The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-26
the course of some remarks on that oe- caslon spoke as follows

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 Although We have democratic president and the lower branch of con gress Is also democratic, the senate re- mains republican by Il small majority, This majority would disappear through a gain by the elections to be held next week. of three democratic senators. Then no barrier would remain to pre- vent the enforcement or the demo- cratic doctrine of n tariff for revenue only involving a decided reduction In duties on imported goods and the open Ing of our home markets to European manufacturers and traders.
 "The party in power is substantially a free trade party. We know that there are many democrats who are personally In favor of protection to home indus try-the republican doctrlne--but they cannot remain on the democratic train and save themselves from free trade destination. Having taken the cars In the wrong direction they cannot correct their mistakes by sitting In their seats and looking back. The attempt Is now being made to gain one of the three senators needed. by electing demo- cratic legislature in Connecticut: and 1t Is quite possible that the great question of protection and prosperity on one hand, or Of democratic ascendency and disaster on the other, may be decided In this state, even in this very district and town. Not once In generation does 1t happen that the single ballot has n r, itNA tv,asN NArtn mt rI Co. reaching as may be attached to it in the present contest. No worker for wages, no merchant. no farmer and no manufacturer can afford to so cast his votes as to clothe with added power, that organization which. in these first years of its renewed success, has al- ready tried to pull down, and in part destroy the policy through which the larger portion of our prosperity has been secured, and which, if continued, would renew and retain that prosperity for many years to come.
 Tt has been well said that the good we never miss, we seldom prize and it sometimes seems that 1t might be said with equal truth and force that the evil
  may be that the general progress of our country for many years has been so steady that in the sense of security which time has given We are forgetting the importance of the policy which has worked such magnificent results; and it may be, too, that the rising tide of favor which Is setting strongly toward the opposite policy in the dominant party must run its course to power, bringing it's unwonted floods of depres- sion and disaster, before thases who. have in their ballots the power to turn it back will speak and act as If there is any cause for fear. If that evil day must come, let us at least do what we can to put it as far into the future as possible. in the hope that It's effects will then be less. serious than, they would be now. The strongest of demo- crats may we'll consider whether, after what has recently occurred and is now occurring, it is best, at least at present, to try to secure for his party complete control of the legislative branch of the government. It has often seemed that as they observed the propositions and action of their majority in the house of Representatives at, Washington during recent sessions, many, honest, patriotic and thoughtful democrats here in this state of combined agricultural and manufacturing interests, must have felt secret qualification in the assurance that the republican senate would not in any event permit the mischievous and destructive measures to become law.
 "The relations of labor and capital are receiving more earnest and thought full attention than ever before These two great forces should be so adjusted as to work together in harmony for their mutual advantage, and for the welfare of the country; and I am sure that we must all share the earnest hope that the present discussion may lead to such an understanding between them mutual friends as they areas shall assure to them through their combined efforts, long period of prosperity and peace But gentlemen I am very fully persuaded in my own mind that if the policy of free trade, or "a tariff for revenue only" should become the estab- lished policy of our government, no plan that it Is possible for human wisdom to devise would be adequate to secure to either labor or capital, or to avert disaster to both. The re- publican policy of protection by ssecur- ing and enlarging the home market for the products of home industry, creates a demand for labor, at good prices, and tends to secure for proprietors a reason able return on their investment, thus solving the great problem in the most desirable way, by bringing prosperity to all.
 "Six years after these views were ex- pressed, in the election of 1892, the democracy succeeded in securing un- disputed concession of all departments of, the government, and we have now been living for two. years under Q democratic administration; but if any words now at my command would give a clearer idea of what has actu- ally happened than those used in prophetic way eight years ago, they do not at this moment occur to my mind. It is true that the de- clared policy of the party to power has not been fully carried out, nor more than partially adopted. In view of the terrible effect which the mere ap- prehension of the execution of the pro-. posed plans had upon the interests and industries of the country, such fear came upon a portion of their forces as to carry confusion into their ranks, and prevent the full execution of their plans Still, the apprehension of what might be done, and the greatly modi-