Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-29
NEW YORK BUSINESSMEN.
Text of the Patriotic Address Adopted py
the Great Wall Street Meeting.
Beneficent Results of Republican Admin
istration--The Danger of Demo-
cratic Rule.

ana Logan lndSS-luettlIlS ao viz S~
Treasury in Wall Street New York.
"The business men of New York IN
mass-meeting assembled, on the eve OF
an important Presidential election, ad-
dress themselves to their fellow-citizens
as follows:
"First-The question to which every
elector is asked to give careful and IN
telligent thought is whether American
industries and honest toll shall be pro-
tected by the National Government
against the competition of foreign cheap
labor? Upon this subject one OF the
great political parties has expressed
itself in positive terms, and has placed
in nomination gentlemen who have
both the brains to formulate their views
and the courage to utter them; while
the other comforts itself alike upon
the ambiguity of its confession of faith
and the enforced silence OF its chosen
apostle.
"Second-Apartf from their platforms,
the position of the two political parties
has been we'll ascertained by their re-
cent action in Congress. The Demo-
cratic party defeated an avowed pro-
tectionist and elected a pronounced
promptly assigned another free-trader
to the Craftsmanship of the Ways and
Means Committee, who in turn intro
duced a free-trade measure which par
alyZed enterprise, impaired commercial
and financial confidence, and unsettled
values, thus threatening capital and
labor alike. And but for the courage
and wisdom of the Republicans stat
ute would have been enacted which
would have necessarily reduced the
salaries and wages of our employees,
| who have assembled with us to-day to
vouch their Indignation that their rep
| resentativeS should encourage foreign
| handicraft to the exclusion of that OF
| the American workman. [Cheersl.
WHAT "a CHANGE" MEANS.
"Third-The Democratic demand for
| q change in the administration OF the
| National Government is based upon no
| argument which commends it to us as
| business men. We are once more a
united people. We are at peace with
the entire world and desire to remain
so. Our products OF the soil and of
the hand already find purchasers in
foreign lands, and these markets are
| constantly increasing. Our financial
system is sound and our currency is
simple. Our National credit is second
| to that of no other nation on the plan
ct. Our civil service is based upon fit
ness and merit, and avails itself of the
| labor of those gallant soldiers and sail
ors who served honorably during the
War for the Union. Our lives and our
liberty are protected, be we native or
adopted citizens, whether we are at
home or abroad, and we worship God
according to the dictates of our con-
sciences and in conformity with our
respective creeds. These are blessings
resulting in great measure from the
patriotism and craftsmanship which
have nodded the legislation of the last
quarter of century. And we here
solemnly declare that we will not imper-
il them by restoring to power party
which boasts the solid support OF six
teen States that rebelled against the
Government [cheersl; which cast l52
votes in the House of Representatives
against protection to American labor
loud cheersl; which periodically sug--
gests startling changes in our financial
policy; which has views upon the sane
titv of the National debt which are
prejudiced by knowledge that it was
created to suppress Democratic rebel
lion; and, which knows no better form
of civil service than promptly discharg-
ing the present Government employees,
soldiers and sailors included, and sub
shutting for them an army of men in
experienced in everything but partisan
politics. [Cheers and laughter.]
THE SOLID SOUTH.
"Fourth-We continue to view with
alarm and regret the fact that the grave
| commercial issues now before the peO-
pie do not sufficiently interest our fell
fow-citizens of the Southern States to
Justify them in an effort to break the
phalanx of 153 Electoral votes, which
are perpetual menace to the North OF
Solid South thus fostering political
estrangement and keeping unhealed the
wounds of civil war. Until DISPOSE
ton is manifested by our Southern
brethren to discuss living issues rather
than to revive those that have been de.
termined by war Ito the great glory OF
our common country, it would be mad
ness to try the experiment of the Dem
Ocratic rule.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
"Fifth-Whatever may be our view
to preferences heretofore, we may now
recognize the wisdom of the Chicago
Convention in nominating for the Pres
idency our late Secretary of State, Jas.
G.. Blaine. Loud and repeated cheers.
Selected 10y popular demand and not by
any machine, chosen for merit and not
for expediency, he has developed such
him to a people who always respect
frankness, honor genius, and love
courage. His utterances have been
, unmistakably emphatic on the great
question of the hour, and he has lived
to experience the inevitable reaction
which follows scurrilous and menda'
cious SANDER. Setting aside the char.
F acter of the candidates for the great
office of President of the United States
James G.. Blaine stands to-day Hyper.
ion to satyr.' [Cheers.]
"Sixth-The nomination Of General
John A. Logan loud cheers] for the
Vice Presidency fulflls and perpetuates
the pledges of the business men OF
J New York that the services of the gal.
liant men who risked their lives to avert
disruption of the Union shall not in
our day and generation be forgotten il
sures us that the loss of our President
(which God forbid!) would place in the
Executive chair man well fitted fol-
the emergency, with positive convic-
lions openly and repeatedly expressed;
whereas the death of Mr.. President
Cleveland would remand the Executive
branch of the Government to one
which in the hour of peril never
uttered word, INDUCED hope, OF
breathed a prayer for the safety of the
Union.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's ADMINIsTRA-
TIoN COMMENDED.
@Lastly-We desire most earnestly
and sincerely to place upon record iil
this public manner and in the presence
of this immense concours, of citizens
of this metropolis our admiration OF
and gratitude for the dignified admin.
istration of the Office Of President OF
the United States by our fellow-towns-
man Chester A. Arthur. WeWish him
all the happiness that a consciousness
of having discharged his duty with
fidelity and to the satisfaction OF the
entire people will naturally bring to
him, and we believe the day will come
when the page he has written in the
history of his country will be supple.
mented by another recording the fact
that the peOple had not vet aYailed