Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-29

."'urM uehtn. ~ the DOn0S are PAID ON
their currency II withdrawn from circula-
tion. You can hold an hour. glass in your
hands and count the moments that remain
for thcm,
Al the last session Of Congress I voted to
substitute these retiring notes with Trea-
sury notes. 50 did many Democrats.
=, Inc Republican party tried to Issue to
them 81, 000, 900 more If currency on these
bonds and the Republican House under
Reed actually passed bill to do this. Tho
vote stood: Yeas-Democrats. IS; Repub-
iicans. 125. Nays-Democrats. 1903; Repub-
lioans, o.
30 the Republicans are against the farm
ers and the Democrats with them on this
Issue.
They are willing to initiate il you give
them The money and let il initiate their
pockets. But they cry imitation, ruin :"
II we try to increase money OF hard metal
for the people.
REVISION OF THE TARIFF.
Tho farmers demand a revision Of the
tariff.
=. 1. SO as to reduce tho burdens of taxa.
ton upon the necessarics Of life.
they should bear.
3. That it be reduced to the necessities
OK government economically administered.
=. And so adjusted az TO promote and not
suppress commerce.
This IL Democracy to the core-Demo.
cratic creed and Democratic practice.
In the teeth of these just demands the
Republicans have just increased the tariff
on TIN, wool. lumber, clothes, and nearly
ducing it they hive raised it, and they
have 40 chokcd our commerce that they
have gone to paying ship-owners ont of
yonr pockets to carry freight to foreign
lands.
AfEw cOSUNpRuMs.
1put few questions to the tariff mo-
nopolists in the Senate which I do not
think thov can satisfactorily answer.
Iney say their system makes msnufac-
turod goods cheaper. Well, if it makes
them cheaper why do tho manufacturers
want III II it makes manufactured goods
cheaper will it not, applied TO agricultural
products, make them cheaper, tooI And
If SO. how will that help tho farmer? They
say that by making manufacturers and
shippers rich with subsidies they help
farmers by giving them home market and
enabling the rich man to buy their pro-
ducts. Very well. Suppose you put the
boot on tho other leg. Give the farmers
their bounty direct and let them supply
the other people with homo market. Oh,
no, they said. that was not the plan. No
it is not the plan. The plan is TO build the
fire on others hcarthstones and letyou see
the blaze through the window panes.
BOGUS PROTECTION.
They increased the tariff or wool in the
last Congress aud wool has fallen 2 cents n
pound under it. The higher the tariff the
lower the price of wool. This has been
the rule and il Is the necessary resultant
the result anticipated.
OTHER TOPICS TOUCHED on.
The Major then went on with the dis
cussion of other things asked for by tho
farmers. He showed how alien ownership
Of land had grown up under Republican
rule: how in fourteen years. from 1861 TO
1915 the Kepu blicans had given away 1884,
600. 900 of acres of land in excess OF what
had been given away from 1888 TO 1861;
how trusts had grown up and were regard
cd by them as private affairs; how class
legislation had been their policy; how the
taxes had been taken OF the wealthy aid
fastened on the poor, DC, &c.
RECIPROCITY.
It wss funny, he said, to see the Repub-
lican party hurrahiug in the same breath
for james G. Blaine and the bill of Nc
kiDley which he had so boldly denounced
as not opening market for another bushel
Of wheat or another barrel OF pork.
There is nothing in the Blaine idea Of
reciprocity but an increased market for
our manufactures in South America at the
expense OF the farmers
Great Britain rs our great agricultural
market. She paid us 500, O0O, 900 per au
mum in excess OF what we paid her. Our
whole market in South America for our
agricultural products did not amount to
over $1,000 0O-less than per cent. Of the
balance of trade in our favor with Great
Britain.
1t was mere political cry to divert at
tention from the main proposition.
The manufacturers were selling agricul.
tural machines made here in the United
States cheaper in South America than they
sold them TO us. They were doubly ill.,
turing American farmers by using the
devices of protection $50 called 10 sell TO
foreigners on better forms, and Were build
ing up by this process rivals in agrlcultu-
ral production amongst these foreigners.
THE SPEECH.
This Is but hasty sketch Of speech
that could not be taken down robatim,
and which was replete with eloquencc and
vigor, imagery and fact.
The Major, before closing, referred TO the
interstate commerce law and the good il
had done, and the various measures Of State
and Federal legislation viii ch the Democ-
racy had patronized in the interest Of the
laboring and producing classes. He
warmly commended the protest OF the Al
lance against partisan and class legisla-
ton Equal rights to all, special privileges
to none, was bedrock Democracy. All
that any class can ask is that they be not
Disseminated against. II was not favor
but Justice that honest Democrats de-
mandcd.
Stop exemptions from taxes to the
favored few stop subsidies to the favored
few stop lending the peoples money
without interest TO the favored few; stop
giving away the public lands to the favored
few; stop bounties to the favored few {;
stop paying gold to the favored few; stop
issuing notes to the favored few let every
man and every community, every State,
every class stand equal before the law and
take the sunshine and the rain of life as it
comes. all protected alike from the storm.
enjoying alike the pure dir of constitu-
tional light, and the smiling skies OF bene-
tcent administration.