Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-07-11
CaPIisle's Speech In New York.

From the speech of Hon. Jno. G.. Carlisle
in the Academy of Music in New York city
Thursday night, June 2Sth, we extract the
following
"The laboring man is the truest type of
democracy, and to him the party must al
ways look for its most effective and earnest
support. He has intelligence enough to
know that whatever policy promotes his
interest and protects his rights promotes
the interests and protects the rights of all
our people, for all classes are indissolubly
bound together, not only by constitutions
and laws, but by a community of material
interest which constitutes the strongest
guarantee for social order and mutual pros
perity. What such people require is not
special or class legislation, intended to bene-
fit a few only, but general laws and libe-
raj policy comprehending the rights and
interests of all classes in the community,
and to the enactment of such laws and the
maintenance of such a policy the dem
ocratic party has irrevocably pledged the
faith and honor of all its members.
"Why should the republican party be re-
stored to the position from which the peo-
pie drove it by their votes four years ago !?
1t is the same political organization now
that it was then and has the same purposes
and objects in view.
upon the one great question which now
attracts the almost undivided attention of
the Countrywide question of revenue re-
duction-the republican party has clearly
and explicitly committed itself in favor of
free tobacco and free whiskey, and inc1eas-
ed taxation upon food and clothing and the
medicines of the people, and upon the raw
material used in their manufacturing indus
10 fn fl,a
people for their Judgment at the ensuing
election, but it confesses its want of conf
dence in the justice of its own cause by
grossly misrepresenting the position of its
opponent at the very beginning of the con-
test. While we cheerfully admit the right
of the republican party to define its own
position We utterly deny its right to define
ours. (Chsers.)
"Whoever asserts that the democratic
party is in favor of free trade in this coun-
try, or that the present administration has
adopted or recommended free trade policy,
or that the bill now pending in the House
Of Representatives is free trade measure,
is either ignorant of the terms he uses or he
is so blinded by partisan prejudice as to be
incapable of doing justice to his political op-
ponents. think it is safe to say that nine
tenths of the people who are daily denoun-
cling it in the public press and otherwise as
free trade measure have never read sim
gle word of it, and perhaps they would not
understand it if they had. daughter and
applause.)
NOT FREE TRADE.
"The democratic party does not advocate
free trade, but it believes that the interests
of all our manufacturing and other indus
tries would be advanced, that the wages of
all our laborers would be increased and the
general welfare of the whole country would
be greatly promoted by repeating, as far as
possible, the taxes upon raw materials, and
reducing or repeating the taxes upon the
actual necessaries of life; and upon these
simple propositions it proposes to stand or
fall in the great contest now before it,
With implicit confidence in the integrity
and capacity of our candidates, with faith
in the justice Of our cause and a firm re-
lance upon the intelligence and patriotism
Of the people, we will cheerfully meet our
opponents at the ballot box in November
and abide the decision"