Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-15

of you to inspect me and pass judgment on me, and nope that l may be able on
 the Sth day of November next, when he premiums are given out, t0 carry Cft ina ! blue ribbon. (Applause.)
 In that insp cJlon 1 an not m the con- | dition of the Ooy and the econ. You all remember. the story of the three boys who were in the road when two pollt- ! icians came along with a coon and they 1 said to the boys that whichever one Of them was of the same politics they were could have the coon. The first boy said: T an a Repubicau,"- the second l boy said. II am Democrat" and the l third boy said: "Mister, l am anything 1 10 get that coon." Now, | do not want you to understand that l am in that l condi5.oa. l a3 here to give you my views, to explain my situation, and If l | can thea get your votes 1 desire them, l but I do not desire you to vote for ma simply because 1 an Repu Dlican, nor l do l wan5 you to vC'e against ma elm- ! ply because 1 an a Republican, and for my opponent because he Is 6 Democrat. 1 consider, today, the only great dir ! ference between the two great poiitlc8i | parties Is that one IS in and the other IS | out. Nationally the Republican party | is in and the Democratic party Is trying
 Jo get in. TerrItonaily, as far as the 1 Delegate to Congress is concerned, the | Democratic party is in and the Repub- licGn party IS trying to get m and trying | it pretty hard. too. The great issue De-
 tween these parties today Is the tariff ] question. then the great question of int crest to the people of the Pacific slope l the question or free silver-comes next, | aud that issue is perhaps Of greater mt 1 crest to Arizona tbar the tarlh quss- | ton, but We should take into consldera- ! tiou the fact that the population ot the 1 Territory of ArIzona comprises put a very small portion of the population Of ! Amerlca. Now the tariff question IS great issue and you can find lots or per sons that advocate free trade, tarlH re- l form, or tariff for revenue only, as you ! please to call II, and they will tell you ! that the robDirg tariff IS making the poor poorer every day and the rich
 richer, and when they come to gve you 1 the facts and figures they are like the 1 label or the bottle, they are all around, i but not on it. l ask you to go back to ! the early history of America and follow ! down to the present tune ard see under what kind of tariff laws our government ! has been most prosperous and during what period she has seen depression and hard times. Look the question square in the face, without political prejudice or bias, and do rot take any thing for granted, because your news papsr says to you that protection IS good or that protective tariff is robbing you through the Mckinley bill and oppres- sing the people of America. Take both sides and compare them and find under which system the American people has pro spered most and under which We i have grown powerful and rich. If It Is under free trade and during the periods | that free trade has been in vogue, then I say 10 you to accept that and vote the Democratic ticket; but if you fiud that protection has been most beneficial to the American people then l say to you l to vote the Republican ticket and for the protection of the laboring people Of America.
 Theoretically free trade or tariff for ! revenue only is good, and 1 do not grant ] to the opposing side that they are the ! tariff reformers. l say the Republican party has been reforming the tariff as rapidly ss possible, and l ask you to 1 take the platform of the Democratic | lt | tariff jaws aud declare them uncoDstitu- ! tioDa), except as to those sufficient for revenue oRly. Self preservation is the first law. of nature" Then 1t is the nature of mana kind to first protect him self and his family, then to protect his neichbor. then the Territory and then | the people of AmerlcS. l am free to say that l am, first, an American; l am | oz r.arfra anH for tha | American people, and l am, second, | Republican. (Applsuse) We should all be Americans and 1 am glad to see 1 that a majority Of those people who | come to America accept our country IS
 their adopted home and make better
 citizens and stronger prOtectionsts 1 tbau a great many nativo born Amer | jeans. They have. seen the workings of the labor system of the two coun- l tries and they see what protection has l done for AmerIca and they see what i free trade has for foreign countries.
 i l am proud to say that belong to the
 party whose principles are 1900 years | old. In the 9ta chapter of the 9th verse of Mathews, in the reign of Caesar, he was the first to appoint a custom officer, 1 and his duty was to collect tribute from
 strangers who entered the city, and the l Master said: Do you collect tribute | from strangers or your own people?" | He said: ".l collect 1t from strangers" 1 Then He says: "Your people are free"
 It is upon the same principle the Re publican party collects tribute from the l stranger-the foreign manufacturer-
 and our people are free.
 We fad that on the third day of the
 session of the first Congress that sat in 1 the United States they passed a tariff 1 bill, and by reference to that bill you will see that it was 215 cents higher than the rates in the Mckinley bill to- ! day We pass cn and find that under 1 the protective tariff industries were 1 started in America and prospered. We 1 pass on and find that the repeal of the | law in 1868 was the very seat and
 foundation of inc war of 1872, and as
 we go from period to period We find
 that under low tariff there Was de- l pressiOn Tn the United States and un- der high protective tariff there was prosperity. We follow down to 1S46
 and the free trader says t0 you: "Now We have you. There Is period under low protective tariff when America was
 prosperous" We admit it. But why
 was 1t prosperous? We find during the period from l846 to 1856 that every na
 1 ton of Europe that produced anything Of any consequence was at war, the pro ducG.or of those countries was stopped 4 entirely, and during that time there I was he Mexican war which placed in
 circulation over Sl00,O00COO. Then we
 find gold was discovered in California
 which placed 57500O000 more in circu- ! latinn. With al ULis and wth & ready
 market and great demand for everything
 we could produce at good prices, why
 should We not be prosperous? The
 minute peace was declared in foreign
 countries and they produced one crop and she machinery of their manufac-
 tories started, what vas the c3nse-
 queHce? Many of you will remem Der
 the great panic of iS57 the greatest
 that ever struck America-when thou
 sands Of people in New York, Chicago
 and Philadelphia were crying: Give us
 protection and give us bread" Thou
 sands cf man in those cities were being