Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-03
THE LApoR1Ne MAN or NEW ENGLAND

AS in the last stages of starvation. He
said that in Fall River there were thou
sand men with families and they could not
earn more than 40 or 90 cents q day for a
whole family; that occasionally q family
had little pork TO eat; that they did not
have five pounds of beet wear: that thev
lived mostly on bread and sometimes were
Obliged TO go to bed without anything to
eat. Gentlemen, l did not mean by this to
Tidicule Mr.. Dickinson bat it is of that
stuff and of stuff like il t1a; is all through
the West and Southwest. The arguments
against the tariff are malicious They
represent New England SIS having two
c!asses-one class rolling in wealth, and
around them class bordering on starva-
ton, This mode Of speaking of the re-
suits OF protection aud describing New
England is
a FOUL LIBEL
On the most industrious and one of the
most deserving sections Of the Union.
But the question pressed upon you
to-day is: Are you willing to trust the
President of the United States. who sent a
iree-trade message to Congress? Are YOU
willing to trust him with the tariff? The
whole question, my friends, is
QUESTION OF WAGES,
And between the question of wages and
votes, Iasn who earn the wages can decide.
Western Democrats say that New England
has palaces on every hilltop. ! have lived
III New England many years, and have
seen very few of them. The vast number
OF people are comfortably well off. 1t is
IN their hands, and always has been in
their hands, to make and manage the laws
OF the country. All the millionaires from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific cannot Offset the
votes OF this valley. [Applause You
can outyote them as often as you like
You have it in your power to hold public
opinion stronger than they can. You can
argue the matter for yourselves, and if the
Republican party shall lose the support of
men who are comfortably well off, or the
farmers and woIkmen in the factories. the
Kepublican party ceases to exist. 1t was
mace OF such men. Cleveland did not
have the Senate in his hands, and has not
oeen able to stir one hair of the protective
tarlfl. The Democrats say: Did not the
Republicans predict all sorts of disasters if
the democrats got in, and don't you see
we nave as good times now as before?
As II Cleveland had anything to do with
that? Why, we are having good times be-
cause the Democrats have been guarded BY
THE REPUBLICAN SENATE.
The President and members of the House
iAOtl 'hS Ooutu nave SlOOu IOr Tree trade,
and the struggle is now whether to rein
force the Senate with Republican Presi-
dent, or give way and let the Democrats
have full swing. VIII you reinforce the
Senate for protection, or the House for free
trade? If Connecticut shall give her elect
oral vote for Harrison and Morton YOU may
rest secure in the belief that the business
of the country will go on as it has for a
quarter of century-in peace and pres
perity: but if Connecticut allows he1 vote
to favor free trade, then you will have
abundant leisure in your competition with
the ill-paid labor of Europe, to calculate
Just how much you have made out of it.
scANDALoUs FINANoIERING.
read this morning in one of the papers
that the public debt had been reduced dur
ing October, by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, 81 600. Out of all this surplus we
hear so much about the Secretary has only
been able to pay in October on the public
debt 81, 500 900. But / find that during this
same time he has loaned $1,000 600 to ma
1onal banks without interest. | say
this is the most scandalous transaction
in the history of the American Treasury.
When [ accused Secretary Fairchild of
this he said | was wrong, because the banks
retained 20 per cent. of the money in the
Government vaults, and have no direct
benefit from this sum. Suppose some one
gave any one of you gentlemen 81 600 600,
and you were allowed the use of only $780,
900. Wouldn't you be satisfied? ?"
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Blaine left for New York.