Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-09

prevailed throughout the country.
When we had protective tariff, times
were better. and every branch of bust
ness fourished.
Now, in reference to the Democratic
platform, which says that tariff should
be collected for revenue only-there is
no such thing as tariff for revenue only.
Suppose an Englishman was to come to
Los Angeles with wagon load of dinner
pals. He Is stopped because it is un-
constitutional, and he must get his
license. Is it not right that our mer-
chants and manufacturers should be
protected against foreign merchants? A
people who do not protect themselves
are too cowaYdly to live in free and en-
lightened government. do not believe
that there is a man within the sound of
my voice who wants cheap things, in the
sense that it is spoken. A cheap coun-
try is a poverty-stricken country-a
country that buys more than it sells.
Whenever a man has no money he
wants to buy cheap; but when you
have something to sell you want good
prices, and you want good wages. We
want no cheapness of the Chinese. Give
me the dignity Of American manhood,
rather than the groveling cheap laborer
who lives in distress and dies in want.
Reports show that in free trade England
large percentage Of the laborers are
enabled to eat meat only once week,
and seldom or never taste milk.
Ii our hospitals treated their poor
in that manner, the officers would be
severely punished. 1t is stated that the
laborers are in terrible condition, and
after one has read good old-fashioned
Democratic speech, he would conclude
that this country was in deplorable
condition but We should recollect that
the necessaries of life are 20 per cent
cheaper now than in 1860, and from Is
to 20 per cent higher in England. Con-
aidering this, we must admit that
America is very good country. There
is only one country on the globe where
taxes are as low as in this, and that is
in Russia. Thousands of people leave
Europe and come to this country, where
they find religious and educa-
tional advantages, and where
they can earn more than
bare living, while in their own coun-
try they can barely exist. Very few
Americans emigrate to Europe. Of the
81 millionaires in California, ,dthey grew
rich IN other ways, and not by manu-
featuring mainly. They say that the
manufacturers are gobbling up the coun-
try; Carnegie is making great deal of
money. But, would you prefer for
eigner to build up fortune in Sheffield,
or in America?
In referring to trusts, the speaker said
that very few trusts grew out of the pro-
tective tariff, and cited electric light
companies, water companies, and rail-
roads, especially railroads, which were
certainly monopolies and should
have tariff put upon them.
The speaker concluded by saying that
the Republican party deserves the con-
fidence Of the people, that it has done
as much for the country as any other in
the history of the country. Our coun-
try has paid more than 81 ZOO, 600 of our
debt within the past 80 years, and there
has been general prosperity and happi-
ness throughout the nation under Re-
publican rule. This is the land of free
dom, the land of peace, and the land of
protection, and we may thank God that
we live in land where all may breathe
the air of liberty.