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

'O.iN ehoe hahcs HOlue DTiRut, tnat |
makes it enjoyable, that enables a man to !
njoy the presence of his wife and chill !
iren. it is the feather that be is able to give |
o his child or to his wife-the ostrich |
Gather. The ostrich feather is a necessary |
u life 1t must be. Why? Because the |
democratic party have reduced the tariff on
'strlch feathers $257, ,635. [Applause aud
aughterl
Again, if there is anything under the
sun that will make a laboring man enjoy a
neal as be sits down TO it with his wife and
children. 1T is ornamented and gilt china
from the porcelain manufactures of Seyres
and Paris and Marseilles. Ornamented
and gilt china, from the very commence
nent of this world, have been the accom-
payments of every laboring mans and
every farmers house on this earth. and The
democratic party, realizing the fact that
they must reduce the taxes on the neces-
svies of life, realizing that they must
make up TO the man something because
they had driven him out of work. have re-
duced the tax on ornamented and gilt china
1850, ,S4e 10. Applause
Again, II there is anything that will keep
cod and hunger away from the family
II there is anything that will compensate
for hungry stomach and an empty frame:
II there is anything which viii make you
feel as II you were WARM, even if the wind
whistles through your ragged clothing. il
is plenty of beads and ornaments With
which you can decorate your wife and
children. The Democratic party, realizing
that a man might be hungry, and ragged
as well, and desiring to clothe him IL the
necessaries of lie, have reduced the tax on
beads and ornaments S1S4.976 IS. Zap
plsuse
Again, il there IS anything that no well
regulated family can 60 without: if there
Is something that appeals to the finer sensi.
bllity of mans heart more than anything
else; If there is something which is abso-
Iutely necessary to every man, particularly
q workingman, it is to have q nice private
little railway of his own to have q railway
around his house; to have one around his
stove, and one around the dining room
table, so that the dishes ean move around
1t, and the family not be compelled to ex-
efclse their fiexor or extension muscles in
passing food from one to another.
realizing that fact and knowing the
crippled condition of the railroads of this
country; knowing that all the railroads of
the nation are broken down and bankrupt,
unable to pay any salaries to their Presi-
dents or wages TO their employes; desiring
TO give the laSoring man and the poor
man chance to make up for the reduction
OF his wages or the entire loss Of employ
ment by reducing the tax or tariff on the
necessaries of life, the Democratic party.
through the Mills bill, have reduced the
tax on rails for railways $343, ,953 45. ZAP
plause
And then in order that the hands of the
entire family may be properly dressed and
the exigencies of an empty stomach be
tenderly dealt with; in order that it NAV be
made pleasant to him, and that his family
and himself may be presentable at Court:
that they may be able TO shake hands with
the President and his wife, even if they
have 80 bread in the house-the Mills bill
has reduced the tax on that other necessary
of life, kid gloves, $418, ,487 II, and ia order
to bury the entire family, when dead of
hunger, the Mills bill reduces the tariff on
marble Sl07,596 90. [Applause] l tell
you, fellow citizens, as this laboring man
turns round to his children and his wife.
and sees that they are riding upon a
little private railway that he owns
himself; that they are covered
with beads and ornaments; that in
addition they have ostrich feathers and ar
uticial flowers scattered III profusion over
them and as he sees that they have mar
bic mantels and ornamental and gilt china.
although he may realize that they are hun
cry, although be may realize that thev
have nothing in the house wherewith to
get the next meal, he will be perfectly
happy, because the Democratic party has
reduced the taxes upon these necessaries of
life. tApplause and laughter
have no doubt that the laboring man in
that condition, as he contemplates that
wonderful reduction, and as he reflects
upon what happiness there is in this world
and the world TO come from the Mills bill.
will be able to sing in the words of the old
song slightly changed
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both hand and foot go cold,
Ny wife shall ostrich feathers wear,
railway viii hold.
Let wife and child with hunger souall
Let all our stomachs empty be
For flowers, hand made, shall deck us all
While beads and marble for food we see
And to eat the entire Mills bill with
Colonel Irish's speech for desert. [Great
applause and laughter.
THE FARMERS PROTECTED.
Now, these are the necessaries of life that
are reduced by the Mills bill, as you will
find by reading it, and this is the stone that
they offer to the laboring man of the United
States in place of the bread that he asks in
the shape of increased wages and steady
But in addition to that.
when Colonel Irish spoke of the neces-
saries OF life, he went on to speak of the
farmer. | see some here whom l know to
be farmers, and / ask them to notice the
facts and figures / will soon present.
Colonel Irish addressed his remarks partic-
uiarly to them, as he has in other portions of
the State, as being so badly treated by ex-
isting laws. He declared that the farmers
are oppressed by the tariff. He tried to
show how the tariff presses upon the far
n al hGc haf9 ont
other class. President Cleveland in one of
mis- messages said, in effect, that the num-
bers of persons engaged in agriculture was
many millions, and that the burdens of the
tariff weighed heaviest upon them with The
least beneficial return. Colonel Irish re-
states the same thing, and enlarges most
forcibly upon it. The facts show different
ly, for according TO the report OF the De-
partment of Agriculture for the year 1856.
as compiled and printed by the New York
Press, which reports can be found in the
State Library in this city, it will be seen
that the farmer is protected by this tariff to
the amount of $620,000,000 year. Six
hundred and twenty million dollars wear
And yet the farmer is not protected, these
Democratic orators say. The figures are
as follows:
Crop. Yield Duty. Tsx
Corn, bushels ,665. 900, 900 SOLO s1G6 500 COO
Wheat, bushels. 457, ,2ls $40 20 81 '443. zoo
Barley, bushels. 90, 100000 10 6D0O'0OO
Oats, bushels. 62f, 100000 10 60 4OOO0O
Rye, bushels....... 26.0O0, coo 10 6O1 ON
Potatoes, bushels l6S,0O0000 Is 2li50O00
Hay. tons........... 100000 $500 100000
Tobacco, pounds. 500,00O000 .S5 175,0OOOO0
These figures are based upon the Demo.
aratic claim that the price and value of an |
article, increased directly by the amount of |
the tariff and that without the tariff the |
value or price would Immediately he re. |
tuced by the amount of the tariff. A poor
process of reasoning. but if good for Democ- |
racy must be good for them also, and vet |
with these figures before him he saws The |
'armer is not protected. Why, to para |
phrase the speech Of Sidney Smith in that |
speech declaimed by Colonel Irish, we |
might say that every morning as weate our |
oatmeal or cornmeal mush we paid 10 |
cents per bushel tax to the farmer, and if |
We preferred cracked wheat we paid Is /
,ents, while our horse as be ate his oats or |
barley cost US tax of 10 cents per bushel. |
md We mournfully gazed on him eating |
nay taxed S2 per ton. Laughter and ap.
clause If 1t is true that these are taxes
what does it matter to anyone. We ali |
,ealize the necessity of supporting the Gov
and if it is tax to the farmer |
every man pays it willingly and no man
Knows that he is being taxed, because it is
indirept of