, 1888-08-26
At Cheltennam Reach.

CHICAGO, Aug. 25. An immense
crowd gathered at Cheltenham beach to-
day to hear Judge Thurman and other
distinguished speakers. A stand had
been erected in the center of the large
hall and around it the eager thousands
iostled together in their attempts to see
and hear the speaker, and the speaker
did his best to be heard. Previous to the
event OF the day a procession of local
Democratic organizations escorted the
party to the depot where they took the
Illinois Central railroad to the beach.
Congressman Roger Q. Mills of Texas,
ex-senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois,
and Congressman Wilson of Virginia
were in the party. The procession was
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CREERED.
by the crowds that lined the streets
through which they passed. At the
beach Judge Thurman was introduced by
Lyman Trumbull, and spoke in substance
as follows;
Friends and Fe2o,o Citizens.-Allow
me to first express my thanks to Judge
Trumbull for the kind manner in which
he has presented me to you 1t is my
purpose to-day to speak upon the tariff,
but before | proceed to that subject: You
you have heard not a little about a mes
sage of the president TO congress on the
rejection of the fisheries treaty. | have
no copy of the fisheries treaty 10 my pos
session here, and | therefore cannot dis
ISIS it, and | have no copy of the presi-
dents message, and therefore cannot quote
from it. But | want to say that some
years ago this country was greatly agitat-
ed by a party called the
vNou, NyorryrNyo n.npN-
1t was a party to whom the freshman was
an abomination of denominations and if he
were a Catholic Irishman he was the ac-
cursed Of the earth. But now, strange to
say, these men who a few years ago were
Know Nothings and the most abusive of
men of the Irish, of Germans and all for
eigii born people, but of the Irish espe
cially, are seeking to court what is called
the Irish vote. To get the Irish to vote
against the men who stood by them in
the
DEFENSE OF THEIR RIGHTS
and in the defense OF everything that was
alleged against them. Now, they are
seeking to get their votes by m~isrepre-
senting Grover Cleveland and asserting
that he is under British influence. There
never was a more false assertion. You
might us well tell me that Washington Is
under British influence. If any man
thinks there is anything in the charge let
him read the message the president sent
to congress this week. Grover Cleveland
knows too well what are the interests OF
this country. He has too much sympathy
with the American people, native and
naturalized, to be under false or i'm
proper influences
OF N COUNTRY.
And now | come to the tariff question
The tariff is a tax imposed upon by the
government upon the goods, wares and
manufactures imported into the United
States for sale. The effect is to raise the
price upon everything upon which it is
put. 1t does not raise the price upon
beef or pork packed in Chicago, on wheat
that is sold in Chicago, for we do not i'm
port these commodities. But on what we
do import and similar articles manufac-
tured in this country, that tariff raises the
price and makes them cost more to the
consumers. And yet this tax is said to
be a benefit to the laboring man. How
can a man
BE BENEFITED
by a tax that begins at the crown of his
head and taxes everything he wears down
to the soles of his feet2 So far as 1t is
necessary to raise money to carry on the
government, to pay the pensions of gal.
liant men who fought for its preservs alton,
the people willingly pay the tax. But
when you tax people more you are rob
bling the people of money that belongs to
them. This collection of surplus revenue
has been going on for some years and al
though the amount thus far collected has
to some extent been reduced by the buy