The Iola register., 1890-10-31


will not permit any more elections that shall
be farce. [Applause.l They intend that
their elections shall be recorded at Washing
ton, that their votes given at the polls shall
count. that their high behests shall be needed
But you must make this plain. 1t takes the
Democracy FROM two to five years to oyertake
the present time. They live from the nature
and constitution of their minds in the past.
Being in that party is in no sense an accident
1t is foreordaimed whether q man shall be
Democrat or Republican.En man believes
| that all the residue OF the world died with his
grandfather, he naturally remains Democrat.
II man believes that the future is bright
with promise; if he believes in better future
than the present; if a man sees before him
world which is opening greater and greater
prosperity, that man is n Republican. Have /
said one word thatis partisan? Does not the
history OF the last thirty years bear me out in
every item? Is there any great event in the
last thirty years, except the event of secession,
OF which we are not proud that belongs to the
history of the Democratic party! Every one Of
you knows the contrary.
The Republican party when 1t was formed
was not organized for the purpose OF doing even
q little Of the things that it has done. In 1856
We were patriots, but we were not prophets.
We were men with honest purposes but we
| could not see into the future. All we proposed
was that slavery should not be extended into
the Territories. But the same makeup Of
mind which made man in 1856 declare that
slavery should take not another step upon free
soil caused him to declare that this Union
should remain permanent against all the thrusts
of warlke bellgerants. 1t was the same feel
ing that carried out the war that afterwards
paid the bonds. II was the same feeling that
issued the greenbacks and caused them to be-
come worth their face value in gold 1t is the
same principle, the same makeup OF mind
to-day that makes the Republican the friend Of
the doctrine Of protection.
What is the doctrine Of protection? In one
sentence it is the preservation to the Ameri-
can people Of the American markets. 1t de-
clares TO every American citizen who wishes
TO make something to sell that he shall have
the American market for his produce and not
be driven out of il by the labor Of other lands.
Are any OF you not in favor OF that? Do you
not believe that this, the best market in the
world. shall be preserved for those who made
it? Do you not believe that this country ought
10 belong TO ourselves? We decided that ques.
tion two years ago After solemn conversation
like this after most full and thorough discus
sion we determined By large majority Of
electoral votes that We would adopt the prin-
ciple Of protection. and that decision OF the
people ought to be acquiesced in. for there is
no man in this audience that will venture to
say that the Mckinley bill is not a thorough
and complete carrying out Of the pledges of
the party. 1t is bill which is worthy of the
consideration Of the American people. II is a
bill that was framed properly. A tariff bAl,
more than any other, concerns all the business
interests of this country. Nobody can
escape the sphere OF its influence; no.
body can be in business without feeling the
effect of it, II is bill which comes
home to the business of the whole people.
How, then, should that bill be formed? Should
it be made the way the Mills bill was in a
secret chamber without single hearing on
the part OF any person interested either for or
against il? That is contrary TO the doc
trine OF the rules Of the majority. 1t
is contrary to the doctrine that what
ever affects all is the concern of all.
The bill which We have today was made upon
a different basis and in different way. The
people of this country were thoroughly con.
suited. The committee of the House which
had IL in charge represented every phase
OF sentiment in the Republican party anG
and IN the Democratic party. 1t stretched
from Maine across to California aad from Can
ada 20 the Gulf OF Mexico. Everybody had a
hearing. whether he came from California or
from Maine, from South Carolina or even it, as
an importer, he represented Germany or Great
Britain. Up to the last moment everybody was
permitted 20 explain his views and give his
facts and figures. and the result is bill which
represents more thoroughly than any other bill
ever did the concentrated commerce Of the
American people. Should not the American
people stand by their oars? Our Democratic
friends are just now filling their newspapers
with declarations OF the rising Of prices.
According to the Democratic notion the
whole American Nation is engaged in sitting in
a rocking chair consuming According to the
Democratic notion there Is not one OF them that
ever does a stroke OF work or ever raises any
thing II the United States were country like |
that l should believe in the Democratic doc |
trine The easiest and cheapest way in which |
they could get things into their mouths must
be the best There are certain set OF people |
retired from business who have made their in |
comes and are satisfied for life. These men !
are the only ones that represent the ideal con- |
sumer whom the Democratic party prates so
much about. But the real American citizen is a
man who consumes for the purpose OF prodUc-
ing He is as busy in making something as he is !
in destroying something. The question for him |
often is not what thing costs, but: Have got |
the money in my pocket to pay for it!'' 1t |
matters little how cheap a thing is IL man has |
not got dollar. What use was the offer to
the man of the whole State of Texas for pair |
OF boots when he did not have the boots? The |
American citizen wants first of all, if he is |
working-man that his wages shall be q fair |
share OF the price. What he wants, IL he is a |
farmer is that he shall have q market for his |
products ana that market shall be near at home |
so that what he produces will not be consumed in
transportation. Now. protection brings to the |
farmers door the market that he needs. Every |
man knows that he had better sell HIS farm |
products to somebody on the spot who is we'll |
of who gets good wages than to carry them |
across 1.5OO miles OF land and 1900 miles Of |
ocean and sell them to men who have less /
wages than they have in this country. This |
question of prices 1 find detailed with great |
gusto in the Democratic papers. They tell you |
that everybody is raising the prices and that IL |
is the result OF the Mckinley bill. Now the |
rise Of those prices is either legitimate or not.
In looking over the advertisements in these |
Democratic newspapers DO not find that any |
prices have risen, but that the shopkeepers are |
urging everybody 20 come and buy now because |
by ard by prices will 80 up. would like TO |
know what it is worth TO these business men to |
have the run OF the papers during The campaign |
every year. Every advertisement in those
papers contains the statement that, although |
every thing is going up so, We are still engaged |
in selling goods at the old prices at the old |
stand. II the Mckinley bill does lift the prices,
it will also lift the prices for those who produce
the things that you buy and the things that you |
produce also. and the money that goes out of |
your pocket to buy these things will come into |
your pocket as a result Of your own produc-
tions
You know that hard times are marked not by |
higher prices but by low prices. Whenyou have |
low prices for labor then you have low prices |
for goods. History shows that when you have i
high prices which are legitimate-that is, pro-
duced by activity in manufactures-then you |
have high wages. and then the farmer gets for !
his produce precisely what he wants and what |
he ought to have. In order to have business |
prosperity 1t is necessary to have certain |
things. Circulation is the life blood OF trade |
Six years ago when Grover Cleveland became |
President. he issued letter in which he de-
clared that the coinage OF silver ought to be
stopped at once or we should be ruined Never |
during his administration Of four years did the |