Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-19

| allowing the foreign producers Of sugar.
these produets H free of @ duty. re provfdsd IL they
| admit fairly equivalent quantity Of our
products to their ports, other free or at
| specified reductions in duties. As the Demo
Gratis consider this a sham. Of course they
| will, If in power, abolish it. What then2
Will they simply throw away the advantages
| gained by this administration for the admis-
kets and yet continue to let the foreigners
send in their products free? or, if ashamed Of
folly like that. will they dare TO put back
the old duties on sugar, tea, coffee and the
rest, and 80 put up the price again to the
whole body OF our population
Our SHAM reciprocity" has becn in ef-
feet but short time, but the increase in
our exports to those countries in the arti-
cles affected by our agreements down to
june 80 was over $40, 1l5.000. In some of the
countries the in cress was over 500 per cent
and the articles affected were largely agri-
cultural-oorn, wheat, -four, pork, butter,
etc.; in other countries,e the increase ex.
tended also to our cotton, iron and wooden
manufactures. Ask the people if they want
months brings such results because the
Democratic Convention chooses to call it =
sham?
The Democratic platform declares that it
is the only party that has given fhe country
vigorous foreign policy. Well, its vigor-
Gus foreign policy did not remove the in
vidious and unfriendly. discrimination
against us by large number of European
countries, which positively prohibited the
importation Of our pork on the untru thlul
pretext that it was dangerous to health.
Good Fruits of Our Foreign Policy.
The foreign policy of the present Repub-
1ican administration did, and, in spite of
high duties and all the difficulties attending
the sudden revival Of long prohibited
trade in an officially slandered article which
the people had been taught to believe dan
gerous, in the few months that have elapsed
A. VIZ
had amounted to over $4,000 up to June 80
last
Next to Washington's "unconstttutional'
tariff and this administrations "sham reci-
prooity," comes Salmon p. Chase's national
banking system. That, too. must be abol-
ished, and, SO the Democratic platform de-
clares, for the renewal of the wildcat bank
ing, by the abolition Of the long and wisely
maintained tax on State bank issues. Such
a proposal calls for the return of the good
old times when every farmer had to consult
"Thompson's Bank Note Reporter" before
he dared take bill for more than 80 cents.
Our enemies have made our campaign for
us. Hold them to their own deliberately
avowed principles. We go to the people
claiming that the Republicans have given
the country a clean, honorable, business
like and highly successful administration;
that O change without cause is q business in
jury to every citizen, and that there is no
this country to have an immediate and an
absolute change. They want TO repeal the
Mckinley tariff at once They denounce a
protective tariff Of any sort or description;
slightest reference to the defense OF Amer
lean workingmen's wages; declare that
Washington and Madison, and even Andrew
Jackson. didn't understand the Constitution,
and that nobody but themselves and Jeffer-
son Davis ever did: denounce anything but
pure tariff for revenue only as unconstitu-
tional; want to get rid Of our reciprocity,
and demand return to wildcat banking.
Qnld ham Tn hnir Nil Inc
they rushed SO plainly and palpably upon
their fate since the memorable week in 1854
when their taunt in Chicago that the war
for the Union was a failure was instantly
answered by the victorious thunders Of
Shermap's guns from Atlanta and the tri-
cheers OF Sheridan's troopers in
the valley. Let us rise up and go forward.
They have been blinded again to their own
hands.
MIR. Reid En- Route to Springfield.
After Mr. Reid's train left Chicago there
was no stop made until it reached Joliet.
Here q crowd consisting largely of working
men had collected at the station, and they
followed the train along the track. In re-
sponse to their calls he made brief speech,
the main points of which were covered in
his remarks here. Said he:
want to remind the workingmen that the
committee of the late Democratic Conven-
tion who framed the original tariff plank in
their platform were wiser than the conven-
ton ITSELF The committee proposed plan
favoring some protection to workingmen,
but the convention would not have it. They
threw that plank OF the committee aside
and substituted plank of their own, which
you will find in their platform, for tariff
Ior revenue only, declaring it to be the
principle of the Democratic
party that no tariff shall be levied for any
,ther purpose
Similar speeches were made to large
,rowds at Braidwood aud Pontiac.