The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-27
CAMPAIGNING IN THE SNOW.
SPEECHES ny TIIE TWO DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE ron CONGRESS.


trict to succeed Ashbcl T. Fitch as Congress-
man. went out In the snowstorm last night
with a twinkle in his specialized eyes. lie
gives up a good deal OF time every night to
travelling over the tistrict. making two or
three speeches each night Last night he
apoke first In q hall on a hill In Leader Ryans
Sistrict AZ 4 bird avenue md Ninety first street
Tamniany strohgholi. and atterward at III
East Path street where Major McNulty had
called the National DemocraoyHo either to rat
fly the nomination.
He was the first speaker at Leader Ryan's
meeting. State Senator Cantor came down
from Albany to boom things for Mr.. straus.
and Comptroller Fitch was there. too. TO tell
the voters what capable successor he would
have In Congress when Mr.. Strauss was elected.
Mr. Straus took OF his beaver overcoat put
his brown derby hat on his um brelln and stood
Il in the corner. Then lie stepped to the speak
sr's table on the platform. put his hand In the
pocket OF his check sack coat. and beamed
on the hall full OF voters. lie talked for ten min
utes on the tariff In plain. straightforward.
businesslike way and in an earnest manner.
He was appauded three times heartily. Once
there was a very hearty laugh. man in the
rear OF the hall said. Three cheers for Nc
Kinleyl" while Mr.. Straus was criticising the
Mckinley bill This amused the throng
nightly. and even Mr. Straus smiled. No
body cheered for Mckinley.
In the closing days Of his life" Mr. Straus
began, 1.-THE late James q. Blaine said, Tho
tariff problem is policy. not principle
There is more truth in this than no would
have been willing to admit earlier in his life.
The Republican policy was to collect tariff
from the benefciaries of tho tariff and alter
the outlay it was an eminent Republican who
once said You can fool oil OF the people some
OF the time. and you can fool acme OF the peo-
pie all OF the time, but you can't fool all OF the
people all Of the time Al the people know
that the tarin is policy but tariu reform Is
Mr. Stratus said that after Cleveland issued
form. Mr.. Harriso was elected. and McKin-
LAYING tSas whom the s'c destroy they
frst make mad. Mckinley. acting for Harrison
OF 80 per cent. on the tax rates that the people
said were right and IS;t. s,u,, ".,rorno.,
that his bill had settled the tariff question for
ten years ut least. At the next election the
NeRine n1H A was " over~helminsIy defeated:
The progress OF tarifl-rsform sentiment will
reform is not something that has been hastily
conceived without reconciliation or careful
the iirst time in thirty-two years. the
fSs o,nn s n POSITION to now sns Sn
the statute books. save, the, repeal of the
purchasing clause OF the sherman act. is
hard times. that labor is discontented. that
laborers are out of employment. that there are
MED. But II after thirty,-tw years OF Repub.
llcan tariff legislation the laborer finds him
self in identically the ZANE terrible position
that the English coal miners were in last year:
ifthis legislation. after going on for thlrty-two
the pauper laborer OF Europe. then tell
tonight, the hundreds OF millions OF taxes
body else pockets than the laborer's whom
tho tarir was to have benefited.
the Walker tariff OF 1916. which made II uni
form rate Of about = per cent. We got on SO
this country, ths tariff was reduced to il per
cent. on all dutiable goods. and that reduction
- Of all the people. This was done in 1887. In
1851 the war broke out and to raise revenue
to earryit, on it was necessary to raise the
Mr. sTaas explained hoy the PrOsecttiyes
created on the plea that the manufacturers
wanted II; Tue rate was nrst raised to an
then to 90 per cent and remained At The latter
figure from 1864 TO 1872. when the Republican
would suffer because money was atinR
so rapidly In the national Treasury REDUCED
the panic Of 1878 on business. the Republican
money S scsumuiSted SO fast. The debt was bald
oil 30 rapidly that the Republican party OF its
that o ended sedaction Of IS per cent.
in all taxes in 1882.
straus. The REPRESENTATIVES Of all the pro- n1:
tected Industries rushed to Washington and
sSuss The EsSs sss that sas h e" I :Sw g
case but that n his Rfividual cHse So, Ms goods
testing was that the country got "a tariff Of As
per cent. that lasted until 1880. when llcKin-
ley came on the tspis with tariff OF 90 per
Now you all know. that II you. want to go
90 the further YOU viii have to go when you
turn back. That is the reason that this Nc
q By %son
per cent less than was recommended by the
can enrich itself by taxing itself. and though
future generations will credit the men OF the
reaching kind in the realm Of Inventions.
when they come 20 review our fiscal legisla,
intsl i on the one hand can 60 tossther
With such folly on, on the ether; Experience
assistance. fSs deserving " ones 6 hide their their
beg Of us on the H streets Every tins WIT It
Is proposed to benefit by tariff reform legisla;;
goes ap. from the representative Of the pro;
tected industries that they are to suffer and
body OF Of workiSgmen. Why. they represent
but one per cent. OF our ponulation lt Is the
piper while the one per cent. are gatheriPg In
The shekels.. The census Of 1870 land that
thai we sE had sSm DsoDS eSTa
Ing living by laboring. only 800
na Ssss TsfS smpSysd
IN 1000 iaet9ries IL Is the reDresfnitatiyss
OF tneso factories VINO are RAISING inc
cry that We will ruin the country IL We enact a
tariff measure that will benefit the rest of the
1TOOD.UOO laborsTs."
Mr. Straus said that these howlers reminded
him Of the band OF robbers who Inhabited
ancient Tarifa in Spain from which the word
tarif is derived. They professed the most
profonnd consideration for the people. and
present robbeT barons ot the Republican
party" he added, rob the laborers while
9nly free trade the Republicans have been in
favor Of is free trade In labor and you know
goes the more money rolls into the
pockets OF the manufacturers and the
less into the hands OF the lahoTer.
Give the American lahorer free wool and free
iron and free coal. free raw materials. and
leave the rest to the ingenuity and genius and
skill of the American work inRmAn, and there
will be plenty Of work in this country and no
half time"
Mr.; strsus was loudly applauded as he
finished