Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
Dalzen Was Willing to Explain.

had done for the Homestead men.
DaIzen Was Willing to Explain.
Instantly the audience was in confusion,
and there were loud cries of ''put him out, ="
''sit down." etc Others cheered on the in
trepid questioner. Mr.. Dalzell soon silenced
the tumult, commended the man for asking
questions, and in time showed how politics
had nothing to do with the Homestead
affair
The meeting was held under the auspices
of the West End Republican Club in honor
of the Conkling Club, of the Southside. The
latter was slow in arriving, and after wait
ing until o'clock Mr.. Dalzell commenced
his speech before a meager crowd. The
Iron City Band furnished the music In a
half hour or so the Conkling Club put in an
appearance, having marched from Four
teenth street. They were dusty and tired,
but they looked well in their white uniforms.
Mr.. Dalzeu stopped until they were seated,
and then the rink was jammed to
the door, The bowling allev in
the basement did a lively business
during the meeting, but the people were so
interested that they paid little attention
to the loud collisions between the balls
The name of Blaine was wildly cheered,
and the time will never come when the
man from Maine will be turned down in the
hearts of Pennsylvania people.
The Officers of the Meeting,
3 Ex-Couneilman A. H. Weaver presided.
Some of the Vice Presidents were George
1. Holiday, John Shenkel, Henry Daub,
William Reed, Alexander Phillips, John
A. Wood, W. II. Mccullough. Reuben
Rees, Isaac Harper, William Tranter and
A. G. Wentengell. The secretaries were
Arthur Fording, George B. Nesbitt and S.
II. French. 1t was purely West End
meeting and very few people from the old
city were noticed in the audience. The
crowd came from the south side of the Mo-
nongahela river. President Weaver, in a
few words, introduced Congressman Dal-
zell In his speech he said:
"We meet tonight to fire the opening
gun in the campaign in Western Pennsyl-
vania, gun which will be the signal of a
great victory in November. We are here
to ratify the principles of the Minneapolis
Convention. The principal issue in this
campaign which relates to us is the tariff
1t costs money to run this Govern
ment, and how is the money raised?
The daily expenses are 81, 600, 600, or $685.
600, COO must be raised yearly to keep the
country going How shall this money be
raised in such way as to impose the least
burden on the citizen?
The Constitutional Manner of Taxing.
''The Constitution recognizes three ways:
By direct tax, by an internal revenue and
by a duty on imports. You will understand
what mean by a direct tax when I say
that every man here pays on his
property a direct tax to support the munich
pal government We do have internal
revenue taxes, but they were war taxes,
and we are gradually getting rid of them.
The bulk of the 1865, ,000, 900 comes from the
imports collected at the custom houses.
The two parties agree that the money
should be raised by a tariff, and not
by direct taxation or excuses. So far
we agree, but at this point we split,
and the two parties were never so far apart
as now. We differ as to the character of the
tariff.
''The Democrats want a tariff for revenue
only, and the Republicans insist on duties
that will protect their labor and their
homes. The Democrats claim that
the protective system is fraud,
and is unconstitutional The Repub-
icans do not impose q tax on products
that do not come into competition with our
labor. We want a tariff that protects
Americans 1t is little late now to raise
any question as to the constitutionality of
the tariff after we have had one for 100
years.
"a revenue tariff imposes q duty on all
articles that we do mot or cannot