The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

the world to-day that free trade Eng
land, as styled by Mr.. Taylor. was now
collecting one hundred million OF dol
lars annually by tariff on imports,
and that after the reduction proposed
by the Mills bill was made, which was
characterized as free trade bill by
Mr.. Taylor, there would still be col
lected the sum Of one hundred and |
sixty-three millions OF dollars by a |
tariff. He then told them that this
free trade cry was all bugaboo gotten |
up by the Republicans to scare the
honest voter; that protection and free
trade was not the issue between the
two parties, bat that the real question
at issue was whether we, the people of
the United States, were paying more
money into the treasury OF the gov
eminent than we ought to, and took
the position that We were, and that he
opposed it. and cited them to the Con-
stitution of the United States as defn-
ing the powers OF Congress in levying
taxes, and proved conclusively that
there nowhere existed any warrant for
Congress levying a tariff for protec-
TONS sake, and that this principle was
: we'll understood and allowed by all the
: eminent statesmen of all past time !;
) and standing on constitutional ground,
3 he and his party favored the levying
r of tariff for revenue only, but SO
J. placing the amount so levied upon ar
: ticles the like of which are produced
| in our own country SO as to give the
/ most protection to the weakest indus
: tries and where most needed and
T. then, with characteristic boldness, de-
o clared that the principle Of tariff for
d projections sake was revolutionary in
itself, and if persistenSly carried out
n would destroy our most loved republi-
l. can form OF government, and he for
l. one opposed any such doctrine coming
/. from the ballot as strongly and bitterly
ir as II coming from the bayonet.
e With reference to the Blair Educa,
ir tional bill, which Mr.. Taylor endorsed
d Mr.. Wilcox said the bill was unconsti
N tutional, and, if it were passed, coulC
if not become law, but that his position
c. on the subject OF Federal aid to edu
e, cation was that whenever by the ope
" ration OF constitutional law a sur
1t plus was found in the treasury that t
n give it to the States for educationa
ty purposes, free of Federal supervision
o. was the best thing that could be don,
ut with it and he favored it, and that wa
I'd now and had always been the polio,
ee OF the Democratic party, and that til
he money so contributed by the genera
er government was now the basis of GU
he present school fund.
he Then noticing the Democratic I'D
nv ministration under President Cleve
land, Mr.. Wilcox showed that it, tn
to government, had been ably and wisel
at administered and that the party ha
de endeavored to fulfill every promis
made. 1t had said that econom
cb should be practiced, and under til
D." pension service alone $4,000 ha
J." been saved to the people by reducin
nd the working force in that department
he and Notwithstanding the reduction {
he ninety-twO pension examiners, Al, 90
he more names had been added TO tn
~ pension rolls, and more money dil
vn bursed under Mr.. Cleveland than III
IN der Mr.. Arthur; that widows pension
had been raised from So to $12, an
he Mr.. Cleveland had signed the bill an
nd made it law-proving incontestabl
mt that President Cleveland and the Den
~ ocratic party is the soldiers best frien,
Use as many of them are willing to allo,
.iF Mr. Wilcox then went on to pro,
ON that under periods of low tariff Ii
by country was more prosperous tina
Id under high protective periods, and il
rs stituted comparison by reading IL
mt census reports of 1860, low tariff, an
in of 1880, high tariff, showing theret
rtv that under the tariff of 1860 labor WI
better paid and capital received high,
he profits, and instanced the fact thi
ed under only four years of Democrat
of rule wheat had tipped the beam
he New York at $1.26 and Chicago at s
trv and that for the first time in the reco
ma ection of the ldest citizen one bush
OF wheat would buy sack OF salt.
iu In this able manner did he meet IL
at living issues of the times for one hot
APP and fifteen minutes, showing in I'll
AN meanwhile that Mr.. Taylor was NJ
IL advocating the old principles of h
party, and was at variance with ii
Om old party leaders such as Grant, Ga
Tip field, Morrill, and others, but that
lbs was the exponent OF the New Englan
of manufacturing element Of his part
who are dominating the party in ord,
to wiring from the pockets OF the pc,
au' pie their hard earnings, and, as Sen
er- iof Plumb, of Kansas, so aptly says,
do enable them to make large fortunes
,od year.
'ou Mr.. Wilcox'S speech was highly a
1at preciated by Republicans and Dem
M nratu HoNrCODr