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sity to every household in the land, that
they might enrich the Trust already fat
tened, as they allege, by its ill-gotten
gains. What comfort will it bring to
the average American home, the modest
households of the great masses of the
people, to be told that the duties have
been reduced on laces, silks, Havana CT
velvets, liquors and opium? Yet such is
the compensation the American people
orc ~ivnr for tho addad hurdan nf nnn+
and one-half, or more, upon every pound
of sugar they consume"
OF the wooden schedule he said the re-
duction in duties is $19,000,000, of which
$4,000, 900 come from the goods used al
most exclusively by the wealthy, and
(which do not figure at all in the house
hold expenses of the great majority of
the people, while the reduction in cot
ton goods are of very similar charac-
teri He showed how the reciprocity
clause of the Mckinley act which has
been repealed, doubled exports, espe-
cially of products relating to agriculture,
all of which lis surrendered for taxed
sugar." and that foreign nations are in
shutting retaliatory duties against our
products because of the abrogation of
the treaties.
SLAUGHTERED WOOL.
Turning to the subject of free wool, he
said the farmer had been suffering ever
since the election of 1892, and has been
practically forced since then to take the
free trade price in the market at Liver
pool. lie showed that the value of
sheep in the United States declined
from $125, ,264 IN January, 1893, to
$S9, 1856, 10 in January, 1894, every dol
lar of which loss comes from the far
mer's pocket. The new law takes from
the dutiable list non-competing goods
valued at Sal, 1893, 900. as against $780,
232, 900 for the Mckinley law, and the
new law also takes from the free list
articles which are prime necessities of
life amounting to $l13,2 900, upon
which they propose to collect duty of
$44 100000. He said he was not here to
discuss tariff rates or schedules, but to
insist upon the protective principle.
But duties must not fall below rate
which will adequately measure the diff
ference between the American scale of
wages and that of competing countries,
and must always be in favor of the labor
of our own county and the home market
for our people,"
OF our financial condition he said it is
anything but hopeful. Revenues are
falling and there is no material diminu.
ton in expenditures. He showed the
falsity of the claim of the Democrats to
economy, as their appropriations aggre-
gate S27, 269,S59 more than at the first
session of the Fifty-frst Congress, and
exclusive of pensions, $1,295,67 more
than at the second session of the Fifty
first Congree. Besides the Democrats
have increased official salaries largely.
The deficiency, the first since 1865, has
reached S70,000,000, and the $4,000 900
gold reserve, never before impaired, has
fallen to $57, 100000. Little revenue can
be expected for months from sugar or
whiskey because of the enormous impor-
tations of the former free and the with
drawals of the latter from bond by the
two big trusts before the duty and the
increase went into effect.
VIRTUAL BANKRUPTCY.
Expenditures have exceeded income
every hour since Cleveland assumed Of
fee in 1898, thing which has never &C.
cured under Republican admins ira
ton since the war; The Mckinley law
was always sufficient to meet the eX-
penses of the government. President
Harrison paid off 1896, OOO,O 900 of the Ma
tional debt without having to borrow
money or invade the gold reserve, and
left Cleveland a surplus of 1924 900, 900,
Now Carlisle is Selling the gold reserve,
which has always been held as a sacred
fund, to pay out obligations, to meet the
daily expenses of the government
He then exposed the inconsistencies of
the Democratic party, who, he said, "are
for anything which gets them power"
When out of power they were for I'M
limited silver coinage, free raw material;
but in power they were against the use
of silver and against free raw materials.
Out of power they denounced trusts; in
power they became the willing tools
and advocates Of trusts when opportu-
nifty came to strike the blow against
them" Out of power they posed as the
friends of labor; in power "they have
inflicted upon American labor the dead
Hest blow it has ever received. Their
policy has reduced wages and beggared
labor beyond description" Out of
power they promised the farmer better
prices for his wheat and wool in power
those prices have reached the lowest
point known in fifty years Continuing
he said:
FEARS JUSTIFIED.
"They have disappointed every reas-
enable expectation they raised in the
campaign of 1892, but justified every fear
or evil prediction urged against them.
They have ignored every promise. They
have disregarded every obligation.
They have broken faith with a trusting
people and exposed their insincerity and
double dealing. They appear before the
American people to-day totally discredit-
ed and in disgrace upon their own con-
fessions before the close of half of the
Presidential term. They have utterly
failed to redeem any pledge made to the
people, and, after more than years con-
tinuous session of Congress, are forced
to acknowledge their infrmity, imbecil-
ity and the lack of united purpose to
carry out any single one of the great
promises of the campaign. They have
exhibited their inherent weakness and
have disclosed irreconcilable differences
with the party. The Senate does not
agree with the House nor the House with
the Senate, nor either with itself or the
President, while the great body of the
people is decidedly at variance with all
of them,
mo party can be safely trusted with
the sacred interests of the people or the
control of the government without it
possesses a fixed honest and enlightened
purpose. Singleness of p urpose is nee
essary to every reform, indispensable to