The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-13

Notwithstanding the busy time amin 2
| tlfe farmers with their fall plowing, the
! people from the country surrounding
gathered at Harper's grove yesterday one
mile and a half from Goddard, aud filed
the grove with a splendid audience TO heal
the Hon Chester l. Long speak.
The Cheney brass band discoursed tbs
N usic for the day.
| Promptly at 2 o'clock p. m. U. " Pitten'
| ger called the meeting TO order and j. 81.
| Rhodes was made chairman. After few
| well chosen remarks he introduced z. y.
| Rohrbaugh, who made a short speech IN
which he reviewed in a brief way the politi
cal conditions and exborted the people TO
renstate to power the old Republican
party, the only party TO whom they can
| look for help in these times OF financial
distress He said he knew the people
came out to hear Mr.. Long and he would
not detaiu them. After Mr.. Rohrbaugh
| closed his remarks the chairman introduced
| the Hon Chester |. Long, who was greeted
with great applause by the audience. Mr..
| Long made masterful speech which WAS
highly complimented by those who heard
| it. He reviewed the history of this coun-
| try on the tariff and silver questions snd
among the many good things in his speech
he said: Although the great business re-
porters of this country reported the business
of the United States for 1892 TO be the best
| this country had seen for Years with her
/ factories all at work and her laborers en-
| ployed, under the Mckinley tariff law, yet
| in, cd rpy
measures, the factories were stilled. More
| than l,000,O0J of our laborers are out OF
| employment and the most disastrous
panic and depression this country has
| ever known has settled over our industries
| like d pail OF night. We ask what party
has brought these times upon us? In 1882
we thought times were hard, we have
! learned that times could be harder under
/ the threatened change. Prices of farm
| products were low, but we have learned that
| they could be lower and none OF us know
| how much lower they Will 90 II we are to
go on in this line of tariff tlnkering as
| MIR. Cleveland and Mr.. Wilson give the
| country notice that the work for free trade
! must be continued as soon as congress
| again assemblies. But we ask what party
| Is responsible for these things? Our oppo-
nents say the Republican party. They
| charge US with responsibility all the time
we are in power and when they have put
us out of power they still charge us with
the response biiity for all the hard times.
This is hardly fair. We assume the re-
sponsibiliCv for all we did while in power,
but we must insist now tn at our Democratic
and Populist brsthren are chargedDle With
the necessary results of their votes in con-
grsss for the ex,Populist senators were
necessary TO carry the Wilson. Brlce, Cor
man sugar and whisky tariff bill through
the senate.
But the history Of this country fixes the
responsibility of these hard times and TINS
history was not made for any party but IL
is the facts of history which must reach
all alike" Mr.. Long then went through
the history of tariff, beginning with Wash
ington's administration, during which the
first tariff for protection was enacted into
a law, and showed the prosperity OF the
country, how the industries thrived and
the government was enabled TO pay her
war debt; until 1916 when the the bill was
repealed and an awful financial disaster
followed. He hen read the description of
the condition of the country given in 1873
BY Henry Clay and Thomas Denton. IL
these letters had been written today they
could not more aptiy describe the present
C Ondition OF the country. Stagnatlon OF
all lines of business, falling prices, meu
out of employment, distressing conditions
throughout the whole land, uutil the pa
sage of the protective tariff law OF 1924,
when the business revived everywhtr.
and prosperity aud coulentment again
reigned. Then in 1888 the Democratic
party, true TO the instincts OF Democracy
In the interest of slave labor sue
ceeded in passing compromise
bill By which gradual reduction
of duties was had. and as surely as before
as these duties got too low came again
paralysis of business until lS4e the people
were again aroused, and IN the campaign
of William Henry Harrison everybody dis
cussed the tariff and nothing bat the
tariff and upon this issue OF protection
the people elected Mr.. Harrison. \ new
tariff law was enacted III 1872. protecting
the American industries, and again came
prosperity and happiness. Again In 1891,
under a reduction OF the t9rln, came
disaster and a bankrupt government. But
in 1850 Mr.. Lincoln and the Republican
party again passed a protective tariff Dill,
aud for thirty years this country made
such strides in progress as no country on
earth can boast o.. In the light OF this
history we say that the hard times OF to-
day the Idle men and silent factories, are
due solely to the threatened legislation OF
the Democratic party. Business men saw
that this party mad the power TO carry cut
the threats of their platform. aud IN tie
light of history they said; We Will walt
and see VII st the result Will be. lt
has not been helpful in the past. And
of 1898 was less by sl3 000, Coo 900 than that
of 1892 he then showed the difference
between taxing such things are raised
and manufactured and produced. com
petition among ourselves, aEd the taxing
of such thugs as we did not produce. and
gave a very striking example by present
ing two paper sacks TO the audience,
one holding twenty pounds Of sugar
for s. under he Mckinley bill
aud Que holding four cen pounds OF tae
same sugar under the Wilson bill He
showed by kilograms from Wales, Berlin.
Glasgow. Montreal. and other foreign
cities how business had revived there be-
cause Of the Wilson bill; then he read eX-
TRACKS showing how Galveston aud other
cities of our owa country We're CORES pond-
ingly depressed by this bill, and said be
was in favo- of making our own cities ana
people happy and the other fellows sad L
need be. He spoke o. Spanish countries
i'm posing duties on our exports 10 these
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