Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-09-21
Speaker Carlisle Addresses the Large
and Enthusiastic Crowd.
A R0uSing Tariff Speech-High Trib-
ute to the Administration.
The Principal of the Evanston High
School out for Tariff Reform.
A Natural Born Pr0tectionist Con.
yerted by Seeing its Workings.
BY ACCLAMATI0N

CINCINNATI, Sept. 1S-The session of
the democratic congressional convention
of the sixth keptucky district to-day in
Covlngton was an interesting occasion.
The crowd was far beyond the limits OF
the accommodation, although there was
no shadow of doubt as TO the action of
the convention. Mark Gray, of Grant
county. KY, placed John G. Carlisle in
nomination, and Theodore Hallam made an
eloquent speech seconding the motion.
The nomination was made by acclamstion
with great enthusiasm and upon Car
isles appearing there was an outburst
of applause lasting several minutes.
Speaker Carlisle said:
Mr.. chairman, and gentlemen of the
convention scarcely know in what
terms to thank the democracy of this dis
trict for its action to-day. Twelve years
ago 1 was nominated for congress in this
hall, and since then the democracy of
this district has chosen me six
times in succession to represent them in
the house of representatives of the
United States. No man could be insen-
sible to such devotion on the part of his
friends aud | assure you, gentlemen, that
feel most profoundly my sense of graft,
tude and obligation to you and the people
whom you represent. (Cheers.) l ac-
cept your nomination aud shall endeavor
to meet as many of you as possible be-
tween this and election although
my duties at Washington prevent
me from giving much attention 10
my own district. | not only
accept your nomination, gentlemen,
but 1 endorse to the J fullest
extent tho resolutions you
have just adopted, except that
part of them as relates to me personal
ly. (ApplsUse.) The great question bs
fore the country is the question of fed
eral taxation. 1t makes out little d. fer
ence whether | am elected to congress or
not, but it is of overwhelming impor
tance to the people that the next house
of representatives should be democratic.
(Applause.) And the next president
should be a democrat also. Cheers.
The two political parties have numlnateu
their candidates and made formal declar
alton of their principles and you will be
called on next November to decide be
tween them. The republican party has
chosen as It's standard bearer Mr.. Harri
son, a respectable lawyer of lndianapo
lis, for president, and for vice president,
Levi 2. Morton, a very rich banker in
w al SbIe0b. no dShcSEdllC
selected the true and tried,
incorruptible president who now
fills ths chair, the man who has Brought
the administration back to the ways of
the constitution. anc given to this peo-
pie clean, conservative and faithful ad-
ministration of the law. (Cheers.) With
him they have associated Mr.. Thurman
(cheers) who for many long years has
been the best and truest representative
of our western democracy. It is
declared in the democratic platform,
that unnecessary taxation Is unjust
taxation, and by that declaration
the democratic patty will stand or fall in
this contest. Mr.. CARLISLE then explained
how at the rate of ten millions per month
the present enormous surplus had ac-
cumulated. now the democratic party
had unsuccessfully struggled to devise
schemes by which the Surplus could be
gotten rid of and the money again circu
lated among the people where it belong
ed. The republican party had sub
stantially declared in Its platform in
favor of reducing the revenue by
increasing taxes. Applause and laugh
ter.) He compared these celebrations to
the proposition that Il man can make
himself rich by picking his own pockets;
that is to say he can Increase his wealth
by imposing taxes rPon himself. Jap
pJause.)
He then criticised Blaine for giving
d quasi endorsement tC the trusts on the
plea that they are private affairs in which
neither the president, nor anybody else,
had any particular right to interfere.
Larceny, he said, - also a private
affair, a very private affair, Qaug hterO
and yet it is not supposed to be improper
to interfere with it by law. He thought
Blsine's position on top of CarnegIe's
coach in Scotland and hobnobbi7g with
the nobility of Europe not very good
places from which to view the interests
of America. (Applause). He had been
told that the system of taxation is con
tinaed on the ground that 1t increases
rates of wages of the Ame ,ican laborer.
There are two or three facts which STOW
conciUsively that this argument Is not
sound. In the first place it Is q conceded
fact that there is as much difference be-
tween the rate of wages p i'd in this
country to the laborer5 engaged in the
same occupation in different parts
of the country, as there
is between the difference of the
average rate of wages paid here and in
European countries, and yet the same
tariff law prevails throughout the whole
United Safes. (Applause.) He claimed
that by the examination OF the labor
statistics from 1850 TO 1860, it would be
found that in some cases ss high as ore
hundred per cent. more is paid for labor
in the same occupation In Chicago
than is paid III New York or
Philadelphia. Il tariff regulated wages,
he submitted that the rate Of wages
would be the same, would be uniform IL
the same occupations throughout the
United States under she same ta-if. Go
ing step further, he said that the rate
of wages paid IL this country in the IN
projected industries are larger on
the average than the rates
Of wages paid IL this
country in protected industries. Another
fact Is that since 1916 when the English
corn laws were repealed, and England
practically entered on what odr republi
can friends call free trade, the rate of
cages we're increased from so to
Is and even ss high as 100 per
cent. IN some occupations. He asked
them whether sucn al increase could
be traced in this country during the same
fime. 1t is said If the present duties are
refused this country will be overwhelned
Win foreign cneap goods ano all ouf
manufacturing and mercantile industries
will be ruined. "EBy gentlemen" said
be. .'if all the ships in the world ~ers en-
pEoyed continuously in bringing goods
from Liverpool 20 New York, 1t would
IKE them two years 10 bring IS much
a- q single railroad in this country
carries il one year. II all the Cunard
We Is plying oetween Boston and New
YORK and the European ports we're 20 be
EN- PIoy ed. il would require than seventy
FIVE years TO bring To this couutry ss
much goods as the Pennsylvania
railway carries in one year. tApplause.)
No N n objects to the rate of taxation,
~hether It BE bY the general government,
the state or the municipal government,
necessary to raise sufficient amount of
revenue to defray al the proper and
legitimate expenses Of the public admin
i-traiiou. bus when the tax drummer has
taken from the people sufi,ie amount
of their earnings to accomplish this
purpose he should take his hands out of