The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
He Makes Another Talk on
the Tariff.
GOING OVER MUCH OLD GROUND
He Arouses Wild Enth usiasan and
ts Cheered to the
Echo.

to-day to hear Judge Thurman and the
other distinguished speakers. A stand
had been erected IN the center of the
large hall, and around it the eager
thousands jostled together in their vain
attempts to see and hear the speaker
and the speaker did his best to be
heard.
Previous to the event Of the
day, a procession OF local Demo-
cratic organizations escorted the
party to the depot, whers they
TOOK the Illinois Central Railroad
to the beach. Congressman Roger Q.
Mills, of Texas, Ex-senator Lyman
Trumbuli, of Illinois, and Congressman
Wilson, of Virginia, were II the party.
The procession was enthusiastically
cheered by crowds that lined the streets
through which thew passed.
At the beach Judge Thurman was in
iroduced by Lyman Trumbuu and
| spoke IN substance as follows
THURMAN's SPEECH.
Friends and FELLOW Citizens: -"A Allow
me to first express my thanks to Judge
Trumbull, for the kind manner in
which he has presented me to you. II
Is my purpose to day, to speak upon
the tariff; but, before l proceed to
that subject, you have within the
last few days heard not lit lie
about a message of the Pres
ident5 to Congress on the rejection
of the fisheries treaty. have no copy
of the fisheries treaty II my posses
sion here, and l therefore cannot dis
cuss it, and L have no copy OF the
| Presidents message, and therefore
cannot quote from it, bus want to say
that some years ago this country was
greatly agitated by a party called the
| Knownothing party. 1t was party to
whom the freshman was On abomlna.
ton of denominations, and II he were a
Catholic 1rishman, he was the accursed
of the earth. But now, strange to say,
/ these men who few years ago were
Knownothings, and the most abusive
of men of the Irish, of Germans and
Eof all foreign-born people-of the Irish
especially ,prs selects d to co ut and " rs
10 get the Irish to vote against the men
who stood by them in the defense of their
rights and in the defense of the every
thing that was alleged agairs. them.
Now they are seeking to get their votes
! by misrepresentipg Grover Cleveland,
asserting that he is under British in
hQence. There ever was more false
assertion. You might as we'll tell me
that Washington was under British in
| fuence. If any man thinks there is
anything in the charge, let him read
the message the President sent to Con-
gress this week. Grover Cleveland
knows too well what are the interests of
this country. He has too much SYM
Pathy with the American people,
native and naturalized, to be under
any false or improper Influences of any
country, and now come to
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
The tariff is tax imposed by the
government upon goods. wares and
manufactures imported into the United
States for sale. The effect is to raise
the price upon everything upon which
it is put. 1t doss not raise the price
upon beef or pork packed in Chicago,
on wheat that is sold in Chicago, for
we do not import these commodities:
but, on what we do import, and SINH.
lar articles manufactured in this
country. that tariff raises the price and
makes them cost more 10 consumers
and yet, this tax is said to benefit the
laborIng man. How can a man be
ben Gifted by a tax that begins at the
crown of his head and taxes every
thing he wears, down to the
soles of his feet. So far as
it is necessary to raise money
to carry on the government,
to pay the pensions of the gallant men
who fought for its preservation, the
people willingly pay the tax, but when
you tax the people more, you are rob-
bling the people of money that belongs
to them. This collection of surplus
revenue has been going on for some
far collected has to some extent been re-
duced by the buying of bonds at an enor-
nous premium, there still remain in the |
treasury $115, 100000. How can you |
have an honest government with that |
amountin the treasury for which it has |
no legitimate use? Every body who can |
suggest some scheme for spending this |
money goes to work to do it. Soappro-
priations are made that are dis |
graceful. Our forefathers intended that |
we should have an honest, frugal |
economical, republican, democratic |
government. They never intended that
We should collect $1l5 900 900 and then
squander it extravagantly. in order to
get rid of the surplus. How can this
surplus be reduced? The answer is
plain, reduce the taxes. Now, then, the |
issue is fairly made. The Democrats
say, reduce the taxes" Of all inven-
tons ever devised to shift the burden of |
taxation from the rich mans shoulders, |
on to the shoulders OF the poor man,
this tariff tax is the most ingenious
and insiduous. Now. my friends, am
going to stop. In order that the grand |
man who is your candidate for governor
may be heard.
Judge Thurman then retired amid |
volleys OF cheers.
OVERFLOW MEETINGS.
Large overflow meetings were held, |
at which speeches were made by Rep
resentatives Mills, wilson and others.