The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-23

Henry G. Thresher, Jethro Baker treas
urer, c. Fred Crawford; secretary. Elmer
T.. Lent; assistant secretary, Reuben
Dame. Three applications for member
ship were received, and vote of thanks
was rendered TO the officers of the past
year for their services.
The meeting then adjourned to the
floor above, where the company sat down
TO six long tables, completely filling Odd
Fellows Hall. At the head table were
seated Lieut.. Gov. Stearns, the presi
dent-elect, who acted as master of
ceremonies; the Hon. Adm b.
Capron. speaker of the House of
Boston; Benjamin NJ. Bosworth, town
solicitor; ex-Gov. A. III. Littlefeld; Henry
T.. Tiepke, president of the Rhode Island
Republican State League; the Hon. Il. l..
Freeman; Henry {. &. Du Bois of Provi-
dence, president of the State British
Woolley, G. Fred Crawford, town clerk;
john L. Goldsworthy. Judge of probate;
Judge Fred n. Golf, j. NJ. Authier, pub
Usher of IL L'Esperdnce; James j. Andrews,
president of the Town Council John
Bloomfield, George T. Grant and others.
For nearly an hour the company enjoyed
a first-class banquet, served by Welch
Brothers, caterers.
After the menu had been thoroughly
sampled President Stearns called the as
semblage to order and introduced the
Hon. David Hall Rice. who made an elo-
quent and sound address on the tariff
question. The substance of his remarks
is as follows:
"Mr. Chairman and members of the Re
publican Association-It is great pleas
ure 10 me to come from the state of Massa-
chusetts 10 address the people of Rhode
Island on occasions of this kind, for Rhode
Island was, i believe. the first State in the
TTninn IN yiy Rant,hlipan VII \
trust that this state of affairs will be re-
peated in 1892. Again, it is pleasure TO
come here to address this association,
bearing as il does the name of the grand
est statesman and patriot the country
ever knew, the name of Abraham Lincoln.
The two political parties are governed
by principles that are widely divergent.
The Republican doctrine is that we must
place the tax on the luXuries of life and
not on the products used by the working
man. The Democratic principle is to al
low all articles of import that are not pro-
duced in this country to come in free. The
Democrats say, we will relieve you from
taxatioB. That is fraud on the face of
il. There can be no government without
taxes of ome,kind. Somebody must pay
the tax, for no nation exists without tax
alton. The Democrats say in effect that
the taxes should be collected out of the
wages of the country; the Republicans
place that tax upon the accumulated
wealth. That is the difference between
the two principles. The question is. where
and how to place the tax so the people
will feel it least, and how to make the
foreigners pay the tax. for believe in
making the foreigners pay if
we can. England for the last forty years
has levied tax on these articles which
were used every day, and for the produc
tinn Of which there was no domestic in
dustry To cut the prices down."
Mr.. Rice was foil owed by the Hon.
Adm b. Capron, who heartily endorsed all
that had been said. ald spoke of the gen
eral excellence of the state ticket, ana the
Importance of the ate goiug Republican
at the next electio 4. OF the opposing
ticket the most he w Duld say was that il
was respectable. IL closed by assuring
tue itt b4ultc,,n parry success.
Other remarks were made by BENJAMIN
VI. Bosworth, Esq, town solicitor of Lin
coin, who outlined the history of the re-
instatement of the Republican party in
the town last summer the Hon. Il. l..
Freeman, who claimed the honor of sug-
gesting the name of Lincoln for the town,
and by Henry u. Tiepke.