The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-26

do L need TO allude to another! Ina1
which gives more employment and higher
wages TO American labor. The dIversln-
cation of industries among our own peo-
pie. whereby civilization is advanced. and
whereby every vein of labor Is Qulckened.
But, also, If this were the rule, do need
to say that the American people should
manufacture on their own soil, out O.
labor. everything for which they have
natural facilities; it is the great object or
national desire. Now, how shall this be
doney l had myself, and have still. an
idea OF how 1t ought to be done L sought
to have my way in enacting the recent
law Perhaps sought too much. Per
haps l am not very easily satisfied,
but l will say, as l believe | may
without egotism, that wherever have
seen the real interest of my constituents
lie, | have been bold to walk
therein. Loud applause.l But the Amer
lean congress who met, fresh from all the
states of the Union, said Kansas cannot
wholly have its way against the wishes OF
! all the rest. 1t is the majority which
rules; and when it comes TO subjects OF
| high controversy, as in the tar1H and IN
the money question. some compromise Is
bound to result. / thought that If the bill
which has been recently passed could be
resubmltted to the conference under the
! condemnation which the defeat OF the re
port would have given it, 1t could have
| been made better still.
| Well, if the time had come when
would have been called upon TO choose De-
! tween that bill and the bill framed after
| the declarations contained In the Demo
/ cratic platform, voicing the Democratic
view, | should say, unhesitatingly, that
this bill which has passed, even II greatly
worse than it is, would be far preferable to
| the Democratic expedient do not wish
to be misunderstood upon this question
! The BILL as passed, imposes duties upon
| some of those things that, IN the west, we
| think ought not to be imposed. Not alone
because we thought 1t might unduly
| increase the price temporarily, at least of
some articles, but because we thought
closer competition on the part OF the man
ufactRrers and the introduction of more
economies, and that competition which
brings the best of manhood, competition
which would induce them to do better
still, and better than they would do If they
had the shelter of duties. L stand where
Senator Sherman stood when he said the
Republican party was in favor or giving
''all the duties necessary for protection
and not penny for monopoly" Now GER
tainly good will come in many directions
from the passage OF. this bill. The first of
next April is to be practically free sugar,
and l have no doubt that will reduce the
price of sugar to the consumers of the Uni
ted States in the neighbOrhoOd Of cents
per pound. The average yearly cOnsump-
ton of sugar is nearly sixty pounds per
head. That will be a saving every year of
81 20 for every man, woman and child. The
duty on binding twine will be re-
dnced from 215 cents, as proposed
in the Democratic expedient, to seven
tenths of cent per pound under the ex-
isting law. The duty of pine lumber and
shingles used in this western country was
reduced one-half and there also will be
gain of no mean proportions: Large addi-
Uions were made to the free list; and in adj
dition there is the recognition at the in
stance of Mr.. Blaine, of the principle of
reciprocity, not so widely applied as he
would like to have it, or as would like to
have had it, but the entering wedge to be
driven home little more each year in the
direction of giving to the American farmer
and the American mechanic and the
American manufacturer wider and wider
markets for all his surplus. There is no
bitter without the sweet There is no con-
troversy in which all can be victorious. As
/ said, | voted to the end for that which [
believed to he for the interests of my peO-
pie. got part of what went for. Posi-
bly, l may live to fight that
citizens, this question is not to be
settled in this room, or elsewhere, by a
mere examination and report upon
schedules. The question, after all, is: Do
you prefer this system, which takes first
care of the American laborer? this system
which concerns the interest of the Ameri
can people against all outside people, how
ever much we may differ as to its details?
Or do you prefer that other system and
plan under which this great nation shall
be taxed so as not to give an advantage to
the laborer on American soil?
You have heard, here and elsewhere.
about the virtues of some other party or
parties. But. fellow citizens, | point to
the history of the past. | appeal to your
common sense, to your ever present and
right judgment, when | say that for long
time to come, probably through the entire
life time of the youngest person in this
audience, the questions which relate to the
management of the government of the
United States to its legislation and the adj
ministration of its laws will be controlled
and determined by the Democratic or the
Republican party Loud cheers.
And it is one of the singular things in
American politics, the most singular thing
/ know of, that whoever seeks to get up "a
new party first attacks the Republican
party. Did yon ever hear of anybody who
wanted better article of temperance or a
worse article of temperance who began by
attacking the Democratic party? Laugh
ter Why, have given great deal of
thought to that proposition, and | sought
to settle it by our boyish experiences.
boring orchard we always looked for the
tree which had the most clubsin it. Wher-
ever the clubs were there we knew were
the best apples in the orchard So il is
with parties. The party that is constantly
doing something is the one that has the
most clubs thrown at it. The Democratic
party does the part of check rubbers on a
wagon. The Republican party is the
wagon. It does the work that is TO be done.
The Republican party has been always do
ing something 1t has never been a
laggard IL has never been
check rubber 1t has never said
that the majority in congress
should not rule and coutrol and legislate.
Loud applause There IS not in the
statute book any law of any consequence
enacted in the last thirty years that was
not put there by the Republican party.
Some years ago during the Democratic
ascendency, Mr.. Blackburn of Kentucky,
it being a Democratic house, said: When
we get possession of the government we
intend TO strike from the statute books
every bit of legislation that you (the Re
publican party have put there;" and when
they got the power they proposed TO repeal
just simply one law, enacted in the time Of
George Washington. which provided for
free election and a fair count!
Now, fellow citizens, II Is the boast of
this Democratic party that it is the same
party every year. l ought TO qualify that
it Is the party. chiefly, OF Jefferson and
Jackson, not of Grover Cleveland, lately.
There is nothing TO indicate that
anything it proposes or designs
or which IL Is expected TO
accomplish would be of any benefit what
ever TO the American people. Why, Be /
cause to a large extent IL Is reminiscence /
The men who own and control a majority (
of the stock live in the atmosphere Of the /
condition OF things which existed before /.
the war, aud continues now in the seat Of
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