Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-11
SHERMAN IN GOTHAM.
0hio's Senior Senator Discusses the
Issues of the Campaign
BEFORE AVERY LARGE AUDIENCE
He Says the Two Parties Are Brought p
toa Sharp Line.
HEARTY RECEPTION TO THE SPEAKER


filled Cooper Union Hall to its utmost
greeted Hon. John Sherman this evening.
The United States Senator from Ohio was
enthusiastically received, and his clear and
distinct manner of placing his ideas before
his hearers won him the closest attention.
The Senator was introduced by James
Blanchard, President Of the Republican
Club. Mr.. Sherman said:
1.-THE two parties are now brought to a
distinct issue. The Democratic party has
ever been opposed to everything that the
Republican party proposed. 1t is ques-
tion with you, citizens of New York,
whether you shall now decide whether you
shall have dollar with 81. grains of sill
yer in it, or whether YOU shall have gold
dollar worth dollar. 1t is question with
you whether you shall abandon the Treas
ury notes worth dollar, whenever pre-
sented, or whether you shall adopt in their
stead the old State bank notes, for which
no security is offered"
Senator Sherman then spoke on the ques-
tion of protection. He said that the Demo
cratic party-the Republican party as it
was then known-was always in lavor ofpro-
lection. In the Constitution itself and in
the messages of James Madison are found
articles in favor OF the protection of Amer
lean industries. They are found in the
messages of Andrew Jackson, and the mod
ern Democracy do not dare to stand BY what
the founders of their party have enunci-
ated. The free trade principles that the
Democracy now advocates are fraud upon
the laboring man.
No Right to Talk of Such Things.
''What right have the Democrats to
speak of the rights of the laboring men?"
asked the Senator sThe Constitution of
the Confederate States was in favor of pro-
lection. The constitution of the Demo-
cratic party, as IL stands to-day, is in favor
ofprotection. Senator Hill (hisses) does
not know exactly where he stands. but he
says, in spite of all temptation, he is a
Democrat still And where does Grover
Cleveland stand? He says that all pro-
tct1ve dnties are unconstitutional. want
the Democrats to stand up to the rack and
maintain that Since the Republican party
was founded, in 1856, its purpose has been
to protect the 1aboring people. 1t will not,
1t shall not, submit to see the wages of the
American workmen reduced to the level of
the worklngmen of England, of France, OF
Austria, of Belgium or OF Germany. The
Republican party believes in making all
articles free excepting articles of
anu dTClcl6S WHICH call aQQ Will
be manufactured in this country at a
cheaper rate than they can be manufact-
ured abroad. Wherever the duty is apt to
give monopoly to this manufacturer here,
as has been the case at times with the man
utacturer of iron and steel, we have re-
duced it. Our object is TO give fair wages
to the workingman; our object is to give
protection to the farmers, as we have shown
in placing duty upon the cattle imported
to this country from Canada. The object
of the Democratic party is to reverse this
policy"
A Good Word for the Mckinley Bill.
Senator Sherman went on to say that the
Mckinley bill was the best embodiment OF
the principle of protection that had been
presented to US up to the present day. OF
the man ufacture of tin in this country he
said protection had developed its production
in California, South Dakota and other
States of the Union and said it was only an
instance to show how protection did de-
velop the production.
Then the Senator spoke of sugar, and said
that in France, Belgium and Austria, and
in Germany they had succeeded, under the
influence OF protection, in producing sugar
sufficient to supply the needs OF those
countries. He had no doubt whatever that
if similar protection was given in this
country, it would be similarly able to pro-
duce beets and to produce sugar from them.
Senator Sherman next touched upon the
silver question, and spoke strongly against
free coinage of silver. He said that the
urgency of a free coinage bill was wild
lunacy. Its result, he said, would be to
cheat the pensioners out of one-third of
their income, to cheat the depositors of
money in the savings banks, to
cheat the wage Garner of one
third of his earnings. He con-
cluded his address with an attack upon the
Democratic party for its attempt to abolish
the 10 per cent tax on the State banks, and
thus enable them to restore State bank
notes He pictured at some length the
evils of State bank note circulation, and de-
scribed the financial troubles that were suf-
fered from it in the days before the war.