The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-05
POINTS ON PAWTUCKET.
Ex-Speaker Reed Addresses a Big
Audience.
IT WAS A SPLENDID MEETING.
The Ohjsctors In III Audience Puiverized
by III "Ex-Csar's" wit-Othsr Points.

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The Republican meeting held In Music
Hail last evenin9, was a big success In
every way. The hall was packed to the
doors, and the corridors and hall were
moro thar comfortably filled with eager
spectators. On the stage were In the
neighborhood Of fifty prominent Republi-
q nj including ex-Mayor Frederick c.
Saylos, Samuel p. Colt. John r. Adams,
William II. Haskell, Edwin Darling, Fred.
w. Easton, Henry r. jerks, the Rev. j. J..
Woolley, Henry f. jerks, and a number
of others. President Tiepke OF the State
Republican League presided, and first In
Maine, who was received with loud and
generous applause. lie said:
Fellow citizens, ladies and gentlemen
There Is one advantage which Republican
speakers have all over the Democratic
speakers, and that is they utter the same
Whatever the Republicans say in one
region can be said and applies TO the rest.
The Democrats lave to vary their
ments for the purpose OF concealment. In
Congress all OF these men were for free
silver, but o n of them said a word In
Rhode Island about It; do not say this
reproachfully, but descriptively. They
are not necessarily bad men, they are
merely Democrats. David b. Hill was
the author Of that saying, i am a Demo
crat,' which in the West means Il am n
free silver man. and in the East means i
am . gold man This country has grown
richer since 1860 than ever before, and yet
] know Of no man VINO has piled up a
great amount OF wealth; of course some
have. II anybody Is going to make q
great amount OF money l am willing be
should be an American citizen, rather
than a citizen Of Great Britain. Since
1860 all Of us have got a little of the
wealth of the country. When you see
the streets rs brilliantly lighted as
are the streets of Pawtucket to-
night, you see the diffusion of
wealth that / like to see. And
te,s is. is sTsyvw e specimen s n OF what at
Pawtucket are twice as well of to-day as
they were thirty years ago. and yet Mr..
Grover Cleveland says we rave been
wasting a thousand millions of dollars
zach year. in face of the fact that the
people are growing better. II this is not
falls dat to the ground. Where is the
finest market In the world, where you
can get the most money to spendf And
where is thatr In America, where the
people have lived under Republican pro-
lection for twenty-five years.
4uV xuCAAAnASy DAA ~ Only a. IcNlSlOu
of the tariff, yet these Western Congress
men are attacking not only this revision,
but the tariff itself. Everybody in the
world except Great Britain and the Demo
cratic party believes In protection. Pro-
teetieH- has justified itself by actual re-
great achievement the Democratic party
has accomplished in the last thirty years.
When the country wants something they
call in the Republican party. When they
want TO call a halt they call In the Demo.
cratic party. The Democrats wanted free
one IN Congress, aud yet they have not
given the country free silver. They
sneaked out Of 1t until after De election.
One Democrat says the country is bank
rupt, and another wants Us to give them
free wool, which would cut off the rev.
enue $50, 000, 600. The Democrats I'm Con
gress have proved their absolute incapac-
ity to do b work they set out to do. The
reason Is because their principles are so
different that they do not have united &C
ton. The Republican party is n united
party. We make reason and they make
talk. Look up the history of the country for
the last thirty years. and see IL there has
been anything done by the Republican
party ttrnt has had to be retracted. You
are lighting a battle In Rhode Island to-
day on which more turns than turned on
the battle Of Gettysburg. Your Senator
from this State aud head and shoulders
over all the rest III Congress, and you
should appreciate this great superiority
by returning to Congress the man who
knows moro about these economic ques-
tons than any other man in the Congress
of the United States.
The Hon. Roswell G.. Horr of Michigan,
was then introduced, who said he had
been . Republican since the organization
Of the party and he knew what the party
meant. 1t believes in 80 placing the rev.
enues OF the Government rs to build up
tho country. The Democrats believe in
levying the tariff for revenue only, and If
by. chance there Is any protection in it. 1t
absolute free trade. Great Britain col
lected tl02, 000, 900 last year by revenue. on
the free trade plan. She levies her duties
on articles she cannot produce herself, as
tea, coffee, tobacco, etc. The Republican
plan is to put articles which we cannot
produce on the free list. II you levy n
duty on articles of this kind, the price of
these articles goes up, and that kind Of a
tariff comes almost entirely from the
working people. The Democrats say that
a tariff on articles which we can produce
here is also q tax, and comes out Of the
consumer.
When you levy a duty on the protective
plan, four things follow in b United
States First, you build up new indus
tries second, we invariably pay batter
wages in the United States than are paid
anywhere else in the world third, we
keep a large amount of money in this
country that would otherwise 20 ouA And
fourth, we invariably cheaper the ptoddct
for the people in the United States who
consume the product, by building up an
industry.
The speaker then considered several
commodities which we were producing in
this country, proving that since the tariff
was put on these articles the price had
steadily decreased. In speaking of the
tin plate question he said that tin itself
was on the free list, but a tariff was put
upon tin-plate SO we could make IL In his
country. There are o eleven tin-plate
factories In the United States, aud twenty
others preparing to manufacture this
comidity. In speaking OF raw material"
he said; Wool and pig iron are both the
products of labor, but they are called
"raw material" by the Democrats.
Under the Mckinley bill you have free
wool for the foreign market aud protected
wool for the home market. The Demo
Gratis always say we annot start these
new Industries. They said we could not
make salt or plate glass, but we do. The
idea OF the present tariff system Is to
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