The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-06

men than ever has been under grover
Cleveland. CHEERS and applause.)
Major Mckinley and other calamity
howlers are going up and down tne
country declaring that destruction is
upon u.s. Major Mckinley is gooo
man, a good father and good cltlzen.
1 won't say a word against MS char-
acter, but he is protection mad he Is
generous man. Why, IN making up
this bill, he gave us dried acorns on the
free list and now he is going ABOUT the
country giving us dried chestnuts- he
is going about the United states IN
palace car in cloud of gloom with
black bordered handkerchief to his eyes
calling the attention of the country to
the death of his poor child, the Mckinley
bill A tramp in tatters or closed shop
gives him a paroxysm of joy.
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.
1.-THE Republicans say, Let us have
commercial peace ana Mr.. Harrison
says we have been so long out of power
that we don't know how to govern We
are a party of critics. Very well; let
us eriticise them. What is the Republi-
can programme? Mr.. Mckinley cries,
Give us back my poor child Tom
too high MrAlger, who will probably be
the candidate for President, also says
the Mckinley tariff is too high for the
West and the South, and SO does Mr.
Harrison. But Mckinley and the Phila-
delphia manufacturers say, Give US the
high tariff If you should put them in
the jury room of the Court House upon
the Hill they couldn't tell you what the
Republican platform is. tell the
Democrats of Hudson that the Mckinley
bill will never again darken the statute
book of the United States. If the Re-
publicans had fifty majority in the House
the South and West would never let
them enact the Mckinley bill again.
1.-The Republican orators and the Re
publican press have no right to mis-
state the case. Commercial peace will
only come by maintaining the Demo-
cratic party in its present conservative
attitude. Mr.. Harrison. in New York,
the other night, told his side of how the
Wilson bill passed the Senate. He said
the Senate was violently divided, and
the bill was peddled up and down the
aisles will admit there was no fric-
ton when the Mckinley bill passed.
The silence that reigned there was the
silence that reigned over Warsaw. Re
publican Senators and Congressman did
not make that law. 1t was the manu-
facturers who contributed to Mr.. Harri-
sons election. They packed the House.
Democrats were ruthlessly thrust out of
the chamber without the shadow of
hearing and Mr.. Reed oyerrode the we'll
established rules of the House. 1t is
the boast of the manufacturers of Phila-
delphia that they made the Mckinley
bill.
GOOD DEMOCRATIC WORK.
1--WE are a bad lot. we Democrats, an
awful bad lot. We came into power
pledged to reduce taxes. We took off the
tax on wool, and, if we have done moth
ing else to entitle us to power, the taking
of the tax on wool would do so. Now
the Republicans tell US they put the high
tariff law on the statute book only for
the working people. They care nothing
for the loss of their property or profits,
but their hearts are wrung every time
wages are reduced They remind one of
the Tory who in speaking on the ques
ton of Home Rule for Ireland, said that
if Home Rule was granted the Irishmen
they would soon kill each other off. BE
good, if you thought that cried man
in the gallery; we'd a had Home Rule
since the days of Cromwell So these
men have no concern except to keep up
wages.
SORRY FOR M'KINLEY.
ST am sorry for Major Mckinley. He
spoke in a place in West Virginia the
other day with store signs staring him
in the face, saying Blankets reduced 80
per cent. on account of the low tariff.
Mr. McAdoo then spoke of the man
ner in which the Republicans had driven
our flag from the high seas and said:
Major Mckinley says foreign COM
merce is a crime. These Republicans
have an absurd idea of commerce which
is gretesque. They send ship loaded
with our goods to South America and
bring back the gold of these countries to
be locked up in the money kings Safes
which are made in the Majors district
and the vessel comes back in ballast
which is dumped out here on your mead
ows That is not trade. The Democratic
idea is to take the goods to these South
American posts and ask the natives:-
What have you got to exchange for our
goods Wool they cry Very well give
us your wool, and we will take it home
and make cheap clothing The imported
cloth on your sheets is an arraignment
of the Republican system. They say we
are the most ingenious and the most en-
terprising people in the world and yet we
cannot make good cloth as they can in
England or Germany. Why? Because
| the Republicans keep out the wool which
our cloth makers need. The free wool
section of the Wilson bill goes into eff
feet January l, and it will give employ
rnent to thousands of worlzingmen and
make cheap that great necessity of life.
clothing.
1--WE are a bad lot we Democrats. We
took the tax off lumber. The Republi
| cans taxed lumber to protect the Amer
| lean workmen and the customs officers
on our Northern frontier were kept busy
| chasing the French Canadians whom
| they imported to cut the lumber, Ill
| order to collect the duty on the axes
which they brought in with them. The
| Republicans have built a wall around the
United States and say no foreign pro-
duct shall come in, but they did not
| build wall to keep out the makers of
| those products. When Mckinley passed
| his bill it prohibited the Importation of
| near buttons, and that industry was
| ruined in Vienna. Forty-1ve hundred lab
| orers were thrown out of employment.
! What's that, says Mckinley. Forty