The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-24

bnon delivered 10 tlsm amid the thunders
OF some New England mountain.
THE PEOPLE SHALL RULE.
We bo,eyc that God ordained the peo-
Mo ~ these United States TO rule them
solres aud we are willing 10 abide 10y
The Interpretation of the constitution as
ha,ded down 20 us by jefferson ana
Madison and Randolph. and those VINO
framed il. | defy Southern repre-
sentative. even if he has loined tne
ranks of this new party, when seems "
he giving you all some trouble Dut WEIGH
I nredjct will die before the leaves 81
autnmn fade. to vote for Force Dill
and 60 vote in favor Of imposing the
shncklcs of this cruel burden upon the
peopIe of the South. / appeal to you
who are wavcring in the ranks. .,
DO YOU want your territory infested
hv hands Of political outlaws. who will
commit moro havoc than all me cmpat-
fled ranks Of war. and who will do what
they did before plumber the treasury oil
every State into which they immlgrate
| expect not. think that you will take
proper care Of this question, and when
YOU again send a solid delegation OF
Democratic representatives from a soma
South. YOU will re-echo TO the confines OF
this Republic the death knel of this trea-
sonabe plot against the welfare OF your
people.
STICK BY THE PARTY.
Mr.. Rayncr then appealed to South.
ern Democrats not TO leave the ranks OF
the Democratic party and 10 chase after
such a strange fancy and chAnera as
General Weaver. the candidate OF the
Ponies party, and the incongruOus med
ley that he has gathered around MN.
You ask me what the principles OF tins
new party are. | tell you that 1t has
no principles that ! can discover: Its
motto seems to he, I'VE do not know
what we want, but we are bound TO get
it,"
After discussing the fallacies of this
new movement. Mr. Rnyncr closed by
glowing peroration, mentioning some of
the most illUstriouS Democrats whose
names Virginia had inscribed high up
in the temple Of Democracy. The col
umn stands, said he 1t has taken a
hundred years TO build it, Block after
block yOu have moulded from its base 10
the approaches of its summit. Are YOU
willing 10 help place upon its summit
n Democrat who is the faithful follow
er and disciple Of those patriots whose
ashes sleep upon your hills, or are you
willing to repudiate their memory, TO
abandon your traditions and 10 crumbe
this column into fragments. and with
sacrilegious hand to blast and hcw il
down!
NOT AN ECONOMIC QUESTION.
1t is not entirely an economic question
whether the duty shall be raised upon
this article or lowered upon that: it is
largely a political and constitutional one
whether, with an overlooking Treasury.
this Government has the right or power
to levy taxes beyond the limit Of its
necessary expenses and obligations. We
claim that it has not, and if we expect
to have a future we must take an I'M
swerving stand against a policy that
proposes to place a CALLING yoke around
the necks of freemen and lead them to
the shambles TO be sacrificed in the in
terest of combines of centralized wealth.
who for a quarter of a century have
been gathering their toll at the ports of
entry of this republic.
The Republican party insists that it
has the constitutional right TO strain and
pcryert the taxing power in order TO pro-
tect what it calls the home market against
foreign competition, and to enrich the
producers and manufacturers who CON
troll the supply at the expense of the peo-
pie who consume the product.
This issue is neither dead nor sleeping.
Shadows have crossed its path, and for
time it went down in darkness. but public
opinion will rekindle it and keep its fires
burning.
Public opinion moves slowly and eau
tiously; it advances with measured steps,
but when it does resolve it is no coward,
and when it strikes il is with fearless de-
termination. 1t is with us upon this
issue
The day will come when the people
will tear the III isk from those who have
robbed them, and the truth will be re-
vealed. They will demand q return of
the plumber. They will demand that the
Government must dissolve its cOpartner-
ship with monopoly, and that they will
no longer supply the profits TO the firm;
they viii demand that American ports
shall be opened for the commerce Of man
kind as God intended they should be;
they will march towards the citadel with
in which the Quays and the Wanamakers
lie entrenched, and / earnestly believe
that if we maintain the courage of our
convictions the citadel will be stOrmed,
and upon its ruins. by the intelligent suf-
frages of our cOuntrymen, we will again
be called upon to shape and guide the
destiny of the republic.
For Whose benefit has this system of
protection been maintained? For the
benefit of the labOring classes or the peO-
pie at large? No; it is false How can
you benefit mankind by raising the price
of the food that they eat and the raj
ment that they wear and the houses that
they live in! Take, for instance, the
duty on lumber. Who reaps the advan-
tages from that? Not the persons who
really produce it. but the land-grabbcrs
who have monopoized the timber lands.
1t has been stated without contradiction
that by far the greater portion of the
timber land in Michigan is owned by
three persons in the city of Detroit.
What has the duty OH sugar done eX-
cept 10 increase the value of sugar lands
And when you analyZe the subject in
its details you will find that the profits
that arise from protection are all swal-
lowed up in the ownership of the raw
material, and the protection that S sub
sequently imposed is the inevitable result
of Il system that begins by taxing the
products of nature, and then is compel
ed to follow it up by affOrding relief 10
the industry of man.
And how is all this done? BY forming
rings and combinations in Congress.
Ohio says: We demand the retention of
the tariff on wool. Pennsylvania chimes
in and says: You can have it, provided
you give us the tariff on coal and iron.
New England assents, provided you pro-
tect her manufacturers against tile tariff
with which you have already favored
Ohio and Pennsylvania
CHAIN OF PROTECTION.
And so on through the list until you
have an adamantine chain of protection
stretched around this country that Is
pressing to death lis efforts for prosperity
within, and that presents an impenetra-
bic barrier which you cannot break