Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-10-30
4 eRAND MOTHER GorERxMENr

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4 GR-fND MOTHER GOVERNMENT
Ex-secretary Bayard's warm Denuncia
ton of the Mckinley Bill Before a Phil
adeiphia Audience.
The business men and consumers o
Philadelphia entered their protest agains
the Mckinley bill and demanded its re
| peal at special meeting in the Academy o
| Music, Philadelphia, last night week. Their.
| was large attendance of PHILADELPHIA
business men. Ex-Secretary Bayard wa.
the speaker of the evening and there were
also addresses by Harvey N. sheppard OF
| Boston, John Dewitt Warner and T.
Ellery Anderson Of New York.
Mr.. Bayard, as he came upon the stage
was received with great burst of applause,
lasting several minutes, and his address
was followed with the closest attention and
the points emphasized by hearty applause.
After returning thanks for this warm
greeting MIR. Bayard congratulated the
Tariff Reiurmers of Philadelphia upon
having worthy cause represented by such
worthy candidates.
Talk as You may" said the speaker,
significantly, "about measures, not men, u
men, and honest men, are the only means
by which honest measures can be carried
out.
Three years ago." continued the ex-
secretary, as he warmed up to his subject
Grover Cleveland in his annual message
to Congress struck the shield of tariff
monopoly fairly in the centre The blow
has resounded from that day to this, but
the sound has somewhat changed and in
1892 the shield will be found to be badly
cracked, and it will remain for the Ameri-
can people to carry off the remains and
give them decent burial.n
After an eloquent appeal to Pennsyl-
Yanla, containing nearly one-tenth the
population of the country, to raise her
voice in behalf of the people and to look
70 something higher than money-getting,
Mt. Bayard turned his attention to the
Mckinley bill
What is the object of the design of the
bill?n he asked "Manifestly to raise the
taxes 50 high that the revenue will be de-
creased. They propose to exclude foreign
competition BY excessive taxation upon
foreign manufactures. The result will be
COMMERCIAL isolation-national isolation
Inc Mckinley bill may be called tariff for
ISOLATION, with incidental irritation Ii il
intended TO cmbarrass foreign nations and
TO provoke retaliation for the sake of still
further exclusion Of foreign products.
Reciprocity? There is none in this bill.
None. was. intended. 1t is nothing less than
coercion"
Mr.. Bayard denounced as most danger
olls the discretion vested in the President
OF restoring the duty on sugar and molas-
ses, coffee, tea and hides whenever he
might think such d course justified.
This is the first time he said "in the
history OF the country that such an act has
eyer Deen drafted, 1t was never before
placed in the Presidents power to put his
thumb upon the windppe Of a great nation
and suffer it TO breathe at his pleasure"
Continuing his condemnation Of the ten
dency Of the Republican party toward
paternal government, the ex-secretary
said:
'.9ou saw the other day a certain novel
written by q distinguished Russian novel;
lst, prohibited from circulation i'll the
mails by some wiseacre who passes for a
statesman because this book did not con-
tam ideas that squared with his about mat |
rlmony, and because the people of the |
United States did not have sense enough to |
protect themselves but must be projected |
by pnternal government. This is what |
you might call grand maternal govern- |
ment. This is n discretion TINT ought to |
be lodged with no one. Here are laws that
should subject vast currents of trade to the |
discretion, OF an official who can make or
iinmake them at will. Against such doc
Lrine as an American, protest"
After pointing out the dangerous fea-
lures Of the Mckinley bill and other mea-
sures Mr. Bayard said
What will You choose? Shall this policy
1f isolation 90 on? Shall we Americans see
he flag we love so well debarred from
very port? Are we to he hemmed in, eat
ng out orr yitals and preying upon one
lnother2 This question has but one side
i is not to be tolerated that the American
ug Is not to be hOnored not only in every
part Of the great Republic. but on every
sea and in every cline of this great globe
IS well, Let us be just and fur to all. Bat
30 NOT let US in our desire to promote arti-
ieial industry, turn our back upon natural
industry
Mr.. Bayard scored Speaker Reed for his
boast that under his rulings the House Of
had ceased to be a d.
Lucrative body, and denounced the Force
bin rs one intended to make secure the
plumber of the Mckinley bill. He con-
Guided with IN eloquent protest against the
course of the Republican party and took
his seat amid prolonged cheering.