, 1890-10-30


brought to the verge Of want.
He spoke of the influence tho advance
IN siivcr had had upon the mines. New
nope, new life, and new inspiration had
been given to this great industry. Such
Is the iuiilllment of It's pledges of the
republican party on the silver question.
Taking up the pledges on the tariff, he
said that to conduct this government re.
| quired $3.50, 900, 600 a year. Whichever
must be raised. No party could ever re-.
fuse to make the pension appropriations
or to carry on the functions of the gov
ernment. The question is: How can
tho money be raised? All parties are
agreed that there nro but two ways-in.
ternal revenue taxes or by impost du.
ties.
There is the great difference between
the two parties. The democratic posi-
tion Is that 1t should be raised by direct
revenue taxes, with impost duties, which
give incidental protection. The repub-
licans say this, They will raise this
money always with the view of protect
ing American interests and American
lnanuiac ctures.
COLONEL wINsToN's SPEECH.
At the conclusion of Senator AL
lens address Colonel p. II. Winston
was introduced, and spoke as fol-
lows:
Fellow Citizens: The origin oil tho
free TRADE idea In this country IL to be
found In the plantation system that OBJ
tained In the South. Wherever the ten
ant system of labor. or the slave system,
or the coolie system or the padrone sys-
tenn has prevailed, free trade has been
the policy of the landlords and the mas
ters. The reason for this Is obvious
The owner of n plantation and 1O0 slaves
and twenty horses and mules who raised
iitty bales OF cotton desired to exchange
his cotton for cheap clothing for his
slaves, cheap harness Tor his mules
cheap wagons and plows for his horses
The more he could get tor his cotton and
the less he was required to pay for his
wagons and clothing for his slaves and
farm implements, the richer he was.
Those who produced the cotton had no
interest In its price nor did they have any
interest in the price OF the goods for
which II was exchanged. Their wages
were not affected by either of these
things, for they received no wages.
Free trade was the policy of the planta-
uon slave labor system, and as those
who owned the plantations were the
leaders OF tho democratic party, they
made 1t the policy of that party, and ia
order to fortiiy that policy against at
tack and to prevent the opposite policy
from prevailing, democratic leaders do
clarcd carly i'll the history of govern.
mcnt that protection by tariff legis ion
was contrary to the constitution, and
that any American state had the right
to nullify the tariff la W Of congress. So
iirmly y was this dogma fixed as u demo-
cratic principle that when secession was
attempted a free trade clause was in
serted in the confederate constitution.
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protection could be inserted in the con-
stitution OF the United States the British
Tree trade leagues would give TO might
one hundred million OF dollars.
There is collected at the American
custom houses u tax of 5000 COO coo OH
foreign productions this tax enables
our manufactures to compete with
those of other countries, ard goes di
rcctly into the pockets of the American
laborer II this tax Is removed, who is
the gamer? Somebody gains 5000, ,0OO,-
900. Who is itp There now come into
this country foreign goods in sufficient
quantities to pay this enormous tax; if
It is removed, the goods that pay this
tax will be sold that much cheaper, and
the consequence will be that the Amer
lean manufactures must reduce their
price SSO,OOO,O 600 to compete in the
markets with the foreign manufactures,
or else 20 out Of the business. Every
dollar OF this reduction will come out
of the wages of the American laborer
and go into the pockets of the foreign
laborer, and yet we find certain men
who assume to be the friends of the la
boring man putting so-callod labor
ticket in the field OF this city upon n
platform, one of whose planks is Tor free
trade, pure and simple.
Opposed to the plantation free trade
system OF the South was the protective
system of the North, where the labor OF
free men employed in the production of
manufactured goods, the labor of men
who shared in wages with the manu-
iacturers profit derived from those
goods, and who were deeply interested in
maintaining prices and preventing, so
far as possible, competition in our mar
kets with goods produced by the cheap
pauper labor of other countries. These
two systems forever irreconcilably con-
nicted ateyery point OF national politics.
The free labor system was the friend OF
free public schools; IL originated the
homestead law; II dedicated TO freedom
the public lands of the nation; II opened
them to civilization by aiding from the
national treasury. the building of trans
con tinentnl lines of railway; IL paid its
homage to labor recognizing that upon
that alone, intelligently and lawfully
directed, depends the happiness Of peo.
pies, by placing at the head Of the gov
ernment and in the cabinets OF the coun.
try n rail splitter, n shoemaker, a poor
boy from the cabin of canal
boat. The names of Abraham
Lincoln, of Vice President Wilson. OF
Massachusetts, and of James A. Garfield
will forever stand before the world as the
bes, opponents of what the great free
labor party of America thinks q: mon
who toll, will show how from obsc .rity
the principles of this party can lit the
man of toll and write his name over the
portals of immortal fame. The first
great exponent of u protective tariff was
Henry Clay, the mill boy of the Slashes.
who saw III this theory method by
which the country could be made to
prosper and grow great in the face of all
foreign opposition. The true theory of
government is to inaugurate policy
that will result in the people being able
to obtain and consume most largely the
comforts of life, consumption and civili-
cation march together; that nation is
most prosperous whose citizens consume
most
The man who Is able to buy three
hats a year, at n cost of ~. so each and
pay for them, is better oil than the man
who can buy the same hat for so cents
but has not got that so cents to pay Tor
IL. For the first time in the history OF
this govern nment, we have tariff bill
protective, based distinct
lively upon protective principles. The
policy has at last been established of
directly In favor of American
products. A policy which is intended
to be pursued until every possible Amer
lean product is given an opportunity for
is found at good prices Tor all the prod
nets of American labor: afterWarl