Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-09


$3.50 ON the 800. II has been done, bui
II 10 mos fair. No mAn should get more
than 100 cents on the dollar. II Is very
extraordinary looseness flor q man q
buy his own bonds and make $50 profit
on the 800.
Hes Grover Cleveland net given the
country an honest administrAtion2 No
man has felt shook by the change, no
man has been ruined.
Mr.. Bay ard then referred to the sta :
listios Of Edmund Atkinson 20 show the
material progress OF the United States
between 1870 and 1887. Population had
In that time increased So per cent, dali
~ products 76 per cent, wool 100 per
cent. pig Iron 2e5 per cent. railroads 223
per cent. What has been the result Of
such . great increase In productions and
such . small increase in populAtion7
The people can manufacture enough In
months TO last for ~. How will you
make up for the other months2 You
say depend on . home market Well,
We have the grandest home market in
tne world bat that don't supply the
other montha.
Mr.. BayArd now referred TO trusts and
syndioates which regulate the output.
They do regulate the output, indeed
they do. They regulate the prices, in
deed they do. They regulate the wages,
indeed they do.
Mr.. BayAFd ASked, do you not see.
that when you shut the gates against
others from com ing In you shut them
also aRAiuat yourselves going Oul3 He
instAnoed the French revolution OF 1883
As illustrative Of that principle, and
China was the best protected nation in
ths world and wages In China was
about 3 and cents o day.
Mr.. BAyard passed on to review the
principles Of the Inter. Stats OommIs.
sion aud from that 70 the copper trusE,
where e1S. 600, 900 dividends had been
declared on 81, 500, 900 Of capital. He
claimed that competition was demand.
Tariff advocates claim that duty Is
laid for the benefit Of labor. II this be
true, why does labor not receive il2 The
watchword Of this campaign ia 'protee
tion TO insure high WARes.' The claim
10 tariff Is essential that wages may be
biRh. II 1t be true, then We have dis
COVERED m Escape from the curse Of
Eden. Aladin's lamp required rubbing
70 bring ith poasessor wealth, but high
tariff simply puts the money In your
pockets, and II is no longer true that
man shAll eat bread By the sweat Of hts
brow"
Mr. Bayard oombatted the IdeA that
labor was commodity.
"Mhn Is mere than q machine. He
has heart to feel and Q mind to com.
prehend. He was made In the image
OF the Almighty Ruler. II, in comput-
ing rates Of wages, there la NO human
sympathy 10 be thrown in the scale you
eliminate hope from q mans heart and
make him = slave. The Russian peas.
ant, according TO Won MoItke, is hope.
less because Of the laws Of land tenure.
Ireland is the land Of poverty and mig
cry because mans right in the land is
abridged and humanity eliminated from
the reckoning. High tariff has the
same effect, and, therefore, l want it
red uced.
Passing on to raw materials Mr. Bay.
ard inBtAnoed the leather, morocco and
glove mAnufAotoTies as visible evi.
denoeB that the admission Of raw ma
terials was beneficial. He said we
oould have no trade with South America
because We wanted to load our ships
both ways. South America wanted 10
fsell to US bat We cannot buy from
them,
Mr.. Bayard then passed on giving
Il NAo AANAbA1AN AuhkAuo buo D5n6ub DIS
profound thought, taking the view
free exchange OF moditles would
send our thips upon the ocean COURSES
again. Referring to the Mills bill, Mr.,
BAyArd said IL proposed 10 make II
easier Tor man to live by taking the
tax off his food. It did not consider to-
6Aoco and whiBkey neoeBSAries Of life.
1t would give the lAborinR man better
wages. steady employment and shield
him from trusts. Even then It Woald
leave larih elk times greater than that
proposed by Washington and by Ham.
tlton. He then spoke OF the Republl.
can bill, read extracts from the Con-
gresSlonAl Record and said that the
manufacturer had been heard but not
the victims Of taxation. He spoke Of
John Sherman IS the Republican oracle
Of hnanoe and said he had expressed
enough opinion to please every man,
| woman and child. He said Sherman
had proposed TO take the tax off to.
bAoco, although it WAS the easiest tax
collected, and proposed to put tax on
certain kinds Of oottcn and woollen
goods. which we have not yet learned TO
Manufacture.
Mr.. BayArd also spoke of the tax on
cotton ties (strips OF sheet Iron to fas.
ten bAles) and on tinplAte as unjust.
Sherman and the Republican party had
proposed TO take the tax off Aloohol used
in the srts. If this was done the arts
Uould certainly take boom.
he also read portions of Sherman .
speech advocating free trade with
Canada, although be clAimed to be an
advocate Of protection. The speaker
believed in kindly relations with Gan
1 ada and had Hann hIa haat aaa1wn
them.
Mr.. BayArd In conolusIoa referred to
class legislation as being injurious.
The present system Of taxation makes
classes which the Constitution forbidB.
'In my former speech, said, 'Give me
the power OF making the tax levyIng
laws OF country and / can put the
people at my feet and the next day the
Republicans, with their usual cunning,
said would like to put the American
people At my feet"
Some of the opposite party are using
public power TO priVaIe ends. We do
not want favored classes. We are told
OF the pAuper labor OF Europe. 1t is
taking ARGy from q man th It makes
him q pAuper. siThis," concluded Mr..
BAyArd, Eve do not want to do, and
shat 10 the reason have always been
and am Democrat.
Mr.. BAyard's closing ptrorAtIon was
received with hearty applause, and at
the suggestion of L. O. VandeRrlft three
rousinR cheers were given for the Dela-
ware statesman.
UholaEA InHAnEnn
prevented aud cured by HoOper'H AnO-
dyne. Best medicine for toethinR and
oolic. Al druRgists.