Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-02
ELLIS ETCHING.
Our Next Congressman
Shows Up The G. o.
p. In All Its Hid
eOusneSS.
THE POOR MAN WILL BE AS
NUDE AS ADAM AND EVE
WERE,
If Our Protective System contin
ues.

The speech of Hon. w. T, Ellis be-
fore the Cleveland and Thurman
Club at the court house last Thurs
day night has been pronounced the
best tariff speech ever delivered in
bur city. The number of people
present was nothing like it should
have been, though the circuit court
room was about half full. The alb
sence of the laboring class was quite
noticeable-the class that would pro-
badly have enjoyed the remarks OF
Mr.. Ellis most-if such thing were
possible. What he said of the Repub-
lican party was not calculated to in
jure the feelings of the most sensitive
member of that party present. lie
opened by calling attention to the
fact that we are now in the midst OF
a most important canvass. He con-
ceded to Republicans the same non
esty of purpose, sense and patriotism
that animates the Democracy. The
two great parties, he said, are divi-
ded On the great question as to what
is best for the masses. He then re-
ferred to the platform of those two
parties, and showed that while both
of them are aiming, by their creeds,
to accomplish the most good for the
greatest number, their proposed plans
are entirely different. Taxation lie
the great question with both parties
the question of high tariff and low
tariff. Unlike the Republicans, he is
in favor of taking the tax OIL OF TO-
bacco except when it is made into
cigars and cigarettes--tobacco then
is no longer a necessity, but luxury
and the dude who parts his hair in
the middle, wears fine clothes and
tooth pick shoes, and smoke cigars
and cigarettes should be made to pay
for the luxury. He then took up the1
whisky question, and gave the Repub-
ptAhIlcaps a great scoripg-they want
ae people to have cheap whisky and
pay high prices for clothing the
Democrats would give them cheap |
clothing and make hedrinking man
pay high for his whisky. lie stated
that the tax on whisky is the great
revenue of our Governmet-so great
that it pays the salaries of all our Off
cials and even that of our Ministers
to foreign countries. He refuted the
charge that the party inpower would
make this a free-trGde country; 1t
simply wants to bring import duties
down to reasonable percentage. The
poor man musthave cheaper blankets
and cheaper clothing and cheaper ev-
erything, or else after awhile he will
have to resort to the manner of cloth
ing himself that Adam and Eve did
| in the garden of Eden. The Demo-
Gratis, he contended, are not free-trad-
ers-the first tariff law ever framed
was the work of Democrat, and
they want only a tariff law that will
not make the poor man pay hesv-
Ter tax on his common clothing than
the rich man pays on his broad
cloth. All the tax that the capitalist
had to pay after the war has been re-
moyed-his income tax, his Govern
meut bonds, and the tax for stamps
to 90 on his bank checks has all been
done away with, and the poor man
must pay a high tax for necessities,
while the rich man gets many of his
luxuries free. Taking England as
free trade country, France with hel
protective system, Germany's system
little higher, and Italy's system
higher still, he emphasized the fac
that the laboring man receives more
pay for his services in England thar
either of the other countries. In Chi
ma, the most protected country in thu
world, the laborer works for two cent
a day. The speaker paid a glowing
tribute TO Governor Buckner, ant
said that he was proud that he hat
done what he had to make him Gov
ernor, and believes that he is tn
y grandest Governor God has blesset
us with from the day of Isaac Shelb
to the present. lie eulogized Presi
dent Cleveland for his honest an
faithful discharge of his duties as tn
, Chief Executive and gloried in tn
fact that the people four years az
Il chose a man who is'not afraid to d
what is right, and will elect him fC
i four years more.
Altogether Mr.. Ellis speech VIZ
most interesting and our next Coz
+ gresham made a pleasing and laS
= ing inpression on bis beafaps.
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