The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-22

form was sent out Dy MI. cleveland OF
his friends,-I call it the Gray Gables
platform, which empodied these consid-
erations. 1t was mild but not aggres-
sive platform of protectlon. The Demo-
cratic party was apparently about to
camp where we had camped the year be-
fore. But at the witching hour of mid
nioht-when graveyards are said to yawn
Mr. Neal of my own state--a Bourbon
Democrat born in Virginia and a disciple
of Calhoun brought forward the Neal
Watterson resolution which was a
straight right-about-face on the tariff
question. The platform which they did
adopt declared that the United States
government had mo constitutional power
to impose and collect dollar for tax,
except for purposes Of revenue only
Now that language has been used
three times in this country. The first
time was when South Carolina in 1882,
under the lead of Calhoun, refused to
pay duties, declared that the United
States government had no right to levy
such duties, and set up an incipient re-
bellion Andrew Jackson was then
President, and he crushed out that re-
bellion by threatening to hang Calhoun
if he persisted. He didn't persist TAp-
plause, The second occasion when
these words were used was in the consti-
tuition which the Confederate states
adopted at Montgomery in 1861, and that
declaration was blotted out only after
the expenditure of millions of treasure
and the blood of thousands. The third
time that this declaration has been used
is in the Democratic platform adopted at
Chicago.
So now we have three of kind-all
breathing the same spirit; all making the
same declaration; all standing out in de-
tiance of the settled law and policy of
the government, Three great epochs Of
emocracy-incipient rebellion, crushed
by the hand of a stern patriotic Demo
craft Second, reign of blood, terror,
treason, disunlon aud rebellion-crushed
by the uprising OF great free people.
Third. the peaceful uprising OF the De M
ocratic party, trampling under foot the
counsels of their own wisest men, crush
ing into fragments the carefully and in
geniously constructed platform of it's
own candidate, proclaiming red handed
purposes against the best interests of
commerce, of industry, Of labor, of
capital-a
Revolution Within the Party
to be crushed and trampled under foot
and be destroyed by another great popu-
lar uprising of the people in next Novem-
Der. Applause.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, will not
discuss with you long whether the pro-
tective tariff is Constitutional or not In
the old days before the constitution was
adopted, but after. the Revolution we had
no authority to levy a national tariff.
Now let any young man who wishes to
investigate this subject read of the state
of the country in those days. The goods
of England came over duty free, filled
the stores of New England, crowded out
our industries, and broughtsuch distress
upon our people, such business prostra-
ton that there was instruction and more
menace to our liberties than the arms of
England had been able to threaten. Re-
volt, mob law and revolution made their
appearance in Massachusetts and in the
wrote over from France, and advised the
formation of a constitution. And after
that Constitution had been formed, and
the first Congress had assembled, the Sec
ond bill passed was a protective
tariff bill, so described in its very title.
President Washington signed that bill
and it became a law. He evidently be-
lieved in the constitutionality of pro-
tective tariff, So did Clay and Andrew
Jackson, and even Buchanan. Yet, a
hundred years after the passage of the
first tariff bill, we find little 8x10 Demo-
Gratis squeaking over the country: "You
haven't any constitutional right to pass
protective tariff BILL" Loud laughter
and applause.]
General Grosvenor concluded with an
eloquent summary of the results of the
Mckinley bill, paying in the course of his
remarks a high tribute to Mr.. Blaine,
which was received with loud applause.
Nrr. Ingraham's Reckless Statement
that prices had been greatly raised by
the Mckinley bill was disposed of very
conclusively. 81 have it," said General
Grosvenor, upon the authority of Sena-
tor Carlisle and Senator Isham G. Harris,
with their three Republican colleagues in
the Senate Committee, that from the date
of the Mckinley law to the day of their
recent report, the price of not a single
article required for our living advanced,
and that the prices of such articles are
less than when the Mckinley bill became
a law" Loud applause.