Evening journal., 1888-10-20

had free trade AT the seaboard and tariff
between each one Of the states and there
they call their custom houses between the
states squeeze houses But even il they
had the most admirable economic system.
they have not arrived at period or in
condition where they could undertake to
build up the manufacturing system OF
civilization. General Wilson tells us
too, that so corrupt is their entire gov
ernmental system that the larger portion
Of the large amounts the tax gatherer
collects sticks to his hands / do not
know whether they follow that system
here or not. Laughter Gentlemen,
on this crucial point just reflect that each
one Of these countries having a low rate
of wages outside Of Germany and France
have been really free trade countries
until very recently There is not one
that has been able TO maintain diversified
industry there is not one that has been
able TO realize that dream Of Henry Clay.
the plow the loom and the
anvil And no country ever can be
great or even prosperous that does not.
| can show Mr. Bayard a country under
the highest protective system known
among civilized nations that has low
wages, and that is the Southern States
of this United States You will not find
high wages thore you will find them not
there because Of the existence for a long
time Of slave labor, and the inability 20
lift the black labOrer of the South TO
anything like the condition that alone
can maintain the industries Of the North,
and thus you will see that throughout
the South under protection you have
there a low rate of wages Oh What
would they bring US to Does Mr.
Vance wish us to reduce Della
ware to the condition Of North
Carolina? Does Mr. Bayard want
us to bring Delaware to the condition OF
Ireland2 Laughter You have there a
perfect example Of the result Of the in.
dustries that have grown up under
tariff. Tho speaker illustrated his re
marks by a brief history OF Irish free
dom a century ago and its industrial fall
later,)
Mortgages Never shrink.
Mr.. Higgins continued by saying
while we are on this subject. | wish to
call your attention to Just one thing
more, and do not think there is a single
man in this house but what this consid
GRAFTON will reach him. Ii your wages
are lowered, mean if the tariff is low
cred they say it will lower everything
You will get your clothing cheaper, your
boots cheaper, everything that enters
/ into the construction Of house will be
cheaper, and therefore your house will be
cheaper because they will cost less
Your wages will be less FOR If vcu say
you are getting $4S a month, $l2 week
you get one fourth off, then YOU will have
$36'a month. Do you know what won't
come DOWN. There is one thing going to
stand in all its lordly proportion and that
is your mortgages Applause Your
debts, not one Of them, will come down
until you have paid them out Of your re-
duced wages and every man who has
money out Of the loan, every man who il
trying to pay for his house, every man
who is trying to better his family ia that
way will stand face to face with that
result. Applause
The Republicans took --ths duty of
leather with their eyes open. They knew
that leather could be made here cheap
enough to be exported But where would
the morocco factories Of Wilmington be
without tax Of 20 per cent They would
60 by the board because they have to
compete with leather made in India by
men who are paid 8 cents a day Mr.
Bayard says that our system creates
trusts The copper trust is
an English concern and there
fore it must be proper. England
has a salt trust too They are about
completing it. Then salt will cost four
times what it costs now. Oh, trusts
grow everywhere. There is the Demo
cratic oil trust the Democratic cotton
seed trust. and the greatest Of all the
I IN ssshf
put Samuel j Randall ont Of his seat as
speaker These gentlemen cannot ar
ford 20 talk about trusts.
II believe in the dignity Of labor; weare
all sovereigns here Universal suffrage
is cur cornerstone and by its side there
is placed universal education We have
not for our ideal the Italian. the Russian
the Chinese or the Mexican Our ideal
is not that Of the negro labor Of the
South with which an these gentlemen are
So familiar Matthew Arnold said that
society here was organized for the benefit
of the lab0ring classes 1t is. We want
to maintain it. 1t is enough tC
know that our Industries are
challenged by the Democratic party
led by their Southern masters, who are
imbued with the ideas Of John Q. Cal
houn No Southern state to-day that /.
certain to vote for Mr. Cleveland has {
free vote. No speeches will be mad,
there. Public opinion will not be in
ed. Congressional districts will cast
fewer votes there than one Of our coun
ties. Delaware, TOO. viii bt
called upon to vote But whe1
we approach the great contest, we FIND
that we have no voice; more than 3 00l
men are disfranchised. Wherever W,
turn we find the disfranchised marked
with the same badge. They are the non
property owners. The Democratic party
has established property qualification il
this state. More than this the men VIII,
are thus deprived Of their right have
been robbed deliberately and openly by
the sworn officers Of the county
Remember the scenes at the City Hal
last winter. Policemen directed by theil
cl ief helped TO beat back the men VIII,
sought for their simplest and commonesi
right. The Levy Court was appealed to
It is a very responsible body sworn TO d,
its duty How they did their work i,
still fresh IN the minds of every man anC
woman in the city Therefore when ",
come to elect a member of Congress. e
choose President, TO select United
States Senator, all to defend the
great principles at stake, we see over
5000 men stripped of their opportunity
TO vote. When | regard this crime oi
the Levy Court and compare with the
crime Of the burglar or embezzler my gooC
opinion preponderates on the side Of The
burglar. When we have sunk so low a.
q people that we can look with indiffer