San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-18
JULIAN'S SPEECH
At Indianapolis, September 18th
Further Extracts.
LATTER-DAY REpUBLIcANIsM

to be vigorously employed in the
work of self-destruction. It's early
and greatest loader, Abraham Lin
coin, believed in government "of
tho people, by the people, and for tho
peoples" but the party to-day believes
in government dominated by cor
porations, mono polies and class legis-
lation, In it's early life the republi-
can party ospoused the old whig pol.
icy of tariff for revenue, with
incidental protection. In lat.
er years it practically revers
cd this policy by favoring
tariff for protection, with incidental
revenue. 1t now turns another SOM
ersault and repudiates the teachings
of all the oracles of protection in the
past by demanding a tariff for pro-
lection, with no revenue. The party
has hitherto had the reputation of
being more favorable to temperance
than the democratic party; but it now
openly declares that in order to pre-
vent the reduction of existing duties
on the necessaries of life, it will favor
the totalrepeal of our internal revenue
laws, which would probably reduce
the price of whiskey to 20 cents per
gallon, and reproduce the horrid sat
urnalia of drunkenness, lawlessness
and domestic suffering with swept
over the nation in the early part OF
this century. 1t thus commits the
double offense of mocking the cry OF
the people for relief from the burd-
ems imposed by the existing war tar
if, and making itself The powerful
and remorseless ally of intemperance
and the saloons. Goaded onward by
party blindness, and yet smarting
under the consciousness of its shame
less inconsistency and recreancY to
principle, it seeks to wiggle out OF
its dilemma by comparing its plat
form to that of the prohibitionists.
But the prohibitionists demand the
total Punishment of whisky from the
country by law, while the republicans
welcome it's desolating flood and
leave the people wholly unprotected
against its ravages. The prohibit
ionlsts demand the removal of dut-
les on ''food, clothing and other COM
forts and necessaries of life" The
republicans, as I have shown, avow
their purpose to repeal the internal
revenue taxes entirely rather than
submit to the slightest reduction Of
such duties. In fact, the attempt to
show any likeless between the attit-
ude of these parties on the tariff
question is simply laughable.
THE FREE TRADE SCARE CROW.
The further attempt is made to 81
lence the cry of free whisky by rails
ing the idiotic howl of free trade, but
the republican leaders know that the
message of the president, which en-
bodies the democratic gospel on the
tariff, expressly disowns the policy ol
free trade, and that the reduction OF
duties proposed by the Mills bill
would leave them higher than those
of the famous protective tariff of 1912
while it is entirely in accord with the
avowed policy of Arthur, Garfield
Grant and other high republican au'
thorities. The party managers, how
ever, are not satisfied with their scare
crow of free trade. They denounce
the democratic party as the cham
pion of British free trade. Relying
upon the ignorance of the people and
the potentcy of demagogism. they
charge the president with entering
into secret alliance with England
for the ruin of American manufact
ures and the starvation of American
laborers. But they forget that the
high protective policy of their party
makes it the natural ally Of the En-
glish tories, while the reduction oi
duties, now urged by the democratic
party, commends it to the friendship
of the English liberals and the En-
gllsh common people, who have uni
formly been found on the side of the
United States. What is the meaning
of this strange constituencies to the
welfare of American manufacturers
and this morbid jealousy of their
rights! Why should congress tax the
whole people for their special advan.
tage. Are they any more deserving
than our farmers or any other class
of honest producersi Is there any
valid reason for singing them out as
pets and favorites under q govern
ment of equal lawsi The champions
of our great manufacturing nonopc.
lies should remember that the lower
ing OF our tariffs has never Injured
the work;ngman or the people, and
that our lowest tariffs in the last fifty
years have been the most popular, al
though ruin was predicted as the
sure result of reduction. 1t is urged
that high tariff duties enhance the
wages Of labor; but every intelligent
manufacturer knows that the rate ol
wages is determined by the law oi
supply and demand, and not by the
rate Of duties. Manufacturers are nc
more inclined 10 divide their proits
among the poor than other men
Protection enables them 20 amass
great wealth, but they hoard it Of
lavish it in ambitions projects instead
Of dividing it among their employees
When Andrew Clrnegie made his
million and a half in . single year, be
did cot dispense any part Of i in lar.
gesses among his toiling Operatives,
but redncei their wages. That va.