The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17

X. y
ing the brief speech that l shall deliver to you
to-day ] want TO make, or say word Of ex-
PLANTATION.
l have been compelled to-day to decline
shaking hands with my friends whom under
other circumstances il would have given me
great pleasure to take by the hand: bat have
been on the stump now so long and meeting
such immense throngs of people my arm is so
sore IS to make it impossible for me to shake
hands with you. 1t would cause me more suf-
fering than l could bear, and much more, am
sure, than any one OF you would wish to inaict
upon me.
Now. my friends, shall speak to you very
briefly to-day because il is my habit to speak
briefly. Secondly, there are many speakers
here, men of great eloquence, men of great
ability, men whom you desire to hear, tina. it
would be wholly inexcusable in me to monopo-
lie the time which fairly belongs TO them. l
am an anti-monopolist applause1 in politics
and on the stump, and, therefore, never take
the time that belongs to other men. Now, my
friends, wish to say to you in the utmost sin
Applause and cheers. l am happy to
meet with this magnificent audience of
unterrited democracy OF the noble state of In
diana. [Applause.1 am happy to
stand in this goodly city of Shelby
Vile, where our dearly beloved friend,
Thomas A. Hendricks [great applausel, used
to live. / am happy man to see around me
so many of your distinguished men, and espec-
tally to be with your noble governor, who is
such an honor TO the state and to the cause of
democracy. Applause. And | am thrice
happy to see all around me the signs of victory
in this state. Great enthusiasm and cries of
you bet."l And victory in Indiana means the
election of Cleveland TO the presidency of the
United States. [Cheers.l
Now, my friends Here Mr. Thurman pro-
duced his bandana which was the signal for
another Outburst of applause four years ago
| had the honor to speak TO q number OF meet
ings in the state of Indiana / was advocating
the election of Grover Cleveland to be presi-
dent of the United States. Our opponents
were actively engaged in the same contest, and
wherever | went | heard their gloomy predic-
ton of what would befall the country should
Cleveland be elected president. A voice:
I'VE still live" Everywhere they predicted
ruin to the business OF the country. Every
where they told us that the mills and factories
and furnaces of the United States would be
shut down because they could not hive
under an administration of Grover Cleve-
land. Everywhere they talked about the
payment OF the public debt, penSioning the
rebel soldiers, and the Lord knows what other
evils their vivid and warm imagination did not
portray to the people TO prevent them from
voting for Grover Cleveland for president of
the United States. But the people did not be-
lieve their sad prediction and they elected that
man to the presidency. And now he has been
president for little over three years and a
naiI, anu what 90 We now near w ny, IfOUl
these very same republican orators, We hear
il declared that the United States never was as
prosperous rs they are this day. Applause
All their prophecies of ruin to the business of
the country, all their prophecies in regard to
the payment of the rebel debt, all their
predictions of pensioning rebel soldiers, all the
haunting of the bloody shirt has gone for
nothing and is only remembered to be ridi-
culed. Applause. My friends, there never
was a president who took his seat under more
trying circumstances than Cleveland did on the
4th OF March, 1885. The democratic party had
been out of power for nearly a quarter of a
century. OF course there were many demo-
Gratis who thought that when we got demo-
cratic administration every democrat In the
land ought to have good office. OF course,
there were others who wanted no Office, but had
their own peculiar notions as to how the gov
eminent ought to be conducted, and to meet
and satisfy the wishes of the people those who
elected him president of the United States, that
man Cleveland had the hardest task that ever
was encountered by president. And how has
he performed that task? Here the speaker
was interrupted by q spell OF coughing. You
see what bad cold | have. The peoples an
swer to that question is found in the fact that
afrer three and a-hah years of his adUinistra-
ton the democratic convention at st. Louis re-
nominated him BY unanimous vote. That
nomination has been ratified by the democracy
of the whole country from Maine to Mexico,
with the same accord and unanimity Now, my
friends, let me tell you that no seCond-rate man
was renOminated for the presidency of
the United States by unanimous vote; and
the fact that Cleveland has so conducted him.
self that his administration has been
so cleanly, so upright, honest, so
patriotic that the whole democratic par
| ty from one end of the republic
to the other, said, ''Let us give him another
term; be has done we'll by the powers that
! have been conferred upon him once. Let lis
! take him again, Tor we know he will do well in
another term lGreat applause Let me
| say once more, no dishonest man, no second
rate man, nobody but great man, nobody but
| an upright, industrious, courageous man ever
| yet was honOred in this way, and therefore the
answer to what is said against Cleveland is,
| Behold, the American people have spoken in
his favor" Applause. ! have such cold 1t
is almost impossible for me to speak; my throat
gets choked up; but my heart is not chOked
up bit. [Great applause. 1t beats well.
Ii beats with the fullest degree of emo
ton at the kindly welcome that you
you manifest in that cause and in favor of that
party to which have belonged from my boy
hood up, and TO which intend to belong until
| am laid away TO my final rest. LApplause.l
My friends, if had time to do it, | would
| like TO say few words upon the subject that
| interests you so much, and which is talked of
so much this year-the question of the tariff. |
must confne what have TO say upon that in
tercsting subject TO a very few remarks and
| leave it to those who are to follow me to
| elaborate il as much as they and you desire.
What is tariff {? 1t is nothing in the wide
world but a tax. 1t is a tax levied upon you
| people, and hen it is levied for no other pur-
pose than of furnishing the government OF the
| country with sufficient means TO carry the gov
eminent on, no man or any party makes OBJ
| lection to ii, bur when 1t is used, not for the
| purpose of raising in that way the necessary
/ revenue for the government but for raising
millions and tens of millions, nay hundreds OF
/ millions OF dollars of reve-
nue. for which the government
| has no legitimate use, then my
friends, the government puts its hands into
| your pockets and robs you OF your daily earn.
| ings. Applause. say it is tax and it is a
tax paid in the most unequal degree by the
| poor man of the land. How is this tax paid!
| Does the gatherer of the United States come
around and demand it of you on your farm and
| in your workshop? No, that is not the way.
! 1t is this way: Upon every article of foreign
manufacture that is brought into your country
for sale this tax is levied it is collected in the
custom-houses of the United States. 1t is first
| paid by the man who brings the goods here
| the importer-and then, of course, he puts that
! tax upon the price which he paid for the
| goods and sells it for that increased price when
he disposes of it 10 the merchant. Then when
/ the merchant sells il to you here in this goodly
/ city of Shelbyville, he keeps on that tax in the
! price that he charges you for il, otherwise he
! could not carry on his business twenty-foul
! hours; he would necessarily break up in les:
! than twenty-four hours if he did not keep or
! that tax which he had paid in the price he
| gave fOr the goods when he sells the goods tc
| you. So that it is true, literally true, with
some very few exceptions that are too trifing
| to need observation that upon all that you
wear, from the crown of your head to the sole!
of your feet, the burden of this tax is laid upoI
you in the price you pay for the goods.