Evening journal., 1892-10-24
DEMOCRACY'S NIGHT.
Colonel Mcclure Makes a Stir
ring Tariff Reform Address.
THOUSANDS OF SHOUTING CITIZENS

Mckinley and Senator Frye in This City
and shows Their DIisstatements- -Politi-
cal Gangrene.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure, of Philadel-
phia, replied in the rink Saturday night
to Governor McKinley's speech delivered
month ago in the same place.
The meeting was under the auspices of
the First Voters Cleveland club The
Young Mems Democratic and the Cen
tral clubs, of New Castle and other or
ganizations Of this city, with their bands,
attended the meeting in a body. The
roomy auditorium was crowded to the
doors
After a short Introductory speech by
Senator Gray, Colonel Mcclure began his
speech. He said, in part;
81 am told that / am to answer Cover
nor Mckinley on the tariff. Mr.. McKin-
ley is a gentleman whose acquaintance /
have very earnestly tried to make, but
have not been able to do so. Laughter
and applause The nearest / got to it
was when he spoke in Philadelphia and
the Manufacturer club sent me an invi-
tation which allowed me to sit in a pri-
vate box and hear him. In point of fact
the more / have thought of their action
since, the less l blame them. Cheers.
An Object Lesson.
go to your stores in Wilmington,
continued the speaker, "and learn how
Mckinley has distinguished in favor of
the rich and against the poor. Ask if
the tax on silk velvets which the rich
alone can afford to wear has been in
creased and you will be answered, No.
Al 4 H. 4 Is
any change in the tariff on
cotton velvets which areworn by
the working class, and you will
learn that it has been increased 100 per
cent Ask the increase on silk lining
which the rich alone can wear and you
will be answered none; ask the advance
on cotton lining used by the poor and
you will be told that it is 285 per cent.
Inquire of the fur-iers the change in the
tariff on sealskin sacques worn altogether
by the wealthy, and you will be answered
that it has been reduced 33 per cent; ask
the difference in the tax on imitation
sealslxin worn by the masses of the people,
and you will find that it has been ad-
vanced 100 per cent. am not theorizing
If have made a misstatement | viii be
willing to stand convicted as falsifer. "
Prolonged cheers.
For Free Wool.
The colonel scored Senator Aldrich for
his championship of an increased tax on
sugar, in the senate, and denounced as
one of the maddest insanities of the Re-
publicans, their objections to free raw
material
The colonel couldn't understand Nc
Kiniey's opposition to free wool, and il
lustrated the fallacy of the existence of
American woolens. He declared the tax
on wool TO be fraud on the farmer, on
the manufacturer and on every man COM
PEELED to buy cheap clothing. He said it
was utterly impossible to buy woolen
suit for $40, Si2 or $40 when the tax on
wool is 80 per cent. p
Evils of the Tariff.
Proceeding to the speech of Senator
Frye, delivered here, he quoted state
ments Of John Roach and William CramI
to show how American shipbuilding had
been limited by Republican Legislation
not only in this vicinity but in Senator
Fryes own state. The Mckinley bill was
denounced as q robbery and fraud, 9
mockery and lie and a special plea wa'
made for the industrial people Of the
| lduQ anu luI Aut oAll llu0 pAObtNAANA
possible to them under the laws. Free
dom of opportunity for the American
workman was demanded.
wealth and Labor Strangers.
''1t is labor that produces every dollai
we possess" continued the speaker, ''anC
in the wonderful development of wealth
how has labor Jared? We have increased
the wealth Of the country fully one hun
dred billions of dollars since 1860, tina
is during the present generation, an'
who possess it? Forty years ago sixt'
out of every hundred heads Of familie
in the United States owned their owl
homes to-day only thirty-six out o
every hundred are thus blessed. VIII
this increase of homeless workingme
when they have produced almost count
less wealth in a single generation2
the nation is prosperous should not labC
be enlarging its homes instead of lesser
ing themi
Capitalization of Wealth.
! "of our 90. 900, 900 people not le,
$ than 10. .OO0, 600 are in want of bread froi
January to January. Many gather II
scantiest subsistence by begging f'
T labor; many give up the hopeless struI
( gle and sink the man in the tram
g while others plod on through crime
: the Jail or through sorrow to the aim
e house. We have $4,000, 900 populatiC
!, and of the boundless wealth that you a
/ told has been developed by prosperol
l. labor, 81 900 now own one-half of all
b it. Here is the true solution of Il
l. policy of the Capitalization that h
Q come upon us, creeping as softly as q
growth of the grass in springtime, uni
a number less than half the populate
!. Of Wilmington possess more than on
% half the entire wealth of the continen
v Applause. A policy that has reduc
the owned homes of labor nearly on
3, half while one hundred billions ha
,, been added to the wealth of the countr
1, that has steadily centralized veal
d until one half the whole riches Of Z
N land is possessed by 81, ,000 Of 65, 100000
!. and that has within a few years ce
Y. tralized billion and a.half in monopo
1. combines to increase the cost Of I
Z. necessities Of life, might be called pr'
T, perity for the very few, but what Of I
IN people who are the sovereign power
D. the Republic. Protracted applause ]
Capitalization of Power.
"This Capitalization of political pow