Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-30
NATIONAL POLITICS.
WOOleu Workers Endorse President
Cieveland,s Tariff Policy.


dress to an audience of over 5000 textile
workers liz the Nineteenth Ward of Phila-
delphia Monday evening. One of the
most significant features of the night was
procession OF the hands employed in the
establishment of Joseph p. Murphy, the
President of the Ninteenth Ward Club
and Chairman of the meeting. Mr..
Murphy operates one of the largest cot
ton and woolen mills within the city linn
it's, giving employment to 1900 hands.
During Senator Kenna's speech he
was interrupted by the arrival of club
composed of employees in these mills,
headed by band of music and transpar-
ency bearing the devices: "Joseph P.
Murphy's Employees for the Mills Bill, /"
banner bore the inscriptions: Free
Wool Means Full Time and Good Wages" :"
and "Hungarians, Poles and Cinnamon
Will Take Our Place if Harrison is
Elected" The incident had marked
effect upon the mbled people, and
was greeted with cheers.
Chairman Murphy opened the meeting
with an intelligent review of the issue
before the people and glowing tribute
to the personal and political strength of
the Democratic candidates, and then in
troduced Senator Kenna, who was vel.
coined with round of cheers. The Sena-
tor said:
sat the close of the war the Republi-
can party had unquestioned control of
this Government; there were no hands
to stay its power; the South was disfran-
chised and the Northern States were in
the hands of the Republican party.
There never was in the history of man.
kind such an opportunity accorded to any
political organization on the face of the
earth to fasten its claims to continued fa-
vor upon the hearts of our countiymen,
and yet, after period of twenty-three
years, in the face of that oppor-
tunity, the Republican party was
swept from the face OF the earth
by the votes of the people, never
to return again. Cheers. . stand be-
fore you young man, fettered by no
political organization, but am Demo
crat. And why? Because l have learned
in quarter of century that the Repub-
lican party was not worthy of confidence.
That party spent 500, 100000 in waging
war against the savages on the frontier.
Not an outbreak has occurred since
Cleveland was inaugurated. Why is that?
Is the Indian any less an Indian under
Clevelands No, but the Democratic
agent transacting business with the In
dian is an honest one, and that makes
the difference"
Having arraigned the Republican
party for other acts of maladministration
Senator Kenna continued:
'My real purpose in alluding to these
delinquencies was to remind you that
through all that long period the people
Of the country were diverted from the
questions of taxation and revenue, and
that for nearly quarter OF century
what was familiar thing in former
times-a general discussion of the tariff.
Up to 1872 there never was political
party that pretended to declare that tariff
protected labor. 1t was reserved for the
pretensions of the Republican party after
taxes had been piled up until they
could be no longer endured in silence, to
hold that import duties protect labor.
The Democratic party does not propose
any revision of the tariff, in any part
upon any article, which is calculated to
lessen the wages of labor or to reduce be-
low reasonable figure the profit of the
manufacturer. A reduction of our i'm
port duties from a general average of AZ
per cent, where they were placed to
meet the emergencies of war, down to AZ
per cent, where they are placed by the
Mills bill, will still leave more than
ample to cover every difference between
the cost of wages in this country and
that of every other nation on the face of
the globe.
"But no tariff list of protection can
int in tho vricn nf 10 hnr rhnr fhorn
is over-production among the ranks of
great advocate of protective tariff, said
in 1867 No duties are imposed on any
article for protection alone. The manu-
facturer can get along with lower tax,
but we need the revenue The same
gentlemen said in 1864: This is intended
as war measure, temporary measure,
and as such we must give it our support.
They put all these taxes on the neces-
stiles of the people, and at the same time
John Sherman was advocating the
passage of an act for the importation of
foreign labor because the wages Of labor
were too high in America. If these large
additions to the tariff were made because
the government needed the money, what
harm is there, what free trade is there
when we attempt to take them off
There is $3.50, 100000 boarded up in the
public treasury. We want it out, we
want it in the hands OF the working
classes. We do not want any idle labor
in this country, for where you have idle
capital you will have, in the same pro-
portion, idle labor.
Now, word on this question of trusts.
The President to-day in his message de-
clares that it makes no difference
whether you call it by the modern name
OF trust or by the old name of conspiracy,
it means the same thing. How many
millionaires did you have before the Re-
publican party took control of this coun-
try? 1 could count them on my fingers.
The doctrines and uses of trusts were
abolished in this country as soon as our
forefathers took control. They raised
the flag in this America of ours against
combinations of power. You have
trusts and conspiracies in this country,
and you have got behind them the Re-
publican party teaching doctrines which
mean the unqualified surrender of the
government into the hands of the few.
You know what is meant by the con-
stabulatory OF Ireland. Go to Pittsburg
Go to Hooking Valley! What was the
Pinkerton detective agency there but the
transfer of constabulary into the hands
of monopoly to control American labor !?
"The honest American manufacturer
will never see the day that he will not
be treated fairly by the tariff bill the
Democratic partv will enact, The Ameri-