The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-20
IN FREMONT TEMPLE.
Massachusetts Republicans Hold
Their State Convention.
WILLIAM C. LOvERlNG'S ADDRESS
A Stirring Call tn Organize for Victory
A Strong and sound PIatform-The
Suspension Of the Purchase Of silver by
the Treasury Recommended.


vention to order in fremont Temple at
speech and William e. Lowering Of Taun-
ton was chosen permanent chairman. His
opening address was as follows
Gentlemen Of the Republican conven-
tion, we are here to choose four delegates
at-large to the Republican National Con
vention to be held in Minneapolis, June 4.
and to make such a declaration Of the
principles of our party as are held by the
Republicans Of this commonwealth.
1--WE approach the work with absolute
confidence. This is a business mans
campaign.
''The Republican party makes and al
ways has made the business Of the .coun--
try its great interest. The campaign Of
1888, was fought out upon the issue be-
tween protection and free trade. and the
people decided for protection. The Nc
Kinley law has been in operation eighteen
months, and 30 per cent. of the woolen
manufacturers of New England declare
themselves satisfied with its results,
and enter their protest against any
change.
"The tyro in tariff reform points to
the great increase In our imports of foreign
wools as a sign that the law has failed
This increase Is the overwhelming
evidence of its successful operation. In
creased imports of wool take the place, for
the present, Of deceased imports OF foreign
woods in manufactured form. These de-
ceased imports OF goods measure the
volume of the increase in domestic manu-
facture an increase Of nearly $40, ,0O0, 600
domestic value. an increase which
signifies 10000 additional operatives EN-
ployed and S6.000.0OO additional wages
paid. 1t means that mills formerly COM
PEELED TO stand idle part Of the year may
now run steadily.
1.-The Democratic speakers persistently
assert that the duty on everything duti-
able is 90 per cent. Now the truth is that
the duty on all dutiable articles to-day is
exactly 47lS per cent, the same as before
the Mckinley bill was passed, notwith-
standing the largely increased free list.
But even this is not fair way of making
the statement. The duty on all imports
under the old tariff was 32 per
cent cent: The ,,,i duty on all imports
The duty on all imports under the Nc
Kinley tariff is 2lIS per cent. We have re-
duced the per capita tax of the whole
country % per cent. Where it was 3d. 20
per head before the Mckinley law, it is to-
day s260 per head, and this reduction
comes Ia form that brings a greater re-
lief to the poor than to any other class.
During the last year the free imports
exceeded the dutiable imports for the first
time in the history of the country, revo-
luton brought about by the Mckinley
tariff.
The tariff is question OF methods.
Free coinage is q question of morals.
seeking TO evade an honorable obligation
by paying S3 of a debt with 81. Now it
matters little that the free silver coinage
measure met a bare defeat in the House.
1t is still live issue with q large major.
lily OF the Democratic party.
mo harm has come and we say none
can come from protective tariff, but
once pass a free coinage act and we may
be sure that many in this convention will
not live to see the end of the calamity that
will overwhelm the nation.
1.-The Fifty-first Congress Is charged
with extravagance. The billion dollar
Congress it is called. In reckoning the
expenditures of the Fifty-frst Congress
the sum Is increased bv adding the APP
preparation made for the Post Office de-
partment, a thing that was never done
until 1890
1.-The entire expenditure on account of
the running expenses of the government
for the two fiscal years ending June 80,
1892, including interest on public debt,
largely Increased payments on account OF
pensions. $1,000, 900 for taking the census
and $3S, ,0000 900 of deficiencies left over
from the previous Congress under Cleve-
land, will amount TO about 1906, ,0O0, 600. an
amount that has been often exceeded.
1.-THE Republicans enter the campaign
with united ranks. There is neither
claimant nor n pretender going up and
down the land seeking the Republican
nomination. Fellow Republicans, fellow
citizens, fellow countrvmen In the high
character, moral tone aud education of
the people, rests, and must forever under
r1I sn.,a ha txsxn g..
guard of American liberty"
The platform as reported by the COM
mi tee on resolutions reads: The Repub-
licans of Massachusetts, in harmony with
the Republicans of the United States
stands opposed to the free coinage of sill
yer; and we, their delegates, denounce the
measure supported In the present Con-
gress by the vast majority Of that party
which opposed the resumption Of special
payments, gave itself up in the time Of
the country's greatest financial dang to
every dishonest scheme which promised
IL power, and still maintains its attitude
as the consistent foe Of an honest financial
system.
The passage Of the bill now pending in
Congress, which was temporarily defeated
by the under action of the Republican
members, would derange values, reduce
the pay OF labor, impair the obligations
Of contracts and put our currency on the
SllNtT DtSls Vi tut hSldtiC udbtOuS.
We believe, in view of the con in ued de-
cline in the purchasing power of silver.
aid i'm the absence of general interna-
tional agreement fixing the rates between
the two metals. that the purchase OF sill
yer bul ion by the treasury and the issue
certificates thereon should be for the tim e
suspended.
10 the application Of the principle Of
protection In raising our national revenues
Is due In a large measure the wonderful
growth of the country and the vastly i'm
proved condition Of our wage earners over
that of the working men of Europe.
Whatever amendments of our tariff
laws may froi.. time to time be dema nded
by our changing financial needs should
be made by the friends aud and not the
enemies OF protection, and should be
made with "a view to the development Of
our great national resources aud upon the
general principle that the less the labor
involved in the production OF any article
the less should be the producti on which
IL receives.
We commend the system Of com mercial
treaties which seeks the rational expansion
of our foreign trade by arrangements hsv-
ing regard TO the peculiar laws aud pro
due of each nation, rather than by a
general law opening our markets TO for