Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-19

ICY Uill bIG i rs SI 8oHiisahA.
under il. whethe II salts thar.
They Sre opp ed = any protective
tariff. Ask h COIN y. which mas
seen lts greatest sp:rlt' under pro-
tectiye taflt s-s- IL wants sucn An
absolute reversal ot the national policy
"a that. Today the democratic party.
To use the current political slang,
"turns down" Thomas jefferson, An
drew Jackson, and all It's leaders, re-
pudiates allk. their Q Institutional IN
terpretahcn, their POLITICAL belief aud
their acts, and an loances instead
identlcally the SAME q ,ctrlne with JEFF
ferson Davis and the confederate
states and proposes that Grover Cleve-
land In your names shall execute IL.
The democrats declare the Mckinley
bill not only unconstitutional, but the
eliminating atrocity Of class leglslatlon.
Well. you have scen how il works. In
the establishment of new industries. in
the new attraction for foreign capital.
in the better demand for your prod ucts
and even in the prices of what you
have to buy, you can measure the
height and depth and breadth OF its
atrocity.
Unpublished Facts.
But let me give you q few unpub-
lished statements from an official source
in field / have lately left. Oscar F..
Williams, United States consul at
HavrS, has just written an analysis Of
the trade from France 10 the United
States, passing through that port which,
as You know, 10 the chief port for gen.
eral French expectations to the United
States. Over 65 per cent, he said. of
all merchandise exported from Havre
to the United States ports entered free
of duty. The values of exports on
which the duty had been reduced by
the Mckinley tariff were over half the
values exported and nearly five-sixths
of this reduction was on articles not
produced in the United States and,
therefore, not III competition with
American labor or American manufac-
turers. But these wicked Mckinley
duties were actually so LEVIED as to dis
criminate against our rivals IN certain
other articles so as to protect our pro.
ducers. Accordingly, the democratic
platform denounces the Mckinley tar
if as the eliminating auocity of class
legislation since it legislates for the
producers at home instead of the pro-
ducers abroad. Ask the people what
they think about that.
The Reciprocity scheme.
We have to thank the democratic
convention for equal candor on an
other important matter. They de-
nounce the sham reciprocity which our
state department has been busy in In
Producing. AS the democrats consider
this sham, of course they will, If in
power, abolish it. What then? Will
they simply throw away the advantages
gained by this administration for the
admission of scoresof our products to
foreign markets and yet continue to
let the foreigners send IN their pro-
ducts free? Ask the people if they
want either the oneOr the other horn
of that beautiful dilemma.
Our cham reciprocity has been in
effect but . short time, with some OF
the moro important countries only
four months or less. down to the end
of the fiscal year of June 80; in most
of them less than year. But the in
crease in our exports to those countries
IN the articles affected by our agree
ments down to June so, was over Sl0,-
ll5, 1000. In some Of the countries the
increase was over 500 per cent and the
articles affected were largely agrlcul-
tural-corn or wheat, flour, pork, but
ter. etc. In other countries the IN
crease extended also to our cotton,
IRON and wooden manufactures. Ask
the people if they want to throw away
q policy when the first few months
bring such results, because the demo-
cratic convention chooses to call il =
cham.
No Change II Wanted.
But forbear, one might pursue such
themes until ne drifted into cam
pAign speech, and have told you /
proposed to make no campaign speeches
this year. Our enemies nave made our
cempaign for US. Hold them to their
deliberately avowed principles. We
60 to tho people claiming that the re-
publicans have given the country o
clean, honorable, business.like and
highly successful administration, that
8 change without cause is business
injury to every CITIZEN and that there
is no occasion for change. The DEM
ocrats want this country to have an
immediate and an absolute change.
They want to repeal the Mckinley tariff
at once. They denounce q protective
tariff of any sort or description, refuse
to let tariff legislation have the slight
est reference to the defense of the
American workingmen wages, declare
that Washington and Madison
and even Andrew jackson did
not understand tho constitution
and that nobody but themselves and
jefferson Davis ever did denounce any
thing but q pure tariff for revenue
only as unconstitutional. want to get
rid of our reciprocity and demand a
return to wildcat banking. Hold them
to their doctrine. Never have they
rushed so plainly and palpably upon
their fate since the memorable week n
1864, when their taunt in Cbicaga that
the war for the union WAS failure was
instantly answered by the victorious
tbunders Of Sherman's guns from At
lauta and the triumphant cheers OF
Sheridan's troopers III the valley. Let
US rise up and go forward. They have
been blinded again TO their own de-
struction and arc delivered into our
hands.
He was followed by Ex-Governor
OgIesby, Congressman julius e. Bur-
rows, and James I. Burke. presid ent
of the College League Of Republican
Clubs, also spoke.