The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-10


wealth, yet hundreds OF millions Of the
surplus products OF agriculture and
manufacture annually flow like
a mighty river seek ng an outlet
Toto the markets OF the world, but
the rolling food strikes this Chinese
wall OF protective tariff and flows
back upon the markets OF this country
submergiDg our industries, stagnatiDg
business and deluRing our trade. The
result is labor suffers, for the factories
are either forced to reduce wages or
shut down. The grand old party has
/ stood upon the Jump for twenty years
declaring that 1t was in favor OF pro-
lection to labor, and while it was max
ing these declarations it was auihoriz.
ing contractors to 20 to Europe and go
down in the mines among the paupers
and make the contracts with pauper
laborers in the mines and 10 bring
them by the ship load to this country
TO turn them into our mines and TO
turn protected labor out. And we
turn our eyes to the Western shores
and behold swarming through the
golden gates the heather Chinese who
live on rats and rice, and wo,k at pau
per wages TO the destruction and ruin
of American labor on the Pacific
slope.
Here Col. Tayltr explained at some
length the Democratic idea of tariff
and read the Chicago tariff plank.
THE BLAIR BILL.
My brother is infatuated with tho
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too deep into this question. Hs re-
minds me OF the old man who lived in
the mountains and bad never seen a
wagon. He had b en- used to sleds al
his life. His boys bought new wagon
and took it home, geated up the oxen
and drove the wpgon on top of the
biz for load of wood. They started
down the hill. TIE wagon ran away
with the steers and at the bottom OF
the hill mired in u swamp up to the
hubs. The Old man an out and after
"a examination said "Boys you will
have to set the bafkoands back Just
leetle, she is running too Deep" AL
fred you mus. sat your beck5ands
back Just leetle. Y u are running
too deep on ihe educ ,tional question.
The Republican party declares to
you tbat there Is a surplus in the
United States Treasury, aud in order
to bfing ittelf back into favor with the
American people it proposes to vote
T7, 900, 900 of that surplus n national
aid TO education. | declare to you
that there 10 not q dollar OF surplus
money in the United S'a es Treasury.
declare 10 you that there is no such
thing ia exietenGe as the Blair bill. l
90 further and declare TO you that the
Republican party killed the
Blair bill. After the Bla r
bill passed the Senste aod W .rtt to the
House the Denoc attic party began to
investigate the Treasury. They open
cd the books and they found surplus
in the Treasury, but they also found
S. IS, 900, 900 of our national debt nov
due and they inro lucid q resolution
in the House providing foi the applica-
ton OF the turplu, 10 the payment OF
onr hone;t dents, and the Republican
party voted for the res )lution. 1t
passed the House and went to the Sen
a'e, and the Republican Senate pass, d
the resolution. When they voted for
the resolution they XII lad the Blair
bill. Fellow cit'zsns, my br Their Is
holding up before you )day tina. c)Tp'e
and swearing hat 1t is alive. / said thai
there Is not a dollar OF surplus money
in the Tr, asury. II farmer hes
S. 10 his pocket, and owes del OF
300, can you say thai he has any sui
plus cash? The national platform
which wss adopted by the Democratic
party at Chicago ia 1884, which was
sanctioned by the Ameli an people at
the ballot box, declares these W rJs
1--WE are opposed to all propositions
which, upon any pieteXr, would cen
vert the genera government into a
machine for collecting taxes to be dis
tributed among the Sta'es or the CT j.
zens tn rsof' Upon thai plank the
national Democratic party stands, and
the Democratic party in Tennessee ia
pledged it. But would not have you
believe that the Democratic party is
opp )sed to universal education. Toe
plain truth OF history is that the Dem
ocratic party insti u-ed ana main.
lalned for half a century syatem OF
free education, Federal aid has been
extended through all the past history
OF this country to popular education,
rtserving and granting for that pur-
pose pats Of the pablic domain.
Democratic Congre sss have appro-
priated 100000 acras of public lands
for educational purposes, and the meas.
uTes were approved by Democratic
Presidents. No Democratic a1ministra-
lion evet sold section of the public
domain without reetrving 64) sores in
eye y six miles square Tor the use of
common schools. When Tennessee
herself was coded to the United
States by North Caro- lea, and becama
part OF its Territory the government
gave Tennessee tbs power to issue
grants within her territory. Tnere
were reserved 100000 acres in East
Tenne see, and 100 900 acres in Mid
die and West Tennessee, f)r the use Of
two colleges, and $40 acres in every
six miles square for the uee OF schools
and academies. This statuts was ap-
proved by Thomas jefferson. The
lands OF Tennessee were then part OF
the public domsin OF the United
States, and Congress-, with Jefierson's
approval, caus sd TO be erected two col
leRes and twenty-seven academies in
the Stata OF Tennessee. All that re-
inclined from the eale of the public
land for the education OF the children
OF Tennessee was stolen by the Re-
publican party after the war.
In all the Territories OF the Union
there are 1880 ecrea in every SIX miles
square Set apart for the estsbishm- 1T
and maintenance of common schools.
The Democratic party has given 10
0000 acres of land for common
school education. The Republican
party has voted l98000,000 acres to
land gcabbsrs, railroads and Corporats
monopolies In my advocacy of thu
means r obtaining educat on for our
children foloSed the plain paths of
Democratic principles taught By JEFF
lersoc, the founder OF cur free govern
ment.
What is the h'sto CT the Republic
an party in Tennessee on the tubiect
OF educationP Through the be fire
OF the civil war I.hsm G, Harris pre-
served the S840, 900 OF the school fund
that belonged 10 the children of Ten.