The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-02

are busy trying TO destroy tudt idoe oio
pensation the Mckinley bill.
"We 90 ahead and perform important
acts and then have to spend our energies In
coaxing the Democrats to come up where
we are. We took lone strides Forward In
the 51st Congress n now we must stop
and explain It to the Democrats. They do
not mean to be wicked but they don't I'M
derstand things"
s'The speaker illustrated the Democratic
obtuseness by the fact that a horse Is not
afraid of q man or of q wheel, but when
the man mounts the wheel, or bicycle, he
Is afraid of the combination. During the
past 81 years the Democratic party has
not understood the combination the he
publican party have made.
1T is q great law that governs the
human race, we are zach insignificant u
united the gates of glory will open for us.
Some people do not understand why we
wish to unite and that is the reason we
nave to make campaign speeches and
preach sermons to get the human race To-
gether.
"They talk about the beautiful times in
1916, when e, ~ country had free trade,
but now no country has free trade, or ex-
poets to nave it, but England and the
Democratic party. The effect OF the pro-
tective tariff is to cheaper prices OF al
equitably among all people. ! do not be-
lieve that all the wealth should be divided
equally Among all mankind. II you did
1t to-day by tomorrow some bright fellow
would be a dollar or two ahead. can
see with my own eyes that under a
of the comforts Of life than ever before.
| years ago SEQ a month and IS cents a dav
were thought to be all right for wages,
and cane-bottomed chairs were good
| enough, but that day for those people has
passed away and all the Democratic ora
tors can't convince you to the contrary;
They talk about the beautiful past and
| cry that everything is now going TO ruin,
but you now from facts that 1t is not SO
and do not let their fiowery orators make
you forget Il, The Democratic party
failed on the slavery question, n now
they have failed on questions OF political
economy"
| effects of the late war, with 100000 men
| to support in the field aud the destruction
of the property In the South. From
1860 to 1870 we were destroying" he said,
and from 1870 to 1880 wo were paying for
| IL, and the 1890 census shows q magni6-
cent growth, with the great West filling
up and the great American desert obliter-
| ated from the map. According to the
Democratic doctrine we throw away a
thousand millions of dollars each year, for
Grover Cleveland, in his tariff reform
message, argues that we paid not only the
| tariff tax on everything we imported, but
n like tax on what was made here. This
| has been going on since 1880, and it figures
a thousand million every year, and yet In
1850 we did not have that amount to
throw away Do not listen to their talk
about how poor we are, for you know
better.
"They say wages are lower. Let us see.
Employ more men. II YOU have work for
a million men and build new industries
70 give work for q million more you ore
ate a demand for labor, aud j would
rather see two jobs looking for one man
| than two men looking for one job. They
say wages have not been Increased sipce
| the passage of the Mckinley bill. There
| are instances that they have and / could
| point to many more IL the Democratic
| Victories right after It's passage had not
alarmed the country.
1.-THE Providence Journal is perfectly
| right when It suggests that 1t Is not the
platform, that IL Is not the declaration oil
| principles, but the character of the crowd
that ought to determine the way you go.
And the declaration that even the pres
| ence of Grover Cleveland caDno raise the
average of the crowd in this State shows
what kind OF people you had better
crowd.
| object to what Is done aud to what is go
inv to be done. The Republican party
may have made some mistakes or done
some wrong acts, but its past work and
record show il Is the safest party in the
long run. The Democratic majority
i'm the House Of Representatives. is
three to one Of the Republicans,
and how much have they doner They
cant point to q single act. They intend
to do something and they have tried "a
shoot little holes through the tariff, but
they have not got the intelligence and
know it. The speaker then referred "a
the Democratic orator In Congress who In
the first part of his speech, favored free
wool to please Rhode Island manufactur
ers. as it will lower the price OF wool and
I'm the latter part Of the same speech say
the price Of wool will advance so as 10
tickle the Ohio farmer.
Here In New England they talk free
raw materials, but In the wild and bound
less WestS binder Irvine must be on free
ton ties must be free to pleasea few South.
erpp entlemeu. Their object Is not toprotect
the property Of the country but TO catch
votes. The American system Is not a
svstem unless it benefits all its people
equally and the American market
shall belong TO the whole American
people. They want to drive the lumber.
men against protection, u they think,
when they can get them, they will take
the next step forward. The speaker then
read from an address OF Roger q. Mills
where ho safd: we have securcd free
thought, free speech, a free press, free reli-
gion and free labor He said Col;
Mills OF the Confederate army said all
that and he adds, ''and now we intend
to press for you the God-given right OF
free traie