The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-11-05


Nh Mills from the great manutactur.
ing state Of Texas laughter II know
of nothing they manufacture down
there except collins for coiored men
who vote the Republican ticket
!ciicess and laughter I, are in the habit
OF disappointing the attitude of the
republican party Oh this subject.
The speaker then took up the Demo
cratic position in 1892, when they call
ed FOX Il tariff for revenue only" and
SAID
The south looked at the north fer
The effect of the protective tariff. and
saw III New England and New York
and Pennsylvania manufacturing i'll
duStritS scattered all over: she saw the
upbu!lGing everywhere of the happy
homes Of the liboring men. She saw
wages advancing and the laboring man
ambitious and hopeful. She saw the
Schcol house uron the hilltop ana IN
the valley. and everywhere through
the north WAS heard the music of ma
chincry. She saw the north cantlnu-
ally increasing in wealth and indie
penIencp. but when she turned and
gaZcd upon herself, what did she find:
Nothing. No manufacturing indust-
ries; no happy homes of Labor; no i..u-
sic of machinery. She found the dead
/ level of agriculture, nothing els
! That WAS not because the south had
not wafer power or ililmitahle forests
/ of valuable timber, or failed IN mtn"r-
al wealth. God had hlest her III all the
elements which go to make up a great
manufacturing country.
why was this great difference. :.
r,T
three thousand miles had rolled be-
tween The two countries 1t was be
cause the south had fastened upon her
the system of degraded, unpaid labor.
| II was because the man worked with
out wages; because they were bought,
AMI sold and dashed; denied the right
OF home and family and the rights
which Cos! made between husband ard
wife, father and mother, sister and
brother; because they had no homes.
And ycu Go not need to be told that
manufactures never did and never VIII
grow up unless the labor which sup
ports them is as free as the air we
breathe. Applause. God made II 50
and man cannot change il. And When
| the war came they sent Il commission
over to Great Britain to secure the
early recognition of the southern con
fedtracy, and they stated III their adj
dress to Lord John Russell, that the
principal object OF establishing the
southern confederacy was that they
II CHIT have on this continent a govern
mtnt based on unpaid labor, that they
m 9ht break away from the protective
tarln system OF the north and have
free trade with Great Britain. Why:
I'TEdttec tII's ""..tvt to ,>,Titt'iSt me
L.. ,,f I1hn ,A,-f, 1..l t,,
who We're not paid, for the products OF
the poorest paid Labor she could find
| over Wonder.
Crofcr fEsy Not Get Back.
Ny friend, Brother Villas, tells the
p20lle every night that Grover Cleve-
land was sent from heaven to guide
the American people into the harbor
of free trade. Laughter If that be
| true. and Nr. Cleveland was ever up
there, he had better have staid there,
| because am very much afraid that he
viii fad it d:tiicult TO get back"
Mr. Spooner then compared the
| platforms Of the two parties upon the
tariff Issue, and in speaking of the
democratic denunciatiOn of the Nc
| knley bill, stated that they are de
naGncing everything under the name
OF fraud, except ierrymander.
Iii speaking of the plank in the dem
ocratIc Ilatfor, he SAID they didn't get
Ii from " Washington or Madison. but
that on the contrary both were in fay-
or OF a protective tariff and Madison
advocated il. and w no should know
the most about the constitutionality
OF the tariff, the men who made the
constitution, or the great fisherman
from BuzzaTd's Bay LCheers and laugh
ter or Henry Wategs0n of Louisville:
Laughter.
They did not get this doctrine frcm
Thomas Jefferson or Andrew Jackson.
jackson said that heaven smiled upon
us ana gave Us liberty and independ-
. elice. That same providence has bi,.st
us with tie means OF national indie
pendence and national security. and if
We refuse to Use the gifts which he has
extended 10 Us, we do not deserve the
continuation of his blessing
Il tell You if Ola Hickory WAS alive
today he would vote for Ben Harrison
and protection, l@pl lausel, not Tor Gro
vi Cleveland and free trade. GrUanS.
Where II Car,c From
The speaker than went on to show
that James buchanan in his message
20 congress recommended protection,
and quoted from Il document i'll his
hand as follows: Congress shall have
power 10 levy and collect taxes, duties
and excuses iUr revenue Only necessary
10 pay the debts. provide for the com
men defense and carry out the govern
mCnt; but no bounty shall be granted
from the treasury, nor shall any duties
or t@s,cs OF impoi tat;uGS from foreign
- l,t,I ,.,y~~f NJ tr. f,.f.s
any branch OF industry
That Is not the Voice Of Il free peo-
pie: nat IS the Voice OF the master of
slave labor, | read that from the con
tederate constitution, and that : where
theIr tariff plank came from. tChcerS)
II is said that when this platform
WAS icing voice: upon in the Wi-wam
~ chicago The band in the gallery
struck Up the Star Spanglcd Banner
ana that The rams calne at once from
heaven and leaked INTO the wIgwam
and put out the lights and stopped the
music. !ia@htrr} because even the ele
mCntS woGlI not permit such S,!cri-
irgc As th3t.
The speaker then spoke of the tariff
TOR revenue only of Isis and said
among other things; Our democratic
friends are IN the habit OF saving that
FOR several years after the free trade
tariff OF 1916 We had prosperity in the
country and admit ii" He then
wen, on 10 explain that the reason of
this was that shortly after il was
adopted care the Mexican war, then
the Irish famine. then the discovery of
gcEi III California and then another
famine ai.st tse tri!aeaT war, al of
which tended 10 increase the general
prosperity ana create a temporary de
mand that kept eur factories running.
lie then went on TO show the great
period 1T financial ruin that followed
this tariff for revenue Of iSi6. when
the wuI hnian'S children were CRYING
for bread and thousands of working
Iaea were unsngaged who had before
been happy ANA cuutented and earn
ing good wages. and he stated that in
philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati