Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-11
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SACRAMENTO DEMOCRACY NAILS
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Ratification Meeting at the Clul'ie
Opera House-TariR Reform,
Not Free Trade.

the corner of Eighth and Ninth streets,
near X, and the Hussar band attracted a
crowd by some very fine music in front OF
the Opera. House. t1-ltF.=
1t was half-past o'clock when NJ. J.
Burke, Chairmanof the Democratic County
Central Committee, called the meeting 10
order. After briefly stating the object OF
the meeting he announced the following
officers: 80 e. -@'
President-Hon. J. w. Armstrong.
Vice-Presidents-Hon w. c. Hendricks,
Hon. ]. P.9Dunn. Hon. A Herold, Hon. G..
A. johnson, Hon. Selden Hetzel Hon.
Robert Barnett Hon. r. D. Stephens, Hon.
J. f. Linthicum, Thomas Dwyer, r. S.
Carey, John Black, Tim Lee, H. G. Wolf,
w. s. Church, VIM. Mclaughlin, R. c. Ir-
vine, Joseph Hahn, W d. Comstock, J. G.
Davis, DR.. G. A. White, Hon. r. NJ
Clarken, Matt. F. Johnson, Hon. Fred.
Cox, Hon. II. NJ. La Rue, Dr. Caples, Ed
win F. Smith, James II. Glide, B.
Lucy, NJ. Cronan, Hon. ellis Doty,
James Maguire, A. b. Guthrie, Daniel
Mccarthy, General III. 3. Davidson, T. T.
Dunn, 1. Danielwitz w. z. johnson, J. J.
Paulsell, James III. Miller, Hon. E.W. Mas
lin, II. c.. Ross, Charles A. Jenkins, 1.
Townsend, Thomas Fox, W. S. Harris, R.
Fl. Singleton, d. J. Considine, W. H. De-
vine, &c. Pickett, T. w. O'NeilI, w. A.
Gett, NJ. L. Smith, Hon. J. Routier,. W. w.
r. A. Miles, j. w. Miller,
d. W. Taylor, j. B. Taylor, w. P. Trues.
dale, James Fraley, d. Medium, William
Gutenberger, Peter Flaherty, J. n. Payne.
]. L. Haux John Rooney. J. H Allen, h
Bailey, j. NJ. Stephenson, l. NJ Smith,
DIR. w. S. Manlvoe, DR.. NJ Gardner, DR.. G.
G. Tyrrell, Hugo Hornlein, E. Greer.
Secretaries-James c. Kelly and ]. w.
Hughes.
Judge Armstrong came upon the stage
and was greeted with warm applause. He
said that in the coming campaign aggre-
gated capital, trusts and syndicates would
be arrayed ON one side and the people on
the other. The Roman Republic was a
good illustration of the power Of wealth
for evil. 1t bad only existed a. short time
when the Legislation was all for the rich.
Then the Republic crumbied to pieces and
upon its ruins a despotism arose, worse
than anyin modern times Allen G. Thur.
man, in alt. of his public acts; had ALWAYS
been on the side of the people 1t was to
be hoped that the people would be- found
on the side of Cleveland and Thurman.
The mention of Thurman's name was a
signal for applause.
HON. JAMES H. BuDp, ta.s
Of Stockton, ex-Member of Congress, was
the next speaker, and really made the only
speech of the evening having any political
He defined the position of
the Democratic party on the tariff ques-
ton. 1t had been charged that the Demo.
cratic party was party of free trade Such
was not the case. 1t was a party of tariff
reform. IApplause.l Grover Cleveland,
himself, IN his message to Congress, had
declared that the cry of free trade was
totally irrelevant and had no place in the
issues of this campaign. There was dis
tinction drawn, and one that should
be drawn, between Iree trade absolute and
tariff reform-between tariff reform and
protection itself, as protection. The doc
trine of the Democratic party for wears had
been tariff for revenue only. 1t was on
that doctrine they had elected Samuel J.
Tilden as President of the United States.
1t was on that doctrine the party had stood
since the days of Jackson, and upon which
it would stand unto the end On the
other hand, a few of the Republican party
were in favor of what is known as protec-
ton, per sc, outside of tariff reform
When the war came on it becamce neces-
sary to raise millions of dollars for the pur-
pose OF setting armies in the field and
carrying on the operations of the Govern
ment. In 1860 or 1861 tariff bill was in
troduced and passed by Congress for the
purpose of raising these large sums of
money. 1t was known as the Morrill, bill.
and was amended again and again as the
necessity for more money arose Income,
excise and tariff taxes were piled up. The
war ended. OF coure there was interest to
pay upon the bonds and the bonds TO be
paid of. But with the ending of the war
did not come the ending of the high taxes.
1t had become the policy of some men who
had engaged in certain industry to 90 to
Congress and say; Don't allow anybody
to compete with me; let me hog the whole
thing" and Immediately, if he was a big
man, or interested with other big men, q
syndicate was formed and tariff was placed
upon his goods, and no one was allowed to
compete with him, except in the United
States, and the chances were that he had
already secured a monopoly of the
article. Then another man would
come in and want his article pro-
tected, He would have some strength
and would threaten the first man with
the repeal of the tariff on his goods if
he was not protected also. He was taken
into the combination, and thus it grew to
be so strong that a tariff was placed upon
thousands of things that did not need pro-
lection at all, and the people were taxed
worse than in war times. Every article
that the artisan puts his hand TO is taxed
beyond measure. Every article that you
wear is taxed to death.
A man who did not belong to this syndi-
cate, who had an article that really ought
10 be protected, would go before Congress
nd how "a IT,,
do you belong ?" Tlaughterl and if he was
small manufacturer he would be placed
low down on the tariff, if he was paced
there at all. By such means as this
AN UNEQUAL TARIFF
Grew up. The rich were protected. while
the man of small means or the small man
ufacturer was not given any protection, or
if any very small percentage. TIE peo-
against this, and even President Arthur. in
one of his messages to Congress, had said
that the tariff list must be amended and the
tax taken off the people A tariff commits
sion was appointed and recommended a
reduction of the tariff in report of four
volumes, but Congress, year after year. re-
fused TO permit any proper tariff law. assassss
The speaker said that he did not favor
free trade. He believed in protecting
such articles as needed it and could be pro-
tected within the revenue limit, such as
wool, raisins and prunes. Andrew Jack
son himself voted for the tariff bill OF
1923. But with the Democratic party if
was always within the revenue limit,
but with the Republican party it was al
ways within the monopoly limit. He had
opposed the Morrison bill because he did
not believe that twenty per cent. off ine-
qualities would make them any more
equal. He was in favor of rescaling the
tariff. That was the position of Grover
Cleveland. Applause The President
had demanded of Congress revision OF
the tariff that the unequal burdens be
taken eff the people. The result was the
Mills BILL which, though by no means per-
feet, was step in-the right direction.
He closed his remarks with the following
anecdote which ELECTED a storm of applause
He said that on the night before he ad-
dressed a ratification meeting at Stockton
After the meeting he met a Republican
friend, who said ssssaAs-..-zs---
Jim, didn't you hear about that dog
drowning himself in the slcugh2
No, what about il ?"
Well, he was sheep dog and he was
up here and heard your speech. and, think
y J.