Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-04

ever saw and filed the treasury even SO far
that STRONG argument against us was we
had too much surplus in the treasury. |
sEApplause. Then came four years of |
democratic administration. The result of |
the last election was condemnation of the |
tariff policy of the democratic party and q
sufficient number of free trade congress
men were defeated to give us national
republican fSaa house. Some Of my democrat
is dead issue and may include
Grover Cleveland in the same category.
The people were tired of the democratic
party after four years. trial. The Mills
bill was the only outcome of these four
years. Well, it was the workingmen re-
allied their position, for upon them the
| blow of free trade would fall. Should
they open the markets of the world and
still find themselves with reduced wages
and in destitute circumstances, how pitia-
BILE would be their condition when they
thought they had done it by their own
votes.
| Well, our congress-the Fifty-first-
met and the first business it did was to ar
range matters 80 that business could be
done. It placed knife in the hands of
man who knew how to use it, He did
the strings Of the knot before
him. He simply cut it. Luckily
we had man there undismayed and un-
swerved by democratic threats and buster
I believe the people of the north approve
of the position and rulings of the speaker
of the house during the last session IRE
spective of party When the house was
| ready for business it found some twenty
five seats had been stolen by open fraud.
They proceeded to turn these men out and
put in those rightfully elected. Then came
the administrative customs bill, the wool
and worsted bill and the tariff bill. If you
want to know what the effect of the repub-
ican tariff bill does TO the country COM
pare it to the Mills bill get the two bills and
read the free lists. You find in the repub.
ican tariff bill free list, it is true,
larger than that in the Mills bill, but the
articles in the republican bill admitted
free do not hurt our industries while those
in the Mills bill would ruin us. You can
hardly pick up paper now but that you
| see evidence of the new prosperity which
the tariff bill has brought the country.
Why is it the English Importers rushed
over an enormous amount of goods before
the Mckinley bill became a law? Why is it
that English dispatches state that whole
industries are imperiled because of the
Mckinley bills Why is it that these great
English manufacturers are prospecting to
remove their factories to this country
Does 1t not argue good times Tor us! Eco
pie do not change a tariff policy in such
times of prosperity as the present.
And SO we come to our own Connecticut
campaign. 1t will be watched all over the
country as an indication of the sentimen,
of the country regarding these tariff meas
ures. The democrats have drawn up theil
same old katydid platform. You can fine
in it whatever you wish, whether protec
. ton or free trade. The republican party
on the other hand, has presented a plat
! form straightforward and of no uncertain
| sound. It stands for protective tariff,
free ballot and a fair count. Hartford
will have had no more respected citizen o.
straightforward business man as it vii
have when Governor Merwin is elected
We trust to see the present delegation
returned to congress. We are sure tina
; the dear old state which has never failed il
! the dark hour of the nations trials, viii
be found proudly in the line of progress
sive, protective republicanism.
The speakers turns of wit and brigh
remarks were frequently greeted with ap
plause.
At the close of the speaking Speake
Reed was besieged by mass of peopl
4 and was kept busy with Misunderstanding 70
some time. He was afterwards enter
: tanned at the Republican league. Later h
> returned to the New Haven house, wher
= he spent the night. He leaves for Bosto
early this morning