The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-03
He Makes Strong Argument in Favor of
Protection merican Manufactures
and Aga :: nocratic Free Trade.
An IrishI 2 Contrast of the Issues
Of Th : s sidential Campaign.
A New YOrn.-. per on Mr.. Hendricks Efforts
to Suppress His Views as to CIevelands
Ckaracter-Po Political Notes.
BUTLER ON PROTECTION.

His Speech at Grand Rapids Against the
Free-Trade Theories of the Democracy.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept General But
Ter addressed one of the largest meetings ever
held in the west part of the State here this after
noon the attendance being estimated at from
10000 to $4,000. The people, he said,
ought to stand together, and not be
divided into parties The Democrat was the
peoples party of the time of Jefferson and Jack
son. jackson put down the monopoly of the
United States Bank. If jackson were alive to-
day he kButlerl would vote for him,
but he didn't want to vote for
his 'old boots stuffed full of Southerners
He outlived political history. For quarter Of
a century southern Democrats held to the Con-
sti tutlon with slavery imbedded in it, for noble
men and women rose among the people against
slavery. Both parties tried to put
tn EN- down They elected Fremont Pres
ident, but he was counted out in Pennsyl-
vania The country had refused to place the
Democrats in power since they went into the re-
bellion. The Republicans were kept principally
for what they had BEEN He couldn't
say much for reconstruction. 1t was
not thoroughly done. He gave up the Repub-
lican party because it had not made the negro
full master of himself; he broke with the Demo
cratic party because it was not willing to settle
bu0 tdfIH Qu6SGlOu ONCE LOT all Oy Dr1Q-
ciple and justice in a tariff to favor
workingmen and for the raising of revenue
from luxuries He didn't say at Chicago though
that he would not go on their side. The Demo
cratic committee at Chicago spent thirty six
hours to make tariff plank nearly like that of
the Republicans, and yet not be Republican,
The tariff ssp WAS to Vu keep pg0plS American sas
market for ourselves. The United States is the
richest country in the world and uses the most
aaI1f1f faafI I1rnG IF
countries want to get into our markets. Their
laborers are made to work so per cent. cheaper
than ours. The tariff makes them pay toll
for using our market. Canada wants
to come in and sell lumber. If the tariff was off
she would take the large part of our market, and
the mills making Michigan lumber and Michigan
| furniture would have to suspend or all work go
on at half wages In Massachusetts, it
was cloth that was an issue Foreign
countries would like to get into the market and
| drive American manufacturers out of business,
and then raise their prices. Papers talk about
Butler being manufacturer of bunting When
the war broke out there was no bunting made
| in this country. British manufacturers
put up the price on the American
! government to $50 per piece; now it is only SIG
or $17 and they can't raise it, About the close
| of the war tho Secretary Of the Navy
asked Butler if they could make as
ment was using The matter was laid
before some of the young men of Lowell, and
and they tried to manufacture it, but did not
succeed. One of them went to an English fac
| tory and learned the business and their
factory at Lowell was started. Sup
plying bunting for the army and navy
made a small business but one of his
superintendents succeeded in getting different
grew, and other factories started Be
lag woolen goods, they had a 40 per
cent general tariff This was not
added to the price, but the competition between
American makers reduced the price two-thirds
besides giving employment to hundreds of men,
and furnishing a market for American
long wool. A little encouraging
brought about new industry Mr..
Hendricks the Democratic candidate for
vice. president said that when an article was
the duty was added to the price of the article.
He didn't intend to misrepresent-he didn't
know: that's all
General Butler cited English and American
quotations on a dozen or more tools and articles
of domestic or farm use, all protected and all
cheaper in the American market.
The tariff prevented England from
taking possession of market but prices
leans with each other. The trouble with the
present tariff is that it was tried during the
war for necessary taxes. All capitalists focked
to the Republican party. They wanted the tariff to
stay where it was to pay off the government
bonds Together with the railroad interests
they had been able to control matters, and they
would allow no change that would hurt
capital. The Democrats can't change the
tariff because they can't get the power and
would not if they had the power. When they
had Congress they could have set tariff riget if
they had known how. The South had manu-
factured nothing, and wanted only free trade.
Its 1853 votes controlled the Democratic
House, and the only tariff revision
possible was by horizontal reduction. Thi
didn't remedy the difficulty of too much revenues
as it would allow the Importation of articles that
didn't come in at all before the reduction was
made.
The Republican party failed to institute tri-
bunals to try disputes between capital and labor
Everything else had courts but that. In Ohio to-
day thelac ofsuch aprovision leads to the settling
of such trouble by the shotgun-by militia that
is caused by the reelection Of the Republican
party Capital has beea protected, but the Re
publican, party hadn't prevented capitalists
from importing contract labor ac
customed to a low grade of livind which
tahes the bread out of the mouths of
laboring men. Farmers are now getting but
one-half or one third of what they did few
years ago, but had to pay as high transportation
charges as then But the railroads are making
no money, they say. The cause is the roaks
are in the hands of blue lines, red lines. eagle
lines etc, which make skin bargains with the
roads and skin bargains with the people.
The roads are keeping up interest on
bonds for more than they are worth,
and dividends on stock on top Of that The Re
publicans wouldn't change this for the reason
that he couldn't get his party in Congress to rem
edy it. The people must come together
and have commissioner put the railroad stock
at the figure where it should be- The people
will continue to be bound to the chariot by
chains unless they unite and burst their chains