The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-27

ley rather than have cheap clothing. J"
The Colonel knows they say nothing
Of the kind. "The republicans say
they want . protective tariff because
It turns "a into the pockets Of the east.
ern manufacturers for every 81 It
turns into the U. 3. Treasury" The
Colonel knows they say nothing Of the
kind. What the republicans do say
il that they favor the protective sys-
tenn because under it the per capita
wealth of this country has doubled in
twenty i've yean; because under It
wages are steadily increasing while
the cost Of the necessaries flifeis con-
SANITY diminishing, and because they
believe the business interests Of all
classes would suffer loss and disaster
IL it were abandoned. These things
are what the republicans do say, and
Col. Burris produced no argument to
show that they were wrong I'm any
particular.
As the speaker warmed up to his
work. he forgot that he was :protec-
ZIONIST, and declared that protection
was robbing the people of Kansas
every day Of their lives. Nothing
the farmers raise il enhanced in value
by protection while the cost Of every.
thing they buy is increased by it."
And still he insists on retaining this
protection, or all but four per cent. Of
it! Protection is robbery, but still it
il vile Islander to call democrats free
tradersl Really this is bewildering.
One hardly knows whether the Colon.
ell il running or fighting. The truth
seems to be that, like his party, he is
60 badly "rattled," he doesn't know
half the time which way he il firing.
And what the Colonel failed to say
was quite as striking as what he did
say. He spent q great deal Of time
convincing the farmers that the tariff
added nothing to the value Of their
wheat and corn; but he said nothing
about the democratic proposal to re-
move the tariff from fax, without
which not a bushel could be probably
raised in Kansas. He said good deal
about the foreign market, but he failed
to say that the home market, built up
by the protective tariff, consumes 90
per cent Of all the products Of Ameri-
can farms. He said good deal about
the enormous prices the tariff compelf-
ed us to pay for clothing and blankets
but he failed to say that all these
things are cheaper now than they ever
were before. He said q good deal
about free salt; but he failed to refer to
the democratic proposal to put wool
On the free list. He talked about the
great saving that would be made to
Kansas farmers If the tariff of s. q
thousand on lumber were removed
but he said nothing about the demo-
cratic scheme to raise the tariff on barb
wire to As per cent. He said . good
deal about republicans trucking to
the manufacturers of the north; but he
was dumb concerning the subservien-
cy of tine democrats to the handful of
sugar planters and rice growers of the
Solid South. And 50 we might con-
tinue with column or more of these
significant omissions; but a certain
MIR. Funston will be along after awhile
and he will doubtless speak this part
of Col. Burris' speech. The facts of
the case are that Col. Burris has not
been democrat long enough to get
into the swing of it. 1.-The had felt at
liberty to do 90 we venture to say that
he could have made q republican
speech that would not have left one
sentence of his democratic speech
standing upon another.
So much for the speech. AS for the
demonstration that preceded it and
the arrangements that had been made
for it, they were highly creditable to
the Democratic Club. The Club Ger
tainly did the thing handsomely. And
as for the audience, it was a model.
lola audiences always are. 1t was q
courteous audience. Very courteous,
indeed, for it only interrupted the
speaker once and that was when it
applauded the statement that Chaun-
cey Depew had dictated the nominal
ton of Harrison and Morton. The
audience evidently appreciated Mr..
Depew's good judgment. It was that
kind Of an audience.
TIE WAY IT HAPPENED.