Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-10-13
SPEECH OF HON. ]. H. HAwLEY
At The Grand Democratic Rally Held
at BlackfOOt, Friday Evening Oct. 8.

Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen:
/ had hoped this evening that WI
would hear the eloquent voict
of Hon. I. ID. Catalan who was ex
pected here tonight to address you
upon the issues of the day, but he
has been unavoidably detained by
court business at Boise City. hard
~ think, however, you will greatly
miss his voice after the master
pieces of eloquence from the lips OF
Messrs. Eichelberger and Burke, the
speakers who have proceeded me.
My FELLOW CITIZENS have been
named by the assembled Democracy
of Idaho Territory as a candidate for
Delegate to Congress, and it gives
me pleasure tonight to meet you and
explain my position upon the issues
involved in the present campaign.
The two great parties of the Nation
are now engaged in a struggle for
political supremacy; struggle the
like of which has never been known
in this country, and the lines are
sharply drawn, sharper than ever be-
fore.
TARIFF ISSUE.
The tariff question, the main polit-
ical issue, is debated pro and con all
over the land tonight, and will be
discussed every night in every CITY,
town and hamlet in the United States
from now until the night of the cleo
ton. The question of the hour. from
a national stand point, is not whether
Free Trade or Protection, although
our enemies urge this as the issue,
shall prevail. imagine that no
one who has carefully read the posi-
tion of the Democracy of the United
States and the National Democratic
platform upon this point, can for one
moment truthfully consent that De
mocracy and the democratic platform
even hint or squint at free trade,
Republican accusations to the contra
ry Notwithstanding. The real ques-
ton is whether or not the laboring ell
ement of the country, the farmer, the
mechanic and laboring men of all
classes and kinds in this great eoun-
try shall be protected or whether the
government shall be run In the inter
ests of the monopolists, corporations
and the moneyed few.
Democracy means not free trade
but it means protection; protection to
the mechanic, protection to the far
mer, protection to the laborer as
against the moneyed few who under
Republican rule have enriched them
selves at the public expense. (applause)
The Democratic party stands to-day
where it has always stood, stands to-
day where it stood in the time of
Jefferson and jackson, stands today
where it stood when the party was
first organized in the first years of the
present century, the party of the la
boring man, the friend of the farmer
and the mechanic and unalterably CD
posed to hungry corporations or
grasping monopolies and trusts that
grind down the many to enrich the
few.
The principles, my fellow-citizens.
announced in the glorious Declaration
of Independence have been followed
closely by the many platforms of the
Democracy of the United States, and
the party stands now, and l hope will
ever stand upon the same broad plat
form of rights, and full rights to all
men, whether they swing the pick and
shovel, whether they work with the
plane and saw or whether they count
their dollars in the National Banks.
those principles that SO long have
stood out boldly and uncompromis-
Ihgly for equal and exact Justice to
every man. My fellow-citizens, have
no patience with the theories of gov
eminent as continually urged by the
press of the Republican party and
ever dropping from the lips of their
orators upon the rostrum, in regard
to the benefits that will accrue to
the laboring man on account of a high
protective tariff | cannot see how it
will benefit you or me or anybody else
in this community to pay S35 for a
suit of clothes under the high protec-
tive tariff when 1t would and should
cost but SIS under a reduced tariff
We are all taxed upon all we eat and
everything we wear for the sake of
enrichiEg few manufacturers, and I
cannot understand how such state
OF affairs can benefit the country at
large or the people individually.
High tariff is a delusion and a
snare. The fact is it las been placed
at its present high rate by the Repub-
lican party for the benefit of eastern
manufacturers, who, as has been dem
can manufacture their
products IN the United States at as
low rates as can be done anywhere on
the face of the globe 1t is a known
f1Ct that ono oan r,0 ~ A. HI: