Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-22
DIR. LOUIS SCHNEIDER.
He Warns up the Germans ON Tariff
and Prohibition.

He Warns up the Germans on Tariff
and Prohibition.
Nearly every seat in Turner Hall was
filed last night with most intelligent
and attentive gathering Of German cit
zens, who came there to hear DIR. Louis
Schneider discuss the issues in the pres
ent campaign. DR.. Schneider is COM
paratively young man. He is of Ameri-
can birth and German parentage. His
stock Of information on tie abstruse
question of the tariff as it stands related
to wages, prices and industrial devel-
opment, is very varied and very pro-
found. His style of handling it is ex-
tremely popular. He gets down to the
most practical bearings of the ques-
tion as related to every day life
and the interests of the masses, and
discusses all the intricacies of the SUBJ
ject so as to make them plain. He is
most lucid in his arguments, while being
exceedingly eloquent in his climaxes.
He made his points with ease, clearness
and force, and time and again he elected
the most rapturous applause from the
multitude Of thoughtful people present.
DR.. Schneider proves beyond question
that the wages of the laborer depends on
other factors than the protective tariff
whose benefits all 60 to swell the al
ready monstrous hordings Of the monop-
olies, combines and trusts in whose
favor the extreme tariff rates
are maintained by the Republican
party. A good deal of attention
was given to laying out cold the shallow
follacies put forth by the Hon. William
Williams. That wonderful orator is
responsible for the statement that by
the grace of the war tariff operatives in
American wooden factories deposit an
average of 5000 year in the savings
banks. DIR. Schneider showed from the
most unquestionable statistical sources
that the average wages of such laborers
is only $2S750 per year. So to save
5000 out of that the head OF the family
and all depending on him must live on
very short commons indeed. The
eloquent speaker then turned to
Prohibition and established the
close connection there exists between
the Republican party and the cold
water faction which has partly sloughed
off from it, He showed that Mr.. Harri-
son was particularly close to the lines
within which the simon pure Prohibition
ist is at home. As the speaker made point
after point the assembly lifted the roof
off the hall with round after round of
applause. As he scored the Republican
party for its alliance with Prohibition
the appreciation was particularly en-
phatic.
DR.. Joseph Kurtz acted as president of
the meeting, and the following list of
vice-presi0ents was named, most of the
gentlemen being present and on the
platform.
Louis Lichtenberger, Louis Roeder,
DR.. N. Lindenfeld, Prof. Wilhardtitz, H.
Glass, S. Prayer. L.Winter, H. Bartning,
B. Cohn, A. Steineke, @. F. Heintzeman.
Conrad Jacoby and Dan Einstein acted
as Secretaries.
On the seats. was distributed neat
pamphlet in German on the tariff ques-
ton. 1t is a speech delivered before the
German Democratic Club OF this city by
DR.. Joseph Kurtz week or two ago. It
is succinct and forcible presentation of
the question and will do much good
among the German voters of this section.
The hall last night packed as it was
with 700 or 800 actual voters, who made
the hall ring at every mention of Cleve-
land, Thurman, Tariff Reform, or the
right of the citizen to the fullest enjoy
ment of personal liberty under the Egis
of the laws OF this country and the Con-
stitution OF the Union, augur ominously
tor the Republican ticket on the 9th of
next month, when every elector present
will vote the straight Democratic ticket.
1t must be borne in mind that many of
these citizens have heretofore been ar
dent Republicans.