Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-11-10

with that party has forgotten his duty to
the masses and thinks only Of the man
who has the money that can debauch the
people and send him to Congress.
become unequallv divided do you
wonder that this government of ours
has become the instrumentality to create
disparity OF fortunes that is seen nowhere
else on the globe; do YOU wonder that the
cry OF distress comes from the agri-
culturist everywhere epitomlzed pyI
the farmer who the other day said
that the time had come when it took two
bushels of wheat to shoe his plOw horse.
and he thought the time had come to quit
party that had brought him to a puss
like that. Why is it YOU have the Farmers
Alliance, the cry for loans direct by the
government upon small rates OF interest
secured by crops Of the farmer, by his
animals, or his land? Why do you have
such schemes as that of Mr.. Stanford,
that the money shall be issued directly by
the people of the United States? It is all
caused by distress. And what has pro
duced that distress =? The current of taxa
ton which has drained the pockets of the
poor farmer and carried his earnings and
those Of his workmen into the hands of q
favored class in this country. Applause.
A nation cannot be made, il cannot be
sustained, upon single pursuit; there
must be diyersifcation of the industries
/ anu w tudht Il udlpy. u JtlSJ BpNNihihSlitt
there must be harmony amongst those
industries. The men who framed this
government said the first thing they had
i'll view was to establish justice and to pro.
mote domestic tranquility. That is the
best way to promote domestictranquility--
treat Il man right and he will be satisfied.
And ] hope the American people have
enough left of the spirit of their forefath-
ers not to have rest or to have tranquility
unless they are to have justice along with it.
In lS46, after long period OF discussion
and wrangline, q system of taxation upon
the Democratic theory then-and the same
now-was planned by Mr., Robert Walker,
the Secretary Of the Treasury under Mr..
Polk. II became the law in 1916, and that
was to raise the Federal revenue by the
lowest tax and to raise not ore cent from
: the people more than legitimate and
economical expenses of the government
required. -
/ What was the result of that? Was any
body wronged? Did any pursuit suffer
Why, no; agriculture tlourished. The
farmer went to his early toll and came
{ back in the evening and he made his crops
t and sold them at profit, and was fairly
recompensed, and he brought up his sons
' to follow his pursuit. The land main
t tanned its value, and the virtues of country
Z, homes, of agricultural life, its simplicity
8 and manhood, all those went to swell the
i strength and happiness of the American
Q people.
i Where was our shipping? Everywhere
A that ships could go. The flag of the unitec
e States tloated i'll every foreign sea. Every
Y where our seamen were employed. Nayi
t cation was a profession and a noble one
: The American people had as part of theiI
: inheritance freely to traverse upon the
4 high seas of the world; siXty-six per cent
r OF all the best freight and commerce of the
4 world were conducted under the American
y flag. [Applause The shipyards were
: busy; the naval architects were employed
e the seamen were employed; the citizen:
e were employed, and the virtues and manl
a ness and courage that marked the true
a sailor everywhere were part of the strength
9 and happiness of the American people,
IL Where was manufacturing? Did it di
a miuish was it treated unjustly; did i
d then fill the lobbes of Congress witt
d active agents pursuing the increasing of ;
l. tax or the charging of II tariff? Not so
from 1916 to 1861 the manufacturers o
4 this country were absolutely contentet
t and the word tariff was never heard at
IS political meeting. Applause.
/. This is all part of history. Now wha
C does all this mean? 1t means that whilt
: there are just tax laws the whole country
d will flourish, and that where you hav'
e unjust tax laws they will drain the pocket
n of some and they will overtiil the pocket
y of others [Appause.l
/. And where was commerce? "Agri
n culture" as Mr.. jefferson said, "was tn
Il hand-maid of commerce. SO was com
Is merce the equal hand-maid of agriculture
% Commerce means exchange; exchang
means barter; and the wise farmers of on
ii government provided with emphat
IS piainness that no tax or duty whateve
Il should be laid upon any export from til
" United States. Applause. 1t was a colder
e sentence, and said to the man who Workei
is the ground, IF you cannot find satstac
Int taFtfl
,r you shall, Tree OF tax, go anywhere else t.
/? exchange your commodity for that whicl
Il You want"
st Let us take a community; the carpente
le builds the house and he does the work 70
s. the man that sells him groceries, and tn
1t one exchanges that which he has for tha
re which the other has and both are bene
'e fitted and they feel it and their friendship
Il is increased. The man accompli5hes bS
II exchange two things he parts with cha
y which he doesn't want, and obtains tina
II which he does want. But suppose yol
,e should say by some law that you deny tn
right of exchange, that YOU shall not ey
u change-you might just as well say tina
% rs to say yOlI shall not bring back iron
le foreign lands the things for which yo
III have exchanged your property; and do yo
to not see that when you impose tariff t
10 prevent importation, tax to preven
" the receipt of tax, u tax that /
le proIit-that you are striking down com
Or lnerce, striking down the ship-builder:
Ot strikingd down the mechanic striking dow
1f the laborers in every capacity, because yo
are laying tax against the intercourS
r. and the profitable exchanges of mankinc
III Applause.
le Ii cannot be done, and therefore, speak
10 ing Of its impolicy, the cause becomes plai
II and must become palmer to each man thq
u, would exercise public powers only to pull
$, lie ends; we must keep the greedy hand d
ie private individuals from getting into tn
r, public treasury i'll any shape. Applause
ii They have not followed that; they hay
Is followed the other aud the consequence
er are on us to-day. They were on us in 1883
lie We saw men who thought they had tn
lie right to continue a system of taxation
IL prevent money from coming into oh
n treasury, and such power was not likel
III to be given up. And when Grover Clev
&c land applause and cheering sat down
ie his table and began to think over Ia
er wrong, 1t grew upon him and the trut
N could not be suppressed in his heart. RAJ
e. Olausp ! remember how cautiously L
u approached that sIbiect--to tell YOU til
81 truth am IN older man than he il and
n had looked At this question longer, and
We wanted that tariff battle brought on befol
u ne did. But he is man who follows h
-, own light and his own conscience and do,
Of his own thinking. And we waited until til
IN truth dawned upon him and he saw til
" growth Of the power OF money in thi
~ country that was checking industry an
IS, was feeding upon the distress OF otht
ry pursuits creating an inequality discstal
!. fishing justice and destroying domesli
or tranquility; and when the truth reNche
@, his mind, you may be sure he did hes
I'd tate TO express it. [Applausc,l His me