Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-02

cards OF the gamblers, while it left tax of so
per cent on the Christian Bible. She drew
similar comparisons on dozens of other articles.
The Mills bill was not perfection, but ii was
much better than the present law. 1t was
highly protective measure. The cry of free
trade was false one, and was maliciously put
ioItn by the uncrOwned king and other Re-
publican leaders. Figures would not lie, but
Liars will figure, and were doing so in this cam
Pagn She said that not mill would shut
down or hammer STOP from the passage of the
Mills bill. Too much money was being made
by them. She paid a good deal of attention to
''the uncrowned king and said that by the
blessing OF God and the Democratic party fe
would remain uncrowned. Andy Carnegie and
the profits OF his business also furnished theme
tor comparison with the wages he paid his min
ers and employees. She discussed the tariff on
else. In this fight the Democratic
party was always on the side
of the people. Wool was the last article in the
world on which there should be a tax. The
sheep and wool industry would receive no in
jury from the removal of the tariff. She beliey-
ed large proportion of the Republican party
was in accord with the President on the tariff
question. The speaker thought if the sheep in
dustry had to go i. would not be an unmixed
evil. The sheep men were destroying the for
ests and polluting the streams in the mountain
! counties. The speaker insisted that the Mills
| bill would not effect the wages of labor except
/ to increase them. The law of supply and de-
mand governs the rate of wages. Protection
/ could not raise the wages of the laborer. There
/ was no question of protection free trade in
I this campaign, it was simply question Of a
reasonable tariff and on exorbitant one She
wanted to ask that brilliant light of the Repnb-
l1can party, Grove l.. johnson, if all the bless
| tngs enjoyed by the American people were due to
an unfortunate war tariff and closed her speech
with brilliant and eloquent perorotion, which
was liberally applauded.
1t Yves nearly ten o'clock when Mr.. Vernier
Waldo was introduced by the President. Grover
| Cleveland had been elected in 1854 because the
| people demanded a better government. He
| would be elected again in November The
people of the United States had be-
come tired of Republican attempts at
| legislation. The record of that
party as to taxation and monopolies was a
record of wrong, injustice and oppression. The
| speaker said that he had once been a Republi-
| can himself, and had been patriot since. When
| he was IA years old he ran away from home
| to take part in the crimson tragedy at Shiloh.
That war had been fought once, and there was
no occasion for fighting 1t over again. He was
obliged to withdraw from the Republican patty
when it ceased to be the party of the people and
became the party of the capitalist. He argued
| that the tariff was no longer to be borne by a
| free people. The Democratic party had pro-
posed only moderate reform of the tariff and
| yet II was called free trade.
| The speaker commended the Presidents mes
| sage on the fisheries question, and said that it
! did not look as if ne was run by the Golden
! Club. He paid great deal of attention TO the
| speeches of Hon. W. S. Williams, charging him
| with avoiding the real issues of the campaign
His argument was devoted almost entirely to
the tariff question.
| The meeting closed with three cheers fol-
Cleveland and Thurman.