Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-01

asm. lit was fully two minutes before
the din ceased and then in voice, rem
dered. slightly husky by his
experiences Of the past six weeks,
Mr.. Grady commenced his address.
1t was listened to with rapt attention
from first to last. After alluding to the
glorious reception he had received and
his pleasant experiences in California he
said that he came 5000 miles to tell
them that in spite OF all cavil and con-
tradiction New York is straight for
Cleveland and Thurman. 1t had lust
dawned upon good many of the Re-
publican papers that in 1884 he was op-
posed to the election of Grover Cleve-
land and he said that he was
sent out here as penance. He
went through purgatory in his
trip from Mo]ave to the Needles and
caught his first glimpse of Paradise in
California, where" continued the
speaker, ''I have been in company with
the saints ever SINCE" Mr.. Grady said
that he objected to the Republican press
stating that he was getting 800 a night
for speakipgSin the Democratic cause, in
asmuch as when he returned home he
would be mobbed by his creditors.
Speaking of the reasons why he opposed
Cleveland in 1884, he remarked that he
did 80 because he thought Butler would
be better President for the laboring
man, but he changed his opinion during
the last four years, and so have 500, 600
more who voted as he did at the last
election, but who will vote for Cleveland
on Tuesday next. Mr.. Grady said that
his attention was first attracted to the
able administration of the President by
his proclamation to the cattle kings,
which resulted in the land which had
illegally fenced in, being thrown open to
the people. Then came the noble
stroke of statesmanship-tbe proposition
to establish a bureau of arbitration to
settle the differences between Canada
and the United States. The case OF Gil
fred Miller gave another evidence of
CLEvELANDs STERLING QUALITIES.
Miller had settled on quarter.section in
Washington Territory and the Northern
Pacific tried to oust him from it, claiming
it as deficiency land. Miller sent in
an appeal to the President, who
in his instructions to the Secretary of
the Interior regarding the case said
"See to it that your action is such that
no hardship or loss shall come to the
settler" ''The result was," said Mr..
Grady, "that Miller is on his quarter
section to-day, and will doubtless vote
for Grover Cleveland. Then there is
that noble stroke of work by which the
Chinese are excluded from America, and
by the force of which law labor receives
that relief which makes each one who
toils stronger in the promise
of prosperity than ever since
the day when the first Coolie
came to this country. But the public
land policy OF the President was what
impressed Mr.. Grady very much. Land
which the Republicans said could not be
returned to the people was thrown open
for settlement, over 80, 900, 900 acres hav-
ing been already confscated from
monopolies, while 40,00O,0 900 acres more
are in litigation. The message, how
ever, which the President gave to the
world last December was what
brought Mr.. Grady into the Cleveland
church, and then turning to the present
tariff he said that when it was imposed
the Republicans apologized for it, saying
that owing to the heavy expenses of the
time consequent on the war, they had to
do it. Mr.. Grady then pointed out that
four years ago the Republican party
announced itself in favor of reform,
and in support of thia proposition and
read from the Republican platform of
1884 in which the tariff is specifically re-
ferred to as tax. 'The leaders of the
party at that time were not quite as clear
headed as our friend Williams who calls
this license. Now the Mills bill with
which we propose to carry out the sug-
gestion embodied in this platform takes
the tax off of wool, placing it on the free
list. II seems to me heard about free
wool long time ago from one of the
men that the Republican party elevated
to the Presidency, General Grant.
1t was fourteen years ago that he recon-
mended that this staple be freed from
tax, when this alleged infant industry
was a great deal younger than it is now.
As to salt, Why Levi P. Morton himself,
then in the lower House, voted for the
freedom Of this article, and Eugene Hale
of Maine, Mr.. Blaine's right hand man,
favored it that a great monopoly might
be destroyed. The speaker next took up
the question of lumber and showed how,
according to Mr.. Blaine's own statement,
it had been left free through
ali the time when the Government
had been searching for every conceivable
thing which could bear tax, and that
the only reason the tariff was ever levied
was that Michigan had insisted she
should be let in on the same deal that
the Eastern manufacturing States were
JUTE BAGS.
When Mr.. Grady came upon jute bags
the audience showed Immediately that
they were quite at home on that subject.
"Drexler demanded restricted market
for what he had to SELL" said he, "but
when he becomes buyer ne goes into
the only free trade market that exists in
this country, the labor market, and
hires Cinnamon"
After touching upon the absurdity of
tax on tin to protect an industry which
never existed, the speaker referred to the
way in which, under Republican rule, all
the taxes which the war had put upon the
rich, as on incomes, railroads, and man
ufactures had been taken off and those
retained which bore their full weight
upon the backs of the poor. "And this
outrageous disregard of solemn promises
is the American system Out upon such
system and upon those who would
dare to vindicate it," "They say that
we have all received orders from
the President" continued the orator,
to say nothing of the Murchison letter.
haven't had my notice yet nevertheless
l have but little, TO say OF it. notice
this, however, that although they accuse
us of being the friend of Great Britain in