Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-11-03
the Hon. William Bourke Cochran. [Great
applause and cheering


Again the big Democratic audience
broke out in torrents of applause as the
great Fanmany orator stepped forward
and bowed to Wilmington's thousand
voiced and tnmultuously hearty welcome.
Mr. Cochran said in part The en-
comiiims paid mo by your presiding Off
Ger are an assurance that us much as may
fall short OF deserving them can at least
reckon on the indulgence of your criticism.
We are not met TO discuss questions of
ordinary economical import, the clothes
you wear, the food you eat.
Yon are face to face with an issue CON
spracy against the commercial and politi-
cal relations of the country.
Whatever may he the verdict of the
people in the coming week there will al
ways be reserved the power to reverse that
verdict in future Presidential campaign.
Republican success means n snbverson of
representative institutions, and, should it
take place fear II would take generations
to get back to the present position.
The Republicans affect to believe that
Democratic success would arrest the
progress OF the nation, would cause uni.
yersal distress among the people and all
because the Democratic platform says that
the Federal government has no constitu-
tional right to taxation except for tho sup
port of the government economically ad-
ministered If this be so radically wrong
then the Republicans must believe that
government has the right to exact taxation
in excess Of the needs OF a government cx-
travagantly administered.
At the outset. the Republican statement
that Democracy is committed to free trade
is absurd. Both political parties require
that the support OF government must be
levied on imports from foreign countries.
The Democrats believe that when the taxes
are laid on all the people to favor any Ger
tnin Ia iS an mt n mn
tude.
Turning to the question of the treasury
surplus he said. there was the remarkable
spectacle of country only looking how to
cxpend its surplus. In all other countries
it was the opposite. Here the income Of
the government exceeded its necessities
through the economy of Democratic ad-
ministration. In the last month Of that
time the surplus reached $l0000o.0O0 and
threatened that large share of the cur
rency would find its way into the treasury
vaults. ~
There were two ways to meet the matter.
The first was by reducing taxation and the
second pv the dishonest method of sqnand-
ering. The first. the honest way. was the
Democratic, The other, the dishonest,
was the Republican. The surplus disap
pcared almost in night and the Repub-
| licans eyaded punishment only by aspecics
Of legerdemain book keeping.
Grover Cleveland loud cheers suggested
| to Congress the idea OF remitting taxes
and admitting to this country free raw
materials to our manufacturers The Re-
publican party then cried out that we are
opening our markets to the world and let
| ting in everything free. We never did
anything but to ask for free raw material
| and to prevent the establishment of trusts.
Either party claims to be the friend of
American labor. The Republicans claim
...A He Fan.
turers are enriched and that in some way
or other they will distribute portion of
| their wealth among their employees.
The Democrats say, and perhaps with a
more exact knowledge of human nature,
that there is not single employer who
will give an American citizen ~ day If
he can get the same work for Sl.50 from
Zulu. Katfir or Hottentot. The whole
history of the world is a long record of
oppression by those who grasp at wealth
for their own emolument.
The Democratic idea is the belief in n
condition of the laborer where you find
two jobs competing for one laborer. The
Republican idea is two laborers competing
for one job. [Cheers.
Our policy, which we stand by to-day, is
to let the raw materials in free. The Ameri-
can workingman wants nothing else. He
can then ontstrip the world.
When the policy of free raw material
was advanced by Mr.. Cleveland [cheersl it
was no new experiment. We were asked
to tread along wel-trod road.
The speaker showed how the languish-
ing shoe manufacturers of Lynn sprang
into vigor under the blessing and to-day
there is not a pair of foreign-made shoes
worn by any American citizen.
II is equally true Of the leather, iron and
woollen industries.
Mr.. Blaine tells us this country has
always been prosperous under high tariff
and that commercial distress attends low
tariff.
In 1873 this country existed under tariff
higher than ever known before. 1t was
then that dark financial cloud wrapped
the country in its folds. For the first time
in 25 years the gaunt spectre of want
visited the homes of our workingmen.
know many good men, some who dropped
their blood in the country's cause, who
wandered from town to town, stignatized
as vagabonds, and their only trouble was
they could not get work.
la New York 10000 to $4,000 hungry
people tramped the streets. TheSun shOn,
as brightly then. The mines were AS rich
And in the teeth of all of this natlira
wealth, solely because of the protection
system, the farmers were prevented from
finding q market for their surplus product
We emerged from the trouble becaus
of the failure of the European crops ant
of the bountiful harvest of the following
year.
All the workingman needs is CONNER
cial emancipation. 1t is wrong to attemp
to grow rich by legislation. Wealth cal
only be produced by labor, not by law
If wealth could be produced by law dom
know that there would be much objection
to government distributing the wealth.
The Republican safety valve is re
ciprocity. Now, if they had to establish
safety valve, it stands to reason that ther,
must be an explosion if let alone.
Reciprocity Is an obstruction, n barrie
to free intercourse The President has tn
right under the reciprocity enactment b
place duty ON the exporting country if
does not treat us with proper considers
ton. This is the most infamous condition
that English-speaking people ever to-
, Grated.
To-day Mr.. benjamin Harrison, cti
zen like Yourselves four years ago. cal
PLACE n duty of 80 cents upon every ski
that is necessary to your industries in Wi
, mington.
They say it has helped to bring some o
the southern republics to their senses.
, don't care ii il helped to pay and clear tn
, national debt The system of law tina
enables a single man TO place tax upol
| an independent people is an outrage.
, Has this country lost its ideas of liberty
! Has it waded through revolutionary blood
, Has il adopted its constitution, that nov
: at the close of the nineteenth century, W
. should see people sit supine under thi
/; most shameful proposition? Was it to
/ this John Hampton resented the impost
of King Charles?
: Read back the history of the world. d.