Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-15
THE FIRST GUN.
General samuel +. Cary of Ohio Ten dered Housing Reception by Sauga- tuck Democrats Last Night.

General samuel +. Cary of Ohio Ten
 dered Housing Reception by Sausa-
 tuck Democrats Last Night.
 Naugatuck very successfully opened the campaign last evening, the people turning out in masses to listen to Gen Samuel F. Cary deliver an address at the opera house. The speaker accompanied by mem bers of the democratic town committee was escorted from the hotel to the opera house by the Naugatuck band and drum corps At the opera house the speaker was introduced by the Hon Homer Twithcen. Gen Cary, stoutly built gentleman with silvery locks, briefly re- viewed this glorious country and the duty we owe in having d good government. America, said the speaker, lis the messiah of all nations and opens hand to all. Gen Cary dwelt at length upon the con dition of the country. He salu: MT bialne said, for he occasionally told the truth, that we created more wealth i'll tAe Inst ten years than in any twenty years ot our his tory. But who got the wealth Did the people that created it get it No. If so how aid they get it. Take the farmer. Farms are not worth as much as they were forty wears ago. 1 would wager there are not over fifty farmers i'll this state who can say that their farms are paying them. But thea these are old cusses who would get rich on only two nickels day Gy being mean But how with the working class Alas, if the great majority of them were idle one month they would be something to eat This nation is fast becoming nation of millionaires and trnmps, with tramps largely in the majority, and all over the world the working people are making the rich richer l and the poor poorer.
 MT Cary then spoke of the excessive and unequal taxation. "Ghe two million dollars day are taken out of the pockets of the people, Oue-half of which goes into the treasury and the other half into the pockets of somebody else. The tariff question is one of political economy The democratic doctrine is that the govern ment has no right to tax anybody for its
 own support, but the republican theory Is
 to tax you to enrich me, which has ten
 dency to build up class legislation. 1 hope to live to see WOrkingmen sit down to an
 untaxed dinner and carrying Hn untaNed
 dinner pail.
 The speaker dwelt at length upon the
 Mills bill-which only asked for " reduc-
 ton of per cent on the tariff and the
 benefits desired. He said "Nhat do you
 think of the Willimantic Linen company
 with S4O, ,OOO, 900 and crying for protection
 to AlQeflcan ldDpE. N tll ,ii41 L11'1tl'l't"'t
 make it an object to get labor as rheaDly
 as possible and yet tine repuhll-
 cans pitifully cry, Protect American
 labor.' The democrats want lumber tc
 come in free so that we can build more and
 not enrich the lumber kings Last year
 we paid S35 O0O, ,0OU for duty on boards One million went into the treasury and thirty millions into the lumber kings pockets Twenty years ago England Was
 supplying Us with snoa pegs, but HOW we were supplying EnSland, selling them at thirty-hve cents bushel and making 1l 5 per cent on them. This protection ot
 labor Was a deIuslon on men. Labor IS ; commodity. It brings its price. If tariff makes wages any better why are wns5cE ! cheaper in Germany with its high tariff [ than England with it's low tariff: Go} , remember that stephen E. EIkins asked . for u duty of sevenlY-hve cents un coal t' ) protect the miners and yet he imported ? Hungariuns and turned American labo out to beg. Yet this Elllins is d stalwAr . republican, I don't believe i'll A ful } treasury. You cannot have a good gov | ernment no matter who is in, and 1 agre v with Bill Allen, who said you might d | well try to run an ice house in Eell as t $ run this country with full treasury. Il f the republican, platform they alvocat = saving public land for the people, yet the. , give ,, ,000 900 acres to one railroad Whel e ill power The democrats have been il I power four years and have recovered
 1000, GOO acres The speaker closed b. l saying a good word for Cleveland "'' @ Thurman and predicting demovr&h = | victory