Telegram-herald., 1890-10-29

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= - n1en n E4sor $50 tns Deaao-
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a. a. ls speeeo "a shs frsa-tra-1s see.
kus. Ike al Tree tE1stsrs, NJ. rcnaEs
zoes oaek ~ tne goidea era fos tne
American pTospsfity, 20 TIE sFlr or
is46--rat8eK Distant y.eN b4ck ezFd
l-4ugn1sr. Il he nAa taksn tns posl-
tea of ths iAse Alsx4ndsr Stephsl.s, Of
GeokZia, as aalgiit have gone bkek sflll
tslEt1sr. sseaase Mr.. stsphsns tbouxns
sne go.1sa sra u AmeIican prosperity
We Naen tne british saips same over
lAdea WITH goods, anchored IN ne
savannah k.yer. Ald were ladea ~itn
csttou from the plantations for tae re-
tlrn voyage. Laognter. inave 50 oftea
hcAkd OF nc great and goueFal ffospcf-
~ aadsr tns tariff OF lS46 tnat 4 you
vii bear with me l snsll say something
OK yhat period.
MIR. sehaFz quotes me as saying
and hat IS sny | make q personal 70.
fiy-th4t The ten years between lo8r
aBd 1850 undek that t2rit we're years
of very great prosperity IN tnls country.
1 tranxly repeat tAaL tnose years were
Years OF great prosperity. Now, let me
say Nny those years we're prosperous
lhAe tarl1 or l,45 Was approved Just
ABOUT tue time the Mexican war broke
out, and within icss than year more
than one hundred millions OF dollars
were disOuFsed by the Government N
al branches of mechanism. We had
just made that expenditure wnen 4
famine IN Ireland called for every sur
plus barrel OF Hour and bushel OF gram
la the country. We hsd hardly tTans
ported that grain % the other side and
sOld lt 81 4 high price until gold va,
/ discovered ia California, ana the
wOrid was enriched with the vast out
pa. OF the mines. We hardly put thai
| scid IN circulation when the greaI
revolution thst began in iSiS par
alyked The industrial energies OF al
Europe and gave the United states q
market that Was unparalleled. Europs
had hardly quleted the revolutionary
| disturbance when France aud England
and Russia went INTO tue Crmean war
and tor two years and a half those
great nations were pavalyIed IN then
Industries. Now. there are four or tlys
OF what you might call the accidents OF
| the incidents OF history that would
have insured great prosperity TO TIN.
eountry II there had not been tariff
OF any kind. lApplause.l Ii the duties
/ instead OF being what the tariff OF ls4
made them, had only been per cen
al YslOcem; or II there had been n
! duties, the country would have beer
! prosperous. Now, # you can produc'
| such 4 conVulsion IN the world today
II YOU can start great famine, If yo,
can discover new gold fields, with
uucounted millions thrown int.
the lap of the people, If yoC
can have every nation IN Europe dis
turbed by a revolution, II you car
have the three greatest nations o
Europe go 10 war for two years and ;
half, then we will al quit talking tariff
and 70 TO supplying the vacem which
that condition Of things IN Europ
would creste. Applause.l In the IA
OF 1856, when this tariff had been unde
way for ten years, this great war cam'
TO an end, and so did all the prosperit,
under the tariff of ls46. (Applsuse.
You all remember what happened IL
ls57-one OF the severest psnics ant
depressions this country ever encoun
tered, and as soon as these Academia
props, these fortuitous happenings
these accidental revolutions. discoveile
1 of gOld famine "a soon as they CEASED
prosperity under the tariff of 1s4
ceased also. We do not want revolu
tiOns, we do not want TO have thou
sands of men slaughtered by war il
order to keep up free-trsde tariff an'
make il look prosperous ~hen it is not
| Laughter and applause"