The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-14
Telling Address by 0hio's
Democratic Candidate
for Governor.
REPUBLICAN PROTECTION DENOUNCED
Greatest Foe to the Prosperity
Of the People and Should
Be Destroyed.
The Alleged Protection 10 American
Labor is a Fiction and
Fraud.

NEWARK, Ohio, Sept IA, 1S93.-Hop.
Lawrence Nsal. of Chnlicothe. Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio. ad
dressed an immense gathering here TO-
day. Among other things he said:-
1--WE are now resping the bitter harvest
of Republican legislation. The Sher-
man Silver law and the Mckinley tariff
law underlie the feeling OF distrust an d
want OF con ntideuce, which at this tim3
pervade financial circles.
"Ihose two acts alone are re-
sponsib e for the prevailing stagnation In
business aud trade, th3 closing OF our
mines aud factories. and the general de-
preston in agriculture, and conditi on
of prosperity can ouly De restored by US.
as Eeople, ny our adherence to the
Democratic faith in the matter OF both
currency add tariff REFORM"
MIR. Neal. after demanding the repeal
of tue purchasing clause of the Sherman
silver law, and giving tie declaration OF
principals adopted by the Democratic
State Convention at Cincinnati his per-
sonal endorsement said:
FOE TO PROSPERITY.
THE greatest foe Co the prosperity or
the people Is McRinleyissn. 5, long as
tne Federal system Of protective taxation
is continued we caa have no general aud
permanent prosperity in this country.
To regain such prosperity we must apply
the AK tothe root or tue evil with earn
e>tuess aud vigur. and forever destroy
tie Mckinley method Of taxatlon.
The law wnicn bears the name OF the
Republican Governor of Ohio, which WAS
passed by II Repuolican Congress aud g.
celyed the signature OF Republican
Presldent,saud which is now declared to
lie the successful embodiment of kepub-
lican principles, presented for the first
Time ia The history of our Government,
naked aud und:sguised, the question
whether taxes shall bs imDosel for the
payment of the expense aud obligations
of tie Government, or for the purpose OF
creating and maintaining manufacturing
establishments owned. operaled aud con-
trolled by private Individuals. private
ccrDorati0ns, trusts and syndicates,
''The protection of favored enterprises
was made to override all public purposes;
and, in this attempt TO diminish the
revenue. and aid such enterprises. by
such Increase of dulles, additional taxes
To the amount of more than $65. 000, 900
per year were posed upon artit les that
pre- abso ute necessities, essential to the
daily comfort and We'll being of the peo-
pie.
M'KtNLEY's CLAIM FALLACIoUs.
THE c aim of Governor Mchlnley that
the tar.f lax IS paid by the foreigner is
utterly taliaclous. He must admit that
tue foreigner pays no part of the 81 ,O00.-
000. .000 that 60 every year as bounty to
the home manufacturers. He Is not rash
enough to make any such claim; and yet
he could make iJ with as muc b reason
aud force as the one he does make, that
the tax upon the imported goods is paid
BIZ the foreign manufacturer or rner-
cDant.
1T is plain as that two and two make
four. that your home merchant simply
advanced the tariff taxes To the govern
ment, and that the consumers not only
repaid them to him. but repaid them
with his twenty-five or fifty per cent
profit added thereto, 1t fs just as plain
that the taxes though indirectly paid.
more than doub Ell the cost of the goods
to the Ultimate purchaser. The whole
burden OF tax ,tiou under such q system
rests upon the cons umptiou of the pso-
pie. The property aud wealth of the
country pay no part OF its taxes. This
destroys that principle of equality which
Is an essential requirement. of q just
method of taxation.
1.-The rich aud poor are not placed on
an equality in their contributions of
taxes under such a sys tenn. The taxes
paid by them ars not / n proportion to
their ability TO pay. The very fact that
consumption constitutes the basis of the
tax prevents equality IN the payment of
1t, and does so TO the disadvantage of the
poor man. because the consump tion of
the rich man does not bear the same
Relation to his income that the consunp-
ton OF the poor man bears to his earnings
"The true principle of taxation would
impose the highest duties upon articles
of luxury and the lowest possible duties
upon the necessaries OF life. but the
Mckinley Act reverses this principle and
adopts the contrary one.
ALLEGED PROTECTION TO LABOR
Ihe alleged protection to American
labor by sucn legislation is just as much
fiction and fraud as is the miserable
I.f rnr1s x.,A(E -
foreigners, VIII Sc goods we buy.
1.-The protected barons, whose selfish
ness and greed have eradicated from
their very nature the common instincts
OF humanity, care not for the welfare of
the laboring men of this or any other
country. They believe in free trade In
men.
Cheap labor is with them as essential
pert OF their protective system rs high
tHr ifs and the profession of d desire by
them TO secure Droteclive duties In the
interest AID for the benefit OF the men
who work in their protected industries,
is dishonest concealInent of their true
motives aud purposes. The history Of
tariff legislation proves this to be true.o
After comparing the wages of foreign
workmen with the American wage
Garner Mr.. Neal said:
INDEPENDENCE OF LABOR DEsToYED.
I'VE must remember in considering
the welfare of the American la0orer that
steady empioyinent Is not second IN
Importance to high wages. Good wages
and continuous employment are each
essential to the prosperity of labor. But
we look IN vain for such employment to
labor even in the protected Industries
under the Mckinley system of taxation.
'.The independence of labor is destroyed
by such legislation. The tyra nicai will
of capital becomes supreme. and ii
restricts and limits the emplo yment OF
labor both as TO terms and time Reduc-
tion IN wageg. strikes ana lockouts
become the order of the day, enforced
jdieness results and you know the rest ,
SALyATI0NIS1S PARADE.