New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-14

they are borne down with burdens greater than they can
bear and are made the objects by hard asmass
we will not leave their side. As the great German He
former. insisting upon his religious convictions In the
presence OF his accuses exclaimed 81 do nought else
Here stand God help me-" SO. however much others
may mock and deide cheapness and the poor and frugal
men and women OF land will stand forth In deenee
OF their simple Amefcanlsm, defanty proclaimng 1--WE
can do nought else. Here stand"
Thus when the question is raised whether our people
shall have the necessares OF life at cheaper rate we are
not ashamed to confess ourselves sin full sympathy win
the demand for cheaper coats" and we are not dstoa
by Che hint that this ary 70 Involve cheaper
or woman under the coats"
When the promoter Of party measure which inVades
every home In the land with higher prices declares mat
cheap and nasty 60 together and this whole system oil
cheap things Is badge OF poverty, Tor cheap
means cheap men and cheap men mean cheap country
we Indignantly repudiate such an Interpretation OF AMER
lean sentiment.
And another one high party councils, who has
become notorious the advocate oil cohtfNaec W pr
pctuate partisan supremacy by interference WIN
the suffrage announces "the cry for cheapness Is I'M
American" sconfuly reply That his speech aoes no'
indicate the slightest conception oil true Amercahisi.
will refer other utterances OF like import from
similar sources content myself with recalling the most
prominent significant The wonder is that these things
were addressed by Americans to Americans
What the OF these concentrations Oh che'p
and what had honest American men ana women uo"c
were they likely do that they should be threat
ened with the epithets CHEAP" nasty and unAmer
ican"2
1t is hard to speak patiently answer these ques
lions Step nv stem vast number OF our people had been
led on following blindy In the path oil party Ihey ma
been filled with hate and sectional preluoce; 'hey h
been cajoled with Misrepresentation ana iase promises
they had been corrupted with money anu py appeais
their sel6sbness All these things led to their final be-
raya to satisfy the demands Of those who had supplied the
fund for their corruption
1t cannot be denied political events in the past
have gone far toward encouraging arrogant party asump
ftop Chi ful
been disappointed and depressed by the apparent ihoer
and Generalization OF the people, .t
General Thomas Ewing formerly Of this State. but
now OF New-York spoke on "The Democratic Party III
Relation to Future Public Economy lie SAID IN part
Our taxes local and National aggregate over ssOOoco
COO per year-a almost equal 10 he Whoie ahu"' "
crease OF property which, after deducng the living eN'
o the peope and taxes is commonly estimated az
thousand millions To put the enormous tax burden on
the wealth the labor OF the country WI" "s
man, check industry, ana tcho stionsi9 W ~
some and lust distribution Of the annual net increase wc
labor and capa combined produce To effect this inc
tariff m salt and sugar and the internal revenue TAX on
tobacco sbopd he utterly abolished the tariff ON tea
and coffee soon after The war. They are all per cap"
taxes falling on rich and poor alike and are therefore
alien and hostile to the spirit Of our government Inc
internal revenue tax tobacco is peculiarly obIecohaoe
and oppressive it falls largely on farmers "ho CON
d as aborers get smalles. return for their work.
and considered as capitalists get the least return LUZ W
Investment of any class in the United States'
We must % hack too a rational tarih poiicy No
such tariff as McKiney's was ever leaned OF oeore 'e
war by the widest visionary IT Is pfo'e'tn run n'
The Federal income and inheritance taxes whch were "
peaed by the Republican party few years sftcr te war;
shouI be and believe will be restored by the Democracy
Tbev should be imposed in raising revenues by both sae
and Federal Governments. Small incomes ana ihheii'aoe
should be wholly exempt and the per cent Oh IN sou "
graduated as to increase with t'e amour" vi "'
itance or income Such consistent with hatfai
comfy They interfere with industries. lht bufuehS
from labor and tend check the evil tendency 10 coo
tration of wealth. No.
The toast to "The Senate" was answered pS eA-
Senator Mcdonald of Indiana. and that OF Inc Ea'S
Ohio Bar, was responded TO by r. A. Harrison. Ilei
Congressman W. c. p. Breckenridge. speaking OH Do'
mocracy in America said in part:
The election, whose victories we have hoo 70 i n
ceased to celebrate was not so memocrac pncpes
II WAS not accomplished by Democratic votes alone,
but by the votes Of many thousands OF ~. ~ the
SScIv Mountains and from the borders of Canada 10
the Gulf Of Mexico who do believe tnat gU that
mont Is essential to the prosperity OF the country u0
force in whatever form it may DO amempted Is that He
structive of prosperity as well as OF o, Tor t%c
seoet of the privileged few is iiqous, and to
harrow and a tine Tsm cr pncpe Force
shall not be used against the weaker state not merely
eSs sS aaTs Sqi Of the equality
Of the states The common people shall not be sH reS
for 1d he Ssns hut Of 1 sew nG' in equal
itv which the humbiest citizen has with the highest
The D. @ Pn @hlth IS he people,
who are the real beneHciarie OF It, to accept the VIC
tory the sp in whs and II hfs y SGS
uncompromising enmity to every form OF legsiauon
and intense advocacy of the equality of the citizen and
of the States In spirit OF Kindness OF moderduon,
of gravity which such an enormous 4 tsf w
exhibit the world that we can exercise power win
the same fidelity that did patience and courage IN
t.a mid of "A
under wise leadership
Don NJ Dickinson x-Postmaster-General, speaking
of The Democracy of the Future said in part:
The great, honest masses OF the Republican lea party
Of its survival that the Democratic party will not and
should not die. (CheerS) The prejudice engende cree
stutona rights of the states after the moral sense
of the country and of the world demanded revolt
evil Of slavery that fare and flaw in the otherwise
clear crystal Of our American system drove g9od cru
the dangerous doctrines of the laders OF
os s e pa e such
men there arrayed against u.s. when on inc fe gea1
fai life of the Republic would have gone out with
the complete overthrow Of the Democratic party the
POSITION osa n'e' The 0 old Hamilton Scheme made
tss sdS n n ns brief AS space ssen h'te @
of power. almost in one night Of the Nations
life There mas sprung up INC
of mere wealth and non producers. How deep should
be the gratitude of this people to the leaders OF that
great marty who defying the temptations and allure
ments of power at tie hands of the dominant party.
and undismayed by defeat. have stood manfny forth
and rallied again and yet again for the battle when
our banners have again and again gone down Checrs)
one of the pleasant features of the epoch in the life
of Judge Thurman has been the immense number OF
conrranatory letters and kilograms which he and the
Thurman Club Fave received from thousands Of his
admirers throughout f..Ic Nation.
DELIBHRATIyG OVER WATERMA ANS FATE.
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