Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-19

side. But Wutu ~ WAS idiu on, III WAS
never contemplated that it would be-
come so excessive. 1t was never con-
templated that this infant should grow
to be gray beard. The Republican
party passed tariff in war that was
submitted to as war measure. But the
wear after the war increased it. The
post war tariff was largely in excess of
the war measure, and the Mckinley bill
is in excess of both. The Democratic
party is the representative of the popu-
lar expression which demands reduc-
ton. [Applause.l That popular ex-
preston which demands that the gov
ernment be economically administered.
/ think that in that stand the party has
the sympathies OF the people of the
whole country.
nIthink that in Cleveland's celebrated
departure demanding free raw material,
he wrote one of the most logical and
convincing arguments ever penned by a
statesman. Loud applause.l Whether
it contributed to his defeat or not, am
not prepared to say. | will tell you,
however, of conversation that / had
with Mr.. Cleveland. went to see him
with Senator Hearst, and feel sensible
of the privilege of being accorded quite
long interview with him. In speaking
of the matter, l asked him if he was nc t
afraid that his ideas carried out would
create only great corruption fund 2 He
replied that perhaps they might. But,
he said, he had acted conscientiously in
the matter. He had found, during that
summer, unrest in commerce, panics,
and felt that he had to meet great
responsibility, and to meet it alone.
The only ones he had to advise with
were his cabinet. He had to assume a
great responsibility. And, said he, 1
took it, and whether l win or lose, l
will stand by it, [Applause.]
s'We have gone through process OF
education since that time. An educa-
tion of four years. | venture to say
there is not one of you who does not
know some Republican who believes
the Mckinley bill is an outrage. Never
in any history of any country, outside
OF war times, of nation at peace, has
been witnessed such unrest as in this
country-unrest continued and wide
spread-such as exists today. You can't
pick up newspaper in which you do
not read OF people being shot down by
hired assassins. The laborer in one
place, is meeting with convict labor to
beat him down; in another place he
meets scabs or foreign labor to beat him
down. In this country today there ia
bastard soldiery growing up--every oneof
them ought to be in the penitentiary.
This is what we get from the combined
enterprises. The laborer finds his work
stopped, suspended. He is idle and las
hard work to exist, and then
they talk about his high wages.
He raises his voice to protest
and is told that he is the most
prosperous of the prosperous. l saw in
Pittsburg iron and glass works that had
been shut up for eight months. These
are the stimulated industries, the result
of the boasted tariff OF the Republican
party. You first drive the laborer to
desperation, and then procure him to be
shot down. APPLAUSE
ga party continued the speaker, lie
not to be Judged altogether by what it
does. 1T should be judged also by what
it prevents. I have no hesitation in
saying that if it had not been for the
Democratic party, there would not now
be freeman in the United States. The
party has not always won it's fights. It
has fought losing fights, but it has been
AN exponent of that old couplet:
s, Truth crushed to earth
/ Win rise again.
BIZ While the battle may have been lost
Iait has always been renewed, and the
party has made it's power felt. 1t has had
the true theory of the constitution of
the United States. When Jefferson
formed it, 1t was without regard to
the tariff, and also without regard to
slavery. jefferson swore by the horns
of the altar of God, undying hostility to
any form of human slavery. He showed
his sincerity by the manumission of
his own slaves. I admit that the Re-
publican party has had share in free
ing the negro. But it has now made
most dangerous and indefensible inroads
into the freedom of the white man. It's
work has been wiped out by its repres-
sions of the white man.
The Democratic party has always been
a law-abiding party. Because it stood
by the laws it was said to be pro-slavery.
But it's leaders and creators were always
against that institution, Now the peo-
pie are rousing up and insisting that the
white man shall be freed. There is a
subtle slavery around us that the poor
man does not understand. He sees
men controlling great interests, and
does not know how all these things are
brought about. Every great railroad
has had it's stock watered until the
stockholders do not know where they
are-which end up. The New York
Central has been watered four fines.
In New York, at Onondaga, there was q
salt works. A shrewd Republican rail-
roaded bill through congress, levying a
heavy duty on salt. The first year the
works paid 1872 per cent, and at that
very time the mine owners were export
ing salt across into Canada at one-third
the price they were charging at home.
We can only call these things robberies.
The so-called protective tariff has in
Vulnerable similar instances of this
sort of thing. We see the infant cor
porations expanding into gigantic
trusts, which are discouraging to any
man who wishes we'll to mankind.
And this is the age of sophistication.
The age has arisen. You can't hardly
get sugar without sand, and so on.
Almost all the prime necessities of life
have ceased to be anything but chem
ieal. You see that even in whisky.
II man takes drink in three different
places these days, he is drunk. Laugh
ter. We have arrived at the point
when the American people ought to
take charge, and it is because the DEM
ocratic party has shown it's activity
along this line, that am Democrat"
Applause
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Lynch's
address. on motion of M. T. Collins the