The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-01


Pierce presided. There were many notable
gentlemen present. President Pierce. i'm
opening the after-dinner exercises. said
there were three great causes-tarf re-
form, ballot reform and civil service re-
fOrm-nOw on trial before the country. and
that 1t was no small advantage that ein
the struggle before MS, we have for our
leader man Of moral courage. sterling
honesty and straightiOrwardness the most
interesting personality in American life
ur0Ver Cleveland
lie then introduced Hon. Roger o. Mills
as the first regular speaker Of the evening.
Mr.. Mills was most Enthusiastically re-
ceiyed.
NULLA REfRORsUM vEsTIGIA.
Mr.. Mills said in part: When / stand I'm
the midst Of New England men who have
enlisted IN war against old and strongly
fortified abuses. feel that am touching
elbows with comrades who have written
upon their shields. "we dread no step back
wards" Throughout the whole career of
the New England people they have been con-
spicuOus for the constancy with which they
cling 10 their convictions, and the steadiness
with which they support them when as
sailed. Ibis j. the patrim0ny which you
have inherited from the sturdy. self-relianr.
blood has come down % YOU. and still runs
with all its vital energy nm YOUR veins.
Standing this December evening i'm the
midst Of the SONS Of the old granite stock
who are assembled 10 give utterance
10 their complaints against the un-
necessary and unjust Interference hv
Congress with the foreign trade of
our people, recall that other meeting.
on that other December evening, i'm this
same metropolis Of New England. more
than a century ago, when your fathers. after
having listened tO the el0Quent Quincy.
raised a Mohawk war-whOop, ond rushing
down 10 the wharf, made "a teapot Of B0s-
ton harDOr. ln connection with that his
toric tea-party, another thought iny0lunta-
rily rises in the mind. and that is that the
first and immediate result of 10
was the passage by Parliament
Of an act which closed the port Of
Boston against all imports coming within
her jurisdiction. And this gave 10 America
the first thorough, complete. perfect and
only ideal home market this continent has
eyer had. the very market now so zealOusly
sought for by so many wise statesmen and
so many patriotic citizens. In that eX-
clusiyely American market the pro-
ducts Of American labor We're thor
Oughly protected against all foreign
competition. Every citizen could buy
what he wanted, If he could find IT, al
the highest price, and sell his products
If he could lind purchaser az the lowest
price. And there was no foreign pauper
lO 80 'e,t or make him afraid. ! have
searched history with q lighted candle 10
find If there was in that day Boston mar
ket home club. have failed TO the object
Ofmy anxious search. | am inclined 30 be-
lieye that the home market club Of that day
had It's central Office in London. and gen
tleman named George Ill. was It's chair.
man. 'nf one fact We are fully
assured by all the histOries-Our fathers not
only did not approve the home market given
them by the Boston port bill. but it met
their united and determined opposition; nor
was the opposition confined within the
boundaries Of the old Bay state, but like "a
hre kndled in dry stubble, it ran through
all the colonies.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY,
Of ii713. found It's elimination n the Phla-
delphia tea party oflliO. one OF the causes
which led to the separation was the ideal
home market which the king had given 10
all the colonies. or 10 express IL in theirOWn
clear and efficient language, for cutting
on our trade with an parls oi the world"
History repeats itself, and we are here To-
night demonstrating with our government
f0r its wrongful Interference with private
business, depressing our industries. paraly-
zing our labor, poverishing our people and
cutting of our foreign trade. And tonight
we say tO Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Blaine. as
our fathers said 20 King George and Lord
North, YOU have no right 20 close our ports.
Grover Cleveland. at te mead OF the Mo
hawks In December. 1857. threw the tea
oyerO0ard and called on the battle for the
yindicatiOn OF the right We had our Lex
ingtons and Bunker Hills in lSss. We had
our saratoga in 1889 We shall have
OR lORKlONN IN 1892
We. too. believe ia d home market. but
not Of tine skeleton kind. We would have
a home market where the producer obtains
the largest amount Of satisfaction tor a
given expenditure Of labor. The best home
market is the one into which is admitted
the largest importation, because the largest
importation means the largest expectation,
and that means active demand for the arti-
clcs exported, and that means increased
wealth distributed among the consumers,
and that will, in turn, create an active de-
mand for home products.
ONE OF THE PALACES OF PROTEcuQNlsM
is that the things We import are the things
We produce, and that they throw our own
labor out OF employment, and give employ
ment 10 that Of foreign countries. Any
one who will take the pains 10 examine our
list Of imports will sec at once how ground
less this position j.. le VIII ind that we
import Ouly such things rs cannot be pro-
duced at all in this country, or that cannot
be produced as cheaply here as elsewhere,
or that they canuot be produced in
sufficient quantity So supply the de-
mand for tnem. Now, n we were
IN remove the duties from all raw
and crude materials OF manufacture, and
reduce the duties on all finished products 10
a revenue standard. il would be only this
class of articles that would come. Instead
Of displacigg domestic pscGucts, 3, would
make room for morei instead OF dischargine
one laDorer. il would create demand ioI
two. and instead OF shutting on one IRE, u
would light hundred.
Production NOUTsiRIPfINGC GCpNstMPiioN'
our production is ouislipping ouf con-
sumption, and the lines pi divergence arc
constantly growing wider. we can ron
our manufacto.cs, turn cut 40 nine months
of the wear all that our people can consume
I i'm twelve. I'm agriculture, The excess OF
production over consumption is even
! ereater. We must lind other consumers
and open the way to reach them. We mus
give them our surplus manWacfufes ana
agricultural products Tor their coffee, sugar
/ tea. spices and such other things as they
can produce more cheaply than we can.
EUROPEAN COMPETITION fOsIERED.
Europe ie sen1ng annually into the
worlds markets textiles Of the value Ol
81 ,0OO, 100000. These goods she manufac.
| tures because the raw materials 20 To her
factories untaxed. These markets she
holds. because her materials being untaNed
she can produce the goods cheaper than we
can. cur labor being more productive aud
more skilltul, We can produce the greater
part Of these cheaper than any rival, n
we can remove the cost which the tax
on the material imposes, by bringing thi'
work 40 our own factories we would
create am active demand for the employment
OF all the labor in the land. Wealth would
/ increase, our home markets would grow
I and expand, and the ceaseless hum OF pros
perOus business would be heard in all oul
sireats. ia all our highways, and In all oul
marsets.
THE ruin Of the people--pOltical dema
gogues. Reliefto the peolle with bad blood
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