The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25

old republican policy of subsidizing corpora
tions.
4 Ii seems to me that il takes good deal Of
/ assurance 10 proclaim such policy In the light
! of the past history of republican subsidization
/ of railroad corporations with the peoples lands
and the nations bonds. Let us revive our
| commerce by reforming the tariff that destroyed
/ it-and then there will exist no necessity to
subsidze mail steamship corporations with the
peoples money.
do not believe that there is a citizen in In
diana to-day, whatever his political proclivities
may be. who dOee not believe and feel and
would say il he were 10 give an hon
/ est and unprejudiced expression to his
/ thoughts, that the best interests OF
the country were not conserved by the election
OF Harrison and the return OF the republican
/ party to power. Ask yourselves, my fellow
/ citizens, in the quiet of your own homes, what
| II was that the democratic administration un-
! der Grover Cleveland did during its admins
/ tration of the government that did not meet
your approval and see If you can find an an
/ swer that in your honest judgment iustihes the
/ result Of the last election. feel TINT can say
4 without the fear OF contradiction that the peo-
| pie did not vote 10 discontinue the democratic
! administration under Cleveland because II was
/ the first administration to recover back to the
| people millions upon millions of acres OF the
public lands that had been given to railroad
/ corporations by republican administrations.
Nor because IL was the first administration
.
control over the public domain, protecting the
| rights of the people thereto.
Nor because it was the first administration
/ to oppose alien requirements OF our public
| lands
Nor because it was the first administration
since the close of the war to begin the rebuild
ing of the navy.
Nor because il was the first administration
since the close of the war to recognize that
public Office is public trust. And that this
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pie, and should be administered in the interest
OF the people and the whole people, and nos in
the interest OF special classes, and, therefore,
sought to relieve the people of the burden OF
unnecessary taxation, believing unnecessary
taxation TO be unjust taxation.
No, my eOuntrymen, the democratic admin
istration under Cleveland was not condemned
at the ballot-box account of any fair and
honest objection that could be found against 1t.
The defeat OF the democratic party and tariff
reform was encompassed by debauching the
elective franchise and by gross misrepresenta-
tions in relation TO the tariff and by promise of
good times If tariff reform was defeated and
the republican protection policy continued by
the election OF Harrison-promises and mis-
representations that have already turned to
ashes upon the lips of those who made them,
and will yet, like sour grapes. set their teeth
on edge and cause the people to rise up in
1892 and hurl the republican party from
power. You were told, my fellow-cltizens
speaker from Harrison down that If you would
elect Harrison and thereby return the republi-
can party to power, that the country would
then understand that the present tariff
would not be disturbed and that as soon as the
country was assured that the blessings OF our
monopolistic protective system of high taxa
ton. which has made millionaires by the thou
sand and poor men by the millions, would be
continued; that the business of the country
would immediately revive; that tho idle manu-
factories would again be in motion; that the
furnaces would vomit forth their tre and smoke
by day and by night, that their activity would
be so great to make the iron pigs fairly
squeal with Joy; that the mines would be
worked as never before, giving ample employ
ment TO the miner at remunerative wages;
that all the arteries of trade would
pulsate with new. life; and, above all, and
better than all, would be the Harri-
sonian home market that would be established
by his election and the undisturbed cOntinu-
ance Of the war tariff; a home market that
would consume all the products of the Ameri-
can farmer at much higher prices than could
be obtained abroad. And sOlieitous was
Harrison for the peoples welfare aud so fear
full that they might by neglect or inattentiOn
fail to understand and be informed to the
great benefit that would accrue TO their various
interests and occupations by the establishment
of the great home market which would surely
spring up on his elevation to the presidency.
that he procured the people to be brought be-
fore him at university park in the city of Indi-
annapolis, the great Mecca of the republican
protection mOnOpolist during the campaign.
The people were requested to come in deega-
tions, each delegation representing its own par
tlcular interest and occupation, that he might
fully explain 10 each the blessings of the
monopoly war tariffs and the great home market
that was soon TO come. One day was set apart
for the farmer, another for the labOring pe ople
another for the railroad men, another for the
commercial travellers and special day for the
miners. The people came and they were told
IN eloquent language OF the great benefits that
would accrue to them and their occupation if
they would return the republican party to
power and thereby continue the monopoly war
tariff.
Election day came; Harrison got the presi-
dency and $4,000 year, and every monODOlist
in the country shouted with Joy; but what did
the people get? As soon as Harrison was in
augurated Carnegie and other mOnOpolists
notified their wOrkmen that their wages would
be reduced 20 per cent, and the very miners of
Clay county, who came TO hear Harrison at
University park, were notified of a reduction
on their already starving wages of only 1915
per week. The price of the farmers product
has gone down and he has not been able to find
the home market that Harrison promised him.
The commercial travellers have experienced the
dullest season that they have known in dozen
years. The manufactures are failing all over
the country, and million of laboring people
are out of employment, and fully $4,000
families suffering for the necessaries of life.
Up to this time the arteries of trade nave NOT
pulsated with new life instilled into them by
the defeat of tariff reform, but at last the peo-
pie are awakening to realizing sense OF the
situation. They are beginning to understand
the true workings of the war tariff and how IL
Affects the industrial masses, and cannot longer
be deceived The tariff monopolists have ex-
hausted their vocabulary of deceptive pleas.
1t will take something more in the future than
the promise of Harrisonian home market
something more than high-sOunding words and
glitterlng generalities. pOrtraying the blessings
of high taxes-tO uphold a system of taxation
that gluts the market with the products of
protected mOnopOlies creates and protects
combines and trusts to such an extent as to en-
able them to control the markets and fix their
own prices for their commodities, which in
many instances, they sell at lower prices
in foreign markets than they do to the
people at home. And that is precisely the
kind of home market that the present tariff
has established for the people Of this country
a home market for the sale of the products Of
protected monopolies at fixed prices. while the
price of the farmers product is fixed by the
market ct Liverpool in competition with the
whole world. We exported during the last
fiscal year S127, ,191 ,6S7 worth of breadstufTs
which included G5,7S9,261 bushels of wheat
These exports, my farmer friends, fixed the
price Of your grain. When wheat goes M in
price in Liverpool, it goes up in price in New
York, in indianapolis and in every city and
town in the country. When the price goes
down in Liverpool, it goes down in New York
in Indianapolis and ia every city and town
in the United States. No person is taxed
The farmer has to take such prices as
the marketa of the world oiva hin,