, 1888-10-07
Harrison on Protect1on.

Ahh oiN ~ 'NS
itors had entered Tomlinson's hall, around
which was congregated about $1,000 peo-
pie. AS Gen. Harrison stepped upon the
stage, followed by Ex-Governor Hamilton,
Stephen A. Douglas, Capt. Heaiey and
others there ensued such a scene as was
never before witnessed in this city. The
entire audience rose as one man and began
cheering and yelling and waving flags,
hats and even taking off their coats and
waving them from the galleries.
Finally some enthusiastic veteran came
forward bearing a silk flag of the Union
Veteran club and began waving it over
Gen. Harrison's head, This was the sig
nal for an intensified outbreak, which
grew to a remarkable pitch as one flag
after another moved through the crowded
hall to the platform and was carried to
the front. AS Chese ten flags and as
many elegant banners were waived to and
fro before the 5000 people, it seemed as
if they had gone crazy. When quiet had
been restored Judge Martingale intro.
duced Ex-Governor Hamilton, who made
an eloquent address on behalf of the
Chicago delegations. He was followed by
Judge Il. w. Keightly of Hyde Park,
whose speech evoked great applause.
Gen. Harrison responded with much
earnestness. He said:
Comrades and friendS-I welcome to-
night for myself and our people this mag
%nificent delegation. | rejoice in the con-
vincing proof that our people realize the
gravity and urgency of the issues involved
in this campaign. Our government is
not a government by classes or for the
classes of our fellow citizens. 1t is a gov
ernment by the people and for the people.
It's wise legislation distilis its equal bless
ings upon the homes of the rich and the
poor. May the God who has so long
blessed us as a nation long deter that evi
day when poverty shall be a constant
guest in the homes of our working people.
and long preserve to US that intelligent,
thrifty and cheerful body of workmen
that was our strength in time of war and
is our guarantee of social order in times
of peace.
1t was out of the homes of our working
people that the great army came. 1t was
the strong arm Injured to labor on the
farm and in the shop that bore up the
flag in the battle and lifted it again in
honor over our national capitol. After so
many historical illustrations of the evil
effects of abandoning the policy of protec-
ton for hat of revenue tariff we are
again confronted by the suggestion that
the principal of protection shall be elem
mated from our tariff legislation. Have
we not had enough of such experiments?
Does not the history Of our tariff legisla-
ton tell us that every revenue tariff re-
form has been followed by business and
industrial depression, and that a return to
the policy of protection has stimulated
our industries and set our throbbing
workshops again in motion? The Demo
cratic party forward with this per-
nicious proposition.
/ had placed in my hands yesterday a
copy of the London NeuS of Sept. 10.
The editor SAYS in substance that judging
the purposes of the Democratic party by
the executive message of last December,
the English people were justified in be-
lieving that the party meant free trade,
but if they were to accept the more recent
utterances of its party leaders, protesting
that that was not their purpose, then
the editor thus states the issue presented
by the Democratic party. l read but a
single sentence: 1T is at any rate a con
t3st between protection and something
that is not protection" Those who de.
fend the Democratic policy declare that
our people not only pay tie duty upon all
imported goods but that a corresponding
amount is added to the price of every do
nestle competing article.
Those who honestly hold to such doc
trines cannot stop short of the absolute
destruction of our protective system. The
one who teaches such doctrines and denies
that his road is to free trade is like the
man who takes a passage on a train sched-
uled from here to Cincinnati without
stopping and when the train is speeding
on its way at the rate of forty miles an
hour denies that he is going to Cincinnati.
The impulse of such logic draws toward
free trade as surely and swiftly as that
engine pulls the train to its appointed
destination. 1t inevitably brings US to
the English rule of ~levying duties on such
articles as we do not produce at home,
such as tea and coffee. That is purely
revenue tariff and is practical free trade.
Against this the Republican party pro
poses that u tariff duties shall be levied
chiefly upon competing articles. That
our American workmen shall have the
benefit of discriminating duties Upon The
products Of their labor. The Democratic
policy is to transfer the work from the
shops in South Chicago to Birmingham.
When equal competition is once estab-
lished between our shops and foreign
shops there is not a man here
who does not know that the only condition
under which an American shop can u
is that it shall pay wages equal to those
paid in competing shops abroad. This is
briefly the whole story.
Gen. Harrison then made his way off
the stage, having concluded his fourteenth
week of public reception, with such dem
onstration of interest was never before
witnessed in Indiana.
Turf Events,
AT JEROME PARK.