Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
AS BAD AS REBELLION
Is What John Sherman Says of the
Democratic Tariff Plank.
THE TENDENCY OF THE BOURBONS
Toward All Of the Ante-War Conditions
Except That of Slavery.
A GREAT EFFORT All PHILADELPHIA

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address to business men on the benefits of a
protective tsrif The speech was one of
the best that the distinguished speaker has
made for long time, and was attentively
iistene to and frequently applauded by
the large audience. The Senator said:
Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen.
when L was invited TO speak to you 1
was told that this was to be a meeting of
business men to consider the business ques-
tions involved in Presidential election. 1
will. therefore, confine myself 20 business
issues distinctly made between the two
great political parties of our country.
1.-The whole aspect of the tariff question
has been changed bv the recent action of
the Democratic National Convention at
Chicago For the first time in the history
OF our country during the hundred years of
national lie has a national party dared to
proclaim that a tariff for protection is un-
constitutional and is fraud upon the
laborer for the benefit of few. This has
not been done in secret, nor with equivocal
phrases or limitations, but openly, after de-
bate, and vote by the strong majority of
5l4 yeas to 315 nays in a Democratic con-
vention in which every district and State
and Territory was fully represented. This
is a bold declaration, as bold as the Rebel
lion, and should be met by the American
people in the same spirit as they met the
Rebellion. There should be no truce or
parlev uutil the issue is determined-not
BY war, but by the voice of the American
people.
Significant Lesson of the Vote.
"The significant fact appears that this
resolution was voted against by the great
producing States of the North and voted
Tor bv the late Confederate States; that in
substance it was taken from the Confederate
Constitution; that il was in open opposition
10 the opinions and acts of tine great leaders
OF the Democracy living and dead, AMI
among them several from Pennsylvania, of
whom not the least was the sterling Demo-
crat, Samuel j. Randall. 1t was made in
the lace of the oft-repeated declarations
In Democratic national conventions and in
spite of a large minority of the members of
the recent convention.
The power to impose duties on imports
originally belonged to the several States
The right to adjust these duties with a view
10 the encouragement of domestic branches
of industry is SO completely identical with
Federal power that it is difficult to suppose
the existence of one without the other. The
States have delegated their whole authority
without limitatio n or restriction, save the
very inconsiderable restriction relating to
their inspection laws. This authority hav-
ing thus entirely passed from the States,
the righ; to exercise it for the purpose of
protection does not exist in them, and con-
sequently, If it be not possessed bv the gen.
eral Government, it must be extinct.
Congress the Power Supreme.
"Our political system would thus present
the anomaly Of a people stripped of the
right 10 foster their own industry and to
counteract the most selfish and destructive
policy which might be adopted by foreign
nations. This surely cannot be the case;
his indispensable power thus surrendered
by the States must be within the scope OF
the authority on the subject expressly dele
gated to Congress
"They also tell US that protection is a
fraud upon the labor of the American peo-
pie for the benefit of the few. What right |
las the Democratic party of to-day to speak !
or the laooring men of this country? What |
measure has it adopted or proposed to ad- |
vance their interests, to promote their COM
ort or increase their pay? Every one of
he great acts of public policy adopted by
he Republican party which have distin-
yuished the last 80 years has tended to pro-
note the good of the people, of the CON-
non neople, as Mr.. Lincoln valued them,
md none have been more fruitful of good,
md especially to those who labor, than the
Republican policy of protecting their in
iustries from undue foreign competition.
This rule of protection has been extended
1v the Mckinley law to all forms of pro-
lection in which our people can compete
with lair wages on equal terms
Congress Not Always InfalIibIe.
Congress NAV not in all cases have fixed
he Just rate OF duty, for this depends upon
changing conditions of demand and supply,
)ut the principle adopted is plain and
simple, that in collecting our revenues from
imported goods we will discriminate in
avor OF home production as against foreign
reductions competing with ours. This is
he Republican policy of protection, to Sc
cure and maintain which we ask the people
,f the United States to re-elect Benjamin
arrison as President OF the United States
Ind to elect Republican House of Repre-
Ientatives.
at the Republican party succeeds at this
election the protective policy will be main- |
aimed and the Mckinley law only be
changed as the experience of the time |
the necessity of amendment
Il the Democratic party succeeds we must |
Je prepared for violent changes in our tar |
Fl laws, to be made without regard to the |
wages and interests of labor or capital en-
ployed by manufacturers. This threatened /
destruction of our home industries is made |
w an unnatural alliance of the cotton |
-rower in the South and the free |
raier In commercial cities, and the |!
lilletante dudes who now follow the FASH |
ons OF the old world because it is English,
-ou know
The Free Coinage of Silver.
''The second business question OF national /
lolicy of great importance, to which have |
eferred, is whether the coinage of silver
hail be tree, whether the holder of 41214 |
rains OF standard silver, or 371H grains of
,ure silver, can present it to the Treasury 1
# the United States and have it coined for
i'm into a dollar. That much silver is
oinage Of silver is made free, then all the
liver now in existence, estimated at
!, 600, ,0O0,000, and all silver hereafter
mined, amounting last year at coinage
'alue to S1Sj, ,00O, 900, and annually increas-
nc, could be brought to our mints and
nined into dollars at the expense of the
United States and for the benefit of the
wner of silver. The inevitable effect
ould be to reduce the purchasing power Of
he dollar to o. cents The dollar in gold
rould then disapper from circulation and
'e worth IN tBe market nearly 90 oU.
Il believe President Harrison would
eto a tree coinage measure. What Mr..
,leyeland would do l cannot say. He
oes not tell u.s. The subject will enter
srCely into Congressional debates No
Ian ought to be elected to Congress whose
osition on this question is not clear and
nequlvocal Now, what We want is both
old and silver money, but always main
aimed at par with each other, money hav-
ng the same purchasing power. How can
fe get il? TIE simple answer is by cutting
nough silver in the silver dollar to make it
qual in value to the gold in the gold dollar.