The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-18

York by Henry Watterson of Ken
 lucky before the Democratic club of Harlem: There can be, fellow Democrats, no mistaking this Re publican plan of campaign. The platform and ticket are in perfect agreement. It is a rich mans platform. It is rich mans ticket. The invocation of these, however, is addressed to the lowly and the poor. The voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau; and, in the words of Isaac of old do these hypocrites cry out to the workingman, God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth. and plenty of corn and wine." Dur ing four entire months-two of them hot ones-are we to hear this wretched cant. All this while the Carnegies will continue to repose upon the bosoms of the old Fink ertons, and capital will not con- tribute one dollar more of its profits to labor than 1t is obliged to contribute by the law of supply and demand. The Democratic party confronts the congregations and pretensions of these patent medicine men with a simple reel tai of facts. We begin by re- minding them that four years ago they predicted dire ruin to the country if the government should be entrusted to us. None of these predictions have come true. On the contrary ever public interest committed exclusively to our hands has been cared for and prospers to-day. They are fond of dilating on the presidents alleged lack of beauty. We admit that he may not be altogether lovely, but we clam that he is one among ten thousand, for he has taken care of the peoples money and business, and is doing the part of an honest and brave man in the effort to protect them from quacks and shams; making up in integrity and industry whatever he may want of those charms and graces, which are indispensable rather to the courier and demagogue than to the chief magistrate of the United States. They say that We propose to open our ports to the world, and that, if we do so, we shall be destroyed by the skilled workmanship of England. We say that just such talk assailed the ears of our great grandsires when they went out to defend their rights as freemen, and that it is no truer now than 1t was then. On the contrary, if we are given the opportunity, we can meet and beat England in every neutral market of the world, recovering those markets which geographically be- long to us, and from which. with her skilled, high priced labor, England has driven us on account of our senseless policy of restric- tion. They says that the Mills bill is "destructive to the general business, the labor and farming interests of the country" We say that the Mills bill is the most con- servative measure of practical reform, making general reduc- tion in the interest of agriculture. manufacture and labor, of less than ' per cent. whilst leaving of the protective duties a general average of 40 per cent. They say they will build us navy and re- store us our merchant marine. We say they did not when they had the power, though they en- joyed twenty years of it in tune of perfect peace. They say they will keep out foreign contract labor. We say they originated that debasing system, and clung to it until they were forced to abandon it by Democratic laws, which a Democratic administra- ton is honestly enforcing. They say they will give us cheaper post age. We say they have ignored or refused to consider or report a bill to that end, introduced and urged by a Democratic senator. They say that every reduction of tariff taxes has been followed by national disaster. We say that l the history of tariff reduction is just the reverse, aud we prove that the period of the greatest and most substantial prosperity the country has ever known succeeded | the Democratic revenue tariff of | 1916. They offer us free whisky. |