Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-10-19

and is only remembered tn De ridiculed
(Applause.) Ny friends there never
was president who took his seat
under more trying circumstances
than President Cleveland did. The
democratic party had been out of power
for nearly quarter OF century, and of
course there were democrats who thought
that when We got democratic admins
tration every democrat in the land ought
to have good office, but had
their own peculiar notions as to how
the governmen MT should bs conducted and
to meet and satisfy the wishes of the
people, those VINO elected him president
of the Uuited States, that
man c sv s!and bad the hardest task that
ever Was encountered by president.
and how has he performed that tasks
The peoples answer to that question is
found in the fact that after
years and half OF his administration
the democratic convention at St. Louis
RS nominated him by q unanimous
vote. Let me say once more, no DIS.
honest man, no second rate man, nobody
but a great man, nobody but an upright
industrious, courageous man g er yet was
honored in this way; and therefore the
answer to what Is said against
Cleveland is: "Behold, the Ameri-
can people have spoken in
his favor" (Applause) My friends, if
had time &c do 1T l would like to say
few words upon the subject that interests
you so much and which is talked of so
much this ear, the question of the tariff.
What is tariff 1t is nothing in the wide
world bat a tax. 1t is tax levied upon
you people, and when it is lev ed for
40 other purpose tnan that of furnishing
the government of the country with sutfic
lent means to carry on the government
no man Of any party makes an objection
TO it, but when it is used, sot
for the purpose of raising in that way
the necessary revenue for the gov.
ernment but for raising millions and
tens of millions, ray, hundreds of mil
lions of dollars or more of revenue for
which the government has no legitimate
use, theu my frier rds, the government pats
its hands into 5oar pockets and robs you
of your daily earnings. (App,ause.) L
say it is tex, aud it is tax paid in
most une quail degree by the poor man of
the land. How is this tax paid' Doss
the tax gatherer of the United
States como around and demand 1t
of you on you: farm and your workshop?
Nc, but that - rot the way. 1t is this
way. Upon every a.. ic!e of foreign
manufacture that is bro light into your
country for ss'e, this tax Is levied. 1t is
collected in the custom houses of the
United States 1t is first paid by the
man who brirgs the goods here, the i'm
porter; and then of course he
outs that tax upon the price
which be paid for the goods
and sells it o: that increased price
when he dis poses of it to tire merchants.
Then the me chant selio it to you here in
Shelby vile, he keeps on that tax in the
Jrice that he charges yul for 1t, other
wise he could not carry on his business
"a hours. H. adverted to the trees
ury and said shat WAS
just so much money taken out Of circula
tion in the country; that is just so much
money which the people might use in
their business transactions, and in sup
plying their dali 3 wants and would so nse
it, were it not locked up the vaults of the
treasury.
Friends, he continued, our opponents
say that this tariff is for the benefit of
the laboring men, as if it could pos
sibly be for the benefit of the labofiDg
man to tax him on ell he wears, on all
his wife and children wear, on all of the
tools and i'm mplements of his trade, and
when he dies carry him in a taxed coffiu to
his grave. otRat is simply az absurdity.
The idea that a nation can be made rich
by heavily taxing its people far hey yond
what the necessities of the government
req uire, the idea that man can be bet
tered by taxing him on all the necessi-
ties of life is nothing short of an alb
surdity. (Applause.) But the republi-
Iicans state the democrats propose to
break down all the manufacturers in
the country. My friends, they will do
no such thing. They mean to give the
manufacturers a fair chance for an hon
est living, and when they do that they do
al that an honest man can ask; that is
all. They talk about our expressing or
being enemies of laboriug men. Why, in
the name of all that is true, of what man.
ner of men is the democratic party com-
posed? l have belonged to it ever since
was knee high to duck, as
we boys used to say (Applause and
laughter.) | have watched it, been of it,
aud seen it under many and many an
administration and always 1 have seen
that ninety nine hundredths of the men
who belong to the democratic party are
laboring men. applause and cries of
chats righs-a voice." not for a-dollar-a-
day eithsr) not if they can get more.
(Applause)
Governor Gray followed Judge Thur
man and held the crowd for thre-quarters
of an hour longer, after which the party
were driven to the depot and after some
little delay went on to Indianapolis,
where the Judge will remain over night.
The party arrived at 8 O'Clock. To-
morrow afternoon, at 1:1O O'Clock, the
Judge and party will leave there for Ft.
Wayne, where Judge Thurman will speak
Wednesday.