Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

lection done for this country? Every ar
ticle that you buy today is as cheap as it
was before the Mckinley bill was passed.
If ! am wrong in that statement, | should
be glad to have any one set me right.
| am told that there are three or four
articles that | ought to except. am told
that pearl buttons are little higher. Well,
pearl buttons are not necessity for the
salvation of the body or of the soul. The
amount, my dear Democratic brother, that
you spend every year in buying pearl but
tons that your girls wear, or those that you
wear ON your shirt is not important. You
do not live, move or have your being in
pearl shirt-buttons. | am told that in GER
tain parts of the country certain tin-ware
costs from two to five cents on the article
more than it did before the Mckinley bill
was passed. Others will deny that it is so.
You who buy tin, and have tin enough to
buy it with will settle this question for
yourselves, as to what the price IS, but
want you to remember this: The tin pail
on which you might pay five cents more
now carries from 8 to 10 pounds of sugar,
and most of you here know that sugar is
worth more than tin pals or pearl buttons.
How much less per pound today is sugar
than before the Mckinley bill? Does not
the difference on 1.-THE sugar far more than
compensate for pearl buttons and tin pals?
Within a year or two at the utmost, the
pearl button factories will be supplying
American pearl buttons cheaper than they
used to be. Give us fair trial of five
years from the passage of the Mckinley
bill, and if we cannot make the pearl but
ton trade a success in this country, we
will do what we can with sugar and put
pearl buttons on the free list. If within
five years from the passage of the McKin-
ley bill, we do not make tin ware cheaper
than it was before the Mckinley bill was
passed, if we do not develope an interest
giving employment to from $4,000 to $50,
600 men, and if we do not put all of that
money this side of the world we will do
what we can with sugar, and put tin upon
the free list.
What we can produce in quantities sufii-
cient to supply the American market we
propose to produce here. We do not pro-
pose that Canada shall grow the hay that
shall be sold in competition with the Yer
mont farmers hay without paying a duty
that shall give the Vermont farmer the
first chance on the hay market every time.
We propose to give the Vermont farmer
the first chance every time, whether it be
wheat, barley, or anything of which enough
can be raised by our farmers to supply our
needs.
But you say, then why don't you con-
tinue to protect sugar? Simply for this rea-
son: We had tried protection on sugar for
40 years, and whether it was owing to the
climate, or what other possible cause there
was for it, we were able to grow only one
tenth of the sugar that this country used,
and the other nine-tenths we had to buy
abroad, SO of course as there was no effect
i've home competition, it was put on the
free list.
The concluding portion of Gen. Wood
ford's speech, with regard to the duty of
Vermont Republicans, was as follows
One wo.d and | am done. 1t is not my
habit to indulge in laudation, or in person.
al eXpletive. | have no word of counsel
| for my distinguished New York friend and
| brother, who spends his time at Buzzard' 5
bay, writing epistles half the time, and
fishing the rest. | am glad that at Buz-
yards bay he is acquiring that familiarity
with the temperature and saline properties
and tonic effects of salt water which will
make his voyage up Salt river next Novem-
Der pleasant and delightful alike to him
self and his family. But | do feel that SC
much has been said in these last three
years of the personal iciness and the indiff-
erence and secOnd-rate qualities of states
man-ship of our candidate for the presi
dency, that | do want to say to you few
serious and earnest words alike as his old
comrade in the army and as one who, with
out an office, has watched his course dur
ing the three years that are closing.
| believe in all seriousness that NOR,
conscientious, a more wise, more loyal
more firm handed, true hearted, and large
Drained president never sat in the chair o
Washington, since the time of Abraham
Lincoln, than Benjamin Harrison. Cold
cold he may be, but when the gun wa
fired in 81, his young heart was warn
enough to send him to the front and keel
him there until the victory was won
Calm and judicial he may be, but his ever,
appointment to judicial Office his ever
Judge in district court, his appointment
upon that great bench at Washington hav
won him the respect and the admiration
of all whether Democrat or Republican.
Cold he may be, but when little Chill
clustered, he held Chill to her obligations
When England sought to evade the stipu
} latiOns in Boring sea, this President wa
J was strong and firm enough to bring eve
} England into realization of her right
and her duties. Cold he may be, but whe
our sister across the border sought to di
: vert the carrying trade, and to use her ow
canals to our injury, Benjamin HarrisO
was firm enough to compel even Canad
to be respectful and polite.
, On every test as President he has size
up the occasion, and for one thing l Low
l him, if for nothingl else. love him be
e cause in every fiber of his being he is a
| A a. 81, l..
, leves in that fully. He is true to tn
memory of his grandfather, who was pre-
ident of the United States, and maior-geI
eral of the Federal army; he is true to h
t own principles and his own life, and | te
. you, men of Vermont, that we shall b
S untrue to ourselves if we do not hone
e ourselves as well as him in making hil
. again President of the United States.
V One word as to your duty. | want I
? give you some figures. At the state ele
e ton of 1880, which preceded the electio
e of Garfield, Vermont, on the first Tuesda
; of September, gave this candidate a majo
y ity of 26, COB. You elected Mr.. CARTEL,
S In 1884 your majority fell down to %, 10
5 and think it is not impossible that Thu
il number defeated Mr.. Blaine. In 1SS
a your majority rose above rs, SAB in Il
S September election before the first Harr
: son presidential campaign, and we elect,
S Mr.. Harrison triumphantly. The total
n these three numbers is Is, $50 and the ave
1t age is 26,016
II Now | realize the changes that are Ia
d ing place in Vermont. | realize that Il
IS boys are going West. l realize that we a
p getting a great many of the girls to maj
r, more beautiful that city in which l dive
e and that it is possible that the Republics