Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-03
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
berlain Address a Large Assembly n City Hall.

Simeon E. Baldwin andEx-G overnor Cham
 berlain Address a Large Assembly mt
 City Hall.
 Waterbury democrats turned out with full vigor last evening and attended the grand rally given under the auspices of the Cleveland and Thurman club. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock the Young Mems Democratic and Waterbury Democratic clubs and the Cleveland and Thurman club, headed by the American band marched to the Nauga tuck station where they met the Watertown horse and foot guards accompanied by the Oakvilla band. The line of march was then formed and it was S:3O before City hall was reached. At City hall the auditorium was crowded and the gallery black with people. Harry Dikeman, prt s;dent of the Cleveland club, announced Charles G, Root as presiding officer. NIT Root fttingly thanked the Watertown people for their attendance and immediately introduced the Hon Simeon E. Baldwin of New Haven. The speaker was clear and forcible and he was sure that there was less Reclamation and more argument in this campaign than | in any previous one: that new chapter in American politics had been opened and when Grover Cleveland made his platform
 he established q new issue, an issue that electrified the country when his December
 message was put forth. Mr Baldwin then devoted some time to the
 vast amount of wealth that is accumu-
 latirg in the treasury, over $l30, ,OOO, ,OG0 He said The Wealth is going into the hands of few. When I was a boy there
 was not single millionaire ill Connecticut.
 It is since the war that these great for
 tunes have been amassed. Look at the
 effect on Connecticut industries, mainly
 engaged in manufacturing. by the many
 trusts. Take New Haven county for in
 stance. Her share in the United States
 treasury is at least one-half million of dol
 lars Every year Connecticut uses $l00, 1 000 900 worth of raw material; in 1880, 1 12O millions and now about 12O millions.
 The speaker then referred ito the sheep in
 dustry in Connecticut Twenty years ago,
 there were three times IS many sheep a5
 there are to-day in the state. lii 1867 there 1 ITO, ,000 sheep, and less than 50 900 to day.
 The protection given to the farmer is tess
 than $50, ,0Q0. By the tariff on wool is given
 that amount 90 the farmer and taken
 $3,000,00 from the mills of the state which
 might be used to increase wages or reduce
 the price of goods. We never can
 unless we get our raw material at reason
 able price. One sizt tl of Connecticut's pop
 ulation work in tho shops. Of all the
 goods manufactured the merest pitance of
 raw material is made i'll our state. And
 yet Connecticut cannot compete with west.
 ern states, for the west is her market. The
 New Haven carriage manufacturers are losing their western orders owing 1 to the freight rates and the cost of lumber in the east, which give the western manufacturers an advantage. Connecticut and all the eastern states must look to foreign countries for their market. l Mir Baldwin then spoke q good word for Abraham Lincoln and Grover Cleveland, | whom he said were the only great presi- dents during the past fifty years. One ! trust he believed i'll was the trust the American people are putting in Cleveland | The Hon Daniel II. Chamberlain, ex- governor of South Carolina, was the next speaker. He said Il am always glad to discuss with the people the important public questions We are done with an era of sentimental politics. Slavery is settled and now we come to discuss an | economic and industrial problem. It is no such thing that the democracy wants free trade Since 1790 this country had some measure of protection. The meas ure offered by Cleveland and the democ
 racy is to reduce protection from 1T to 42 per cent"
 The speaker then reviewed the work tha; the democracy are doing to keep down the trusts and of the action of the republican party in offering free whiskey and taxing people for the necossaries of fife in order to protect these trusts. The Mills bill advocated admitting four chief articles frea of duty, namely Tin plate, lumber, salt and wool, all of which we do not produce in sufficient quantities to help our man. ufactures. On the other articles the bill only calls for reduction of a small per cent, leaving plenty of protection yet. Just think, Andrew Carnegie made $1, 800, 900 in one year out of the Edgar Thompson mill, and he was only one of the many engaged in that scheme. No wonder he asks that the duty on steel rails remain at S17.50 per ton. That, my friends, is the kind of protection the republican party wants, making few rich and thousands poor. The speaker also advocated the re- duction of the tariff on sugar, another of the necessaries of life.