Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-22

lty OF their argument. 1t illustrates thu
sectional manner in which they are max |
ing their argument, appealing TO the farmer |
as distinct class. The farmer is the |
aristocracy oft the county. From the farmer !
we derive all We have in the country. From
the farmer we draw the inspiration whicl. !
makes us better men and better women. |
and the farmer is protected by the Ameri- |
can tariff, devised and maintained by the
Republican party and by the blessing OF
Oou he always will be, because he always
ought TO be. [Applause.l
THIS SECTIONAL APPEAL
Was made to him-sectional because it was
made to him as a class-and all appeals to
class are wrong, undemocratic, unrepub-
hc8n and improper
Now one thing more upon this, as show
ing the manner in which this bill was
framed showing that it is n direct stab at
the industries of the North. What is the
effect upon raisins? You who visited the
Pavilion during the last State Far will
remember that Fresno county had mag
nlllcent display of rsisins there
Tie rasln men of Fresno and other
counties have met and have shown bv
ilgures that they cannot successfully con
tiDue that industry if this Mills bill passes.
reducing the tariff. and the difference that
there is now, all that Will be saved is $203.-
SOB OF in the whole United States. They
only save that sum and they DESTROY and
ruin business in California that has mill
ions OF dollars invested III it, that is in its
infancy and yet is great, and which
II les alone will surely increase and
prosper and greatly benefit our coast
as well as the Nation, and sll this without
complaint from any one that raisins are
too costly. Is that right? No. Is it in as
cordance with the rule that what benefits a
part benefits the whole2 No. Is it for the
benefit OF the people? No. Itis carrying
out, in my judgment, the full purpose
| which was designed in 1857, and failing
then, is now sought to be re. enacted, whicn
| will speak of later on.
THE FREE WHISKY CRY.
But Colonel Irish says that the Repub-
lican party, il answer TO the demand for
| reduced taxes, have only offered free
| whisky and free tobacco. Hs rupg the
| changes on free whisky. For thirty two min
uteS he talked about the taxes on Injuries
| and taxes upon whisky said it was a vol
| untary tax that no man need pay unless he
| wlshed-that it was an unnecessary article
| for life, and if q man used it he ought to
| pay fer it; that he had helped to nav some
| OF the tax; that it was contradistinguished
| from ell other taxes, in that we could
avoid its payment; that the tax ought to
1
was Offering free whisky to the people in
stead of reducing the taxes on necessaries.
| That statement is not in point of fact a
| true presentation of the matter it cannot
| be true, although it is indorsed by Presi-
| dent Cleveland. Why, fellow citizens, if the
masses OF the Democratic party really be-
lieved that; if the speakers of the Demo-
cratic party, and the rank and file of the
party really believed that the Republican
| platform and the Republican party meant
| free whisky, the Irish Democrats of New
| York City would emulate the valor OF their
| ancestors at Fontenoy, the Moonshiners of
! North Carolina and Georgia, the +. E. VS.
of the Old Dominion, the Blue Grass
chlvalry OF Kentucky, the long-haired cat
| tiemen of Texas and Arkansas and the
bulldczers OF louisiana would rival the
| desperate charge of Pickett's brigade at
Gettysburg. The Stockton Convention
! Democrats and the auti-Stockton Conven-
| ton Democrats of California would bury
! their differences and, all uniting, would
march TO battle behind the red randaDa
and with maddened frenzy would storm
| the Republican entrenchments, be they
| built never so high; they would beat down
our gates, were they made of triple STEEL
| they would enter into the holy of holes of
! the Republican party and as we stood around
i the altar offering incense to Republican
principles and Republican leaders. they
would rush to the front, and, wipiDg the
| blood and sweat from their brows, would
declare, I'VE have always been Republi-
| cans. Give US that free whisky" fGreat
| laughter and applause And there would
! come voice from the Alta California say
ing, in well-remembered tones Don't
forget an old Iowa Democrat in the dis
tribution of your free whisky" IReneWed
applause and laughter.l They say that
free whisky is to be given to you because
the Republican party has said something in
reference to tbs adjustment of internal
| revenue taxes. Why, fellow. citizens. thew
have shouted war tariff and war taxes for
years as reason for reducing the tariff,
yet there is no war tariff nor war taxes ex-
cept the internal revenue taxes. There
has been protective tariff ever since there
has been government as i showed you by
Democratic authority. There has onlv
been an internal revenue tax since the
Democratic party of the South undertook
to break up this country by civil war.
lApplause.l The internal revenue tax
was made necessary then. 1t is
relic OF the war, and | well
remember hesring Dan VOORHEES,. of In
diana, Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and
Horato Seymour. of New York, making
speeches in New York city and in Syracuse
in which they denounced this internal rev.
enue tax as being war tax; as being some.
thing that the people should rid themselves
of. because it was the tax-gatherer going
into the daily avocat1ons of life. Now, like
Satan rebuking sin, the Democratic party
says that II Is opposed to free whisky, and
that the Republican party is in favor of it,
because the Republican party has dared to
say word in favor of repeating the inter-
nal revenue taxes, which are the only war
taxes left-the only relic of war days, and
which the Democracy have always abused
and decried.
AM TEMPERANCE MAN.
am Prohibitionist in principle, not in
politics, as it is termed now. live that by
my life, as my neighbors know. l show it |
by my speech in season and out of season,
as my friends and my neighbors before me
know; and l say as temperance man and
Prohibidonist and as Republican. if | |
believed the Republican platfor, meant
free whisky, would fight it W all the |
ability have. l know it does not AS |
temperance man and Prohibitionist | |
indorse the platform. 1t is simply an |
enunciation OF an economic truth II is |
simply stating and bringing out fuller the !
better light before the people that great |
principle, written all over the history of |
this nation, soon to be made | hope the |
cornerstone of our country, namely, that |
indirect taxation by the tariff is superior TO |
direct taxation by internal revenue systems. |
lApplause.l 1t is an enunciation and the |
cornerstone of the principle of protection. |
1t does not say word in favor of free |
whisky. 1t simply says that, rather than
surrender the principle of protection TO |
American industries, we will, if needed. re- |
duce the surplus by way of reducing inter |
nal revenue taxes. That it ought to be |
done all, or nearly all, temperance men are
sgreed. 1t is
THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO PROHIBITION
That can be found or that exists. Every
temperance man in the United States
should support the Republican party upon
that plank, if no other. Everyone knows.
who has studied the history of temperance
legislation in the United States. that the
Courts have been extremely careful of the
property interests involved in temperance
legislation, and that the ballot. box victory
has frequently been overturned by the de.
cision of the Courts, and that the decision
of the United States Courts in passing unon
prohibitory legislation has been that be-
cause the liquor men paid United States
license or a United States tax, and had
their liquor in United States bonded