The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-09-23
SENATOR HILLS GREAT SPEECH.
of Baltimore County

of Baltimore County.
SENATOR HILLS GREAT SPEECH
Senator Hill, of New York, vindi-
Gated his adherence to Democratic
principles and his support of Cleve-
land and Stevenson by a mastery
speech delivered in Brooklyn, Monday
night. He declared at the outset that
he was a Democrat before the Chicago
convention and is Democrat still.
The old guard, he said, will do its
duty He reiterated what he said in
a speech before the Tammany society
on the 4th of July last, that loyalty
to cardinal Democratic principles and
to regularly nominated candidates is
the supreme duty of the hour" Mr..
Hill defined the difference between the
two great parties to be that the Demo
cratic party believes in a strict con-
struction of the federal constitution
and the Republican party in a loose
one.
On the subject of the tariff Mr.. Hill
showed that he is in thorough accord
with Democratic principles and with
the overwhelming sentiment of his
party. The Republican party advo-
Gates the doctrine that the govern
ment has constitutional as we'll as
moral right to impose tariff duties for
the purpose of encouraging the build
ing up of private industries, by the
imposition of duties sufficiently large
to prevent foreign competition, ire
spective of the needs of the treasury,
while the Democratic party believes
that the government has only con-
stitutional and moral right to impose
such duties as may be necessary to
raise sufficient revenue to support the
government economically administer
ed. Mr.. Hill declares protective
tariff unconstitutional, and boldly as
serts that Congress has noconstitution-
al right to levy duties for any other
direct purpose than for the support of
the government. Mr.. Hill does not
object to such incidental protection
as may come to individuals in the ar
rangement of tariff schedule. He
sums up the Democratic position ON
the tariff as follows:
First-That the necessarieg of life
should be absolutely free.
Second-That luxuries should bear
the heaviest burdens.
Third-That there should be free
raw materials for the benefit of our
manufacturers.
Fourth-That the tariff upon manu-
featured articles should, as a general
rule, be larger where similar articles
are manufactured in this country than
where they are not.
Fifth-That the,tariff imposed upon
all manufactured articles (other than
those which, for good reasons, are
placed on the free list) should equal
the difference between the rate of
wages paid in this and foreign coun-
tries, so far as labor enters into the
cost of their production.
Our opponents, says Mr.. Hill, profess
to be much disturbed because we have
in our platform denounced "Republi-
can protection as fraud. What
else is it 1t is a fraud for these con-
elusive reasons
First-It is secured by palpable
abuse of the taxing power of the gov
eminent.
Second-It inures to the benefit of
OF 10 of hn
Third-It is based upon favoritism
of the worst species.
Fourth-lt tends to create fictitious
prosperity, to be followed by subse-
quent business depression.
Fifth-It is deceptive in its promises
and unsatisfactory in it's results.
Sixth-Its principal beneficiaries
constitute a privileged class, and their
opportunities for governmental aid
lead to public scandal and demoraliza-
ton.
Mr.. Hill refers to the misrepresenta-
tions of President Harrison and other
advocates of the vicious protective
tariff that the Democratic party advo-
Gates absolutely free trade. sit does
not follow" says Mr.. Hill, "that be-
cause we are opposed to an unreason-
able tariff that we favor free trade
and the abolition of custom houses.
We are opposed to prohibitory tariff.
We are opposed to placing a virtual
Chinese wall around the country to
hamper and restrict the natural laws
of trade. We favor a larger commerce
and wider markets than at present
exist. We are opposed to any govern
mental partnership with private in
terests, such as the Mckinley bill es.
tablishes. We favor legislation for
the masses and not for the classes.
We favor the protection of labor and
not the creation of monopolies. We
would encourage and foster labor by
relieving it of all unnecessary bur
dens"
Mr.. Hill asserts that the Mckinley
bill has not increased our prosperity
in any degree nor has it advanced the
wages of single workman. Mr.. Hill
says that if every workingman whose
wages have been increased since the
passage of the Mckinley bill would
vote the Republican ticket and all
those whose wages have not been in
creased would vote the Democratic
ticket, we would carry the country by
million majority.
Senator Hill asserts that the Force
Bill is an issue of equal if not greater
Importance than the tariff, because it
affects the rights and liberties of every
citizen. The Republican party is ire
yocably committed to its passage.
The bill was introduced by Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, but
it soon transpired that the author of
it was John l.. Davenport, who I'M
blushingly declared, after it's defeat,
that it was his purpose to introduce it
again when the Republicans shall
again have majority in both Houses
of Congress. Mr.. Hill did not enter
into an elaborate presentation of the
details of the iniquitous scheme, but
said:
1t is sufficient for us to know that
the only purpose of the measure is to
control for partisan advantage our
elections, State and federal. The bill
is desperate attempt to prop up the