The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-25

to the past for experience; we ap zeal TO the past
for qdyice. IL in the past Ger ain policy has
prodnced prosperity we say Continue that
policy IL In the past O certain policy whenever
tried has produced disaster we say avoid that
policy If people come To us when we are doing
well aud say experiment with something new
we tell them that the experience OF the ages IA
LET well enough alone. lApplause and cries
OF That's right"
Well. George Washington knew something. and
he recommended the policy, of looking after
American industries in order that America
might be independent OF Europe. Alexander
Hamilton knew something; he wrote mainly the
Constitution of the United States, and he pre-
pared bill for that purpose. General Jackson
knew something. and General Jackson threat
encd to hang John G. Calhoun upon a uee-a
high one at that-if he interfered with the pro-
teciive policy OF the United States. Applause
IL is the peculiarly of the Republican AID the
Democratic parties that one has n library OF pa
triotic Gtterances and the other has only TWO
You take the speeches OF Charles Sumner, You
take the speeches of William H. seward, you take
the speeches of Oliver Z. Morton [applausel you
take tie speeches OF Ben Wade. you take the
speeches OF Joshua r. Giddngs, YOU take the
speeches or the long line OF brilliant men who
I'LL the temple OF fame of Rcpublicanlsm, you
take the speeches OF James q. Blaine lapplausel
and they constitute a library OF good statesman
ship and Of glorious and inspiring patriotism;
but you turn 60 the Dcinoeratie side Tor patriotic
fifty years and what do you lind that is III the
hooks or in your memory. only two things. by
the Eternal OF General Jackson and Fire
Island damn OF Governor Flower-both cuss
words.
ABOUT CoNSTlTUTIoNALITY.
The policy thus inaugurared received the sup
port OF Jefferson; 1t received the support OF every
Democratic President. The only difference, up
until this canvass, between the Democratic and
Republican parties has been that the Republican
party has demanded the measure of protection
which would develop all our resources, and
which would make us independent of EuroDe for
everything which could raise in this
country, while the Democratic party have here
| tofore said. YES we agree with you on the sub.
| lect OF protection, but you want too much"
| Democratic convention OF 1884. stand up here
and testify. Democratic convention of 1888,
| stand up here and testify. What do You say as
witnessed Why, we say through our
| measure of protection which is enough 10 pro.
| tect American labor against the pauper labor of
| EurOpe but In 1892 the Democratic platform
| goes a step further and says protection is rob-
| berry and unconstitutional. No matter II 10 does
promote American production; no matter II 1t
does start mills; matter II IL does put furnaces
in blast: no matter init does make the labor mar
| kct 90 scarce that wages are maintained and
| kept advancing; no matter II IL does give en-
| ployment to everybody; no matter ii 1t does
| make the American workingman superior TO the
| pauper labor OF Europe, IL is unconstitutional
| and immoral. On the Republican side are Wash
| lngton and Hamilton. and Jefferson. and Jack
| son, and all the Democratic Presidents, includ-
| ing Buchanan and the Democratic conventions
on ss4 aud 1883, and on the Democratic side is
| whati The Confederate Constitution of 1861,
| and that alone. Applause.
tries N unconstitutional IL we are living under
| the Confederate Constitution, but that Constiiu-
ton of Richmond 10 In condition OF "innOcuoIs
| desuetude." Laughter and aPplause.I CncOn-
stitutional to look after the best interests
of the count.yt Unconstitutional to put
eight thousand men ut work max
ing pearl buttons, where
| at work before. Unconstitutional to put ten
thousand men TO work making tin where no man
| was at work before Unconstitutional TO put
| ten thousand men to work making plush where
70 man was at work before. Unconstitutional
THAI are dependent upon these laborers Uncon
| stitntional TO make the draft upon the labor
market which enables labor organizations and
| and the laborer himself TO live. Let me tell my
| Democratic philosophical theorists that the
supreme Court Of the United states always con
and Americanism. lGreat applause.J
MORALS AND MARKETS.
Now. then Mr.. Cleveland, in his letter. has
singular sentence, in which he says that the
question of protection Is matter Of morals as
| well markets. Well, when my friend Grover
gets into one Of his platltudiI0us OBSTACLES
| never know what he means, but think can get
an apprehension of what he means when he
says "morals, as well as markets." and accept
| his maxim, Morals, we'll markets. /
read tie New York Times, read the Evening
Poet Tor the purpose Of ascertaining what he
great journals tell me that what he means Is
this: That TO enact law in this country
i
men In Europe and transfers that business here,
and beeears The families of those people in
Europe, IS immoral.". Well let US look at that
and sec IL that ia so. If there Is any merchant in
Indianapolis, any manufacturer in Indianapolis
who is selling or inahufaeturing something
| ward TO try TO take his market from him and sell
that article or manufacture that article, what
does he doi Why. he makes his living out of the
| rect OF the things he sells and puts the price
OF that article down so low that he
bankrupts the fellow that is trying to
Introduces new article you commercial travel
ers take some sample out that you want TO carry
into some town or other, and what DO you dol
Inquire whether some other commercial travel
ers have been there before you, and il they
have. take your hat and grip sack and leavei
Not much. You try 70 capture that town.
Now, in the Olden times nations were const-
tuted TO cut each others throats. They were
constituted TO follow despots, for the aggrandize-
ment Of royal families and for the In
are organized now on great business oas
principles for the industrial welfare Of their own
firm of John Bull 4 Co. France forms the com
mercial firm OF johnny Crappaud & Co. Ger
many forms the commercial firm OF the Kaiser
g. Co. Italy forms the commercial firm of King
Humbert & Co. Russia forms the commercial
frm OF the Car u CO.. and the United states
forms the commercial firm OF Brother Jonathan
* Co. We are all of us engaged in the msnufact-
ure of certain things in iron, certain things in
wool, certain things In silk, certain things In
cotton. We all OF us engaged in raising
products from the son as farmers Now. the
Republican proposition is that Brother Jonathan
d Co. has only one business; that every citizen
| and that the business OF Brother Jonathan & Co.
Is 20 look out for ats own stockholders fGrear
applause. If what promotes the interests OF
| ten thousand WOrkingmen and ten thOusa nd
artisans aud ten thousand capitalists in this
and injurious b6o.,1 ten
| in the same line OF business In Eng
| land or IN France, or In Germany
under these other firms. that is none of our bust
| Let Themselves
| plause.] We are after our dividends. Dividends
| for what! Why the dividends that enable The
| American citizen 10 raise surplus that Will buy
him his own home. secure him his own inderend
| cnce, and enable him TO educate his sons to q
| higher position in life than he occupies, and IN
able him to fit his daughters for something bet
| ter than mere labor; money which'will give him
the surplus by which he can live better han tie
| man who works M the same trndc In Europe, nd
European brother never hopes for. Applause
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Now will give you an Object lesson. was in
little study OF these things. had been read
Ing the campaign textbook of the Democratic
party; had been reading Brother Cleveland:
messages to Congress and his letters; had been
reading tile mugwump papers and thought
would sec how things stood on the other side
and went naturally among my own people =
81 tho railway people. If there Is any one thing
that do understand 1t is that. ana am No,
| ashamed or having been most OF my life rail-
| road man, either. lApplause.l There are little
| over n million OF us IN this country. 1 found
| that switchnan IN England gets rs cents day
In the city a;d 90 cents day In the country.
| found that a station agent averages from twenty
| To thirty dollars month. L found that con
4 ref n A dol I.