariff
equal to the expenses OF the government. Let
there be u tariff low enough to encourage com
merce. Manufactures were more rapidly i'll
creased under decade of Democratic rule than
under two decades of Republican rule The
Republicans say the effect of high tariff is TO
increase the wages of laboring men, Yet labor
is PROSTATE and factories are idle. The ques-
tion OF supply and demand regulates the price
of labor Europe is crowded with people and
low wages are paid. 1t is not the tariff which
makes high wages. 1t is high wages without Il
tariff hat made the Republicans want a tariff
The question is, first, how much wages we will
get, and how much we will get for our wages.
John Bright showed that the wages in England
were higher under free trade than under a pro-
tective policy in that country, The New York
Tribune says wages in this country are lower
now than they have been for years, and this is
under Republican high tariff They say that
under the Spanish treaty they propose to lower
the tariff on raw sugar for the benefit of the re-
tiners, and keep it on the article for consump-
ton by the consumer. They tax the glass, which
admits the light of heaven. They tax necessa-
RIGS and let the luXuries go free. 1t is the poll
cy that makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer