Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-11

| o4uAAZAuS DOunt1eS ana Q0n61OnS. Ab Ahu I nos reduced the tariff as it's commission had
 advised. It had impoverished many indus tries to subsidiEe few. It had depleted
 the returns to agricultural labor. It's courts
 had ovsrthrown the rights of colored citi-
 Eens. It had allowed the escape of public
 thieves. The internal revenue law Is a war
 tax and while continued should be devoted to
 relieve the remaining war burdens and for pensions. An American continental policy
 based on more intimate relations with our
 sister republics is favored, but no entanglinR alliances.
 into coin without loss.
 We oppose sumptuary laws interfering with indi-
 We favor legislation tending to the equitable disri- bation of property and to prevent monopoly while law. Free trade should be fostsred, public lands
 sso1d Id sS kept for settlers and uns.aned Gr1Pts Te
 pressed, but do not sanction the importation
 American civilization demands the exclusion of Mon. golians. We insist on protecting our citizens at
 of Democratic administrators as the best we have l enjoyed. The government should improve
 great waterways and cheap transportation We l demand American policy which shail restore the supremacy of our merchant marine. Instead of the
 half of the American Democracy an American policy
 Instead of the Republican partys discredted scheme
 and false pretence of friendship for American labor
 expressed by imposing tsxes demand in behalf of
 the Democracy freedom for American labor by rsduc ing taxes to the end that these United States may | compete with unhindered powors for the primacy
 among nations in all the arts of and fruits of | liberty.
 With profound regret we have been appraised by the | venerable statesman through whose person (acquieseence in the will of the majority that he
 eadsrship of the Democratic hosts forhe reason that
 the achievement of reform in the administrator of
 bssv sor bs sse apd fsine M tOo
 that his life has been prolonged until the general
 wish that that wrong were rghted in his person, for
 the Democracy of the United States, ofer to him spectfui sympathy and esteem but also that best homage of free men, the pledge of devotion to history of this republic from the iabors and the name of Samuel J. Tilden.
 GENERAL BUTLER ROSE TO PRESENT | minority report at the conclusion of Mr Morrison's reading. When General Butler 1 attempted to speak there was a perfect storm | of applause mingled with misses, howls and catcalle. General Butler said there:were several | things in the regular platform with which he l agreed many which he thought ought to be ! omitted and several which he thought ! should be added. That, however, he left to their better judgment. He asked the clerk | to read the minority report. That official proceeded to do so, but caused prolonged | laughter at the outset by announcing | it ss General Buffers platform, to an apology \ for which the general bowed benignantly The principal points in the minority report may be summarized as follows: First, that \ no taxes direct or indirect can be rightfully I imposed upon the people except to meet the ! expenses of economically administered l government. Second, that the revenue nec- ! esssry for the ordinary expenses of the gov \ ernment should be raised by customs doties I upon imports. Third, that all materials used ! in the arrs and manufactures and the neces- \ saries of life not produced in this country shall come in free and that sll articles of luxury should be taxed as high as possible. He asked the clerk to read the minority re- port up to the collection point Fourth, that ! in imposing custom duties the law must be fully adjusted to promote American enter l prise and industries, not create monopolies, ! and to cherish and foster American labor. It provides further that labor has 8 right to de- mand of the government to establish tribunals to which the great controversies arising be- tween labor and capital which may lead to re- volution may be judicially and justly referred with the fullest power to enforce their decree; and that labor has right to demand just share of the profits of it's own production. It views with alarm the absorption of public lands by corporations and individuals and demands of Congress to apply appropriate remedies with stern hand SO that the land ! of the people may be held by the many and not by the few. It then calls upon Congress to exercise it's great constitutional powers for ! regulating interstate commerce; claims that the frequent changes of federal officials shown to be necessary to counteract the grow ing aristocratic tendencies to a code of life offices, and declares that the issue of legal ! tender notes made by tho government @
 methsd of borrowing money to carry on the war in the exercise of 6 constitutional power has become the fixed | currency of the United States equal to coined ! gold and silver, and that neither policy nor ! duty calls for any meddling with it. When | the reading of the minority report concluded, GENERAL BUTLER AGAIN ROSE AND SAID: q appear with diffidence, having to differ I from my able associates. Most things in the | platform agree to. You have heard those | which do not agree to. will speak of but one which shows & radical difference with the platform. We all agreed that there is no au- ! thority to raise taxes beyond the necessities duties We agreed that the materials and l Decessities of life produced here \ must be untaxed. We differed in this: I claim it to be the duty of the | government to foster American enterprise and labor. I represent here over l ,5OO, 900 I laboring men (applause) I have brought | their condition before you. I esk for no gift l for them. but ask if you take anything l from them, do it in such 8 way as to hurt them as little as possible (applause) ) Can you do without them? I think not. It took | these able gentlemen thirty hours to find
 
 plank. How long will it take ths laboring men to understand it? The committee spent that time to say what would mean one l thing, read one way at one time, and another ! way when read at another time. It does not mean protection. Colonel Morrison is l too honest to bring it here if it did mean protection. Yet it may be twisted to mean tbat. In 1880 you adopted plank for revenue only and lost. Now you say for revenue exclusively. What . AI Tl.S IL. z!o-. . 1 success depends on the action taken. If you cannot say to the workingmen that you mean protection God help you, for I cannot l Qaughter). Your platform says you won't | cut down duties so that labor will be injured. | It nowhere says you will not discriminate l The Democratic party has held ever | since Jackson's time that a tariff did afford protection to labor. If 1 Colonel Morrison does not believe it, he re- | jects old doctrines. You can't change the doctrine in one canvass. General Butler con- | tinued in 8 similar strain at considerable | length. Amid alternate laughs and impa- | tience cries of ''time!" he proceede d. l ssTheoretically D he said, 'tI am free trader myself'( cries of Time!"an 'Give us a rest!") l Practically" he added, ''so long as we must raise two hundred million dollars yearly there ! Is no such thing as free trade. Impose taxa | tion then SO as to foster and help labor which will bring you victory"
 MIR. CONVERSE THEN ROSE AND SAID l there was much in General Buffers port to which all could subscribe. The thir- 1 weight members of the committee were practically united on the majority report; | all agreed but one. Personal differences of l opinion on such occasions were laid aside in the spirit of cancellation and fraternity and
 for success. He claimed that the majority report did pledge protection to labor and in-
 dustry. The great point in it, however, was
 the promise of reform in the gov l ernment After these overshadowing re- forms minor evils could be remedied. 1 Colonel Watterson remarked that since Gen
 eral Butler had declared his inability to sup- port the party if the majority platform were
 adopted the party would have to throw itself ! upon @ reliance in God, to whom the gentle man had referred it. (Laughter) He eulo- gized the platform and claimed that if the convention selected pure and able candidates | they could be elected on that platform. But | Ter had said he was free trader and to prove
 it had offered protectionist plank. Gaugh- ter) am not a free trader. I believe in-
 ternal revenue taxation unjust and have al-