The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-21
And Fires Solid Republican Truths at an
Audience of Thirteen Thousand
People at New Orleans.
THOMAS B. REED AT CHICAGO
The Ex-Speaker Talks to a Crowd
and Is Literally Applauded.
An Interesting Address on the Effects
of the New Tariff Law-When Cheap
ness Is Bitterness to the Soul.

kinney addressed an audience OF not less
than thirteen thousand here tonight in
the big auditorium which was constructed
for exhibitions OF pugilism. There was a
comparatively small proportion of negroes.
the audience being composed in the main
Of business men OF New Orleans and plant
ers from neighboring parishes, and-it was
conspicuously an intelligent and appreeiatiVe
gathering. which was entirely liberal with
its applause and discriminating In its De-
stowal. The platform was profusely decor
ated with sugar cane. Hon. t. j. Benham,
chairman of the Republican State commit
tee. presided and introduced Governor Nc
Kinley, who spoke at much length. Inc
substance of his address was:
Il am impressed with the profound inter-
est of the people In the welfare or the gov
eminent in which their voice is supreme; !
realize now, perhaps, more fully tnan ever
before, the strength and grandeur Oh tnat
government L come here at the Invitation
OF the Republican of Louisiana
10 address you upon a pubic question of
great national Importance when concerns
alike not only the prosperity OF your sec
ton, State or locality, but all sections and
parts of our common country.
From 1888 to 1892, a period or lB years.
there has been forty-seven years wnen a
Democratic revenue tariff policy had pre-
vailed, and hfty-six under the protective
policy, and a noteworthy fact is that the
most progressive and prosperous periods or
our history were during the years when
the protective party was in control and
protective tariffs were maintained; and the
most disastrous years were during the free
trade or revenue tariff eraS or our MS
tory"
A long history of tariff legislation show
ing that in former. years the protective
policy was supported by prominent South
ern statesmen was given by Governor Nc
market for agricultural products Is one OF
the decisions OF free trade. IL it ever had
any real substance as against a good home
marker thar has long since 0lS1DDPHTp0-
We have free trade among ourselves,
throughout our forty-four States and Terri
tories. That is because We are one family,
one country. We are one Nation, have one
= standard of citizenship. one flag, one Con-
stitutlon, one destiny. Tnat Is why we nave
free trade among ourselves. Our relations
with foreign states are necessarily differ
ent from our relations with one another.
They are our commercial rivals. We deny
70 those foreign states trade with us upon
the same terms we enjoy ourselves.
Here in the South your people have been
Offering freedom from taxation for ten, hf-
teen or twenty years to those who would
bring their capital here and invest it in
productive enterprises. With all this work
going on leaders of the Democratic party
are proposing TO tear down our protective
tariff and inundate this country with for
eign competing products to displace those
which those very manufacturer propose TO
make and which the people were willing TO
tax themselves TO establish: The people are
now coming to see this and their votes this
year Will go where their material interests
THE WORLDS JURY.
Call the roll of the nations. Which are
for protection? Germany, France. Italy,
Spain, Mexico, Canada, South America,
Portugal, Denmark. most OF Australia,
Switzerland, Austria and hungary, Rus
sla, Sweden and Norway and the United
States of America Which are against pro-
lection? England. New South Wales and
New Zealand. Tariff for revenue only or
the tariff reform is almost exclusively an
English decoration. How stand the people
of the world on this question? AT least
4SO.Oco.0O0 are in favor of protection; 4S.OC0.-
COO of Britons are against it. to whom must
be added those Americans whose numbers
are not known, who, while living under our
flag, seem TO follow another.
This is how the worlds jury stands; The
tariff law of 1894 is not like any of the
early tariff measures, but is one in which
the changed conditions of the country and
utterly ignored and forgotten. Its authors
do not recognize or appreciate the manly
Independence and dignity of American la
borers, and cannot understand that the
business policy of the country, under which
We have had such splendid prosperity. is
tionaI prejudices, which appeals to the
hates Of the past and not 10 the heroes of
provincial measure, unworthy of the great
party in whose name IL was enacted and
wholly unsuited to the needs Of the coun-
ocratic party in the United States at all
satisfied with what has been done. Con-
with the sacred trust confided to it, excited
distrust among the constituents Of its
members and impaired their enterprises and
The country has not failed TO observe
that a great change in public sentiment is
apparent throughout the South Nothing
has occurred Of late years which has been
TO me more gratifying than the action of
r ree Rl1 Inform et i have tu4ne Mn aw a | from am c tbe.
Democratic party, which they have been all
their lives associated with, and announced
their unconditional Endorsement and support
of the great doctrine of American protec-
ton TO American industries and thereby
allied themselves permanently to the ma
mean in the future politics of your State
you know better, far better. than /. but it
does seem to me that your action must have
a wide and benefcent influence.
1T is indeed gratifying that so large a
body OF the best business men Of Louisiana.
VINO Tor years have been trying TO make
themselves believe that the Democratic
party is the friend Of your great Industries.
should be compelled TO abandon that posi-
ton and declare that the material in this
country is alone safe in the hands of the
Republican party. l cannot but commend
your patriotic movement. You need no as
surances OF the devotion OF the Republican
party to all the material interests OF the
South. No one can charge that in all its
Industrial legislation for a third OF a CEN
fury past II ever overlooked a single
South and with almost its entire representa-
ton in both branches of Congress standing
in opposition TO the Republican party. still
In the stormiest years of sectional preju-
dice. moved by no other consideration than
the good OF the whole country. the Repub-
lican party has sacredly guarded the small
est as well as the greatest interests of the
South Nothing affords the Republicans of
the North more pleasure than to welcome
10 fellowship this great body OF representa-
tive American citizens who propose hence
forth TO stand up for American interests,
not in one but in all the sections OF cur be-
loved country"
'sOnly about one-tenth of the total amount
OF sugar we consumed, prior to the
passage Of the tariff law of 1890.
was grown in the United States.
The Republican party believed that IL was
better policy TO put sugar on the free list
and pay a bounty TO every sugar producer
In our own country. In this way we paid
out a bounty OF about Sl1.0oo.@0 annually
and saved $a.000.00O each year 10 the peo-
pie OF the country. The Democratic party
In Congress last August repealed this
bounty, made the duty 40 per cent. ad va
loren, and then the House passed a sup
Elementary bill making sugar free-that you
are 10 have neither bounty nor tariff.
MY fell~ow-countrymen the question OF
tarin Is a business question. In the truth
ful words Of a true American who spoke
as a seer and prophet forty years ago. we
may still declare that industry has its
campaigns and It's battlefelds. and is not
yet beyond the need OF intrenchments or
Notifications. God grant US the wisdom
and virtue 10 press forward on the shining
path thus opened plainly before US. TO the
end that our labor may be fully employed
End fairly recOmpensed. and that age after
age may witness the rapid, vet substantial
progress and growth OF our people In Ali