The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-09-23

FROM Senator David B. Hills speech
at Brooklyn, y. Y, on Monday night:
s'If were asked to define as concise
" as possible the whole Democratic pol
icy | should state it substantially as fol-
lows: We favor tariff for revenue
only limited to the necessities of the
government, economically administered
and so adjusted in its application as FAR
as practicable, rs TO prevent unequal
burdens, encourage productive INDUS
tries ut home and afford just compensa-
monOpolies. "These are the cardinal
principles upon which the details of all
tariff legislation should be based. | said
in the campaign of 1888 in my opening
speech at the Academy of Music in New
York City, that If | believed that the
Democratic party favored absolute free
trade, should not advocate its cause,
and repeat the statement here tonight
| have read with care ali the arguments
urged by the two very able apostles OF
protection, Governor Mckinley and Sen
ator Aldrich, but l fail to discover
that they present a single tenahIe
ground upon which protection, pure and
simple can be cOnstitutiOnally defended
l insist that neither the Democratic par
ty nor / have changed our position upon
this question, but that we stand where
we have ever stood.
Tariff reform does not mean FREE
| trade. Our opponents misreprCsent on
position now as they have ever don,
since the famous tariff message of 1887
In that historic message our candidate
expressly repudiated the sugg' stion tina
free trade. He did not demand that ou
tariff laws should be wiped out of exist
ence. There is no satisfactory evidence
! that the Mckinley bill has increased on
prosperity in any degree, or advanced
the wages of single wOrkingman. l
| is undoubtedly true hat in this state TIN
aggregate dIllOuul VI bll "hS'S pau wv
year after its passage may have beer
! greater than the aggregate amount palC
the year preceding. but that does no
prove an increase in the rate of wage
paid and only shows that some new in
| dustries have been established or addi
tional men employed in others.
"And it does not appear that such in
| crease has been any more than the uSua
natural increase OcCaSiOned by the stead
growth of the state. 1t may possibl
also be true that there have been a fey
less strikes during the past two year
than during the preceding two years
but this may be attributed to the mod
Grafton and good judgment of our labo
organizations rather than to the effect G
| any tariff law. | know this much, tina
| the Democratic party will be entirel
content to let every workingman who's
wages has been increased since the pas
sage of the Mckinley bill to vote the Re
publican ticket, if our opponents wi
consent that all those whose wages hav
not been increased shall vote the Demo
cratic tick ct, and upon that basis W
will carry the country by million ma
jority.
1--WE should not, however, permit on
positions to be misunderstood. We ar
not seeking power upon the calamity
issue, but with all good citizens we re
joice in the prosperity of the cOuntr
and trust that it may continue, but W
insist that the country has been prospel
Gus not because of the Mckinley la
but in spite of it. The plain truth
that this policy of protection cannC
much longer stand against the tremenC
Gus pressure of public sentiment for il
abandonment. The cause of industris
emancipation is pushing on.