The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-16

di&nA means the election Of GroFer Eiere~
sanss to the presidency Of the Unifea
. fhere Thurman yrosEced bis hzn6xaa.
which was the signal for another ensbnrsf
OF arf3a1seA four yeArs ago had she
homer To speak u q RHnec- oi meetings IN
Indiana l vas a2yocasinx the election OF
Grover Cleveland 10 be president Our OPP
poEenfS were actively engaged il. the same
contest. and wherever weAt heard their
gloomy prediction of y hat woIid h.%fssl the
coaatry should Cleyelsnd be elecsed
president EyerywheEe they pre-
aleted rain 70 the business ot
the country. everywhere they told
rs that the mills and factories of the
United states would shut down because
they could not i've under the administA-
ton Of Grover Cleveland. The people did
not believe their sad prediction. an 4 they
elected that man to the presidency, and To-
he has been president for hg oTer three
years aud a half ana what do We hear
Why. from these very sane Republican
orators VIC hear Il DECLARED that the United
states never was as prosperous as they are
this day. tApplause Al their prophe-
have gene for nothing aud Is oaiy remer,i
hered to be ridicaied lApp!snse.
eLEyELAyp's DIFFIcrLT TASK
MY friends, there never was president
who took his sea. under more trying cir
cumsfsUces than Cleveland The Demo-
cratic party had been cut OF power for
nearly quarter Of century VI course
we got Democratic administration every
Democrat IN the ssnd ougaf 10 have good
otssce OF course there were Others gho
wanted uoofsiee. but had their ogn pecu-
liar notions as 10 how the government
should be conducted, and 10 meet aud sat
elected him president, that man Cleveland
had the hardest task that ever was encoGD-
tered By the president. And hox has he
performed that task
PRAISE or CLEVELAND.
The peoples answer 10 that question Is
found IN the fact that after three and
Balf wears Of his administration the DEM
ocratir convention st 81. Louis renolni-
mated him by unanimous vote Let Me
say once more: No dishonest. no second
rate man, nobody but a great nan, No.
body but an upright, industrious, cour-
ageous man ever yet was henored I'D this
way, and therefore the answer 10 what Is
said against Cleveland Is: 'Behold, the
american people have spoken in his ia
yor.' Applause.
THE FAM LiaR TAgfFF ARGUMENT.
"My friends, ii | had time to do IL
would ike to say few words upon sub
iect that interests you SO much and which
is talked OF so much this year-the ques-
ton OF the tariff. What is a tariff IL Is
nothing ia the wide world but tax. II Is
a tax levied on you people, aud when X Is
fesieG Tor no other purpose than OF
furnishing the government OF the
country with sufficient means TO car
rE the government ON, no man OF any
party makes objection 10 IL, but when II Il
used not for the purpose Of raising in that
way the necessary revenue for the govern
mcnt. bus for raising millions and tens OF
millions, nay hundreds OF millions of dol
lars or more of revenue for which the
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the government puts tfs hands into yelir
pockets and rObs you of Your daily earn
ings. Applause. Upon every article OF
foreign manufacture that Is brought
lato your country for sale this Tax
is levied Il is collected In the custom
houses of the United states. II is first paid
by the man who brings goods here, and
then OF course he puts that tax upon the
prices which he paid for the goods, and
sells II Tor that increased price when BE
disposes Of il 10 the merchants. Iaen
when the merchant sells il 70 you he keeps
on thai tax in the price which he charges
You; otherwise he couid not carry on his
business "A hours.
IHE TARIFF AND BUSINESS.
He aiveried to the treasury surplus, aud
said that WAS just SO much money taken
out of the country. THAT is just so much
money which the people might use in
their many business transactions and in
use it we're IL not locked up in the vaults OF
the treasury My friends continued he,
"our opponents say this tariff Is for
the benefit OF the iaboging man, as If II
could possibly be for the benefit OF the Ia
boring man To tax him on all be wears, on
all the tools and implements OF bis trade,
and Saen be dies carry hin in taxed
coffin to the grave. No, that Is simply an
abeurdity--the idea that a patioH can be
made rich by heavily taxing its people Jar
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ment require. Toe idea that man can be
bettered BY taxing him on ell the neees-
sasies OF life Is nothing short OF an ali
surdity. Applause.
Blu. the Republicans state that tie Demo
Gratis propose TO break down ali the manu-
factuTers in the country, but, my friends,
they viii do no such thing. They mean 10
give the manufacturers a faiT chance for
an honest living, anu when they do that
they do all that an honest man can ask.
That Is all they talk about, our depressing or
being the enemies OF laboriBg men. Why,
ia the name Of all that is good. oi what
manner Of men is the Democ ie party
compoSedg have belonged 10 if ever since
| was kuec-high TO a duck, as We boys used
to say Applause. | have watched Ii.
been OF IL aud seen IL under many and
many an administration. and always I
have seen that ninety one hundredtbs
OF the men who belonged to the Demo
eTat party are laboring men" Appiause
and cries OF that's right" A yoieei Not
for dollar g day either, not II they can
get more"
Governor Gray followed Judge Thurman
and held the crowd fer three-quarters of
an hour longer, after which the party were
driven TO the depot aud after some little
delay went oa TO indianapolis, whete the
Judge viii remain over night. TIE party
arrived at . o'clock. Tomorrow afternoon
at i.l0 O'Clock the judge and party viii
leave for Fort Wayne, where Judge Thur
man will sneak Wednesday.