Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16
JACOB wH1rELAw REID.

the world. Whenever there is anything 20 be
done in this country and by this country and
for this country, the republican party is called
upon 10 do It, Applause
There is one thing that can be said Of our
organization which cannot be said of any other
II can look backward without shame or
humiliation and II can look forward with
cheer and exultation. That cannot be
said of any other political organization in
the United States
Gentlemen of the convention, we are here
to-day 70 make a platform ana a ticket that
will commend themselves to the consciences
and the intelligence and the Judgment of the
American people, and we will do it. Loud
cheers.l Whatever is done by this con-
vention will meet the approval OF the
American people in November OF this year
tRenewed cheers We have already heard
some Of the notes of victory, for this is
a republican year. Rhode Island has
spoken. Applause.l Only yesterday Oregon
spoke electing three republican representatives
TO the congress of the United States Cheers.
When we get through with this convention its
conclusions will be the law of republican action
as they will be the assurance of republican vic
tory. We are for q protective tariff and for reci
procity tGreat applause We propose to take
no backward step upon either of those great re-
publican principles. tApplausel
I'VE stand for protective tariff, because it
represents the American home the American
girl, and the American boy, and their
highest possibilities Of American citizen
ship. Applause We propose to raise our
money to pay public expenses by taxing
the products Of other nations, rather than by
taxing the products of our own Applause
The democratic party believes IN direct taxa
ton; that is taxing ourselves We don't be-
lieve in that principle, so long as we can find
anybody else TO tax. Laughter and APP
plause.l The protective tariff not only
does everything which revenue tariff can do
in raising all needed revenues, but a pro
tective tariff does more than that A protective
tariff encourages and stimulates American in
dustries and gives the widest possibilities 10
American genius and American effort. APP
plause. Does anybody know what tariff reform
means: tCries OF "No, no. Il And yet that is to
be the platform Of our political opponents this
year. What does IL mean You can
study Mr. Clevelands utterances, from the
first one he made in New York when he said
he didn't know anything about the tariff until
his last one in Rhode Island, and yor go away
ignorant and uniformed as TO tariff re-
form means
"Since the war there have been three great
tariff reform bills proposed by the democratic
leaders, and none Of them alike; no two of
them with the same free list, no two of them
with the same tariff list, no two OF
them with the same rates of duty, but all
made by the democratic party, upon the
same principle, TO symbolic and represent
tariff reform. You may go 20 Mr.. Mills VI may
go to Mr.. Springer, and you will find that they
differ totally. But you may go 10 the house ofrep
resentatives at Washington which was elected
diStinctively upon what they call q tariff reform
issue, with two-thirds majority in the house,
and what do you ind2 That they have passed
three bills. Let me name them: First,
free tin and steel or iron plates on which
tin is coated taxed, the finished prod
uct free and the raw material bearing
duty. Second, free wool 10 the manu-
facturer and tariff cloth to the consumer
Third, free cotton ties To the cotton states and
tariff hoop iron to all the rest Of the states.
That is their symbol OF tariff reform. Gentle
men Of the convention, how do you like il?
This contest that you enter upon is for the
maintenance Of protection and reciprocity But
want 10 say here that there is not line Of that
tariff bill that is not American, there is not a
paragraph that is not patriotic; there is not
page that does not represent true Americanism
and the highest possibilities Of American citizen
ship [Applausel We are to declare ourselves
upon other questions here to-day We are
to declare ourselves upon the question Of
a free ballot and a fair count Applause
No platform should ever be made by re-
publican convention that did not reiteran that
grea' constitutional guaranty. No repub-
lican speech should ever be made that did not
iusist-fnaily and resolutely insist--hat that
great constitutional guaranty shall be a living
birthright not the cold formality OF con
stitutionsl enactment, bu living
thing which the poorest and hum
blest may confidently enjoy and which
the highest and most powerful dare not deny.
[Great spplause We can well leave to the
committee on resolutions the duty G. making
platform that shall represent the bes thoughts
and the best ideas and the best wisd, Of the
It so. 1...i Wnei. We 20