Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-27

st our people ia ell portions OF our De-
loved country.
There are good men IN all political
parties. bat ss cannot Judge the pa
ties by the individuals that 60 TO make
them up, We must Judge them 10y the
elements which coutrol them; ~e must
judge them by Their pact conduct and
the record which they have made as
we'll as the promises which they make
Tor future conduct.
| am ~ favor OF the success OF tie
republican party because ! remember
With PRIDE that that party was founded
upon the great principle OF ualseIsai
freedom TO man; Am ia favor of the
republican party because | remember
that that organization stood as unit
IN the defense Of our country's life
when armed rebellion sought lis de
struction; ! am IN favor OF
the republican party because
II was that party which
struck the shaekies from four millions
OF human beings and bade them stand
erect clothed IN the garb OF American
citizenship. lApplsuse. | am in favor
OF the republican party because that
party has ever believed IN the great
principle of free schools and universal
education; because II has ever believed
IN the Preat principles of free ballot
and fair election upon every foot OF
American soil. [Applause.l / am in
favor OF the republican party because
that party has ever been and IS now in
favor OF such legislation as will protect
the financial honor of the nation Itself
and to give 10 the people stable cur
rency which shall at all times and each
1 time he. cosvartltl.. one into the other
| lAppianse. | am in favor of the re-
publican party because that party ever
| has heen and is now IN faver OF the
great American system Of protection TO
American industries. Applause.
/ Upon these great principles the repub-
lican party has been antagonizcd 10y the
democratic party for the last thirty
years.
| Fellow citizens. am opposed to the
| democratic party because that party as
founded was pro-slavery party until
! Abraham Lincoln made the bondmen
| go free. | am opposed TO the demo-
| cratic party because that party (and
speak not of the thousands and thou
| sands of brave democrats who stood Ia
| the front line of battle in the confilct),
as a political organization failed to give
| to the government that support during
its hour of peril that true loyalty de-
nianded. 1t WAS that party which OPP
| posed the adoption of our constitutional
amendments which gave freedom to
| the slave. 1t was that party which has
sought legislation that will bring dis
! grace upon the financial integrity of
of the Nation itself, and today Is seek
| ing to give to the American people
deDased currency. [Applause.
| am opposed TO the democratic party
because that party has been for the last
thirty years in favor of such legislation
rs If il had been enacted into law
would have totally destroyed our
American industries and deprived our
American men OF employment. Ap-
plause.
Ever since the foundation of the gov
ernmeut itself the tariff mas been more
oI less discussed by the fathers of
the republican party; by the
men who framed the constitution
rs we'll as the men that stood by
it. and | challenge q contradiction
of the foremost men of both the great
political parties III the early history of
the country. Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, Webster, Clay, Monroe, and
the Adams'-all of these men have
claimed not only the constitutional
lpower of congress, but have demanded
of congress legislation which would
tend to foster American industry and
protect American labor.
! Whatever may be said of the republi-
can party in the past, it cannot be
claimed but what the party has always
fulfilled the promises which it has
made to the American people, and
4 . 10. "A
our democratic opponents.
| assert here without fear OF contra
diction, that for the last thirty years
the democratic party has made single
pledge 10 the American people that II
has fulfilled; while on the contrary the
republican party has never made q
pieuge 10 the American people that 1t
has not fulfilled. lApplause] 1t has
said TO the people in the campaign of
1888, eve are In favor of revision of
our tariff laws, reduction CT our
duties upon foreign imports; but We
demand that in making such revision
the protective policy shall be main
tanned"
No sooner did conr-ess convene after
the election OF 1SsS, the new republic
an congress, than it proceeded to full
can people: and the verdict which you.
fellow citizens, rendered In the cam
paign of 1SSS was chrystalized into
law last year now stands upon your
statute book known as the Mckinley
hill. or Mckinley law. applause,
What is a tariff? Why, tariff In
n levying oI duty upon foreign goods.
or goods produced abroad aud sent
TO this country. Why? The first, or
primary object of levy ing Is to raise n
revenue for the support OF our govern
| ment. We must raise in this country
from 365 million TO 400 million dol
lars annually for the support of our
government. TO pay its running ex-
penses, pensions to our manned and
wounded soldiers and to the widows
and orphans of such. How shall We
raise it? How our democratic ora
tors talk. You would suppose il would
drift in by the wind. as it were. II Is
conceded by a majority OF all parties.
III might say by almost en-
flrely the mass OF the great
political parties. that II Is bost
that we should raise n large amount
of this revenue -bv lcvying a duty. rs
II is called, upon foreign imports that
come into our country. We differ as
20 how this duty should be levied.
The democratic party said IN the cam
paiCn of 1889, and reiterates u now.
I'VE demand that y BE- levied simply
and solely for the purpose ~ raising
rrevenue." The republican party says
that ne VIZ must RAISE this amount
a revenue IN this wav. We VIII levv