Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-09-24

/ AAAh " W AEA huA0 VI hU1 ki.0A Will ~
IL HI 10 hold on and dAmnAtion to let
20 II is rot worth while 70 ask you II
you think It right for government 10
ovsrtAK its people At the rate OF SO.
600 coo per month, Under this admin
iatrAtion the pension list has been In.
creased and the largest river and hAr-
Dor appropriation ever known has bean
made. How do you hope TO reduce
taxation; bow do you hope 10 do 1t ex-
oept BY Democrats? 6ome Of my peo-
pie are 90 eager to have tAxAuon re
duced that they are willing to aocept .
reduction on either foreign imports or
on domestic products. The present tax
laws lake most from the poor and least
from the rich.
| II taxes neoesBAvles, but puts little
tar on luxuries. Now the duty on iron,
and you know the Importance OF iron,
Is Al per cent that 10 Tor every 500
worth OF Iron you pay $50 for iron and
al tag, while on gold and silver 10 Welry
the tax is but % per cent. The tax on
woolsn goods 10 81 per cent, while on
silks II 70 but so psr cent. This ID be-
cause silks are worn exolusively By the
poor. Here 10 y staFtltng one, the tax
on French brandy 10 81 per cont; you
do not drink French brandy; while on
common whisky IL 70 3e8 per cent
Laughter. This ~ distributing the
nardens upon the rich. Bat the In
equalltiea exist still further. The tar
on Bibles, the word OF God, by which We
should live and by which We should seek
salvation, are taxed % peroent., while
fashion plates are free. The states and
pencils Hssd b8 your children In school
are taxed IS per cent, while fiddle
strings are free. Salt. that very neoes-
sAFy article, which the IrishmAn said
made . potato taste bad when there was
none In 1t, 10 taxed 20 per cent, while
spices, which are used exclusively by
the poor, are free. Tools are taxed 40
per cent, while stuffsd birds arc free.
WOrkingmen. did you ever think Of
this while you labored for your daily
bread, that though your tools are taxed
40 per cent, thank God, stuffed birds
ara free. Laughter. Horseshoe nails
are taxed IL per ceut, while skeletons
are free. Why every man can have q
skeleton in his closet Laughter ]
They talk about dying and ray that
we will all die II this reduction OF taxes
10 made. The Mills bill red the
taxes about per cent. Should that
make anybcdy dit9 II It does, the
sooner they would all die the better.
The objection be had 10 the Mills bill
was that IL did not take enough. They
talk about dying, indeedI Why, had
Iyou ever better times even with S140..
900 COO locked up In the Treasury In
18A6, when Richard j. walker was
Secretary Of the Treasury, the taxes on
imports were reduced, and they talked
then about dy Ing, bat they dldn't die
In 1857 they started out and reduced
II 81 Aak wabaA~- "a
| II they die Of Z per cent. thsy ought TO
die. Reduction has got to come. The
Mills bill gives Sou fIes raw material.
i There isn't o mau In America to-day
that doesn's profit by free raw mAtsTi-
ais. II they profit BY the free raw ma
terials on the list, they will proat more
under the Mills bill, with wool, silk
ami fsx admitted free. The wooden
manufactures In this country would
profit by FREQ WOOL There iB no tax on
loolton and down In my country, you
will dnd hundreds Of little cotton fac
ltarles turned by the streams running
do en- from the mountains, and As good
cotton sheetlngs are turned out there "a
you would fnd coming from the
eastern mills or from Manchester. II
We had FREQ wool there would be the
same result with woolen goods.
Mr.. Vance then devoted large part
Of his time IN running over the uaual
flee trade arguments to chow the profit
q manufacture had on q pair Of blan.
kets and ton Of pig iron. There only
seemed to be free trade in human labor.
Tney protect the workman from the
product OF psupsr labor, but bring here
the pauper Himself. They send their
aatnts to Europe and when the italian
comes they meet him, 'Oh sugar Of my
life, molassss Of my existence; come to
my arms, my own mAcAroni. These
insolent Americans wanted bl. 80 per
day, you shall have 81. Laughter
and applause
BE then made sn appeal to the audi.
en:e and tod the people what they
should be prepared for. The farmer
the manufacturer and the lAborer, he
said, would have to come into oompetl.
tion with the whole world. We would
, then have the worlds markets and the
worlds labor with taxation simply
sufficient TO bear the expenses OF the
government. This Ia what We were
fast coming to and this condition had to
! come sooner nr later. These last re-
. marks Of Mr. Vance did not meet with
very hearty round Of applause
D willing 30 an audieDos Of working
] pee p were TO accept cheaper clothlL {
. and they hesitlled to applaud the SEN
8 timept Of cheaper wages by bringing
/. labor into competition with the Hipdoo
/. who lives on nlbe cents . day. How
ever. Mr.. Vauoe's RidIess was Witty,
+. eloquent aud ArgumeutR i've, aud leAv.
B Ing out same Of his strongest free trade
} sen timents, was we'll received BY q
! Wilmington audience.
, At ths close OF Senator Vanoe's Ad-
dress there were loud calls for Secretary
? BAyRrd.
! Mr.. Breckenridge Of Kentucky had
besn ami ouuoed 70 bs present., oIrcum-
stances had occurred by which he waE
detained, but he would be in Whining
toa TO address the Democracy before the
oAmpai2u closed. Senator Vance
: however, he was happy to say, had
: mora than filled the bill, and now he
, had the pleasure Of announcing thai
Secretary BAyard had consented to Ad'
dress the mee,i7g, and 1t afforded him
the greatest Measure to introduce him.
As soon ss the applause lad subsided
Mr.. Bay ard In part bAid: Ny fellow
|, towpsmen and brethren of the Demo
cratic party Of Wilmington: l am ex-
ireme|y happy TO night that l am per-
mitted with you to hear EK. Governor
Vance doing what Rn other man 10 bet
ter able to do Without any address
from me you have heard though TO-
night TO m AXE you reflect. dare not
ct this late hour detAin you with q
i speeoh, but at some other time during
! TIE campaign 1 hope to be able to lay
before you my views OF the Issues and