The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-30
TARIFF.
al, I Randall, in a Brief
Salnu Speech,
-o,ys HIS SOUTHERN TOUR
,,s Some OF the Causes
And EIpi" siness Depression
o. which Exists

Of representative business iiioi
crowd .J at the board of trade rooms t'
g1 gath nsrt in the reception to Congress
take P pa ]. Randall, at noon to-day
man pandaIl's arrival at the board o
MI. H IONS was slightly delayed ant
tFals .oTd expressed their impatience by
tns 1lG the floor with their canes ant
thumPln53 oiSv disturbance with theil
ralsl1B5 o . and his party appeared a
feet: ha, The massage about the door
12.40' idrowded so much that 1t wa;
way va aorv disagreeable to pass IN al
fOunu Mr. Randall found 1t neces
that pun onter through a window from
sary u vl,ftt room to the platform
the GULL Ia been arranged for speakers
when nIL Ia Mr.. Randall, who walked
Closs NJ Green, was Congressman
oeSiuSS oo The party we're accorded a
M cAuOC rocention. Mr.. Green, who In
near! Mr.. Randall, said that the
tI .O!llC '1-os engaged in an honorable and
YlsI1Ul task, of working to secure
COll III interests of business men and
inc . ~ everywhere; that it was his
I aDoioIi in the south to acquaint himself
II MI business in its prosperity and IN It's
W. Loss;on that he might be better
ePiI;6o5 IN assist in national legislation
nI,once measures in relation to the
aIu Io ee, question of tariff that would
Ii Iilp"-otejv and satisfactorily meet the
aue3 of the people. Mr.. Green felt
naHf5ont that the incoming admlnlStra-
tioD would assert itself benehcently 1or
al narties concerned. At the CONCLUSION,
Mr. Green introduced Mr.. Randau.
There was wild clapping OF hands, ana
otter the excitement died away, Mr..
Randall. in a slow, measured voice, be
Gan speech of twenty minutes. While
Ia smoke Mr.. Raldall's right hand eX-
nlorad the depths of his pantaloOnS
pocketg Mr. Randall said:
Vr President and Gentlemen afthe Board
of TQd5 IF Louisville:
Reared as I have been in a mercantile
life ike most Of those around me, you
can understand why | appreciate, more
than might be under different relations,
tbe honor which this body of men ten
der. and I say that it is proper in the
outstart. that you being body Of men
composed of every political party,
should be given to understand
that am here present to-day
without any personal, political
motives. I come among you to
witness for myself, to study the details
that prevail in the great south in the
business relations that it bears to the
country. We are passing through a
period OF great depression, and, as l
think, l can show that this depression
is phenomenal in its character, and I'M
like all others that have preceded it in
the United States. What is down as
the panic of 1873, which l know of only
perhaps from reading and hearsay,
there was antecedent to that period for
seven years a balance of trade against
the United States aggregating $780,
000,00Q in value. Again, in 1857, the
panic Of that year was preceded by
eight years Of adverse trade against the
States in foreign countries, aggregating
350000,00, and the more recent panic of
1873, after ten years of balance of trade
against the United States aggregating
$l0O00O0000 in value, and vet
to-day we are in the midst of depres-
sion, when the last nine years of trade
in the United States Eas been in favor
OF the United States, to the extent of
Sl3OO,0OO000, and, therefore, we cannot
measure our present depression in bust
ness, by the rules of trade which l have
indicated as controlling, in my judg-
ment, the panicS Of prior years. 1t is
que to your intelligence that | should
give you the reasons which I think have
controlled to bring US to the present
trade condition. l consider that it is
over an exhaustive taxation, and to
some degree trade restrictions, which
ought to be swept aside. (Cheers.) The
government should be administered
economically and there ought not to be
collected dollar of revenue from the
people OF the United States in excess of
ulat winch Is necessary to economically
a4Iu!lhlnlSter the government of
tnlS people; (Cheers.) It is a trite
saying and some OF US have realized
lue truth OF 1t, that a man who spends
more money than he makes will be-
EOule embarrassed, and I say. accord
my 10 my judgment, a country which
imports more than it EXPORTS must he
C - embarrassed, and the great object
u government 10 free peonle like ours
- ~ nave such laws enacted and hon
oSu! ana lntelligentIv administered
a. SI promote the great objects of the
trIi'ue ana commerce of the country
1JneeTS.) And l, therefore. feel thai
, "-IGu ! am mere l am among the reDre-
- ,fi tL OF the energy and enterprise
J - 1Ie gateway to the south. in her in
Isl Isl la relation; [ am here. as 7 said
, UotIIe' without a peosonal object. and
sc g come to see the great reawakening
tue industrial energies of the South
IOu are without limit in resources.
YOU are, to-day, in many of the nro,
uucIS under the soil competinO faTor-
SoIy with the north, and 7 have no
earthly objections, am free IN so1, ~ ~
+I ~ Clle southern States. and MANY of
, rleil, come INTO successful connection
with the northern; but am abSoln 1I 4eI,,
unwilling to see both sections inferferoSS
G sIl IN their progress and career to tbo
geSuhy which God, in His infinite "
u oH. mas endowed upon this tho grna+
esl country on earth, by such relations
a. VIII make both sections the victiro nf
e aote LOW low labor and foreign low infer
~; rs lCheers.) and I do not sneak
-las 70 you IN any partisan sense
PEAK II IN broader sense of statesmen
up II may be allowed to annIv +bo
I'm In tor we are all advised that states
,-ooausIlp consists in knowing The
i esouIces OF the country. and
duty IN my Judgment, the
stn5r OF an intelligent people to
80 out the details of her condition
dine tney relate to her exchange of nro
no IS Win foreign countries. so fbe%