Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-30
THE pEMQCRATIC NQRTHWEsT THURSDAY OCTOBER 80 1890


vas brought aboutf' and he saysi ~Elevea
out Of tho twelve OF those iurymen had piece
OF the pork" Laughter and applause.1
\ do not behave that the American people
want TO justify . tarin measure upon such
grounds as those. j belieVe that the people do
not want share in the profits which are vir-
tualiy stolen from the consumers Of the oouu.
try and placedlh the pockets OF favored inter-
ests
Let me call your attention 70 q few things
which have been done. Two years ago. every
where. upon the stump the Democratic party
argued In favor OF placing more articles upon
the free list do not propose 10 enter into de-
tail as TO ell the articles OF this tariE bill
want to call your attention TO one thing
We argued IN. favor OF placing lumber
on the free list We said thers can be
no real objection to It. II would facilitate build.
ing, II will help every workingman. Lumber
is becoming scarce in this couAtry. We know
no reason why the plain people, the consumers
OF the country. the men who Wantto build little
houses, why they should object TO having lum.
Der placed oil the free list Instead we know
OF no reason why we should pay tribute 10 Gen.
eral Alger and other lumber kings Of Michigan,
tApplause The fight went on. We presented
our arguments. We were not successful. The
contest has been kept up ever since. and 1
point you 10 the fact that the late Republican
tax upon lumber one-halE Mr.. Mckinley,
your neighbor, was opposed 70 even that reduc-
ton.
He wanted to keep the burden upon you to
Its full extent [Applause. But in spite OF
his argument the Western Senators would
not have 1t that way, and insisted that at least
there must be reduction Of one-half in re-
gard to certain grades, point you 10 this fact
as the triumph OF the Democratic party,
haCausQ IL fecn IN
question, and Representatives reluctantly grant,
ed 1t in spite OF the efforts Of the distinguish.
ed Chairman Of the Wavs and Means Commit
tee. / read this afternoon on my way
here an article In the Cleveland Herald think
1t was, in which they argued plainly that the
tariff was tax and stated that some miserable
Democratic paper had been trying to take away
from the Republican Congress the credit for
this reduction. They say it is great benefit
to the people-it is a reduction in favor Of all
workingmen. This is further argument I
say that tariff is o tax. Some ten or twelve
years ago they passed an act by which they
took OF duty from hides so they might come
free to this country. This was measure IN the
best interests OF the people, and benefit to
the people In the business Of tanning and shoe
making ''. 3" f''t vi h
say this was done ten or twelve years ago.
There is not tanner in the country that wants
last Congress in the report made, your neigh
Dor, chairman of this committee, sought to
place back the tariff duty on hides, and yet, my
friends, because Of the efforts made by the
Democratic Representatives Mckinley was
beaten, and to-day hides remain free, same as
they have for the last ten or twelve years. I
point you TO this fact because he has been most
extreme OF all men in Congress upon this sub
1ect. No monopoly has appealed to him in vain,
hoc ac1Yo Yod HnHh NNrfa and nat
received It. ~ aof suf f..s1 rs5 -#
Three Republican Senators from the West
brave and true men, stood up in the Senate
and voted against the tariff bill because they
believed 1t was not in the best interest of the
people. lApplause.1 do not propose to de.
tain you by arguing in reference to the de-
tails Of this tariff measure. Permit me to say,
in word, that the Mckinley bill adds to
the burdens of the people. Go to your
store to-day and ask the prices OF the numer-
Gus necessaries Of life, and they will tell you
they have risen. Possibly some merchants
are taking undue advantages in o great many
instances, but the Mckinley bill affords them
the opportunity Of doing so. '''
The bill is one framed in the interest OF mo-
nopolists-in the interests of few, and not in
the interests OF the whole jotted this after
| noon few Of the classes Of people that neither
remotely, indirectly or in the slightest degree,
h0fO 6uy oOEb O1 lHtOEObb ia any VI thbS6 JAIlu
| taxes, which may mention here. Every mer
chant has no interest every clerk Of every kind
| in this city OF Canton, every salesman, every
| book-kecper in your city, every physician every
| minister, every professor, every student and
| every carpenter and joiner every shoe-blacl1
| every stenographer, every reporter, every
blacksmith, every artist and laborer Of every
kind submit to you and your candid judg-
ment that the country has prospered, moi. be-
~ h.,As H.
| OF 1t. know this is the style of argument that
will probably be adopted same as in the past
find 1t in the State Of Indiana in 1888. You may
receive that same argument here from repre-
| sentative speakers. -...
They say thirty years ago your town was
| OF such population Then there was protec-
| tive tariff 1t was increased since then. Look
| at your town, they say You have had this
| protective tariff all this while. Look how your
town has prospered and increased in popula.
| ton. should like to know what the protective
tariff has got to do with the increase in popula.
ton! Loud laughter.1 lido not propose to
follow up that argument but you can take al
most any other thing and prove the same way.
1 therefore submit to your candid judgment
that this argument which you have heard in the
| past, and which you will hear many times this
campaign, is not at all founded upon any SUBJ
stantial foundation.
| leaving the tariff question, Governor
Hill took up the subject of the Force
bill which he declared was the real Is.
sue of the campaign. With burning words he
referred to the iniquity of admitting the Terri
tories of Wyoming and Idaho as States when
neither had The population Of an ordinary Con-
| gressional district. And this, too, in the face
| OF the fact that New Mexico with more popu.
lation than both put together, was denied ad.
mission solely because 1t was Democratic The
| specious argument has been raised by Republi.
cans that the elections in the South were not
fair. He had but recently Travelled in
that country and had talked with
| both whites, and blacks. The lot
| ter he found peaceful, happy people,
| and from what he could gather, refrain from
| voting on their personal volition. Still he did
not deny that social equality did not exist, and
that the country was governed mainly by white
| people who owned the land and paid the taxes.
| Yet the children OF the colored people we're GO
| ing to school, and the race was being gradually
educated. The Republican reason for passin 4 the
force bill was mere y to perpetuate party in
| power. Their step was the closest approach to
| centralization that had yet been made. Upon
the certificate of q Republican Supervisor, ap.
| pointed by a Republican Federal Judge, the
| certificate Of Governor of State or any Of
acer OF election Of no matter what degree OF
character was overridden. His signature to
a document in the eyes Of q Republican Con-
gress was prima facie evidence of an election.
In his judgment this was the greatest danger to
be met as threatened the rights Of freemen,
tended to subvert a Republican form OF govern
ment Closing, Governor Hill paid an elegant
| tribute to Hon. John @. Warwicl1 saying that II
he hada hundred votes. and could vote them,
1 taxu uoYtIhN fo,4