The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-22

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| you except from the corn that which is sent
/ abroad in whisky and alcohol. which I Dc moi
count. Now / might go on and show that the
farmer gets a market for his sur plus product and
then besides, that we diversity our industries
We make everything now essential to human
wants, while in the good old Democratic times
we were dependent upon Europe for nearly all
Of the tools of trade and implements of hus-
bsndry, the carpenters plane and the black
smiths hammer, and everything of this kind.
Now all of that is done here. We can make In
this country everything that IS necessary for
mortal man except the Injuries of the very few.
/ will tell you my platform: If / had the
power in this country | would make the rate OF
duty on those articles that we can produce in
this country so high as TO give the American
laborer the American market. I would give,
also, to the farmer such a rate of duty on his
production as would give the American farmer
the American market iapplausel, especially
on wool. which ought to be protected; and this Is
the principle and the general idea of the Repub-
fcan party. My countrymen. l regard this as a
more important question in the future than any
other. affecting. as it does. the interest of every
man, woman and child in the country. and. more
than all, the interest OF the laboring man all
over the country.
ALTON FOR THE LABoRERS.
have no patience with that false ~pretense
made by the Democratic party that they are the
friends OF the laboring man. 1t is MS false as
false can be. II they will name a single measure
ever proposed by the Democratic marty in the in
terest of the laboring man / will give it up.
Can't they do it nowl The work of the Repub-
llcan party from the beginning of it's history to
this hour has been to crown. and benefit, and i'm
prove the laboring man. 1t was the Republican
party that gave you the homestead policy, by
which all the public lands are now opened for
homestead settlement alone. l need not dwell
upon that, for General Harrison has already we'll
informed you about it. Why my countrymen,
any measure that can be produced to advance
the interest of the most of Our laboring people
the Republican party is ready to support
Mr.. Voorhees, said the Democratic party
| passed the arbitration bill in the last Congress,
passed it through the Democratic House. They
did pass an arbitration bill. voted for by Demo
Gratis and Republicans. 1t came over to the
Senate and was referred to a committee. The
committee reported it back favorably, and then
you heard the loud demand come from the
knights of Labor all over the country, saying 1T
was a fraud, and a cheat, and a sham; and In
coming to look at it, it was. 1t merely provided
for arbitration between laboring men complain
ing, and the manufacturer, if they could agree;
and, according to the laws of every State, that
Is the law now. SO it was q mere sham, an empty
| pretext.
Ny countrvmen, the Democratic party, as I
told you in the beginning, cannot do anything
without the solid South. That's The backbone,
the head, trunk, brains and power of the Demo
cratic party. Applause How do they treat
the lahoring men down South? Hold them in
~ t0AO Ahg III OOhh tOh tttOt Nv" "a
pect to use those laboring men OF the South in
order to compete with you in many of the
branches of industry. Why. ] head a distin-
guished Southern Senator get up in his place on
the floor of the Senate and say he did not know
but what the discovery of iron ore down at
Birmingham was q bad thing for the
South. Why, in a single year, he said. 1t
raised the price and wages of the laboring
men of Alabama from 50 cents a day to
seventy FIVE cents a day. That was his idea of
that great and beneicent discovery. this mine of
untold wealth. furnished by Providence-that 1t
was not a blessing because it raised the price of
labor twenty-five cents n day. And that Is their
idea of labor. How did they treat Mr.. Powderly
and the Knights of Labor at Rich Oh,
my countrymen, if you are expecting to get any
consolation and benefit from tho Democratic
party, say yonr prayers before you place your
trust in that institution. [Applause and laugh
ter. TIE Republican party has given you all
that can be given thus far, and whenever any
proposition is made by Which. according to peace
full methods and ordinary pursuits, any
benefit can be conferred : upon the
laboring man of this country, the Re-
publican party will be eager and anxious
TO embrace the opportunity. [AESplaslse.l They
have shown you that In the homestead law.
They have shown you that by furnishing you a
good currency-better than in the old times
and now we have good money, good as gold or
silver coin anywhere, and we have the highest
| public credit. l say it with pride: The credit
of the United States now is in every market in
the world higher than that of any other country
in the world. The promise of the people of the
United-States to pay a thousand dollars will buy
more gold coin, or more silver coin, Or more
greenbacks than the bond of any other country
in the world; and that is the work of the kepub-
lican party. We have built ND this system of
industries which has diversified your pursuits.
added wealth to you AZ a people, with
drawn a great mass of men from the farm,
and put them in the workshop, added value to
your land and developed your railroad system
and sometimes it has been said we have
squandered the public land. No, no, my coun-
| trymen; if there was any fault in this policy of
| giving a portion or one-half of the public lands
to induce the building of railroads, that policy
was commenced by the Democratic party in the
good old Democratic times of long before the
war. Nor do l think that policy was a bad one.
because We gave the railroads only the alternate
sections and we doubled the price of those that
we held back, so that we got no less for the pub
lie land after we had given that away than we
could have got for it ali. We did as a good
proprietor will sometimes do in order to induce
Improvement
l have no doubt the land grant system has been
abused, but long before the Democratic party
came in power the abuses had been stopped, and
improper grants reclaimed. Now, wherever they
have not been fairly and honestly won within
the time set by the government, they. of course,
oughtto he restored as public land. But where
they have been honestly improved and the con
ditions fulfilled, they cannot be- restored, because
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United States. But we have now a land policy
by which all the land now open to settlement is
only open under the homestead system, so that
every man and every woman who has a family
dependent upon him or her, native or natural
lied, may go to-day anywhere in the West and
get their quarter section of land, get their home
stead without money and without price.
NH ADMINISTRATIONS RECORD.
Now l might discuss other questions, but I
Will not. There are, however, one or two other
things I want to ask you. 1 want to ask you
what, or the whole, you have made by the
change adopted two years ago in the election of
Grover Cleveland as President of the United
States? What inducement and what prom
ises could have induced the people of the
United States TO turn this government over to
the Democratic marty that. during the war, had
been false to the interests Of our country?
Thousands IF Indiana soldiers, Democrats as
we'll as Republicans, entered into the army, and
God forbid that l should say one word that
would injure their feelings. / esteem their