The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-20

worth of projections: when you buy
cooking stove you get S1l worth OF
stove and SS worth of protection;
when you buy a shawl you get Sc
worth of shawl and So worth of pro-
lection; when you buy common set
of knives and forks you get 81 worth
of knives and forks and S1-50 cents
worth of protectiOn.-'pr protection the
Republicans call it, but l call it infa-
nous highway robbery. (Applause.)
Mr.. Glenn then peppered and salted
sooth, when $4,000 manufacturers
represent more wealth than all the
rest of the 65,O00,000 people of the
United States put togetherf
THE TAX OFF oF-w lat?
''Oh, but you Republicans may say,
Mr.. Glenn you haven't told your
hearers that the Republicans have in
their anxiety to relieve the people
taken the tax off of many articles
Well, I'm coming to that now. I'm
going to tell them about it. Why,
the've taken the tax off of BANK
CHECKS That has helped the rich
men of the country a 81, 900, 900 worth,
but how much has it helped the poor
man?
''They have taken the tax off of
GOVERNMENT BONDS How many
poor people in North Carolina did
that help? How many working men
and laborers do you suppose there are
in North Carolina who ever saw
a government bond?
They have taken the tax off of IN
COMES. How many people in North
Carolina do you suppose that helped?
Only FIVE ricn men.
land when that great and good
and glorious man Zeb Vance [cheersl
saw that Republicans meant only to
help the rich and not relieve the
poor, he stood up in the Senate as he
says himself, and cussed them for pure
cussedness !, Renewed cheers.
''The free list, yes let's see what
they put on the free list" exclaimed
Mr.. Glenn. ''In the first place
ACORNs Great heavens, did they
think we were all hogs? Laughter.
They have put FISH SKINS on the
free list, while they are taxing your
hats, your boots and your coat
is divvy-divyy," exclaimed the speak
er. II can't find it in the dictionary !"
[Great laughter and applause. "PLAY-
ING CARDS! High, low, jack and the
game on the free list. while the holy
Word of God is heavily taxed. PAT
| ENT MEDICINES on the free list
COLOGNE on the free list. These are
the things they have placed on the
free list. We asked for bread and
| they gave US a stone: we asked for
fish and they gave US a serpent; we
asked for help and they insulted us in
| our miserym [Applause.]
Mr.. Glenn admitted that they had
| placed sugar on the free list and
showed that by reason of it sugar
| was cheaper than it had ever been be-
fore and within easier reach of the
| poor. 1T gives the lie to the Republi-
can theory that the higher the tariff
| the lower the price of goods. 'There
is one piece of rascality about this L
| want to show up, however," said the
speaker. ''When the Republicans final
| ly did decide to put sugar on the free
| list, they ran their hands into the
treasury and gave the sugar manufac-
| turerS in this country a bounty OF
cents pound to keep them from get
ting mad because the tariff was taken
Off" (Applause.)
PENSION FRAUDS.
The circulating medium in COnnec-
| ticut the speaker showed to be 1875
| per capita: in Rhode Island it is the
| but in North Carolina it is only 81 per
| capita. "Why is this? Is it because
| there is less industry, less ability,
less brains in North Carolina than in
| other States? No, it is because of the
| combined tariff and pension iniqui-
ties? Just at the close of the war the
| Republicans estimated that S5, 900, 900
would be amply sufficient to cover all
| necessary pension appropriations, but
| now. after a lapse of over 25 years,
| $147, 900, 900 are annually required for
this purpose "
| The speaker requested not to be
misunderstood. He did not oppose a
| fair pension to the Union soldier
wounded in battle, but he did object
| its being paid to men who had never
| heard the shrek of a shell and to foul,
bribe-accepting deserters from the
| Southern cause to the Northern arms.
Just here he paid another tribute to
| Cleveland which was wildly cheered.
He said ''Grant never dared to veto a
| single pension bill; Hayes never did,
nor Garfield nor Arthur nor Harrison.
The only man who ever sat in the
Presidents chair with backbone
enough to veto a fraudulent pension
bill was Grover Cleveland. Great ap-
plause.l He vetoed 297 private pen
sion bills and the Dependent Pension
bill, which saved to the country $50,
100000 [Renewed applause.1
THE CLIMAX OF THE SPEECH.
After showing how generously
Cleveland as President had recognized
| the South, Mr.. Glenn turned his at
! tention to Weaver, and it was here
that his oratory reached the noun
tain heights of eloquence.
He showed how, while the South
was PROSTATE and bleeding and try
ing to build up from the wreck and
ruin of the war, Weaver was going
around saying of her best class OF
people, "The Democrats of the South
are a doomed, damned, man-hating,
woman-selling gang of traitors"
GAS Union soldier riding into
battle, can honor Mr.. Weaver, but
as military despot of Pulaski, Tenn.
turning women and children out into
the snow, / have nothing for him but
scorn and hatred. [Applause.]
The scorching irony of the speaker
as he laid bare the deSpicable charac
ter of Weaver was listened to with
the closest attention. The room be
came as silent as death as the speaker
proceeded. He went on to say thai
he stood there as the son of Confed
|, crate soldier. His father shouldereC
his gun and went off to the war anG
! lost his life fighting with d. H. Hill
at the Thermopylae of the late war
the battle of South Mountain. While
! the tears started to the eyes of strong
men in the great audience, the speak
} er pictured the scene of his father
, burial, in the darkness of the night, OF
: the battle field where he died, hi
, grave dug by the bayonets of his com
, rades, no coffin to enclose the bod
which simply wrapped in a shroud
} was lowered into it's shallow grave
! ssWhen I think of this soldier
death and burial, can have any par