Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-05
TALKED LIKE A MAN
&. e Allen Delivers a Rousing
Republican Speech
ON THE TARIFF QUESTION
he Exposes the F2llaciss of Free Trade
snd shows How Protection Bsne-
hts the Workinzman.



Register today.
The Hon. L. L. Allen, candidate for
the state legislature on the republican
ticket. addressed . rouslng republican
meeting IN Goossen's hall on Ottawa
street iast evening, ana was listened 10
by large and enthusiastic audience
e. T. Bslknap also made . speech. but
did not arrive until o'clock After
few introductory remarks Mr.. Allen
spoke as follows.
Every man who has o vote, every
woman and child who expects To nave,
ought 10 be on one side or the other IN
tins contest. Better be on the wrong
side than To have no opinion and 10
nowhere. THIS campaign 10 almost
over; candidates VINO have been 50
smiling. who have shaken hands
IS vigorously a. the town pump and
gwen every one . drink, will soon
know you 70 more forever. My friends
be not deceived by q smile. This is not
aauest.on Of a giass OF beer or cigar,
IL IS question winch, like the future,
is boundless- To all OF US who have 10
earn our living no questions are more
important or cause us more anxiety
tnan the questions OF work and wages.
have always thought Adam aud
Mother Eve had had enough to do,
they would not have gotten into mis-
chief and raised the devil rs they liter
ally did The Amazon Indian, idly
painting beneath the torrid rays OF -
tropic suu. lives on insects, nuts and
game IN the dry season, and when the
river rises, taxes . COB OF good, rich
a "A al. -. L. frxrI ~
But Grand river mud Is not edible.
We can only drink that. For our NV
ing, We must work or starve. And 40
in youth, We ut ourselves for some
trade and IN manhood, that Is our
business. We can't sit around on q
dry goods box and white, we must
support our families, and so, we think
about the bread and butter, and .
home and clothes.
Not Work Enough
Now. whatever my trade. am best
of. when l have enough TO do.
There 10 not work enough for
everybody. Men and women as willing
as any one. who would not beg for
bread, have begged for work and died
In their garrett for want of IT. We read
of plague-stricken Hamburg, and of
the tiltn and rags, and wonder, but
low wages and no wages and hard grind
ing want have made them what they
are. How much worse Oft are they
IN their greves-those "windowless
palaces of rest"-than they were in the
novels of wan2 Put me there among
them, aud am ready to go. l am q
good republican and not afraid to die.
Now. even here in America there Is
not enough to do. You can't get up q
successful strike because there are so
many unemployed men ready to take
your places There are, for instance,
more carpenters than there are jobs,
and so, many carpenters are looking
for something else TO do. The wise
man looks ahead. What can be done?
/, is not lawful to kill of tho girl
babies as they do in India, we can't
winter ike q bear by sucking our paws.
Down there at Washington, where
they make laws, they have the power
to effect US IN . thousand ways. One
day they took the duty off from sugar
add sugar was as cheap ~ dirt. They
changed the duty on tin, and thous-
ands of laborers who were crowding Us
went TO making tin. They protect us
from cholera, from paupers from star
vatlon wages
Projections and work.
Under the constitution We can put q
duty on anything brought into this
country for sale. But, you say, what
has that to do with the question of
work. Supposing YOU 90 to the store
to buy a stove. and the seller shows
you two makes, one, he says, was made
IN Canada. aud oce was made IN De-
troit; oov. If you buy the one made in
Canada the laoorer IN Canada goes to
work and makes another. That Is
what Canada wants every one to do.
England wants every one to buy of
her. Wherever she has the power che
makes them do 1t. she Is not moth
er; nothing but an old stepmother;
stepping IN wherever she can aud step
ping out when she has TO. But what
ever We buy of her we don't make our
selves. But suppose everyone buys
stoves of the Detroit company and fur
niturs Of Grand Rapids Companies,
You 90 g. these men who are idle and
say now there Is no use of your hang
ing around any longer waiting for my
JOB; you can 20 to work. The repub-
licsn party comes to you today and
says we are pledged to seq to IL that all
these manufactures run. We declare
for protection. So far "a any human
government can, We propose to protect
our citizens against combines of CAPT
tai. against frauds at the ballot box,
against psuper and save labor. We
declare that any one who brings any
thing into this country which We eau
manufacture shall pay for the PRIV
lege sum equal TO the difference in
wages which hs PAID and the wages
our citizens get These wooden mills
are gong 10 run and the cotton mills,
etc. IL we can help 10 there snail be
no idle men. What do the democrats
say Why, they talk worse about Us
than they ever did about Jet DAVIS or
Benedict Arnold.
Democratic Faisehoods.
They say We are legislssing solely in
sne interest of capitalists; that We are
violating the constitution They
say they are IN favor of free trade;
they say they are not in favor of free
trade. The Chicsgo Times SAYS the
Mex .nlsy bill "a the cause OF cholera,
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