Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-28
PoMONA's GRAND RALLY.

NJ. L. Graf, of Los Angeles, Outlines
Democratic Thought-Other Speeches.
1t was one of the largest outpourings
of the people ever seen in Pomona last
evening-the Democratic meeting held
under the auspices of the Democratic
auxiliary 8 tate central committee. The
orators were @. F. Harris and M. l..
Graft. Both speeches were intently lis-
tened to and frequently applsuded. In
substance Mr.. Graft said:
When asked to take part in this cam
paign for the education of the American
people in the protection and advance
ural inclination to decline was overcome
by feeling of duty.
The political opinions OF the great ma
jority of the voters of both the great
parties are really not opinions at all,
but, to very large extent, are inherited
prejudices.
1t is the purpose of the Democratic
party, following the example of its great
standard bearer, Grover Cleveland, to
make this an instructive campaign.
The Republican press and Republican
orators have been making many claims,
alton, to it's followers, and it would be
unfair to assume that all these false as
sertions were made in bad faith, when,
largely the result of blind
better informed but less scrupulous
leaders Of their party. In this cam
paign of instruction it will be our duty
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to conduct the campaign go that each
Democrat may know the reason for the
faith that is in him.
We are called a free trade party;
whereas, as a matter of fact, the duties
States from 1921 to 1861 ranged from Is IA
to 4S.S per cent on all dutiable articles,
and upon all articles, both dutiable and
free, imported into the United States,
from 1921 to 1861, it ranged from lI.79
per cent to 40 per cent; but the policy
OF both the Democratic and Whig
parties during all this long period of the
nations material prosperity, was to
leaving the necessities of life and raw
material as free from the burden as the
exigencies of the government would
permit.
1t has always been the policy OF both
the old parties to raise its revenue from
custom duties, and thereby render in
cidental protection to those infant in
dustries which after q time could there
by be made self-supporting without
governmental aid, and the result of this
policy was that our commerce was
found upon every sea, and our commod-
a. 10 Ia IN, lor nd
was built from 1860 to 1850 of vessels of
all kinds in the United States, $685.
635 in tonnage, and from 1868 to 1878,
the close of the civil war, but 2,789, 800
issued by the American Shipping and
Leland Stanford is one of the vice.
president, we find on page nine:
'sThe following table shows the
amount of money paid annually by the
United States for the transportation OF
foreign mails in the two periods of ten
years, from 1850 to 1860, when our
foreign shipping was most hourishing,
and from 1879 to 1889, when it was most
depressed" and then follows table
showing the total amount paid vessels
VI Ill lluCH AlOiu lCOO w 1OOO az PAc,oOA,
SO6. SO, of which there was paid vessels
sailing under the American flag $15, lS9,-
698. SO, while from 1870 to 1889, there
was paid for carrying our own foreign
mails to vessels sailing under the Ameri-
can flag but $510, ,450. SO. When we take
into consideration that the population
was but 23, ,191 1915 in 1850, and but 81,
443, 1921 in 1860, you can form some esti-
mate of the policy of the Republican
party and it's result upon our future
prosperity. Here in Southern Califor-
MIA we are asking for appropriations for
building and improving our harbors
upon an extensive scale, while the
policy of the Republican party is de-
stroying our commerce on the high seas.
Revive our lost industries, send our flag
with our millions of tons of commerce.
into every sea and our American seamen
and merchants into every land, and ap-
preparations and harbora will come
without mass meetings or memorials
A few months since mass meetings were
held in San Francisco and othel