Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02
IR1sH-AmER1oANs ADDRESSED.

Iahn F. SeanIon of Chicago Delivers a Stirring and Forcible Addreas on the Benefits of the TariR-AR Enthusias- tic Audience Present-The speaker Cordially Received.
 The Irish-American Republican citizens of the city took their turn last uight when they came out in large numbers to listen to John ! F. Scanlon of Chicago on the issues of the | campaign. MT. Scanlon is a vigorous and entertaining speaker, and his remarks were
 listened to with the greatest attention by the audience, which interrupted frequently with | generous applause.
 MT. Scanlon took as his principal topic the I protective tariff and showed it's benefits by many arguments backed with hosts of facts and figures. His address was 8 comphehen-
 sive survey of the course of this country un-
 der protection and free trade or tariff for
 revenue only, and the pictures of the condi-
 ton of the labering man was YividlY and strikingly portrayed. MT. Scanlon being 8 \ workingman himself could speak from ex- perience of the s'hard times" which he
 claimed invariably followed period of re- ' duced tariff.
 The audience, while not SO large as on some former occasions, was eminently rep
 resentative one. It probably contained as ' uhuy 4ElbH-Am6r1cauS AS nave D6eu RAGQeT6O in the Hyperion Theater at any one time this campaign.
 It was enthusiastic and demonstrative too \ and the appearance of the speaker of the ' evening, with General Merwin, was the sig- nal for hearty outbreak of applause, which was continued for some time.
 \ The presence of an unusa1 number of wo- men in tha audience was especially noticea- ble. The meeting was called to order by Hugh Daley, who announced that James G. Blaine will arrive in this city at 11:45 to- day and would speak from the steps of the old State House. The name of Mr. Blaine ! was received with loud applause.
 The Glee club of the Young Mems Repub- hoan sang 'I had dream the other night" 1" The song was loudly encored and the club f then sang "Grover's in the cold, cold ground"
 Captain Lawrence O'Brien was introduced E as the chairman and he said: st1 will not take up any time by remarks, but introduce to you at once, without any formality, the \ orator of the evening.
 Hon. MT. Scanlon was greeted with per-
 feot tempest of applause, and it was some | time before he was allowed to speak. "One of the pleasant features which sur round republican meetings, ," he said, ''is the musie and the patriotic spirit that pervades the whole exercises. Our
 Democratic friends are not able
 to enjoy music, for if they sing Marching N sion rises and takes away the pleasure of the moment. If they indulge in the 'tStar Spangle Banner" they are confronted with the sight of the campaign emblem, the ban danna.
 The melody of that music is indicative of the force which is waiting Harrison and Morton ' to the White House hava spoken in eight or ten States and feel that the success of the Republican candidates is certain. Of all questions to be settled in this cam paign there are two which stand out from ' the rest distinctly-a fair ballot and honest N count and protection to American labor \ The latter one is the real question, since in Connecticut under Republican rule there is fair ballot and correct count and there is no necessity of discussing that. When we get Harrison and Morton in the chair we will
 reach down South and get those ballot boxes \ where the right of fair and honest count is not allowed and shake them until they learn to respect individual opinion.
 notice you are moving on the right line of government in this district and you are bound to succeed
 MT. Cleveland in his message says "we are not entering into crusade of free trade" If that be so why is every Democrat speaker the very moment he gets on platform anx- ious to proclaim that the protective tariff is N 6 robberyG
 Why does the entire English aristocracy support the president in this canvass? Why is it that in Connecticut, where you
 cannot get out of sight of your factory, the Democratic party has had the presumption to send the most radical free traders if it is not e campaign of from tradea
 You have had Watterson, Mills, Hurd, MeMillen and MT. Sargent of Connecticut l (spplause), who says he has learned to be
 6 free trader after visiting Europe four times. presume Mir. Sargent found it in convenient not to have beggars running af- \ ter his carriage in this country whenever he went out riding.
 Yet our Democratic friends get mad if we
 say they are free trade party.
 am particular to warn the people of this subject because of the efforts to disguise it. It has been demonstrated by them whenever the southern Democrats have got control of the State by heading the ship of State toward enriching English industries. The principle has been in the platform of all Democratic conventions since 1856 and when the country was handed over in 1860 to Abraham Lincoln (applause) and the Republican party they went to war about it. For sixteen years they were too sore to make themselves felt on the subject, but ill 1878 they got an other hold on the country and have since strengthened their position. The Democrats adopted in 1888 platform in regard to the tariff, from which they can eat grass on both sides of the fence. We have had ten panics and every one of them preceded by period of tariff reduction.
 The speaker then began with the first in 1920, when under low tariff England crowded tariff, the market with goods at less than cost for the purpose of destroying the
 manufacturers in this country" up to the more recent one of 1873.
 It is a singular fact he said, that as the price of labor and home products is lowered
 in this country that of foreign products is increased.
 The condition of the workingmen in these times was depicted by telling comparisons be- A~xa poko ofNEx1 in were of all, and the wages of to day with the consequent purchasing power of one dollar. Some Democrats have said that the period of 1850 to 1860 was the golden period of the United States, when I can testify myself that the average laborer got 62 cents day, and it the legislature. Mechanics only got $1 and $1. 1.25-being one myself. I was fortunate in earning $1 25 per day. Even them, owing to the different ways of issuing money, man was fortunate in getting his due. In 1862 labor getting formerly 50 cents and $1. .75 per day rose to $1 50 to $2, 50 per day. What caused this magic rise? Just as soon
 as the Republican party got into power it passed tariff bill and so encouraged capital to open mines and start manufactures, and
 from that time men earned, spent and saved
 more money in twenty-fve years than was
 ever accorded to any people in 6 100 years in
 the history of mankind. Prolonged ap-
 plause.
 Ia reply to the assertion by the Democrats
 that we are deprived of the markets of the
 world, Mir. Scanlon said that the sale of ex-
 ports in 1860 were $204, ,000, 900, and in 1880
 they amounted to $902, ,000, ,000, an increase
 of over 400 per centI
 The purchasing power of $1 to-day is from
 200 to 300 per cent. better than it was thirty years ago. In support of this statement the speaker gave some figures taken from several
 manufactories which showed the relative rate
 of wages and cost of employers to living.
 Sugar, salt, iron and other familiar articles came in for their share of discussion. Other countries had free trade and England is \ pointed out as one. She has suffered more than any country in the world. She had 600 years of protection before she tried it when I the prosperity of the country excelled that of I any other country in the world. With 160,- ! 900 landholders then, to-day she has less l than 80, 1000 and the condition of the people 30 I reduced that one-ffth of them die in the I poorheuse, and some of them come to this | country yearly because of the protection to \ labor.
 There is another country, Ireland. It has |