Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-23

peder.l power Of taxation for rove
nue. into an instrument of 81:
tortiouate taking from the wages and
profits Of our industrial toiling mslllons:
by subsidies. bounties. aud enhanced
prices. 8 stupendous increment Tor tho
wealth Of our cmployers=!o,. tnen peI
cent. Of all our people; n9sil 49, . ~
stand ? The Sherman sIver ~ noy unns. 49,.
and A.. To- coId into an instrument for the gradual
EXPULSION OF our gold, for the establish
ment Of an exclusive basis. and for the
permanent reduction OF every American
dollar bv 20 per cent. or more below the
level of its true value during the whole Pc
riod of our tree bimetallic coinage from l7U
TO 1878. Shall such law stand? There has
been no such legislation tor frsemeu since
Cromwell called the laws OF England
torturous and uneodly JumDie. Inc ae-
Con0resses has extorted from Republican
leaders their published purpose 70 refuse
repeal. The admission is OF great I'M
portance. IL is fresh evidence that do
not presa too far the charge of disotedience
to the peoples overwhelming mandate.
The demand for repeal IS proposal OF the
largest measure of tarlf reform, admit,
for il is q proposal to recover the whole
ground usurped by the bullion Congress,
and il is even more, Tor II mas apprleeo tno
country that their unrepeaied existence
for another wear shall not erect the novel
seper. added wrongs of the two Mckinley
acts into a fnality. Repeal IL not q pro-
posAi to stop at the tariff of 1888 as f1nal-
ity. NV language expressly barred out
that absurd idea. Moreover, wnen the
tariff of 1888 was the law OF the land IN
the hour of our defeat three years ago l
said here in Albany: The Democratic
party nails TO the mast the nag Oh tarin TO
FORM
will remain and require progressive solu,
ton with the wise and politic method OF
abolishing, whenever practicable. one
after another, one indefencible tax at q
time. We're the two Mckinley laws to-
day replaced by the tariff of 1S83--but do
not finch backward from the advance line
OF eptrenchments which the Democrats OF
New York have won. kept. and will guard.
/ do not shirk deadly .grapple
with the Republican, revolutionists,
whose banners no longer ny tne
Mckinley laws aud the wild Sher-
man law, and mock us from the citadels
of power. The cause of tariff reform has
lately made great practical advance:
Secretary Manning. in his last report OF
| 1886, advised Congress to begin practical
tariff reform by o single act, an act LOT
free wool, an act untaxing tho clothing OF
about 10000 people. One year later. IN
1887, the Secretary's report was writ
large in q message Of the President.
Now. five years later. one OF our
most enlightened economists, David A;
Wells, writes to the chairman OF
the Wsys and Means Committee that the
path of progress which Secretary Manning
blazed first and alone is the true path. IL
is maxim of sound policy, better fitted
to win elections than to lose them. Bet
ter divide into easy chapters the lessons
of long campaign of education. Abolish
wherever you can one after another, one
| indefensible tax at time. This IS true
progress. Let us rejoice. The. Senate
and the Executive may now refuse the
least as they refused the largest measure
| OF tariff reform, but of the future OF oul
cause we may now feel better assured"
The speech was intently listened to, ant
while not broken often by applause, 1t wa
cheered loudly at the close.
AND THE BAND PLAYED
"Three cheers for the red. white ant
blue" The motion to adjourn cam
quickly then. and the convention at 5:3
| adjourned sine de.