Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-21

bore common part and that every man In
reservation stands upon equal ground.
60 when we come to the Subdivisions oil
human society and to the forms OF govern
ment the Democratic party teaches, and 1
believe teaches rightly, that the power
relocated by our people to its government
is a power which must be used for govern
mental purposes, and no government can
he administered rightly which taxes any
in any form more than the legitimate
necessities of the public good require
That is all the free trade there Is
in the Democratic party. lAppla9Se"9
The principle that you and l are equal De
fore the law is the limitation which the
Democratic party would place, n the
only one it would place, on h measure OF
protection afforded to American industries
but that limitation it has placed N ~,
WAYS will place, and never as long as IL
remains a Democratic party can justly re-
linuuish. lis defenders will be ready TO
defend always the proposition that wltnin
that limitation the Democratic party Is
neither false nor Inconsistent with itself
when it stands for America against all
mankind. [Cheers and applause. Inc
difficulty is in the adjustment; the DIM
Guilty is in the treatment Of IN details;
and the same gentlemen in New England
who will ecuse you OF being a
free trader if you refuse TO give him
100 per cent. protection on his manuiac-
tured spool cotton will go with his neigh
Dor to get the production of your fields on
the free list. The same gentleman who
buys your coal, dug with 80 per cent.
of labor and your iron ore bearing nearly
as large proportion oflabor will take them
both from you on the free list and burning
the one to manufacture the other, Will send
them back to you as highly protected as he
can. This come within the question of
adjustment, and there is no theory of prin-
ciple in the Democratic doctrine of to-day
or of the past which denies to any Demo
crat the right TO represent the interests OF
his constituency which may have sent him
to Congress in the adjustment of the tir.ff
to the daily demands of the country any
more than in the adjustment of any other
law upon the statute books, to the rights
and necessities of the people.
HOW ABOUT THE NAVY DEPARTMENT:
May we not ask our Republican friends,
ladies and gentlemen. There was a time
when no American need have been ashamed
of the American Navy. There was a time
when in our first war and in the second
when in our third wal and in the fourth
n American anywhere in this country
may haue placed his hand upon his heart
beating in gratitude to the successful ad-
ministration of Republican government
that our flag was carried not only to VIC
tory in war but proudly in times of peace
and commercial prosperity upon every sea
beneath the skies. Where Is that Navy
now? More money expended
under the administration Of Robson and
others who have been associated with
the navy department in the repair Of old
ships one after another until more than a
dozen had undergone the process, b was
originally expended in the construction OF
the old ships, and yet by three successive
Secretaries of the Navy of the United
States we have been told in three reports
that the American navy stands defenceless,
helpless, and that WE are without n navy.
The National Republican party ut Chicago
in 1884, after twenty-five years OF control
with unlimited treasure behind them, with
unlimited power in front of them, stands
facing q Nation of fifty odd millions OF
people and prOClaims to the world that
I'VE demand the restoration of our
navy to lis old time efficiency"
Where is that navy now? How
dare you stand in your national conyen-
ton five hundred strong cOncurring in a
demand that our navy shall he restored
when it vanished from your hands! How
dare you confront your constituency and
the American people with the proposition
that you demand the restoration of the
American navy
What about
THE INTERIuE nEPARTMENT4
The Land office? | will read, with your
kind indulgence, just three things.
want to read to you n short list OF the
land grants made by the Republican party
when the Democrats had scarce enough
members in either House of Congress &c
call the ayes and noes. | want TO read to
you then the lisT Of the unlawful enclos'
ureS al public lands. | want t.
read to You then the amount OF
acres of land held on this
continent by alien land owners
Then withyour kind indulgence ! want to
read to you what the Republican platform
SAYS ON the subject. 1t will remind you
of the fox that went about the country
picking feathers from his teeth and prGach'
ing again the damnabio h6resy Of stealing
hens! / want to read you the damnable
heresy of stealing. Then | want TO show
you the Republican National Convention
in Chicago solemnly picking the feathers
from its teeth!
A total of 139, 400, 02G acres Of land
furnished free gratis and lqr nothing by
Republican "OQngreSs when during 9
large part of the time the Democrats could
not even secure a roll call of either house,
and yet the representatives OF that grand
old party are going around the country
to-day as some of their candidates gre
going through West Virginia deIouncing
monopoly. Applause. 1t is q bad
thing my friends, that thing
they call monopoly. | will not read thu
long list of alien land owners which ] hold
in my hand, but / will simply state 70 I3r
the result which is that 42,i47,oO0 acre'
OF Oug puLllC uOHlilu udNc BOuc ulucI PAS
| administrations by Republicans of thi'
Government into the hands Of aliens-my
Irish friends will understand what tha'
means. Talk to me about English land
lords ia ireland when We are confronted
by this startling array Of
ALIEN LANDLORDS IN AMERICA.
Well, in 1874 what was known as the
tidal wave swept over this country
There was some sixty odd Republican ma
jOrity pEior to that lime in the House o.
Representatives, but the American peopl,
in the election of that year decided thai
the place which had known them one,
should know them no more forever; and
in the succeeding Congress about seventy
! Democratic majority TOOK their place.
am proud TO say from that day to this NJ
act has passed the American Congress
which has either given scandal TO Ameri
can ears or involved the sacrifice cs Aheri
can Interests.
They could not pass through the Demo
cratic House an act which would Civ,
away the peoples land either TO American
corporations or TO aliens abroad. Ant
then they quietly sat down and allowed
the cattle fellows to go and steal them ant
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