The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-21
THURMAN'S SPEECH.
He Tells Some Wholesome
Truths to the Laboring Men.
THE INDIANA DEMOCRATS MEET
The Old Roman Demolishes She
Protective Tariff Faliaoy-Enthu-
siastic Reception.

BRAZIL, Ind, October 2O.-Judge
Thurman and party, escorted by 6
delegation of a dozen Brazilians left
Indianapolis a few minutes after 10
o'clock. The trip was quiet and un
eventful. Large and enthusiastic
crowds welcomed the party at the depo,
here and a procession acted as an escort
up town.
BRAZIL, md, October 2O.-Judge
Thurman was driven at once to the
house of James w. Hoskins, and to-
gether with Governor Gray and Colonel
Matteson, reviewed a procession from
the balcony. One feature of all the
campaign professions in Indiana this
year is the presence of women and
children, and they were out in force to-
day. Besides large number of neatly
uniformed clubs, composed of enthusi-
astic voters, there were thirty floats
carrying number of pretty and pretti-
~ bandana uniformed maldens, who
sang and waived flags to the crowds
which lined the sidewalks. There
were several thousand people in
line. and over. $4,000 gathered on
the streets and waited at the grove for
the exercises to begin. After dinner at
the Hoskins House the party was es
cOrted to the grove by uniformed clubs
and bands, and found there 5000 or
10000 people who were enjoying the
campaign music of the Attica and
Brazil Glee clubs, previous to the regu-
lac speech. George A. Bayard, on be-
half of the Democratic ladies of Brazil,
presented Judge Thurman with a beau
tiful basket OF flowers, and the Judge
returned his sincere thanks to the
ladies for their kindness. Long and
prolonged cheers greeted the appear
ance of Judge Thurman, whose voice
showed no sign of WEAKNESS from his
own meetings of the week. When the
cheers and confusion had subsiced.
Judge Thurman spoke in general as fol-
lows:
Beginning, he commented on the per-
sonality and administration of Grover
Cleveland, and declared that if the peo-
pie did their duty, as he believed they
would, the fruits of the past four years
would be continued for another four
years, if not for generation. He
analysed the productions of wealth and
its economic relation to the country.
Referring to the capitalist and middle
man, he said the next in order was the
laboring man. He must have his
share of the wealth produced, and if he
did mot get his honest share, he is
defrauded man. Now. said he, there's
where the trouble comes. That is where
the trouble in this tariff system lies.
That. while the profit of the business
may be 80, or 40 or 30 per cent, the Ia
borers don't get more than 3,
or or per cent. of that
profit. It was the duty of the
laboring man to protect his interest
and that OF his wife and children. Now
my friends" he said, when we say
reduce taxation, what do your Repub-
lican orators tell us? What do they tell
you2 Why they have the audacIty to
come before you and say the Demo-
cratic Party is the enemy of the labor
ing man; that all the Republicans want
the high tariff for is to benefit the
laborlng man; of beneiting the man by
taxing him from the crown of his head
TO the soles of his feet on everything be
wears. daughter and applause. A
pretty way of benefitinga man by tex
ing him on every foot of lumber that
goes into his modest house; that taxes
him on every foot of his fence and
barn; that taxes him on almost all the
tools he uses in his trade and
the utensils which go in his
cabin; that taxes everything that can
be found to levy tax on. That is
pretty way of aiding the laboring man
cut. my friends, did you hear anything
more absurd than the talk of the Demo
Gratis being the enemies of the laboring
man. | defy any man to point out a
single measure for the amelioration of
the laboring man in this land, or any
other land which was not the result of
Democratic principles. (Applause.)
What gave you the right TO vote?
Democratic principles did 1t! What
makes you the equal of any other man2 |
Democratic principles did it! What |
gives your children as much chance of |
promotion as any other mans children?
principles Now, my friends,
the Democratic party, composed |
as it is, mainly of laboring men, is not |
a set of idiots. They have succeeded |
have learned enough, have in. |
formation enough to find what is for !
their interest to pursue, and l think in |
the early days or next NOVemb Der they |
will prove to our Republican opponents |
that the Democratic laboring men are
wise enough to vote the right kind Of
ticket and for the right kind of princi-
pies. (Applause.) You hear Republic
can speakers get up and say that high |
tariff is necessary in order to give high |
wages to laboring men. Why my
friends, the labor organizations of this
country, some of them may not be ex-
actly right, some of them may need |
revisions in their constitutions and |
their mode of procedure, but |
the naked truth is that the labor
of the United States have
done more to secure good wages to the
laboring men of America than all the
tariff laws that ever were. That is the |
truth about it.. The remainder of the |
speech was devoted to the tariff
question. and covering much the
same ground he has gone over
in his other speeches during
his trip through Indiana. In conclud-
ing, he said: should this surplus tax
alton be removed, and the $lOO. 900 OOOI
which It needlessly erings into the
United States Treasury annually, where
it lies as idle as ore in mine before the