Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-18

He Responds for the Pacific Coast at
New York Banquet.
NEW YORK, January 17th.-The annual
dinner of the American Protective Tariff
League was given this evening at Demon
icos. -Four hundred covers were laid, but
the application for tickets was so large that
many We're unable to enjoy the fsstivity.
Among the notables present were Warner
Miller, Mayor Mckinley, w. f. Morrow,
John Jarrett and Galusha A. Grow. Con-
gresham Morrow, of California, responded
at great length TO The toast, 1.-The Pacific
coast, and Its development under the pro-
tectlve tariff" Two-thirds of his address
dweit largely with facts and figures familiar
to residents OF the coast. He said: I'VE
found quicksilver Inc our mountains. and
borax in the sands of our desert, and our
miners, encouraged by few friendly lines
III an Act OF Congress, went to work to de-
velop this wealth, for the benefit of whom
soeyer II might concern. This labor soon
represented millions of dollars in annual
products. But a committee of Congress
heard of it, and said we will remove the
tariff duty on quicksilver and borax
that Baron de Rothschild and Duke
de Lardrell may continue to enjoy their
monopolies undisturbed by American COM
petition. Is it any wonder that at the last
dustries repudiated the party to which
majority of the committee belonged? 1t
seems to me that action was but natural
and just. California will place 1000 tons
of sugar on the market this year. This
may be said to be an infant industry in
both supply and demand, and therefore
has double claim for protection. Even
Bourbonism of free trade hesitates at this
point and admits that the spirit of Democ-
racp requires American sugar. Will Maine
or Ohio, let me ask, be less ardent in their
devotion to the principle of protection be-
cause Of this fact? / hope not Let US
maintain the faith, and in a few years
every pound of sugar consumed in the
United States will be the product of her
own soil and the reward of our own labor
After declaring himself in favor of the
annexation of Canada, he concluded by
saying: " Discerning men have pointed to
the American people as destined to work
out some of the sublimest problems of
modern civilization. The possibilities are
certainly all in our own hands, and the
lines appear to be distinctly marked. but if
we would fulfill our highest mission we
must be homogeneous people. The masses
must be independent, intelligent, patriotic,
adhering instinctively and simply to the
principles of our form of government. We
have demonstrated on the Pacific coast that
an alien element, persistently characteristic
in its organization, and Indifferent 10 the
welfare of our country, cannot contribute to
this work, but they may do much harm.
The lesson should be a valuable one,
admonishing us to protect our people
against any intrusion that would tend to
lower our standard of decency. The people
of the Pacific Coast are peculiarly interested
in this policy. We have vast territory to
be occupied and developed. Our resources
are inexhausiible. We want American
labor and enterprise to possess this field,
and to establish broad and enlightened
principles of our industrial system in every
part of it. You gentlemen advocate princi-
pies in harmony with this view. The asso-
citation you represent, did most excellent
work on the Pacific Coast in this direction
in the last campaign. Wewish you, and
the cause you espouse, continued and in
crease success