Arizona republican., 1894-05-01

 | the head of the worlds finances. Under thai policy the song of COT tented and well paid to1t swelled in mighty diapason from sea to sea- and ours was the greatest freeSt and most pros porous nation under the light of the sun. Ap- | plause.
 De enocrats and Republicans alike acQuiesced | in the policy of protection to American indus try, and together enjoyed its benefits for thirty years. Protection was occasionally criticised l by theorists and the execution of its details was now and then sharply denounced by Dem- ocratic statesmen, but no national Democratic 1 platform ever really attacked the doctrine lts self until 1892. In 1872 the Democrats nom1- | hated for president the greatest and most rad | 1cal pr0tect1onlst then living. In 1876 Samuel J. Tilden was nominated upon platform which | favored incidental protection. General Han cock in 1880 was an advanced protect1onlst Wno insisted that protection was not a national is | sue but should be left to the congressional dls | tricts, and such was the position of the great Democratic protectionist, Samuel J. Randall, who was placed and kept by his party 1n the speakers chair of the house of representatives. Grover Cleveland himself was elected in 1884 | and defeated in 1888 upon platforms which did not squarely attack the doctrine of protectlon Alleged excessive Republican application of the principle of protection was attacked. Al legged abuse lift was attacked, but the principle itself was not attacked until 1892. when Henry Clay WattersOn and his "star-e eyed goddess or revenue reform and their British ooadjutors in New York city for the first time succeeded 1u fastening upon national Democratic platform the doctrine that protection itself is robbery,
 
 the tariff should be framed for revenue only, and that in framing tariff no consideration whatever should be given to the protection of American industries.
 ton tonight. I only call the attention of Democrats to the fact that their new doctrine of disaster was crammed and coaxed down their party throat m the heat and haste of midsummer convention by bare majority and against the protest of many Of their own great leaders. That doctrine can, in my opinion, never be carried out in leglsla- tion. The Wilson bill does not even attempt to carry it out. But what has the mere threat of carrying it out, the threat conveyed by the election of 1S92-what has that threat done for this nation? In this distant and isolated terri tory with its comparatively sparse population and it's rich resources of grain and cattle and fruit and copper and gold, the disaster which has come upon states dependent upon manu factures and commerce has not been felt, ex- cept in smaller profits from orchard and vine yard, and in the ruin of the wool industry, and In the loss of the growth we might have had Ii it had not been for the panic. But we have only to look beyond our own confines to behold the disasters brought upon this land by the popular verdict against the principle Of pro lection in November last. That victory Of the free traders has given us permanent loss of thousand millions of dollars in the value of railroad stocks and bonds. It has given us smokeless chimneys in Alabama and Ten nessee and Penn sylvania. It has given us closed factories in New England and New York and Ohio. It has given us silent saw mills in Michigan and Minnesota and on Puget Sound. IL has given us unshorn focks and unreaped vineyards on the Pacific coast It has given us three transcontinental rail roads in the hands or receivers. It has given us million workers out of employment. It has given us bankruptcy in the counting rooms, and despair in the cottages, and hunger in the homes, and hell on the highways all the way from the Sacramento to the Penobscot. [Applause.l
 Grover Cleveland promised to be Moses who ha biS try m O promised land But he is Moses who has made mistakes. He is a Moses who has lost his way. He Is Moses at the stroke of whose rod no waters gush. He is a Moses for whom no mama falls, and whose presence the quails avoid. He is bogus Moses who has led h1s followers into deadly mOrass. Laughter.
 Out of that morass there is but one sure road, and that is the back-track, and that road the Democrats in the east are taking. Senators Hill and Murphy have already taken 1t; 40,OO Demo- cratic voters in Ohio have taken it; 60000 Democratic voters in Pennsylvania have taken it; a 100, 900 Democratic voters in New York have taken it. There has not been an election held this year anywhere but there has been cy- clonic sweep of the political wind. The very earth resounds with the tramp of wise and patriotic Democrats who are letting their Cleve- Iandized party organization go to the devil rather than ruin their country and themselves. And now it is proposed that the Democracy of Phoenix shall step forward and pick up the OK gad that wiser hands have dropped, and go | to gee having and cursing the oxen back into the morass. It is proposed that the Democrats of Phoenix shall say, i've are wiser than our brethren in the east. We are satisfied with the doctrines that have brought ruin to them. We want free sugar so as to discourage the estab- lishment of auy beet-raot factories here. We want lessened duties on raislns and wines so that we may not be tempted to plant more vineyards We want free wool so that the sheriff can entirely eliminate the sheep men of the country are directed toward Phoenix as | a prosperous and progressive city: we want to demonstrate that her citizens are in favor of stsgnation and reetrogression. We will signaliZe our fitness for statehood by taking passage on 8 condemned craft which the very rats are deserting. We l will follow the Democratic flag which MT. Cleveland iutters into the very cheapest and l blackest mud of the morass rather than stand ! on firm ground under Republican banner. | [Cheers.]
 I do not believe that the sagacious and public | spirited Democrats of Phoenix will take such course. They have voted the Democratic ticket before and under proper conditions will doubt less vote 1t again, but just now they will prefer Monihon and progress to Kellner and stagna- i tion. They will say to the Democratic candi- 1 d ates for municipal office: i've respect you as citizens and neighbors. Under ordinary cir | cumstances we would vote for you. In all social and business ways we are your friends | But when you ask us to accept and endorse eX- | isting Democratic politics you ask us to chain | Phoenix to corpse, and we must reply: De liver us rather from the body of this death. F" | [Cheers.l
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