Evening journal., 1892-10-17
FoLLETT ON THE ISSUES.
Big Democratic Meeting In the Rink OF
Saturday Evening.


One Of the biggest political meetings
of the campaign was held in the rink on
Saturday evening. Hon. Charles b.
Lore presided Hyatt's military band
furnished the music
The speakers of the evening were ex-
Congressman Follett, of Ohio, and Chair
man L. Irving Handy, of the Democratic
State Central committed Fully $500
persons including the First Voters
Cleveland club and the Tenth Ward
club, heard the gifted orators discuss the
issues of the campaign.
Mr.. Follett said, in part: There is no
new music in the Republican song OF
this campaign. II is the same old tune
and the chorus is protection to Amer
lean labor" but when the election is
over these protectiOnists forget all about
the laborer What do the monopolists
Those whom the tariff especially beneftsl
care about the worSingmen? The first
thing they think about in the matter of
production is, what will our labor cost,
and they figure IL down to the lowest
possible point every year. If % per cent.
is not enough protection we had better
shut up shop.
"The great agricultural interests OF
this country demand a market for their
products Three-fOurths of the products
of the west and northwest are still
locked up in granaries because the own
ers have failed to dispose of them in
that home market of which the Republi
can party is so boastful.
Some Of our Republican friends pro
fess to believe that this great Mckinley
a. rrafNrr fla fufsfH hill oafrau11sr ,.a
duces the cost of commodities There
are many who repudiated the whole
robber scheme and joined hands witt
the Democrats in their demand for 4
tariff for revenue only.
This talk about the tariff beneftinl
the American workngman is all moon
shine Four years ago the New Yorl
Herald sent trusted correspondent into
the iron regions Of Pennsylvania to fine
out how much benefit the operatives re
ceived from the tariff on coal. And tn,
result of that inquiry was astounding
People were actually starving in tina
region while the operators were pocket
ing millions year by year as result o
the protective tariff
"Why since the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill there has not been a day no
an hour but that somewhere in thii
country there has been a conflict between
capital and labor Look at Homestead. a.
a noted example be needed, of the benefit,
to labor derived from the Mckinley bill
A nation cannot be taxed into prosperity
nor is the laborer benefited, even re
motely, by a tax placed on the commodit,
he produces. Labor wants to be protecte,
from the hordes Of Undesirable immi
grants who arrive here annually.
Upon the wild cat banking system
with which the Republican party charge
of being in favor, have only to say tina
no Democrat ever contemplated an
such thing. What we do claim is. tina
the government has no right 20 interfer
with and impose restrictions on stat
institutions, and hence we demand tn
removal Of the 10 per cent. government
tax levied by the government on stat
banks. The trouble is that the Republ
cans have been driven TO the wall on tn
tariff issue, and have invented this Evil
cat issue with which 10 scare the peopl
into voting the Republican ticket.
Chairman Handys speech was YER
short, but his condemnation Of Republ
can legislation was short sharp and col