Evening journal., 1888-10-20

better the job Laughter and applause |
do really think it is little-term it mildly
soon for Mr. Vance to come from North
Carolina and Mr. Breckenridge TO come
from Kentucky and looking back upon
the condition of either state and under
take to tell anybody how to make money
Laughter But they say we are under
the dreadful influence of the false eco
nomic law As our distinguished fellow
citizen, Secretary Of State, says, this
awful surplus : and Mr. Breckenridge
last evening grew pathetic over it
with beauty Of pathos that ! have
never known to be surpassed. II was
the product OF tears, Of bankruptcy,
Of disaster, OF the taxation that this
surplus represented, wrung out Of the
hearts and out Of the blood Of the Ameri
can people. Why, | only wish we could
engage his services for a few short
moments to picture properly the results
of the Democratic taxation Of the city Of
Wilmington. Great applause Mr.
Breckenridge said last night that the
Democrats wanted to take up the surplus
in 1884 and again in 1886, but that the
Republicans, with few Democrats to
join them, refused to take it up. What
was it that the Democratic majority
sought to take up, but could not hold
their people to it2 II was the Morrison
horizontal reduction bill it was a free
trade measure. Mr. Cleveland has been in
four years almost. There has been
Democratic majority in the House All
that time, and even any school boy knows
that a revenue bill cannot originate in the
Senate. They knew the surplus was com
ing, because the bonds upon which the
debt Of the Government was founded, had
all been bought and paid and out OF the
way there was nothing left but bonds
yet to mature-that had been known for
three or foBr years, mean cognizant Of
the financial need. II was open therefore
to the Democrats to have initiated these
measures at any time. Why could they not
do it, 1t was because they had not made
up their minds, they had not come to
unity of purpose. Mr. Samuel j. Randall
apPlausel in his way agreed with them,
representing the protectionist element OF
the Democratic party and it was not until
Mr. Cleveland had been in Office for almost
three years, until he had turned out
every Republican and filled it with his
own people, that the full power OF patron
age was brought to bear upon the Demo
Gratis, that the party again, as before the
war, was put in line for free trade Then
for the first time they came to us with the
Mills bill. ! grant you these men are
not free traders in the sense that they
would have the custom houses abolished,
but they are the free traders in the only
pertinent sense that concerns the great
industries Of this country that have been
built up, and they are one and all openly
and avowedly hostile to the protective
principle. They denounce this as a rob
Der tariff They grow pathetic over the
4 poor man, and they say the money is
/ especially taken from the pocket Of the
4 poor man to make other men rich For
a moment, right there let me ask this
i great audience, look at the fortunes that
4 you know Of throughout the country
look at our people here conducting
almost exclusively manufacturing bust
4 ness. and at such of our men as have
realized large fortunes Tell me whether
i there have been any made from manu-
4 featuring here2 None. / have thought
over it, and you can look in vain for one
+ Two gentlemen have passed TO their rest
leaving fortunes; one over and the other
nearly million, Mr.. Harlan and Mr. Hol-
! lingsworth; but both of them made their
fortunes during and out of the war. and
of the special profits that were realized
at that time Both Of them made them
out of shipbuilding, which has been not
only a protected interest, but for our
coastwise shipping no ships are allowed
TO sail that are not built under the Ameri-
can flag Still we know at least that
there are other fortunes quite as large as
any that have been made by the manu-
facturer in the city of Wilmington that
have been realized by gentlemen who had
no other calling than that of Delaware
farmers-that is enough. We have no
bloated monopolsts here, but we have
had thst grand and generous qualification
Of an classes of the community. this
benifcent system which benefited and
enriched the humble and the great
alike. [Applausel.
The Tariff is Not q Tax.
The speaker here took up Senator
Vance's preposterous statements about
the tax on iron, woolens and cotton,
and showed the folly and untruthfulness
OF the Senator's statements He said
'You can buy an ordinary calico or cot
ton cloth Of medium quality anywhere
for cents yard and that you pay to
the storekeeper The tax upon it, OF
tariff, these gentlemen called it tax, is
3 cents yard. They say that you pay
that tax when you pay the store keeper,
but he puts it in his pocket, and pray
who gets the taxi Why clearly nobody.
1t is not a tax, for here is case where
the article purchased sells for sum nc
more than the tariff itself. Take in the
same way with regard to the illustration
which have used before, Of steel rails.
Steel rails can be bought in the market
made an inquiry Of the Diamond State
Rolling Min a few days agO--for between
$27 and S2S a ton. The duty upon them il
about $l7 ton, the difference between
is but Sill Will any Democratic adyo
cate undertake to say that steel rails ear
be made in England or anywhere for $ll
tom Why clearly not. What i.
the principle 1t is that o
competition-by home competition, by
American competition We have brought
down the price of the article protected {,
where it is--barely cost price, with tn,
duty added and therefore there is no tai
to pay at all You can follow the sam,
in wool You can buy as good an articl,
Of cloth or woven cloth for mans dresI
not broad cloth, for that is not made il
this countrv-at the Kiamensi mill
owned by John Pilling, for IS a suit, an,
you can buy one Of medium quality for s.
a suit, and tell me where can you get
that cheaper in England II YOU dare
Applause. And that has been brought
down by the result Of competition in oul
American market Why gentlemen ther'
can be no doubt about this. | do not ssl
/ you to take it on my say so alone. | viii
bring up better witness for any Repub
l.