Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-10-25
A PLAIN TALK OF GREAT VALUE
TO-DAY.
THE UBIQUITOUS TARIFF
LAW DENOUNCED.
WHO CAN READ THIS AND VOTE
WITH REPUBLlCANS7

AT the tram "a COMMITTEE composed {
" L. Breese. \. A. Penland, X. I
Walker, b, ]. Alexander, W. p. Cheese
borough and T. NJ. Porter was presen
and with Senator Vance breakfasted a
the house of Mr.. Breese who is presiden
OF the club. There the senator was Ell
tertained until the hour for starting t,
Ashevile. The procession of escort wa
composed of a large delegation from tn
Swannanoa club. The men were in thei
shirt sleeves and had on red ties an,
sashes, with n bursting bomb printed il
colors, on their hat brims.
At the old Newton academy they wer
met by Hull's band. who escorted then
to the city.
At ~ O'Clock the procession, headed b,
Hull's Band, marched up South Maii
street and proceeded down Patton ave
nue to the Grand opera house. Thu
streets were lined on both sides will
people who gave cheer after cheer as til,
procession moved by.
The opera house WAS filled with ladie.
and gentlemen. all delighted in anticipa
ton of hearing the old war horse o
democracy. The stage stage was occu
pied by members of the Swannanoa club
and the boxes by gentlemen of promi
nence living in Asheville.
Ssnntnr tnurr >vns INF rnlrcel IA,
President Breese and three cheers wcr,
club. 4 dialogue between two of til,
members followed. 1t was as follows:
"What are we here for ?"
ITO show the republicans the straight
and narrow way"
"Are we ready"
"Ne are.
THE SENATOR'S REMARKS.
Senator Vance said: Ladies and fellow
citizens: SO years ago. was elected to
the house of commons from this my ma
tive county, and from that day to this
have gone in and out betoreyou. NV pub
lie actions and my private life have becu
open for your inspection. come now
I he same man, except in point of years,
rs 36 years ago. am proud that am
n native of Buncombe, tapplausel and
nm proud to come back to you. so far
as ! know, without a stain upon nv
record as a public man. have come at
your invitation to give an account oi my
and to talk of the questions
Of the day. My only regret is, that a
protractcd canvass, in addition to ia.
tiguc OF long session of congress. have
rendered me poorly able to do justice to
I he occasion.
THE CRISIS.
There is crisis upon us now, To a
people every new movement is crisis.
We have reached an important crisis in
our economic affairs and still more i'm.
portant crisis in our political affairs.
Since I first began to study political
economy have found that agriculture is
the most important industry in North
Carolina. In studying the economic re.
lations OF the government to agriculture
found that the tendency was To put
money into the hands of the few and not
Of the many. II is generally understood
that every man is member of the firm
of the government, and should be con.
sidcrcd in a division of the gain at the
end of the year; but ! have tound
that this is not SO now. have found
that the money has not been divided
equally according to the capital in.
yr.t.
THE HIGHEST COUNTRY.
Great Britain was said ten years ago
to be the richest country in the world
The present census will, it is said, show
that the United States is richer by four
/ thousand millions Of dollars. There are
four million farms in the United States,
occupied by eight million people, but yet
the money has been into the pockets OF
I he rich as opposed to these. The riches
are greater. but are not divided equally.
The fault of that unequalityis not that
of the Creator-it is not the fault of the
laws Of the state. Our state has come
up from one OF the poorest to one OF the
best in the United States. In 1868 We
had 300 miles OF railroad, and now We
have $500 miles. Then there was not q
child in the state being educated by the
and now there are about one-haL
million so educated. The taxes have
been reduced and SO II II cannot be the
fault Of the state government that the
farmers are behind.
The only other source oi the inequality
of riches is to be scents the national legis
lation. | have found Il there, and chal
lcnyc any one to rciute it. Having
traced Il to that source it is easy to find
the men who are responsible. For since
1861 the republican party has had con
troll, though on one occasion we elected
n president. on more than one had thu
house and have had a majority in tht
senate, but have never been in actua
power. The republican party is respon
sible for the iniqutous legislation.
THE MILLIONAIRE PARTY.
We will see how the legislation ha,
been for the millionaires aud not tor the
millions. The national banks wer,
aud made the tinancia
agents of the government. There
banks asked protection and othel
banks were taxed highly, which threw
them out of the field, The coming Of sill
yer was stopped aud gold was made thu
money of the people. All products wcr,
paid for IN silver and prices were redncet
80 per cent. Thus the agricultural ant
working interests were hurt.
We could have stood that, much as |,
effected all the interests of the county
but the manufacturers asked to have i'm
port taxes increased. This was done
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