Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-29
PLEA FOR ANDY STEWART.

| DalZell Says the Colonel Was Robbed of His
Seat, and He Calls on the Voters to Re-
turn Him to Congress-An Address That
Caught the Crowd.
After Mckinley got through, the field of
national politics had been pretty thor
| oughly traversed, but this did not deter
Congressman Dalzell from producing some
new ideas on the tariff. The little Pitts
burger was well received, and spoke for
fully an hour. He followed the line of az
gument presented in his speech at the West
End last Saturday evening and already
published in THE DISPATCH. In his effort
Mr.. Dalzell among other things said
'In the list of great men in this country
Benjamin Harrison is at home with his
peers. The Republican platform speaks
for honest money, protection to American
capital and labor, and for an honest ballot
and free count 1t looks to building up the
navy and insists always on the glory of our
people. The Democratic platform is mer-
ciless with the brutal frankness with which
it ignores labor and the vested rights of the
country. Not content with aiming blow
at our economic system, it tries to knock
out our national banks and substitute in
stead State banks with their notes of little
or no value. The Republican plat
form stands for all that is American, for
honest money and the economic system that
has made US the greatest manufacturing ma
tion in the world.
No Chinese Wall Built Yet.
Democrats contended that the McKin-
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the country. Our exports last year were
over $4,000. 900, 000 For the first time
in our history our free imports
amounted to S55, 900, OOO That is, under
the Mckinley bill our free imports
amou nted to S11, 900, 600 more than dutiable
goods. Before We got foreign goods and
they got our money. Laughter. More
home manufactures, greater opportunities
to work at better wages, money kept at
home. These are some of the fruits of the
Mckinley bill
"But the half has not yet been told.
What is reciprocity? 1t is free trade in
non-competing products South of us are
countries that produce many things we do
not. There is no duty on tea, coffee or rub
Der. These articles came into our ports
free while our goods went into their land
charged with a tariff Here reciprocity
stepped in and removed the foreign duty.
Reciprocity is the introduction of the
golden rule among nations 1t has opened
up a commerce that is worth to US $500, ,OOO,-
600 yearly.
'fUnder the treaties our foreign COM
merce with Southern countries has in
creased 100000 annually. Formerly
our imports from Brazil amounted to S60,-
900, 600 yearly and they bought from US
$40, ZOO, 900 worth. That is, they took our
money and spent it in other countries Now
reciprocity aims to even up this trade and
have the balance in our sfavor The tariff
on tin plate is building AZ plants in the
country and has invested 5000, 900 in that
industry. We have already turned out TO-
600, 600 pounds. 1t is easily made and we
can produce it.
An American Can Make Anything.
can American can make anything that
any workman on the earth can turn out. We
paid England S36, 900, 900 for tin plate last
year. Why shouldn't that money be kept
here to enrich our own people? 1 can say
that Steel & Co., woolen manufacturers, of
Liverpool, have removed their plant to
Bristol, Pa, as a result of the Mckinley
BILL"
Mr. Dalzell said the tariff was tax, but
the people did not pay it. He referred to
the constitutionality OF levylng duties, and
stated that Andrew Jackson sat down on
Calhoun, who 6rst raised the question. He
added that the Democratic platform means
revolution, and the people do not want the
free trade of Calhoun and the Southern
Confederacy. He spoke of the last
Republican Congress which refunded
the direct tax, paid the
French spoliation claims and dotted the
country with public buildings. They were
accused of gross extravaganza. The Demo-
cratic House with big majority comes
along without having passed an appropria-
tion ior public building, and it spends
s42. 600, 600 more than the Congress con,
trolled by Speaker Reed. Mr.. Dalzell
made a strong appeal for Colonel Andy
Stewart He said he had been robbed of
his seat, and as matter of justice he called
on the voters 10 send him back and rebuke
the Democrats. He wound up by advising