Evening journal., 1892-09-27
TWAS A COLOSSAL LIE.
Senator Gray Talks on the
Claims of Mckinley.
oAMDEN's BIG DEMOCRATIC RALLY.

DeIaware's Son Gives the People Some
Plain Facts About the Mckinley BIZ.
Laborers Not Benefited bv the Tariff.
They should Know What Becomes Of
Their Money.
The Democrats of Camden n. j., opened
the political battle last evening with a
rousing mass meeting IN the Armory in
that city. An enthusiastic crowd of 3, 200
loyal Democrats listened attentively to
the addresses made by Governor Alb
bett, of New Jersey, Senator Gray of
this city and James M. Beck, of Camden.
Judge Howard Carrow called the meet
ing to order and nominated Albeit for
Chairman. The governor made a rousing
speech, in which he announced that
Judge Werts had accepted the nomina-
tion for governor
After the governor had reviewed the
work of the Democrats he intr oduced
Senator Gray who was the orator of the
evening He began with happy allu-
sion TO the part the troops of New Jersey
| took ia the war Of the rebellion. Then
he said, during the past twenty i've
years her citizens had fought for the
|
| had been decided by the so-called doubt
full state Of New Jersey. IL had fought
| for those principles OF the Democratic
party which win live as long as there is
a government" He sharply criticised
the recent speech Of Governor Mckinley.
Of Ohio in Philadelphia, and said that,
while he believed Ohio's Governor to be
sincere, he also believed him TO be a
fanatic on this one subject The state.
ment, credited to Mckinley, that the
tariff tax was paid by the foreigner he
declared Fan Infamous, abominable and
colossal lie.
Upon this lie, he said, "the Repub.
lican party hope to ride into four more
years of power to carry on the carnival
they have enjoyed ever since the passage
of the Mckinley bill and other kindred
measures passed to rob the people
The importer pays the tax he is re-
imbursed by the wholesaler; he, in turn,
by the retailer, who gets his outlay back
from the consumer The latter pockets
the loss, Major Mckinley in Philadel
phia said, forgetting his previous state.
mont, that the tariff tax income had been
reduced @5l, 900, ,000 intimating that this
was money in the pockets Of the Ameri
cans. But this announcement should
cause bonfres to be lighted on all the
hilltops of England and Ireland
IF, as the major said, the law is toe
complicated for the people to understand,
IL is time it was replaced with one the
people can understand They have a
right to know what becomes Of their
money and how"
-Four years ago the people didn't
know much about the matter, but thanlSl
TO Grover Cleveland, the people now
know more about the subject The tax
laws were ingeniously and devilishly de
vised during the war TO rob the people.
Men saw an opportunity to make money
out of the tax and they focked to Wash
ington like unclean birds and dictated
the tariff laws. Democracy took up the
question of tariff revision in its platform
in 1876 and won, but the verdict Of the
people was reversed, and Hayes becap,
president instead of Tilden.
I'm conclusion he held that the labor.
ers were not benefited by the tariff, but
the manufacturers were. If the mer
didn't like the wages they received they
could quit and their employer could obtain
a boatload OF HungGrians at Castle Gardei
TO take their places.
(Which would you rather do, compel,
with the pauper product or the paupei
himsolfg THE tariff imposed a tax O.
sl,2sO, ,OCO per year on the citizens Of
Camden"