The Negro world., 1892-07-30

freedom and intelligence as the Instru-
ments for ita development, we stand
disgraeed in the eyes of mankind If we
cannot and II We do not support our
own government. We can throw that
support on other people only by beg
gary or by force II we use the one we
are pauper nation, If we use the other
we are a pirate nation.
''The democratic party does not in
tend that we should be either. No
more does it intend that they shall
falsely call 1t taxing other people to
transfer the expenses of the government
from the possessions of those who own
the property of the country to the bel
| lies and backs of those who do the work
of the country. 1t believes that fru-
gality is the essential virtue of free
government. 1t intends to limit taxa
tion TO public needs and to levy taxes
by the plain rule or justice and equity.
But, gentlemen, we are confronted
with new cry in this campaign The
republican party says Gov Mckinley
now stands for protection and reciproe-
ity. He was for protection alone when
he framed his bill in the house. or rather
permitted its benefieiaries to frame it
for him, and firmly resisted all efforts
of the statesman from Maine to annex
reciprocity to it No wonder that he
favors the reciprocity added TO his bill
by the senate. You might explore the
pages of burlesque literature for any
thing more supremely ludicrous than
the so-called reciprocity of the McKin-
ley bill
''It is not reciprocity at all 1t is re-
taliation, and worst of all, retaliation
on our own peorie. 1t Furnishes Amer
lean citizens for the necessities or the
follies of other people. 1t says to a
few little countries south of US: If you
are forced by your necessities or led by
your follics TO make bread higher and
scarcer to your people, we viii make
shoes and sugars higher and scarcer to
our people. And now we are told that
reciprocity is to be their battle cry.
Already we are regaled with pictures
of Benjamin Harrison clad in armor
and going for the battle for reciprocity
on plumed steed. Simple Simon fish
ing for whales in his mothers rain
barrel, in great triumph capturing an
occasional wiggle waggle, is the true
realistic picture of reciprocity of the
Mckinley bill.
I'VE are for the protection that pro-
tects and for the reciprocity that recip-
rocates We are in favor of protecting
every man in the enjoyment of the fruit
of his labor, diminished only by his
proper contribution to the support of
ka z1 6at
reciprocity that throws no unnecessary
obstacle between the American pro-
ducer and the market he is obliged to
seek for his products
'But gentlemen. must not keep you
from the work that is before you. Let us
take up that work as brothers, as patri-
OTIS, as democrats. In so large con-
vention as this, larger in numbers than
any previous gathering of our party
and representing a larger constituency
it would be strange, ominously strange.
if there were not some differences of
opinion on matters of policy and some
differences of Judgment or of preference
as TO the choice of candidates 1t is the
sign of a free democracy that it is many
voiced and within the limits of true
freedom, tumultuous. 1t wears no col
lars; it serves no masters. We cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that many who
have heretofore followed our plan with
enthusiasm are to-day calling with ex-
cusable impatience for immediate relief
from the evils that encompass them.
Whatever can be done to relieve the
burdens, to restore, broaden and in
crease the prosperity of the people, and
every part of them. within the limits
and according to the principles of free
government that the democratic party
dares TO promise that it will do with all
its might Whatever is beyond this,
whatever is Incompatible with free gov
ernment and our historic liberty, it
dares not promise to any one. Chair
man William L. Wilson at Chicago,
June %, 1892.