The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-15
since the war, and Is sufficient answer
to the charge that we are maintaining
the war tariff"

| MIR. 1APLE, the Democratic canal
date for Congress from this district,
appeared before Paw Paw audience,
as per announcement, Monday evening
There was good deal of curiosity felt
by quite number of Republicans IS To
what the gentleman could say in de-
Tense of the attitude of the party he is
so willing to represent in congress, so
at least one-third of those present were
Republicans. The speaker started OIL
with rehash of the discarded and de-
funct theories of the party ut whose
head he hypocritically posed on his de-
but in politics. He inveighed against
National banks, and the per cent they
were making out of the currency issued
by the dear people, but forgot to tell
his audience that during the short lease
of power of the Democratic party Mr.
Cleveland deposited large share of the
surplus in the treasury with favorite
National banks, without a cent of in
terest or benefit accruing in any way to
the government, instead of applying it
toward the payment of the public debt.
He also forgot to state that President
Harrison, on coming into office, ut once
recalled these deposits and placed them
within the proper custody Of the gov
eminent, and that during the nineteen
months of his incumbency as Chief EX-
ecutive he has paid on the public debt
the enormous sum of 1856, 100000
He advocated free and unlimited
coinage of silver, but forgot to tell his
confding hearers that the Democratic
party during Cleveland's administra.
ton was tenacious stickler for a gold
standard, and did everything in its
power to dscredit silver and drive it
out of the monetary system of the
United States. He forgot TO say that
Cleveland, in "A letter made public be-
fore his inauguration, fully committed
himself and party to Wall street on that
question, and never abated his efforts
one whit from the beginning to the
ending of his party's brief and melan
choly political career. He took good
care not to mention TO those present
that Republican congress had just
passed law authorizing the purchase
of silver and the coinage of legal tender
silver dollars To the amount of 4 500, 900
per month the full capacity of the
minis; and that silver certificates were
to be issued, based upon these, and
made full legal tender for the pay
ment of all debts, public or private.
His discussion soon degenerated into
profuse statement of stale and repu-
dated plaititudes, and demonstrated
that his knowledge of the question was
superficial and his arguments, if such
they may be called, were the most dem
agogcal and misleading. He undertook
to deal with the Mckinley bill, but soon
gave conclusive evidence that he did
not understand it or meant To mslead
his hearers For instance, he spoke of
the American manufacturer importing
raw material and then having 80 per
cent of the duty refunded after the ma
terial had been worked into fabrics,
&c, thereby leaving the impression that
the raw material could by this kind of
! jugglery be admitted by the ultimate
payment of one per cent. duty. He
grossly misstated the letter and spirit
of the law. The fact is, there is only
rebate of the 80 per cent. when the fin
ished article is, after its manufacture,
exported, and thus not brought into
competition with manufactured Ameri-
can rdW material - the object being to
give the American artisan the benefit
of manipulating it.
So we might go on, exposing the fall
lacy of Mr.. Yaple's speech from begin
ming to end, but it is hardly worth
while, as its weaknesses were apparent
on their face, and no intelligent voter
who is not willing to be deceived will
be deceived thereby. His wheedlng
and evident lack of knowledge of the
subject he grappled with lowered the
respect good many have heretofore
borne for him.
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