The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-20
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direction of that star" pointing to a
distant star. Well he goes down, the
Captain does and falls asleep directly.
Some feeting clouds came and OBJ
scured the star, but Jack kept as he
thought in the same direction. After
awhile the clouds dispersed and Jack
looked for his star and finally saw it
far behind the ship. He turned and
ran for the Captains room. "Cap-
tain Captain!"
"What is it Jack?" Captain get
up and give me another star. I ran
clear away from that other one !'
(Laughter.)
Twenty years ago they were pledged
if put in power to repeal the internal
revenue and / assert it here, every
body knows it. Now where do they
stand? [ am in the habit, and do it
here to-day, of throwing the gauntlet
down at the feet of my distinguished
friend to point me to one single pledge
that that party has fulfilled. Name
one any body in this crowd.
They got into Office by promising
it. CA voice, that's SOY Do you not
pay taxes on tobacco and whiskey up
here If you do not, I am going home
and bring my family up. We pay
tax down there and the red-legged
grass-hoppers are going around at the
rates of 40 on the plank and the
only difference is they are Democratic
CRASH oppers. Laughter.)
Now what about this tariff? [ told
you 1 was in favor of the tariff. I am.
1t is the only principle that ever has
developed the industries of the coun-
try. 1t is the only tariff system that
the trainers of the Constitution With
George Washington at their head and
every illustrious man since have en-
dorsed.
Why in our colonial days my
friends there was absolutely an act of
parliament prohibiting any citizen of
this country from making even a
horse shoe nail, England determined
to bleed her colonies for her own adj
vantage. Did you never hear of the
act of Parliament in England forcing
the citizens to clothe themselves in
wooden goods and not only did the law
apply to the living, but when citi-
zen of England died he had to be
buried in wooden shrowd.
stand to-day where the great
Henry Clay stood. My father used
to say to me, 81 believe you love Clay
better than your mother" l valued
him and I expect to value his teach
ing as long as the blood courses in my
veins.
The great leader of the old Wing
party he said. We must make what
we consume and we must manufacture
every article that is necessary either
for food or raiment. He used the
homely illustration of two farmers of
equal facilities. Put them on opposite
sides of the same road. same soil, same
number of acres, same implements and
same amount of money in pocket to
run their plantations. Now says Mr..
Clay one man will say I will make a
speciality of cotton; the other says
make every thing that you want at
the time and then let your tobacco
and cotton add to your bank account
That says Mr.. Clay is the principle
upon which all people should operate.
Now about this tariff. What has
this tariff done for you? I am in the
habit of looking at figures; I. am in
the habit of judging the tree by its
fruit. What fuit has the tariff
borne? You take your census every
ten years. In the year 1860 the census
uou 70 bon op1 tho amino not
of all property ofall the people of the
United States since the first man lam
ded on these shores 24O years before
that was as we then thought, the enor-
nous amount of $4,000, 100000. My
friends am talking to your reason.
$14, 000,000,000 by the census OF 1860
was the actual net earning of all the
people of the United States for the
period of 240 years. 1860 or 1861 on
the End day of March, you passed this
protective tariff system. The last
thing the Southern members did was
to fight this system and the first thing
they do after reconstruction is to fight
this system again. But in 1860 I re-
peat the entire net earnings of all the
people OF the United States amounted
to the enormous sum as we then
thought of S14, 900, 900, 900. You took
your last census in 1880. Now what
does that census show? Official figures
can not be disputed. What does the
census of 1880 say? That instead of
81, 000,0O0,000 the entire net earn
ing of all the people of the United
States had run up to $44, 200, OOO,O 900
and you tell me to kick that thing
away merely because the Democrats
want to come into power. / will see
them in the bottom of the Mediterra-
mean first. / repeat in 20 years this
protective tariff had produced an in
come of 81 times over what it had
taken 240 years before to accumulate.
Then let me ask you another thing.
Did you ever see any thing cheaper
than it is to-day? Think a minute. Ell
this tariff is burdensome why do you
not actually, when you come to buy
the necessaries of lite, feel the griev-
vance? Why with sugar taxed the
highest of any thing, S6percent, yet you
never saw sugar So cheap. You can
buy calico just as cheap in the United |
States to-day as in England. Can you
be benefited by the repeal of this sys-
tenn? But Dreak this down and Eng
land has got you. It is just like Chi.
ma during the war. Our people could |
not get home produced rice, but we're
dependent upon the outside world. |
AS soon as the outside world heard of
it rice went up to 16 and II cents per
pound.
That tariff system keeps out pauper