The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-31

| the necessities OF the government, ana
when it does so, it becomes a Usurper of
| power and an Cypress r of the people.
An incident of the evening, when the
speaker paused and asked for his bandana
on the table, set the audience to cheering
wildly and bIndanas we're waved all over
| the hall
The speaker denied that the democracy is
for free trade. The Republican party wants
Ia take money from the masses Of the
| people to enrich the capitalists To COM
| bne to further enrich those already rich
| and to degrade the individual, forcing him
to work at the pric the combinations fix or
| starve. To have power over the life and
| liberty of the laborer. The present tariff,
instead of fostering industry, permits sym
| dicates to freeze out men of small capital.
THE FISHERIES TREATY.
The speaker in treating of the Canadian
treaty said that the Republican party
| charged that Cleveland wanted to back
! down, and when he asked for power to re-
: taliate the democratic House passed a bill
| granting the power, and the republican
| Senate sent 1t to the committee on foreign
relations and it hasn't been heard from
| since The republicans wanted to fight TO
! catch the Irish vote, but when they
! find that Cleveland had cleared his decks to
| fight they did not want to fight at all. The
solid south, inspired by the spirit of 1861 in
| uCIRISG Oh llS own oDll, ne Sdil, WOull
| fight again il necessary for tho rights of
| American people" This sentiment was APP
plauded long and loud.
Abiding to the Sackville West letter,
| Mr.. Lester said that about all there was in
it was to the effect that in the event of
h Clevelands election his administra-
| ton would deal fairly in its
diplomatic relations with England.
The speaker closed by an eloquent
appeal for Clevelands retention four years
longer for the good of the country, and
asked that he himself should be remembered
il it is desired that he shall be the represen-
tative of the people of this district, to be as
ISOLATED with the administration in its sup
port for the next two years in the reforms
already undertaken.
HON. THOMAS E. WATSON.
After "Bonnie Blue Flag" by the band,
Mr. duBignOn read a telegram from Hon.
John r. Graves announcing that owing to
railroad wreck he was unable to be
present at the meeting Hon. Thomas
f. Watson was then introduced.
Mr. Watson is a young man, and by his
flights Of Oratory, his bursts of pathos, his
flashes of wit, his quaint humor, his fund of
anecdote and his telling logic, he held the
audience for an hour and half. Several
times he essayed to bring his speech to a
close, but the audience would not have it.
His array of facts was list5nei to with the
deepest attention, his flashes of humor were
cheered to the echo, as were many of his
bursts Of eloquence.
Going directly into the political part of
his speech he alluded to Blaine as the bull
ia the china shop who is smashing the
planks in the republican platform until the
grandson of his grandfather, Mr.. Harrison,
is not only smothered in his grandfather's
hat, but is entangled in Mr.. Blaine's
I'll Il,
sion to "the aged wearer of the red ban
danna leading the boys to victory" was
uproariously applauded.
AN INDEPENDENT PLATFORM.
For once, Mr. Watson argued, the Demo-
cratic party is following the leadership of
man. For many years the democratic and
republican platforms were so near alike
that barefooted democrat could walk on
a republican platform and not get splinter
i'll his foot. Ii is no longer a contest be-
tween the smiling officer coming in and the
crying officer going out. Cleveland has
given the people an issue. He is a leader
who faces every responsibility and lion
hearted. strikes at every abuse and calls
upon the people to sustain HIM. He
cited the bold position of Cleveland in the
Canadian treaty, in the Chinese question,
in the veto Of improper pension bills and
reckless appropriations, and finally abiding
20 the letter of Lord Sackville West, lie
said that the MORNING NEWS would an
nounce in the morning that the man of the
white house had sent the minister home in
disgrace. This was loudly cheered and was
most eloquently told, and the cheering
broke out again when Mr.. Watson said
that, although England is great
country, with a powerful navy and brist-
ling with bayonets, yet Grover Cleveland,
speaking for the American people by dis
missing the minister who had disgraced her,
defied the power of England and dared her
to do her worst.
THE INFANT INDUSTRIES.
The speaker was very humorous in his
ridicue of the protection to our infant
indGstries.n There are articles on the
tariff list" he said, "raised from So per
1S61-,000 healthy infants in the
government treasury; 1000 healthy
babes crying 100 years for sooth-
ing syrup, and the government has
never had the courage to spank them until
Grover Cleveland's tune"
The speaker proved by statistics that
while the average tariff is but AZ per cent,
the south has been paying 81 per cent. The
democrats proposed to lower the tariff to
AZ per cent. higher than Germany, which
is Z per cent. higher than France and
Italy, which is 10 per cent. and higher than
Russia, the highest tariff country or Europe,
which is but Is per cent. He argued that
labor is cheaper where the tariff is highest.
The Republican party aud banded capital,
with its power and insatiate rapacity, say
no reduction. He denied the truthfuness
of Baines statements that the laborer
or the farmer is benefited by high pro-
tective tariff. The agriculturist SAYS lower
it; the manufacturer says no. He compared
the boasts of the republicans as to the
country's prosperity to the barnacles ON a
vessels keel which,, while the sails were
filled, bearing the vessel onward, would
say: look how l make this vessel go.n He
made a most eloquent allusion to
10 the unprotected pioneer who, like
Diogenes, asked of the government nothing
but to stand out of my sunshine and give
a white man chance" and how, unpro-
tected by subsidies and high tariff, he had
made the country what it was in 1916, with
no high tariff, one of the most prosperous on
the globe The republican protectionists,
he SAID, are constitutionally opposed to
standing alone.
WHAT PROTECTED INDUSTRIES DO.
Protected industries, said the speaker,
have exported only $ll4, 100000 unpro-
tected industries $6l5,0O0,00O.
As to tho aggregation of wealth, owing
TO the unjust tariff, he showed that while,
in the past ten years, capital in the iron in
dustry had increased 50 per cent, and the
products 20 per cent, wages Lave been re-
duced over 25 per cent. That was on a pro-