Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
THE POWER OF APPOINTMENT.


the people of this country. one is like heaven
and the other is like hades. daughter and
cheers. --.-
THE POWER OF APPOINTMENT.
The first power is the power to appoint
officers-to appoint postmasters and all the
various officers OF this great Government of
ours; and that power, instead of being a
strength to any party, is weakness to any
party, and, on that basis, nearly all the public
men who fall in public life by the wayside, fall
by the exercise of patronage. say toyou now,
II had the power. l would not allow men,
Der of Congress to recommend any man for any
office whatever. [Cheers.l 1 would take
power that IS % invested in them by by
common custom-not by law-I would take
from them all that power and l would not
even allow member of Congress to recon-
mend postnasters, because it is an element of
weakness IL weakens the member of the
House and the Senator. and it makes a cause
OF constant trouble and quarrel, and think
party will be the agent in the great reform,
when law will be passed separating entirely
the appointing power from the law making
it is SO in Great Britain. and it
is SO in other countries where those
who make the laws have no power to pass upon
those who execute the law. Now, for the some
months under President H Harrison's administra-
tion we have good deal of feeling over our
country, q EO0Q deal OIL 1cOnIrOVerSy--anQ gOOu
deal of the feeling that underlies some parts of
the State of Pennsylvania grow out of this ap-
pointing power. [Cheers.I As said, If l had
the power, would make the remedy sure and
clean, and would not let any member of Con-
gress have anything to do with any of these
Offices and then there would be no trouble of
the kind. The people should make their own
selections in their own way. But that is not the
thing.
A TRIBUTE TO SPEAKER REED.
The Senator next spoke OF the dilatory
tactics of the Democrats of the last House,
and how Speaker Reed had counted them.
He complimented Reed highly, and said he
had laid down a precedent that in
few years would govern every
He then discussed the bill passed against
trusts, and told how the Democrats had op-
posed it. He explained how these combina-
tions, when they oppress the people, can be
reached and corrected. The law, he added,
had come to stay, and would be modified as
necessity required it. The pension and
silver bills were then discussed in order.
The Senator stated that every soldier who
had been in the army 60 days, and was now
impoverished and unable to work, would re-
ceive S12 month. The silver bill, he said,
had given the people good currency, and
that was what they wanted.
MIR. Sherman took up the tariff bill at
great length. He showed how the duty on
tin plate and sugar would develop both in
dustries in America. The Democrats were
afraid the tax would raise the price of
tin articles, but Mr.. Sherman. by using
tin cup for an example. showed
that the increase in price would be almost
imperceptible. He said it was the duty of the
Pittsburg manufacturers to redeem their
pledges and build tin plate mills. About
365, 900 tons of tin plate are imported an
nually, and he expected to see that amount
produced in America.
BENEFITS TO AGRICULTURISTs.
He had no doubt that the beet industry
would be developed under the tariff and
soon enough sugar would be made in the
country to supply the wants of the people
without importing a pound. Continuing,
Senator Sherman said:
Our protection law, our currency law have
been passed by the Republican party; our
credit now is better than any other nation in
the world. All of these great benefits are the
work of the Republican party. Our people
nave been showered with blessings. Zap
plause.] My countrymen. l am not going to
good people of Pennsylvania. the
very heart, the very cornerston. of
here where the party was born. will YOU. be-,
cause you like Dick better than Joe. therefore
desert the Republican party or its candidatesf
That Is s for you to say VIII you desert the
somebody was not? Ii had the power Iwould
make Hastings acandidatefor Goyerpor, be-
cause know him. Now You have got candi-
date nominated, Senator Delanater. ZAP
plause]. .-f
A voice-What is the matter with Montooth?
Senator Sherman-There ought to be no half
breeds in the Republican camp. You are all
Republicans. One man is nothing. Two men
are less than nothing, [laughterl and a dozen
men don't count at all. Laughter and ap-
masses Of the people. There is no cause for a
man who loves his party to vote against it.
[Applause.1 / have diverted little from my
tariff talk. and don't know that it is worth
while to return TO it. [Cries of go ahead"
go on.'1
EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF BILL.
When they say that this tariff bill has raised
the duty on articles. say it has on some, and
it has lowered it upon others. The result of
the Mckinley tariff bill will be to reduce the
tax over $40 600, 600 a year. 1t reduces the
tariff on number of articles. and it adds to
the free list about 100 different articles which
were not on the free list before. such
as. sugar but 1t has certainly raised
the duty on tin plate. 1t does raise the duty on
imported tobacco 1t does raise the duty on
imported liquors. 1t does raise the duty on
higher-priced silks, woolen goods and cotton
articles in cotton goods or silk goods and If
any merchants in this town are raising the
prices the articles on the strength of this
tariff bill they are cheating you, and that is all
there is about ii. (ApplanSe.l l don't care
who they are.
say. my countrymen, that the Mckinley
tariff bill reduces the bnrden of taxes $4,000
600. 1t increases the duty on those articles,
which come In competition with our indus
tries, and it protects the American industries
whether on the farm OF workshop or in any
other field of labor. There is enough duty
imposed to protect it from undue
to prevent foreigners coming here and COM
peting with us, and if our Democrats have put
mp high prices / want TO see the foreigners
come and bring them down, but / want to give
the American manufacturer and producer
such rate of duty as will enable him to pay
fair wages to the laboring men of this country.
Immense applause.1
CAPITAL NEEDS NO PROTECTION.
tell you. my countrymen, if this bill were to
equalize the difference between the rate OF
wages paid in this country and those paid in
Europe, l would not be Ill favor of this duty.
Capital needs no protection in this country, and
when we were framing this tariff bill there
were no demands made in behalf of capital.
We are growing richer and richer and richer
all the time, and we are able to carry on any in.
dustry without any protection to capital, but
we must protect our labor and not bring their
wages down 10 the standard of European
wages, and that God forbid! IAppause.I
Laboring men say they have no interest in
this question. They have all interest in it.
We must give our people here reasonable and
fair wages, and it would impair the intelligence
and vigor of all people if the wages of the Ia
borer were reduced. No doubt you do not in
many cases get your fair share of the results of
labor your fair share of the division,
but after all you get in this coun-
try many times as much as in any