Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-10-31
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Meeting.
! BY Letter to EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, Oct 81 Yesterday,
unlike Tuesday Of last week when Secre-
tary Bayard, Senator Gray, and Congress
man Pennington spoke here, was beauti-
tul day. There was fair attendance
from all parts of the country, and 400 or
oO0 voters listened attentively to the Re.
publican speakers for over two and a half
hours. The meeting was held in front Of
the Court House in a stand tastefully
trimmed with bunting and flags MeKen-
dree Downham called the meeting to or
der putting in nomination the followin z
officers who were chosen: Chairman, Rev.
". w. Morgan, of Broad Gre TX; Vice
Chairman, w. r. Chance Of Georgetown
John I. Long. Of Dagsboro
Peter X. Burton, Of Indian
River, w. J. Stewart OF Seaford: Shad
rick Short Of Gumboro; Dr. H. r. Bur
ton Of Lewes and Rehoboth John II
johnson Of Cedar Greek; Minos T. Coma
way Of Nanticoke; Wilmington Pattin of
Southwest Fork; Benjamin Fooks of
Little Greek. Seeretaries-W. r. Bra
sure Of Baltimore, and Charles H. Atkins
Of Broadkiln.
After music by the Laurel Cornet Band
the chairman introduced Joseph Il
Thropp Of Philadelphia, who spoke for an
hour and half, holding the closest at
tention Of his audience
Mr.. Thropp expressed his pleasure at
meeting Delaware audience. lie appre
ciated that there were many Democrats in
his audience and he assured them that
his remarks should be free from partisan.
ship. The speaker continued
Il am not particularly an admirer Of
President Cleveland, but do thank him
for having made the tariff a national
issue All your platforms of the last
half century might be stated in three
words: Anything to win. In 1880 you
were hurrahing loudly for the superb
soldier son Of Pennsylvania, General
Hancock, and he declared it only q local
issue. In 1884 they looked us sqHarelv
in the face and said they were az good
protectionists as we Republicans, and had
Sam Randall vouch for Cleyelands beinr
a protectionist. Applause Mr.. Cleye
land was successful In 1888 simply
because they possess the Offices and that
they have the power and are urged on bv
the radical men Of the party, they boldly
declare in favor of tariff reduction and
say the Republican party has been false
to their professions made in 1884 because
the Republican Senate has prevented any
attempt on their part to reduce the
duties If there is any man in this
audience who can convince me that re
vision means reduction then / will be
willing to admit that their charge OF
unfaithfulness is true. The principle Of
protection is not new. The first Legislative
act passed by the Continental Congress and
approved at Washington, July4 1889, was
an act for the raising Of revenue, and the
promotion and protection of manufac-
lures and other industries in the United
States, and in that act the duties levied
which were especially sought to be pro
tective were 100 per cent. higher than
those which were levied for revenue only.
though the figures bear no comparison
with the duties at present found neces
sary. Experience soon taught our early
presidents and statesmen familiar with
the needs Of the country, that great ben
ents flowed from the exercise of this pro-
tective principal, and they gradually
increased the duties. At that
time their was little division OF
sentiment among the leading statesm en-
on the subject Even Calhoun Of South
Carolina after twenty five years Of pro
lection advocated the raising of the
duties Of cotton products to double the
amount they were in the first protective
law.
The campaign Of 1928 hinged entirely
upon the question, not simply Of protec-
tion, but rs to which of the candidates
Adams or Jackson, was the most radical
protectionist Mr.. Adams who had failed
to recommend during his administration
any changes in the laws tending to higher
duties, was opposed by the friends of
General jackson, who had taken strong
grounds for the highest duties, and the
result was Jackson's triumphant election
Later few of the Southern leaders led
by Haines of South Carolina. Calhoun
who by this time had commenced to
change his position, and McDuffie op-
posed the granting of higher duties.
Then first commenced the real
contest which produced in the end
such disastrous results to our
country, and is continued to-day in its
original form, by the so-called revenue
reformers, and particularly the repre-
sentative of that class from the South |
whose owning their own labor and re-
garding those whose lives were given to |
them as an inferior class did not make /
such rapid progress as did their sister
states of the East and North and promp- |
ted by the feeling of jealousy and under |
the influence Of English missionaries who |
saw that they were losing their market |
in what had been the colonies, and looked /
with jealous eyes upon the rapid indus
trial growth; they determined |
to check the growth OF the
North II possible, and increase their
as they supposed, for the purely |
agricultural products of the South As
Mr. Bayard is fond Of referring to ancient /
history, it may be well for his benefit.
and that OF some of his followers. to give
few moments attention to the compari-
son of the results OF the application Of
the industrial principle as opposed to the
feudal in some states.
These Southern States preserving with
in their limits as great, if not greater
mineral wealth than Pennsylvania, and
with warm, varied and extended eli
mate and soil. Compare thus East and
West Virginia and North Carolina. area
square miles, 112,056 population, 8, 5Sl..
249 and Pennsylvania, area square miles.
46, OO0 population, 4, 2S2, 1855. Why has
the state but little more than one third
as large as the other three so far out.
them2 South Carolina and New
Jersey were two of the original thirteen
states. BY the census of 1880 South
Carolina had a population Of almost
1 ,00O 600, while New Jersey had a popu-
lation of l. 100. 000 The area of South
Carolina is 81. 600 square miles, the area
of New Jersey is {, 800 square miles. In
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