Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-07

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compromise to offer the report in two parts
so that it might be conveniently divided
Horace White, of New York, called the
attention of the convention to the provision
in the constitution which provides for the
laying of direct taxes upon the States In
proportion to their population Free trade
meant direct taxation, and that could not be.
Mr.. Croasdale, of New York, said: II
want this convention to notify the Demo-
cratic party that in this country there are
men who know what they believe. We will
declare the truth and the whole truth. We
are not responsible for the cowardice of the
Democratic party"
| The meeting was in an uproar when
! Henry George pressed forward to the space
| in front of the stage There was very great
! cheering but one or two adventurous OPP
| ponents objected. Chairman Morton, how
ever, said Mr.. George might speak Said
Mr.. George:
| 81 support this clause as matter of princ-
pie and a matter of policy. I represent the
Free-Trade Club of New York and am a free
trader. IApplause.l Yes, am in favor of
| free trade-frse! FREE. FREE! unrestricted
| trade! fApplause.l To-day protective tariffs
| are prohibited by our constitution and the only
| way they maintained is under the guise of
| a tariff for revenue. protective tariff is rob-
berry. tariff for revenue is swindling We
want eQu ty; a square basis of principle upon
which we can plant ourselves We want TO go
| before the American people and show that all
| tariffs are wrong. Let US sweep away all the
| taxes.
las a mere matter of policy I believe we
| ought to take this step. The free-trade fight
| will not go on unless do The United States
| is not England. We are governed by different
| conditions and we must make 4 broad sweep.
| Let US make fight on principle. Let the poll
ticians make the compromises. All We have
| to do is to raise the standard and carry it for
ward. The politicians will follow after soon
enough.
when 1 was o little boy once asked big
man: How is it that people can charge them
| selves taxes and yet get rich at it: Sh. you re
| only showing your ignorance he replied.
Every body else was protectonist and so
| became protectionist- 1 went to debating
| society one night, and in the talk all the argu
| ments for free trade were punched up to-
gether, and all at once the absurdity of pro-
| lection flashed upon me. / was pressed to say
| something and, hestatingly, did say: We'll,
| was a protectlonist when 1 came in here, but
1 fear am going to be free trader l am
! free trader. [Applause1 If protection is a
| good thing for the United States why ISN'T it a
| good thing for State, and if a good thing for
| State why not for a county? Where are you
| going to stop? Why not protect the family:
| Why not hire your own labor, keep your own
| goods and protect the home market:
| 1.-THE trading peoples have always been the
| advanced people. Trade! 1t is but a mode of
| production. Is it not trade that knits people
| together breaks down prejudices and
| tingushes the vile hatreds Of kindred peoples:
I am free trader glory in it because in all
| things love freedom. I believe the right to
| freely trade is as sacred as any other right.
and, as the declaration of independence says.
a right indispensable. 1t can never be abro-
gated by the edicts of Kings the laws OF
| Parliaments or Congresses. To take it away
| is robbery. They call protection an American
| system. There is nothing American about il.
| Free trade is American. 1 am an American. ]
| used to be proud of it. Now 1 tired of il.
| What have We to be proud Of: Is 1t because
We have a big country! Did we make the coun,
| try:''
He asked why it was that this country, so rich
and great, so fertile and prosperous filled with
an active. honest people could not compete
with any in the world:
The following resolution offered by Mr.
BANKER. of New York, was loudly applauded
and was unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
We honor President Cleveland for his brave,
manly and statesmanlike course in making
tariff reform the issue before the people; We
see IN the increased popular majority which
that issue won for him and in the increase OF
his vote IN the industrial centers assurance OF
the early triumph OF the peoples cause and
we pledge ourselves to increasing agitation I'M
til that triumph is won.
Chairman Morton announced that letters
of regret had been received from Speake,
rison ". E. Wheeler, Don Piatt and Others.
The convention approved as the members
of the permanent Committee on Organiza-
ton and Propaganda:
Horace White, of the New York Evening
Post: Hon. David A. Wells, of Connecticut;
Ex-Governor ]. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska:
Hon. Eugene Wilson, of Minnesota; Franklin
MacVeagh, of Illinois; Hon. ]. p. Smith, of
Ohio; Byron Stout of Michigan; z. W. judd
OF Massachusetts, and Samuel E. Morse, of In
diana.
This committee was instructed to issue
literature specially addressed to farmers
upon the tariff question, and to give it the
widest circulation in the agricultural dis
tricts, and was also authorized to call anoth-
er convention at its discretion.
Mrs Marion Todd, of Michigan, repre-
senting the Women's Reform League. spoke
briefly. She denounced Senator Sherman's
position on the Chinese question, and his
advocacy of the bill for encouraging emf
grafton and said that although he did not
get what he wanted-the Presidency-th
people had just about as good one now.
Rev. Hugh Pentecost, an independent
preacher to three congregations in New
York and one of the striking figures of the
convention said that although the single
tax men, or free traders had not had thing,
altogether their own way, they would re-
turn home without heart-burning and
ready to work hand in hand with the
revenue reformers to lower the devil of
protection.
The tariff, he said, was but superstition,
fetish In olden times when a man defied
fetish and was not instantly struck deadit
was taken indication that
its power had gone. Grover Cleve-
land had bowed down in measure
to the fetish of protection when he
said that we must retain some portions of
the protective tariff, but at the same time
he had the courage to walk into the temple
before the worshipers and slap the fetish in
the face Although not stricken dead he
was defeated by the fetish worshipers. At
the same time if anybody thought he was
dead politically they were greatly mistaken.
The convention had added a kick to the
slap. and if the Tariff Reform League, tax
ing courage, would ent1snch its doctrines
in the minds of the people, it would soon
| learn that Clevelands slap was the begin
ming of the end.
| pleasant conclusion to the convention
was the banquet at the Palmer House.
Covers were laid for 200. Addresses were
made by Ex-Governor Morton, of Nebraska;
! Captain Goldman, Lewis Post r. II. Bowker
and Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, OF New York
| Owen Lovejoy, G. S. Darrow and James
| Raymond, of Illinois; ". Jones. OF Mich
igan, and Aretas W. Thomas, of Texas.
WHAT THE EYES TELL.