Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05

SECRETARIES.
 5: George George K. Wilco2s, issss E East Hartford.
 4. George W. Corbin, New Britain
 5. 0. H. Butler, Warren.
 6. Henry Beadle, Cheshire
 2. R. B. Goodyear, North Haven. 9. J. Pendleton Stonington. 10. William " Ii %o3,s C. MoWTry, W r Norwich. 12 Thomas H. Delano Greenwich. 13 J. H. Light, Norwalk. IA. J. C. Shelton, Bridgeport. 15. s; Sanford, Bedding. 16. E. M. Warner, Putnam. r. F. 2. Loomis Chaplin. IS. c. K. Hunt, winchester. 19. s. A. Eddy, Canaan. 20. J. H. Catlin, Litchfield 21. 0. R. Marvin, Saybrook. g. 3 ?. " Camp, Middletown s4. A. M. Grant, Mansfield.
 L. M Hubbard of Wallingford moved that a committee be appointed to escort the permanent chairman to the presiding of tcer's chair, and the honors fell to MT. Hubbard. John filling of Old Saybrook and Samuel Frisbie of Pennington. They escorted the brave soldier and leader to the chair. The general was greeted with grand tumult of applause. It was royal greeting: Temporary Chairman Barbour having introduced General Hawley to the 
 of the day. He began by giving running review of. the great achievements of the republican party and it's noble work for the country and the cause of freedom, in none of which work did it have the cordial CO., operation of the democratic party, but in almost all of which it had the party's wig orous opposition. Continuing he said: ready for the competitive examination of the ceming ca%Radgn It has practically d1iisposed @ herited from the previous democratic admins tratlon, the Samoan difficulties and the Behring sSe with and ch M & it has conducted with frankness, courage and staunch American patriotism The management familiar herewith and in condition to speak impartially, was never in so high state of efficiency. Vast areas of public lands, including Indian reservations, have been opened to the settler. The pension office has enormously increased it's capacity and results. The debt has been greatly reduced The s9lume of money in refunded at lower rates of interest, and panic though not precisely in accordance with the views of either ,contesting party. has proved itself a practical and safe compromise: The postoffice department has very rema rkably ex- tended rapid transit and delivery. The field cov- cred by civil service regulations has been largely and the fish commission and the navy yard en- pioyes. serious defect has been remedied by
 
 daily record of the efficiency of clerks being kept with view to such promotion Under a forces of the pension office were so managed that 90 per cent. of the appointments were demo. ! crats. The example has not been followed, and appointments are rigidly confined 10 merit proved by examination, giving candidates of both parties equal opportunities. The new de partment of agriculture has been surprisingly | successful in justifying it's creation. The navy ! department has pushed it's patriotic work with g | wisdom and vigor that have brought compli l corning the army has been accompanied by mos ment.
 | The republican Fifty first congress revised the tariff with broad and vigorous action, and every | of it's success therein. It swept away the duties | upon sugar, an article of great and universa consumption, which for that reason is the favor ! te subject for taxation in the minds of the free trade theorists. It hss made great reductions o1 ! duties, but not at random, for it has, whenever practicable, made them the means of securing ! No previous tariff has carried with it so much ot wise forethought and national benefcence.
 aawley gave brief enlogy Of Blaine, greeted | equally applauded.
 A few nuggets from the generals speech are | as follows:
 We are not deceived by the cry concerning | free raw material. Iron ore at 8 ton is 90 pei cent. labor. It is one mans finished product, as truly so as the exquisite @ hair,spri9g of of % watct | labor, the perfect product of the farmer: Ii there be any eastern man9facturer who think: ! will consent to be left without any degree of pro duties are levied. let him undeceiye himself be | fore the election.
 The tariff cannot create a monopoly in any l thing which G5,O00, 900 people are free to pro l duce.
 The republican party is not fighting under dis guises; it honestly and openly believes that pro tective duties are always legitimate, and ire que ntly their imposition a high national obliga answers @ r wei % foP the e island % of # areat Bftain | (with it's limited area and resources), and whicl al Great Britain is absolutely dependent on tht | rest of the world for food and the materials fol | manufactures.
 On the other hand, if the United States perform l the duty of developing their own resources, our country is practically independent of the whole ! worId
 It is folly. it is stupidity, it is an economic crime to carry these illimitable raw materials | or any portion thereof 5000 miles away or one returned in the form of manufactured goods
 When we export g million dollars worth of ma and bring back an equal value of other peoples | work thereon, we lose the profit of the conver | sion of million dollars worth of labor. If w ! conduct the whole manufacture at home, two
 million dollars may disappear from our accoun
 of foreign trade to the dismay of the free trader
 who thinks we are losing by the transaction; but | the sensible American knows that we have twt | million dollars worth of labor at home instead
 of one, and have saved two transportations.
 mere reformer upward, lamenfs the compara
 tive low figures of our shipping engaged in for
 eign trade: So do we, so far as the foreign trad ! is unavoidable, but his lamentation is excessive ! We are engaged in an enormous commerce de ! nied to England by her contracted limits. Tn, l The tonnage of the United States, by the census
 bulletin just issued is very largely engag
 eas sheSa
 sf wo9sS d4 SssS oe s ! 900 more than all Great Britain's shipping, and
 that 10 600 miles is but one sixteenth of our rail | road system devoted to a most profitable com | merce.
 The workers of America, free trade statistician
 confess, are better fed, better clothed and bette | greater horse power and better brain power, ant
 they cannot and will not reduce themselves to al ! unlimited and unrestricted competition with al | sorts of oppressed and unfortunate underpaid
 iI-clothed, ill-fed, ill-hopsed peoples: No sount | it. The free trader cannot disguise himself. Hi ! doctrine tends to a reduction of wages. | factories to please the free trader because some ! where possibly in the wide world the same arti
 cles can be made cheaper than here by illfed, i'll
 There is something that is worth more tha1 ! nominal cheapness. It Is well employed an.
 and
 living. The cheapest peoples in the world ar l Even Adam Smith and his illustrious line O | free trade successors admit that Q new countr. ! may wisely tax the established and confederatet foreign manufacturer while it gains foothol' ! for it's own industries. l But the American free-trader tells us that VI | are fully established. | We are but at the sunrise of our greatness and new avenues of useful labor are continual, l opening.
 ] In this very decade we have to establish witt all that is In civilization not less than 18, 000. 900 of new people. It is not a difficult ques l tion to understand. The people to the number ! of six or seven hundred thousand whe are leav Ing foreign countries this year with wages at 6l | cents day to get $1 .25 here have never studied logic, but they know the difference. They may l pay 10 cents more for something here than they ! with.
 What do the democracy say to all thisY They grumble. ,='--s< -' |. .53 >s -
 Our free trade friends give the republican parry po credit in one important Feepaaf Il