The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-20
GLENN'S ORATORY!!
A Fine Effort at the Opera
House Thursday Night.
TARIFF INIQUITY EXPOSED.
The Rich Getting Richer and the Poor
Poorer Under its Workings.
CARDS FREE; BIBLES TAXED.
The Pension System Has Become a SCan-
dal to the Country.
TARIFF INIQUITY EXPOSED.
CARDS FREE; BIBLES TAXED.

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An Enthusiastic House Greeted Mr..
Glenn Who Made IN ImpassiOned
but Unprejudiced Appeal to All to
Vote for Democracy and Right
Cleveland and Stevenson, Great
and TrueMen, and Worthy Lead
ers-Weayer Denounced Because
of His Cruelty During the War
Capt r. B. Glenn, of Winston, Dem
ocratic eIector-at-large, after an intro
duction by G. B. Watson, addressed
Browns Opera House full of people
Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Ofcourse
Mr. Glenn's fame as a campaigner and
Butler-downer had preceded him here
but the flow of his oratory last night
rose to and oyertopped the high water
mark of all expectations. If shivers
running down fellows spinal column
are any sign of elOquence, then Mr..
Glenn was eloquent last night. One
felt them running down his own back,
and caught himself looking for rip
pies down the backs of his neighbOrs'
coats to see if others were affected
the same way.
Mr.. Glenn has every attribute of
born orator. Favored by Providence
with a fine physique, a graceful car
riage, a magnetic cOuntenance and a
magnificent voice, he has cultivated
an expressive delivery, rare persua-
siveness, a sparkling humOr, tear
drawing pathos, and-his strongest
point-a power of invective that is
Dire adful He said in the outset, after
the prolonged cheering which greet
ed him had subsidized, that he was sorry
Marion Butler wasn't there, but as he
proceeded, the more compassionate
among his audience almost felt glad
that Butler was escaping the scathing
irony which Mr.. Glenn was proving
himself capapable of.
A SHARP SWORD.
Mr. Watson, in introducing him,
had paid a glowing tribute to his
triumph over Butler In referring to
this. Mr.. Glenn modestly disclaimed
any great credit for what he had done
and generously said that any other
man could have overcome the Third
party schemer as well as he, if armed
with the same weapon-"the truth OF
Democracy"
He said he had come out to discuss
fairly and impartially the vital issues
of the day. He had no abuse for any
man who did not honestly agree with
with him, but no man ought to be go
ing around this year hanging his head
because he is a Democrat. Il am not
one," he exclaimed, ''who go around
as some campaignerS are doing apollo
giZing for our nominees. Cleveland
and Stevenson are honest enough, no
bic enough and true enough for any
man to vote for and glory in the act" "
[Great applause.l Grover Cleveland
made the grandest, noblest president
this country has ever had s.r since ii the {;
days of Washington and Jefferson" }"
[Renewed and long continued ap-
plause.
THE TARIFF INIQUITY.
Mr.. Glenn handled the tariff ques-
tion, so dry generally in the hands of
the average stump speaker, in mas
terly manner. His explanation of the
tariff system was clear, and his denun-
citation of it's iniquitieS, cauStic. A
tariff, he showed, was an indirect tax.
Everybody kicks at having to pay
taxes The sheriff meets with more
abuse and has more trouble in his tax
collecting than in the discharge of any
other of his arduOuS and unenviable
duties. Our ancestors in the past OBJ
| jected to taxation, and resisted the
collection of the stamp tax and of the
| tea tax, and it seems to be in the
| heredity of us, their descendants, to do
likewise. Yet our direct taxes, State
| and county together, do not amount
| to but 81 per capita, while the indirect
tariff taxes of the whole county
amount to $50 per capita. And Third
party leaders, in the face of this fact,
| question is matter of small import
| AN APT ILLUSTRATION.
Suppose merchant in town had
| -four which he could sell at So sack
| on this market and the farmers in the
country could bring their flour here
and also sell it at So a sack. But all
at once the Board of Aldermen should
| step in and say to the farmers you
| can't sell your flour in this market
unless you pay ST tax for the privilege.
| We are going to protect our merch-
ants Don't you see the result would
| be that the merchants would put the
price of their flour up to S3.90 a sack,
and that this interference by the legal
authorities would force the citizens to
pay inordinate rates for their flour
| That it would be legalsrobbery, max
ing them in the end pay the tariff tax
! while the protected merchant lays VI
his wealth gotten by this fraud? ? The
analogy applies to the United States
which forces the other rich nations OF
the earth to pay high tariffs for tht
| privilege of selling in our markets
while the tax thus obtained is in the
end paid by the consumers of tht
goods thus imported"
Mr.. Glenn said he was in Canada
once, and he found that he could buy
| a suit of woolen clothes there for 81;
for which he had to pay S25 when hs
crossed the ST. Laurence river bacl
over into the United States, becaus'
of the tariff in this country; that ht
could buy a pair of shoes on the Can
ada side for 275 which cost 81 on tn,
i United State side of the river; that /