The record-union., 1892-08-29

Francisco he met and was saiuted by half
a Gozen deep-waIer vessels flying the
British ffag and not by one with the flag
OF our country. 1t is one of the humors
OF the Republicans in their campaigns to
taunt US with leaning towards the Brit
lsh nation.
AoLDS REPUBLICANISM RESPONSIBLE.
American ship building and deep
water sailing had almost entirely disap-
peared under the Republican policy of
protection and the British flag was every
where taking its place. He wanted to
orlye IL on and to see the stars and stripes
taking its place. He had lived on this
coast for ten years, and crossed the bay
OF San Francisco thousands of times, and
dld not remember having seen Boston
sailing vessel in all that time, while in
early days so many of them came to this
coast that white men We're nearly all
known 10 the natives as Boston men,"
Inc TACT Is the American people had quit
pullulng ships and going to sea, build
Ing or sailing ships, because the British
nag mad been adopted under present con-
Ciltiohs. inns was one result of the pro-
leStive policy OF the Republicans. An
other
soMBRE AND THREATENING RESULT
Gould be seen in the returns of the GEN.
sus, which ought to touch and appeal to
the deepest American sentiments. The
census OF 1850 showed an increase in ten
years OF thirty per cent. to our popula-
l!oI, seven per cent. only being from for
elgn immigration to this country. and
twenty-three per cent. the natural in
crease OF our population. In 1890 the CEN
sus showed for the preceding ten years
total increase of only twenty-three per
cent, and OF that ten per cent. was for
elgn Immigration and only thirteen Der
cent OF it native increase.
ne wanted to know if his Republican
friends called this state of vital statistics
healthy economic condition Of affairs.
he Claimed these to be figures for which
the Republicans were responsible
IL was bad showing of economic con-
dltlons which showed the wealth of the
country constantly accumuating in the
nanus OF few, and he cared not whether
we were fotllng rich or rotting poor, such
conditions showed that as a nation we are
rottlng. The country is suffering from
ilaru L tllnes ana a stagnation of business.
III New ork 1t was the same as in San
francisco. Business was dead, while
there was abundance of money not in cir
culation.
CONCERNING PROTECTION.
In referring further to the protective
policy he said it did protect. 1t protected
one-tenth of the population against nine
tenthS. 1t protected such men as An
GREW Carnegie, who could accumulate
hfty-hve millions in twenty five years by
a system OF protected reVenue-f farming.
lt was an impossibility for nation to tax
itself rich, but it could make rich a few
by taxing the many, who were held in
check and denied Justice.
In concluding he said he thought it
was time the American people called
halt. He appealed to Republicans to
answer if the internecine war between
labor and capital was due to the willful-
ness OF the laborers. If there was no
other reason then he laid its willfulness
at the door of the Republican party. It
had made of American labor a defiant
outlaw.
He compared the wages in Europe and
the conditions there with those here, and
prophesied that unless Il change was
brought about in the policy of our Gov
ernment, i'll ten years the conditions of
the laboring classes i'll this country
would be on level with those of Europe.
He advised his hearers to go slow-to
keep in the middle of the road, behind
the Democratic band-wagon, and avoid
the new and experimental policies of new
parties and theorists.
lie was frequently interrupted bv ap-
plause, and at the close OF his speech
three cheers were given for Cleveland
and the party.