Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-09-12
Judge Thurman in Newark, New Jersey
HE SPEAKS TO AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE.

HE SPEAKS TO AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE.
Judge Thurman left New York city
from a sick bed on Saturday evening on
his return home. He stopped long enough
at Newark, N. j.. to address an immense
audience. The New York Herald says,
'the Rink, it is needless to say, was packed,
for it would hold only about seven thousand
people. The number which could not get
in would have filled four such buildings"
We have space only for a portion of the
report of his speech on this occasion. In
The course of his speech he said -
ssThere are not few subjects on which
might address you. would like to speak
about the history of this great democratic
party, to which have belonged since my
youth; of that party founded by Thomas
Jefferson, consolidated by Andrew Jackson,
much promoted by Grover Cleveland. Qm-
mense applause and waving of hats, hand
kerchiefs and f1ags.) would like to re-
mind you that there is not one acre of land
within the limits of the United States, be
yond the original thirteen colonies that was
not obtained by the democratic admins
tration, sustained by the democratic party.
| (Applause.) l would like to remind you
that the thirteen colonies that achieved
your independence were o comparatively
narrow strip along the Atlantic shore,
bounded on the west by the Allegheny
Mountains, and now this Republic of ours
extends from ocean to ocean and is one of
the largest and most intelligent, and be-
ieve the most powerful of all the nations of
the earth.
| 81 would like to show to you, or rather
to recall to your recollection, the fact that
| whenever the contest has been between the
rights of the people and those who would
curtail those rights the democratic party
has stood by the people unfinchingly, de-
terminedly, not to be daunted. Immense
enthusiasm } I would like to recall to mem
erty qualification and religions tests and
all that hampered the free right of the
people to vote was the result of democratic
Legislation and of the democratic party,
81 would like to recall your attention to
the fact that when the spirit of Know
Nothingism arose in this land and threat
ened to disfranchise the free foreign born
citizen and put down all the people of a
particular faith the democracy came to the
rescue of liberty and religion and said,
"These things shall not be- (Great
oheering.)
II would like to remind you that in the
good old days of democratic ascendancy we
had an economical government, economi-
cally administered; that the expenses of
| General Jackson's administration for a
whole year did not exceed one quarter of
the expenses entailed ON this continent
since the close of the Rebellion.
81 would like to say that this party is
| IL ~ Io.I ,
CHEERS, repeatedly renewed)-tha it is the
natural party of free institutions, and just
so long as freedom exists in America the
democratic party will exist. applause. }
There is no way of destroying it except by
despotism, and as long as democracy ex-
lists despotism is impossible in this land,
for it will not endure it.
"Now, my friends, passing from these
general observations, allow me to come to
the issue most sharply marked in this cam
paign. And first, because it is the most
discussed and attracts public attention the
most, lie: me say something on the tariff
question, so called. (Applause.) Our OPP.
ponents are endeavoring to alarm the whole
country by the cry of free trade; that the
Mills bill, as it is called, introduced by Mr..
Mills, is but free trade. Why, my friends,
they must have poor opinion of the intel
lgence of the American people who talk in
that manner.
"What is free trade? Free trade is the
unrestricted commercial intercourse be-
tween nations in which DO Custom House
duties or taxes at the ports of entry are
paid for income Or outgo of goods. You
have an illustration of that in the United
Ststes--thirty-eigh in this Union. Be.
tween these states there is free trade when
: goods are taken from New Jersey, from
! those great mann features in the city OF
Newark iuto New York, you pay no duty
aud New York pays no duty on them. II
! taken to Maine OF California it is the same
thing. Between these thirty-eight States
! aGd Territories there is Zee trade but there
! is nc such free trade between the United
States AID foreign countries. and nobody il
this country advocates any such thing"
A Voice-Three cheers for Allan G.
Thurman! (Cheers.)
"My friends" said the Judge agail
shifting you mean well, but-(applause)-
would rather have your attention thar
your cheers. l say between these United
States and foreign Countries"
Here the speaker had to pause again fol
moment in consequence of more enthusi
asm on the part of those at the back of the
} rink.
|
States such thing as free trade, properly
SO called, except the free trade to which
have alluded between the different parts Of
the United States. When, therefore, a
man talks about the Mills bill as free
trade bill he talks without wisdom Or with
intent to deceive, one or tie other. He is
either an ignoramus or rascal. ("Good!'
What an absurdity to call it free trade
bill! The present rate of duty under the
existing tariff-forty seven and fraction
per cent-that is to say, upon every article
of dutiable goods brought into the United
States tax is levied of forty.seven and a
fraction per cent. Now, this Mills bill re-
duces that rate of taxation to forty-two per
cent, or whereabouts. The reduction is less
! than six per cent on this taxation, and yet
this reduction is called free trade!' II
leaves the tariff at from forty to forty-two
per cent, OF more than twice as much as it
ever was before the late civil war, And
yet it is talked about as free trade
WHO PAYS THE TAX.
"Why, it Is simply absurd. But have
said this tax is nothing but tariff upon all
i goods brought into the United States for the
people. There are some articles ON the free
; list, but nearly all that is consumed by the
people of the United States imported, has
! to pay this tariff war tax, the average oil
which is forty-seven and upward per cent.
Now, who pays these taxes? Who? Why,
in the first place the importer of the goods.
He must pay it before he can take them out
of the custom house. OF course when he
sells them to the Wholesale merchant be
must put in the tax to the original cost and
sell at an increased price or lose his money
or go out of the business. Accordingly be
adds the duty to the original price. The
wholesale merchant must sell at the same
price, with profits added to the article, when
he cells to the customer So, in the end, il
is the customer, the man who uses the
goods, who pays the whole taxes. [Cries
of "Good''] 1t is just as plain as that two
and two make four. If l were a school
master and l could not make boy under
stand it then would give him up as an in
corrigible scholar"
3 At this point the low rooted building was
like an oven with its packed, steaming hui
mainly and Judge Thurman looked trou
bled. Hc said:-T must beg of you to let
t me sit down for moment"
lie resumed his seat, and Governor Green
was introduced amid applause. He spoke
/ for about fifteen minutes, and then Judge
Thurman stood up again. SIT is severe