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ReDab. cans sere ssc al.s .ayited %
attend tee Democrat meeting 81
H4ltmaas Hal, l@ss sten.ng. snc
about & thousand II taeu eeU q AAfs
been aecoasaodated with el gisse ssAss
Il thsy hsa sesa ns - 90. Mayor lhl
presided. aad introduced the speaker
of the evening witn a. asazl felicity of
manner aud " sxpress-on. lie sad
circumstances have forosoden niy
takiag a. active part N the eampAagn'
bat / 40 take an Abialng interess ia It's
progress. ana hail wlth unbounaed
q thaslAsm the prospects OF CONNER
ca liberty shich the success Of the
Democrat ticket promises this fall. l
an able 10 s&y to you tnSI which You
may knoS yourselves, that the
signs are all suspicious for the
retura 10 the halls OF Congress OF
one WHO N il has honored and winch
he has honored. Hon. Melbourne II.
Ford. ! knOw .hss some OF you ale
disappointed not % meet him here To-
night, but you .aa!' near from HIM Al no
dlslan. iay. lie Is pleading ia = 14>-
/ IAnt tOan tOr tio causo ot the masses
/ against ne classes. HcreupOu Mr..
Uhi introduced the speaker OF the even
lng, Ex-Governor j. Sterling Morton, OF
| Nebraska.
Ii l. nigh nraise Of Gov. Morton 20
saw that IA manner and dictlon, ne
most nearly resembles the author OF the
| Mckinley bill. HIS uttersnee Was
| deliberate. ms rhetoric Was ehaste, and
| hIs promise TO abstain from words DIS
respectful 10 anybody, was tolerably
well fulfilled. While bis audience were
| IN sympathy with him. he did not sue
ceed IN stirring their deepest enthusi-
asn. He began his speech thus:
Prom my home on the western bank
| of the Missouri, this 10 a long distance,
| but the same law which protects my
| home protects yours. | come 10 talk
not as partisan TO partlsans, but as a
| lover of nome 10 owners of homes. in
civilized ages and among cultivated
people, mans best earnings are
| always bestowed for embelhshment of
| home. There is no sweet word OF con-
ISOLATION and cheer like the word home.
Its very history is interesting. 1t is an
Anglo Saxon word meaning TO tie up
to. Therefore the taxation Of the
home and that which pertains TO home
is question whose serious import
| ought not TO be passed lightly by"
Here the speaker stated the great
question IT issue very much as Mr.. Nc
KIuley had done week before on that
same platform, viz: "WhGt sort of tax
alton Is 1t best for the Nation to I'M
pose?'
The speaker then launched out into
the common free-trade method
of tariff discussion with its plausi-
bllities as well put rs they
ever are. He asked the old question
why immigration was untaxed, how tn
consumer pays the tax, etc. Holding
ING in his hand the TELEGRAM-HERALi
copy of McKinley's speech, he selectes
some lew points of attack and wade,
in He thought 1t foolish for McKinlt
TO think it credltable for the Cover.
ment to supply the army with Amer
can blankets. lie thought it unfair !
Mckinley 70 make his definitions J.
| any other than Democratic free-trad
phraseology. The real question whic
Mckinley ought TO have discu ssed,'
said ne, ''ls whether it is fair to tax al.
Of us to enrich a few of u.s."
He insisted that the past prosperity
of the country has been IN spite OF the
| tariff and not III consequence of it. He
touched upon the tin plate question, and
avered that there are no tin mines ~
this country worth working, and
prcphesied that there would be no
manufacture of tin-plate here. He wet
| down his audience with "a cool bath OF
| complaint about the tariff on lumber,
and 10y perslsting emptled all the rear
seats in the hall quarter Of the way up
to the stage. He arragned the Re
publican party for repeating many
! OF the excise taxes of war times, doubt
ed that protectlonists wholly believed
their Own doctrine, said that protec-
ton made millionalres and tramps,
asked why the party did not substitute
free duties for veteran soldiers instead
of giving them pensions, said that
all the merchants OF the country,
| even Wannamaker, had advertised a
rise in prices, discussed tie wheat mar
| kcts OF the world, our depleted navigs-
ton, and then swung around TO the
! place Of beginning and began TO talk
again very prettlly about home, and
SAID the garden OF Eden was the ideal
| home, because there were no taxes
| levied there.
They VINO remained to the end Of the
| speech gave the orator the compliment
oi three cheers, and then went home.
The Baptist Reading Room.