The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-02
Some Pithy Remarks and Stories Told
Before The Garfield Club.
DEMOCRATS, THEY DON'T KNOW.
Theory VS.. Business Experience Country
TaraIyxed by Democratic Ideas of u
Tarir-President Cleveland and His
British Friends.

niitniBdH - Wtll knOWn III hnouc
He is in many respects the dandiest cam
paign speaker OF them all. While ridicule
is one of his chief weapons, he does not
use ii unfairly, and never aims TO make
point at the sacrifice OF serious sense.
He addressed the Garfield club at Paw
tucket last evening following Mr.. Stevens.
His audience enjoyed it hugely and with
the speaker regretted that there was not
sprinkling of Democrats in the large
assemblage. Probably the result would
have duplicated an experience of Harris in
Atlanta, Ga, which he told as follows:
Hor went to Atlanta to engage In
joint debate with Breckenridge, the silver
tongued orator from Kentucky. Breck-
enridge was very kind to him. He rca-
lized the position OF the Republican in a
hot southern Democratic district, and
offered his ex-colleague every opportunity
TO make the best OF a situation where the
Democratic debater was bound to have
the unanimous sympathy of the audience.
Horr told the Garfield club that he took
mean advantage of Breckenridge's offer
in two particulars. He chose the last
"day" in the debate, and while Brecken-
ridge was being entertained by his friends
Horr went through the Atlanta factories.
Atlanta Is notable among its Southern
sisters because it has a large number OF
prosperous industrial establishments-all
made possible by the protective principles
of the Republicans. The meeting was i'm
tent and 5000 persons were present.
When the debate was on Breckenridge
waxed eloquent over the general princi-
pies of free trade and Horr proceeded to
show his big audience what protection
had done for Atlanta. When he closed
the debate he invited the recollection
OF his hearers to the greatest
statesman Kentucky has produced,
Henry Clay, who was rank protectionst.
AT the conclusion he was loudly applaud
ed and the astonished Breckenridge
thunder, Horr, verify believe you cap
tured fully half my audiencel"
Horr told about an editor from Cardiff,
Wales, VIII O came out to visit the Worlds
fair. He was dined and wined by the New
York Tariff Reform club and by the edi-
torial staff of the World. A
great hoodoo was made over him.
Then he started for Chicago and made
personal study of the industrial situa-
tion as he went along with view to veri-
flying the theories of free trade which he
had devoutly advocated for forty years.
He found much to surprise him, and wrote
home to his wife about what he had
seen. The good lady thought his let
tiers pretty good, and had them
printed in her husbands paper and of
course they came back across the water.
They startled the Tariff Reform club and
the New York World. The Cardiff editor
had first visited a paper factory in Jersey
and had discovered that the American
press could buy their paper cheaper than
he could get 1t in London. What
was more surprising, the help in
the factory not only wore shoes instead
of "clogs," but they wore "button shoes"
And so between New York and Chicago
he found a hundred different industries
all turning out their products under pro-
lection cheaper than il could be made in
free trade England, and so well paid and
prosperous a lot of working people he had
never dreamed Of!
When the Wilson bill was before the
committee the Michigan pearl button
manufacturers got hold Of Mr.. Ray
mond, one of the ablest lawyers in De-
troit and Democrat, and wanted him to
appear before the ways and means COM
mttee 10 maintain the Mckinley sched-
ule on pearl buttons.
"But, gentlemen" expostulated Ray
mond 81 am a Democrat"
"But you are a lawyer aren't you and
will accept a fee?'
"of course, il can conscientiously do
it," said Raymond.
SO the pearl button men told him they
wanted him to study up their industry.
They would pay him by the day on con-
dtion that, il he found the situation
warranted it, he would plead their cause
in Washington. Raymond went to work
and then went to Washington
q thorough protectionist, so far as the
pearl button industry was concerned. lie
told the ways and means committee that
he thought the pearl button tax was not
a bit too high-if anything it ought to be
little higher. Tom Reed, who Is on the
committee, quizzed him little.
"Thats all right" explained Raymond,
Il used TO believe the other way, but
that was before l knew anything about
it,"
Some English tin plato manufacturers
came over TO the fair and they called on
the president to tell him they proposed
TO hunt up some of the American tin plate
factories they had heard so much about.
That made the president Of these United
States laugh.
Gall right, gentlemen" said Cleveland,
"if you blunder across an American tin
plate factory come back by way OF Wash
iugton and let us know. We have been
hunting hard for one for a long time"
Gust think OF that" exclaimed Mr..
H6rr. "What mendacityl II the Presi-
dent had gone across his dooryard into
the treasury building he might
have found big pile OF official
reports there that would have Informed
him that 100000 pounds OF tin plates
had been manufactured I'm the United
States up to that time. Moreover ~,
when he was practcing law in his office
in the Mills building, in New York, he
had looked out OF his window over TO
Brooklyn he would have discovered the
smoking chimneys OF a tin plate factory
that was turning out 1000 boxes of tin
plate a week, right under his executive
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