The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
FOR TARIFF REFORM
Cleveland Makes a Great Speech
in Providence, r. |.
THE ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN
1t is the Tariif-Ya,n Endeavors of the Repuh-
iieans to Create AnotheT-The
Reciprocity Catch.

Providence, r. l., April 2.-The polit-
zeal temperature Of Rhode Island is at
fever heat tonight. Both parties have
great confidence. The Democratic cam
paign reached its climax to-day in ex-
President Cleveiand's speech and recep-
tioa. MIR. Cleveland was greeted on his
arrival with such a demonstration as has
seldom been given any public man. He
was accompanied by ex-Secretary of the
Navy Whitney, Ex-Governor James E.
Campbell, OF Ohio. and Congressman
Oscar Lapham, John A. Mccall, of New
York, and GeGrge Evans, of Philsdelphia.
Friends of Ex-Governor Campbell were also
In the party. The crowd closed around
the carriages and shouted and cheered
Cleveland. The party was driven TO the
opera house through mass of people who
blocked the streets and followed them.
The opera house was packed shortly after
= o'clock, aud all the states leading dem
ocrats and almost all leading journalists
OF the state were on the platform. Sew
erel short speeches were made before ex-
president Cleveland arrived. Congress
man MoAdoo, of New Jersey, was
speaking when Mr.. Cleveland came in
~aDd has entrance was the signal for q burst
OF enthusiastic cheering. After silence
had been secured, Chairman Franklin p
Owen, OF the Democratic central commit
tee, introduced Hon. W. c. T. Wardel, of
Bristol, candidate for governor, as presi-
cent. He presented MIR. Cleveland as the
next President amid wild applause and the
waving Of handkerchiefs by ladies in the
boxes. The ex-President spoke as follows:
The ex-President spoke at some length.
He said he had come to look in the faces Of
the men who had been given the place Of
honor In advance Of the vast army which
moves toward the decisive battle field of
next November. Large and bright upon
your banner said he, "Ere blazoned the
words, tariff REFORM the snlbboleth
of true Democracy and the test
of loyalty to the peoples cause. The fight
for justice and right is q clean and com
forung one, and because the American
people have Justice and right ours must be
winning fight. We not only stand upon
sure and safe ground when we APP
peal TO honesty and morality in our
championship of the interest Of the
masses as related to tariff taxation
but our mission is invested with the high
est patriotism. When we attempt to pre-
serve from perversion, distortion and de
cay, the justice, equality and moral integ-
rlty which are constituent elements of our
scheme of popular government
our sincerity cannot be doubted. In be-
ginning the struggle we are are not only
bitterly opposed by great party of aVowed
enemies, but embarrassed by those in our
ranks who had become infected with the
unwholsesome atmosphere our enemies had
created. We hesitated hot monient bold
ly to encounter both. We unified our
party, not by any surrender, but by
an honest appeal to Democratic
sentiments aud conscien &c. We have never
lowered our standard. The Democratic
party still champions the cause which de-
IeGt could not induce it to surrender
which no success short Of complete accom-
plishment can tempt it to neglect We in
vlte the strlctest scrutiny of our conduct
in dealing with its subjects and wo insist
that our course has been open, fair and
consistent"
MIR. Cleveland went on to speak of the
efforts of the opponents Of his policy IN the
campaign Of 1883 as the means by which
they succeeded. Coming down to the Me-
kinney Dill, he said the consumer has found
life harder since this "reformn than be-
fore, and if there is a working
man anywhere who has had his
wages increased by virtue of its ep-
Grafton, he has not yet made
himself known. Plenty of mills and fac
tories have been closed, thousands of men
lost employment and we daily hear of re-
duced wages, but the benefits promised
from this reform are not apparent ..The
reciprocity theory of the Mckinley
BILL" said Mr.. Cleveland, 'lamelv limps
in the direction of freer commercial
exchanges. If "hypocricy is the homage
vice pays to virtue, - reciprocity NAV be
called the homage prohihltory protection
pays to genuine tariff reform. The de-
mand in the Rhode Island platform for free
raw material ought, 1t seemed 10 him, to
be seconded.
II the Democratic party, said he, does
not give TO the state Of Rhode Island dur
ing the present session of Congress the
Tree raw materials she needs, il will be be-
cause the Republican Senate or the ex-
ecutive thwarts its designs. At any rate
nothing shall divert US from our
purpose to reform The tariff in this
regard, as well as many others.
be the time Of its accomplishment. near or
remote. Doubtless, it would please our
adversary If we could be silured from our
watch and guard over the cause of tariff
reform to certain other objects, thus for
ieiting the peoples trus: and confidence
The national Democracy will hardly
crafty this wish and turn its
back upon the people cause to wander after
false and unsteady lights IN the wilderness
of doubt and danger. Our opponents must.
In the coming national canvass, settle ac-
counts with US on the issue of tariff re-
form. lGreat applause,
Mr. Cleveland spoke half an hour in
loud and clear Tone and was listened to
with close attention, each paragraph being
greeted with a round Of applause. His first
reference to tariff reform was the signal
for burst of cheers, and thereafter he
was interrupted again and again with ap-
plause and cheering. The audience was
evidently thoroughly in sympathy with the
speaker throughout mis- discussion of the
tarln. Al the close of his speech he was
greeted with prolonged applause
Ex-Governor j. Z. Campbell. of Ohio.
followed and opened by referring to the ac
ton OF the Republicans in securing large
halls in Providence and preventing the
Democrats from using them. He then took
up and answered the New YORK newspaper
criticisms of his recent speeches at Lincoln
and Providence. Continuing. he said he did
not see how foreign citizen or a poor
man could vote the Republican TICKET in
Rhode Island. Ex-Governor Campbel,s
speech was received sympathetically. but
with demonstration. His manner TOOK the
audience and he was several times inter
rupted with laughter. at the close of his
speech the meeting was adjourned. Elk
President Cleveland was again cheered
when he reached the street
An Important Railroad Land Grant Decision
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Secretary Noble
decided tie chief case of the New Orleans
Pacific railway against Alice SANGER, aud
also the New Orleans Pacific case. both in
volving the same questions The secretarv
holds, in effect, that the law of July 4, 1890.